Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 8, 2019

Gnathovorax cabreirai: a new early dinosaur and the origin and initial radiation of predatory dinosaurs

11 citations

2,241 downloads

12,777 views

Cristian Pacheco, Rodrigo T. Müller, Max Langer, Flávio A. Pretto, Leonardo Kerber, Sérgio Dias da Silva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7963 PubMed 31720108

November 7, 2019

A new leptoceratopsid dinosaur from Maastrichtian-aged deposits of the Sustut Basin, northern British Columbia, Canada

2 citations

1,710 downloads

5,837 views

Victoria M. Arbour, David C. Evans

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7926 PubMed 31720103

November 5, 2019

Endless forms of sexual selection

4 citations

658 downloads

3,117 views

Willow R. Lindsay, Staffan Andersson, Badreddine Bererhi, Jacob Höglund, Arild Johnsen, Charlotta Kvarnemo, Erica H. Leder, Jan T. Lifjeld, Calum E. Ninnes, Mats Olsson, Geoff A. Parker, Tommaso Pizzari, Anna Qvarnström, Rebecca J. Safran, Ola Svensson, Scott V. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7988 PubMed 31720113

November 19, 2019

Hematological convergence between Mesozoic marine reptiles (Sauropterygia) and extant aquatic amniotes elucidates diving adaptations in plesiosaurs

3 citations

1,088 downloads

3,070 views

Corinna V. Fleischle, P. Martin Sander, Tanja Wintrich, Kai R. Caspar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8022 PubMed 31763069

November 7, 2019

Scythes, sickles and other blades: defining the diversity of pectoral fin morphotypes in Pachycormiformes

415 downloads

2,970 views

Jeff J. Liston, Anthony E. Maltese, Paul H. Lambers, Dominique Delsate, William E.H. Harcourt-Smith, Anneke H. van Heteren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7675 PubMed 31720097

November 6, 2019

Neck mobility in the Jurassic plesiosaur Cryptoclidus eurymerus: finite element analysis as a new approach to understanding the cervical skeleton in fossil vertebrates

1 citation

965 downloads

2,871 views

Tanja Wintrich, René Jonas, Hans-Joachim Wilke, Lars Schmitz, P. Martin Sander

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7658 PubMed 31720095

November 26, 2019

A rapid spread of the stony coral tissue loss disease outbreak in the Mexican Caribbean

19 citations

1,080 downloads

2,854 views

Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Nuria Estrada-Saldívar, Esmeralda Pérez-Cervantes, Ana Molina-Hernández, Francisco J. González-Barrios

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8069 PubMed 31788355

November 15, 2019

High-throughput sequence analysis reveals variation in the relative abundance of components of the bacterial and fungal microbiota in the rhizosphere of Ginkgo biloba

345 downloads

2,837 views

Rujue Ruan, Zhifang Jiang, Yuhuan Wu, Maojun Xu, Jun Ni

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8051 PubMed 31741799

November 25, 2019

Assessment of North American arthropod collections: prospects and challenges for addressing biodiversity research

12 citations

571 downloads

2,766 views

Neil S. Cobb, Lawrence F. Gall, Jennifer M. Zaspel, Nicolas J. Dowdy, Lindsie M. McCabe, Akito Y. Kawahara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8086 PubMed 31788358

November 5, 2019

Reconstructing the archosaur radiation using a Middle Triassic archosauriform tooth assemblage from Tanzania

1 citation

1,119 downloads

2,657 views

Devin K. Hoffman, Hunter R. Edwards, Paul M. Barrett, Sterling J. Nesbitt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7970 PubMed 31720109

November 7, 2019

Vector distribution and transmission risk of the Zika virus in South and Central America

1 citation

533 downloads

2,646 views

Sarah Cunze, Judith Kochmann, Lisa K. Koch, Elisa Genthner, Sven Klimpel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7920 PubMed 31745446

November 5, 2019

Genomics of host-pathogen interactions: challenges and opportunities across ecological and spatiotemporal scales

8 citations

805 downloads

2,562 views

Kathrin Näpflin, Emily A. O’Connor, Lutz Becks, Staffan Bensch, Vincenzo A. Ellis, Nina Hafer-Hahmann, Karin C. Harding, Sara K. Lindén, Morten T. Olsen, Jacob Roved, Timothy B. Sackton, Allison J. Shultz, Vignesh Venkatakrishnan, Elin Videvall, Helena Westerdahl, Jamie C. Winternitz, Scott V. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8013 PubMed 31720122

November 5, 2019

A new alligatoroid from the Eocene of Vietnam highlights an extinct Asian clade independent from extant Alligator sinensis

3 citations

1,008 downloads

2,535 views

Tobias Massonne, Davit Vasilyan, Márton Rabi, Madelaine Böhme

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7562 PubMed 31720094

November 18, 2019

First palaeoneurological study of a sauropod dinosaur from France and its phylogenetic significance

5 citations

883 downloads

2,467 views

Fabien Knoll, Stephan Lautenschlager, Xavier Valentin, Verónica Díez Díaz, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, Géraldine Garcia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7991 PubMed 31763068

November 13, 2019

Brittle stars looking like starfish: the first fossil record of the Astrophiuridae and a remarkable case of convergent evolution

1,459 downloads

2,465 views

Ben Thuy, Andy Gale, Lea Numberger-Thuy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8008 PubMed 31741791

November 29, 2019

Identification of prognostic gene signature associated with microenvironment of lung adenocarcinoma

14 citations

564 downloads

2,389 views

Cheng Yue, Hongtao Ma, Yubai Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8128 PubMed 31803536

November 25, 2019

Introducing a new tool to navigate, understand and use International Codes of Nomenclature

1 citation

490 downloads

2,273 views

Evangelos Vlachos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8127 PubMed 31788365

November 18, 2019

Host dietary specialization and neutral assembly shape gut bacterial communities of wild dragonflies

5 citations

563 downloads

2,095 views

Rittik Deb, Ashwin Nair, Deepa Agashe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8058 PubMed 31763071

November 1, 2019

TransPrise: a novel machine learning approach for eukaryotic promoter prediction

3 citations

366 downloads

2,037 views

Stepan Pachganov, Khalimat Murtazalieva, Aleksei Zarubin, Dmitry Sokolov, Duane R. Chartier, Tatiana V. Tatarinova

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7990 PubMed 31695967

November 18, 2019

Acquisition of fungi from the environment modifies ambrosia beetle mycobiome during invasion

4 citations

325 downloads

2,030 views

Davide Rassati, Lorenzo Marini, Antonino Malacrinò

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8103 PubMed 31763076

November 28, 2019

Multiple ecosystem services from field margin vegetation for ecological sustainability in agriculture: scientific evidence and knowledge gaps

5 citations

766 downloads

2,007 views

Prisila A. Mkenda, Patrick A. Ndakidemi, Ernest Mbega, Philip C. Stevenson, Sarah E.J. Arnold, Geoff M. Gurr, Steven R. Belmain

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8091 PubMed 31799074

November 4, 2019

A pilot study—genetic diversity and population structure of snow leopards of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, using molecular techniques

1 citation

505 downloads

1,808 views

Samreen Aruge, Hafsa Batool, Fida M. Khan, Fakhar-i-Abbas, Safia Janjua

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7672 PubMed 31720096

November 21, 2019

Stability of the vaginal, oral, and gut microbiota across pregnancy among African American women: the effect of socioeconomic status and antibiotic exposure

7 citations

494 downloads

1,806 views

Anne L. Dunlop, Anna K. Knight, Glen A. Satten, Anya J. Cutler, Michelle L. Wright, Rebecca M. Mitchell, Timothy D. Read, Jennifer Mulle, Vicki S. Hertzberg, Cherie C. Hill, Alicia K. Smith, Elizabeth J. Corwin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8004 PubMed 31772833

November 20, 2019

Validating anthropogenic threat maps as a tool for assessing river ecological integrity in Andean–Amazon basins

3 citations

387 downloads

1,766 views

Janeth Lessmann, Maria J. Troya, Alexander S. Flecker, W. Chris Funk, Juan M. Guayasamin, Valeria Ochoa-Herrera, N. LeRoy Poff, Esteban Suárez, Andrea C. Encalada

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8060 PubMed 31769445

November 1, 2019

Identification of key genes and long non-coding RNA associated ceRNA networks in hepatocellular carcinoma

5 citations

577 downloads

1,698 views

Jun Liu, Wenli Li, Jian Zhang, Zhanzhong Ma, Xiaoyan Wu, Lirui Tang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8021 PubMed 31695969

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