Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 5, 2019

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

Tobias Massonne, Davit Vasilyan, Márton Rabi, Madelaine Böhme

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

November 5, 2019

Endless forms of sexual selection

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 5, 2019

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

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 7, 2019

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

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 4, 2019

Geographic origin and timing of colonization of the Pacific Coast of North America by the rocky shore gastropod Littorina sitkana

Peter B. Marko, Nadezhda I. Zaslavskaya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7987 PubMed 31720112

November 13, 2019

Adaptation, phylogeny, and covariance in milk macronutrient composition

Gregory E. Blomquist