Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 29, 2020

Remarks on Mastigodiaptomus (Calanoida: Diaptomidae) from Mexico using integrative taxonomy, with a key of identification and three new species

Martha A. Gutiérrez-Aguirre, Adrián Cervantes-Martínez, Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez, Alfonso Lugo-Vázquez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8416 PubMed 32030323

January 28, 2020

The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education

Freek T. Bakker, Alexandre Antonelli, Julia A. Clarke, Joseph A. Cook, Scott V. Edwards, Per G.P. Ericson, Søren Faurby, Nuno Ferrand, Magnus Gelang, Rosemary G. Gillespie, Martin Irestedt, Kennet Lundin, Ellen Larsson, Pável Matos-Maraví, Johannes Müller, Ted von Proschwitz, George K. Roderick, Alexander Schliep, Niklas Wahlberg, John Wiedenhoeft, Mari Källersjö

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8225 PubMed 32025365

January 27, 2020

Crypsis and convergence: integrative taxonomic revision of the Gehyra australis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northern Australia

Paul M. Oliver, Audrey Miranda Prasetya, Leonardo G. Tedeschi, Jessica Fenker, Ryan J. Ellis, Paul Doughty, Craig Moritz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7971 PubMed 32025362

January 27, 2020

Airborne microbial biodiversity and seasonality in Northern and Southern Sweden

Edvin Karlsson, Anna-Mia Johansson, Jon Ahlinder, Moa J. Lundkvist, Navinder J. Singh, Tomas Brodin, Mats Forsman, Per Stenberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8424 PubMed 32025374

January 24, 2020

Viability and management of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) population in the Endau Rompin landscape, Peninsular Malaysia

Salman Saaban, Mohd Nawayai Yasak, Melvin Gumal, Aris Oziar, Francis Cheong, Zaleha Shaari, Martin Tyson, Simon Hedges

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8209 PubMed 32002318

January 24, 2020

New protocol for successful isolation and amplification of DNA from exiguous fractions of specimens: a tool to overcome the basic obstacle in molecular analyses of myxomycetes

Paulina Janik, Michał Ronikier, Anna Ronikier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8406 PubMed 32002333

January 22, 2020

First record of Gyrosteus mirabilis (Actinopterygii, Chondrosteidae) from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of the Baltic region

Jahn J. Hornung, Sven Sachs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8400 PubMed 32002331

January 20, 2020

Comparative analysis of cutaneous bacterial communities of farmed Rana dybowskii after gentamycin bath

Jia Bie, Qing Tong, Xiaoning Liu, Xianhao Zhang, Hongbin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8430 PubMed 31998565

January 13, 2020

Structure and pigment make the eyed elater’s eyespots black

Victoria L. Wong, Paul E. Marek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8161 PubMed 31976171

January 13, 2020

The mitochondrial genome of Apion squamigerum (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea, Brentidae) and the phylogenetic implications

Nan Song, Xinxin Li, Xinming Yin, Xinghao Li, Shengjun Yin, Mingsheng Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8386 PubMed 31976182

January 10, 2020

The influence of ecological infrastructures adjacent to crops on their carabid assemblages in intensive agroecosystems

Emilie Pecheur, Julien Piqueray, Arnaud Monty, Marc Dufrêne, Grégory Mahy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8094 PubMed 31942249

January 6, 2020

A new species of Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 from the Langbian Plateau, southern Vietnam, with additional information on Oligodon annamensis Leviton, 1953 (Squamata: Colubridae)

Hung Ngoc Nguyen, Bang Van Tran, Linh Hoang Nguyen, Thy Neang, Platon V. Yushchenko, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8332 PubMed 31934510

January 3, 2020

Morphological descriptions and morphometric discriminant function analysis reveal an additional four groups of Scylla spp

Hanafiah Fazhan, Khor Waiho, Emilia Quinitio, Juliana C. Baylon, Yushinta Fujaya, Nita Rukminasari, Mohammad Farhan Darin Azri, Md. Sheriff Shahreza, Hongyu Ma, Mhd Ikhwanuddin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8066 PubMed 31915566

January 3, 2020

Phylogeography of the rare and endangered lycophyte Isoetes yunguiensis

Tao Zheng, Xuanze He, Honghuan Ye, Wei Fu, Maimai Peng, Guangqian Gou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8270 PubMed 31915576

January 3, 2020

Genetic diversity and population structure of two subspecies of western honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) in the Republic of South Africa as revealed by microsatellite genotyping

Amin Eimanifar, Johanna T. Pieplow, Alireza Asem, James D. Ellis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8280 PubMed 31915579

January 3, 2020

Temporal and spatial variability of terrestrial diatoms at the catchment scale: controls on communities

Jasper Foets, Carlos E. Wetzel, Adriaan J. Teuling, Laurent Pfister

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8296 PubMed 31915584

January 2, 2020

Questioning the proverb ‘more haste, less speed’: classic versus metabarcoding approaches for the diet study of a remote island endemic gecko

Vanessa Gil, Catarina J. Pinho, Carlos A.S. Aguiar, Carolina Jardim, Rui Rebelo, Raquel Vasconcelos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8084 PubMed 31915567

January 2, 2020

Bioactivity of compounds secreted by symbiont bacteria of Nudibranchs from Indonesia

Rhesi Kristiana, Gilles Bedoux, Gerard Pals, I. Wayan Mudianta, Laure Taupin, Christel Marty, Meezan Ardhanu Asagabaldan, Diah Ayuningrum, Agus Trianto, Nathalie Bourgougnon, Ocky Karna Radjasa, Agus Sabdono, Muhammad Hanafi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8093 PubMed 31915568

January 2, 2020

Testing marine regional-scale hypotheses along the Yucatan continental shelf using soft-bottom macrofauna

Ivan Hernandez-Avila, Frank A. Ocaña, Daniel Pech

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8227 PubMed 31915571

January 2, 2020

Symmetry systems on the wings of Dichromodes Guenée (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) are unconstrained by venation

Sandra R. Schachat

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8263 PubMed 31915575

January 2, 2020

The fossil record of the genus Varanus from the Southern Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia)

Davit Vasilyan, Maia Bukhsianidze