Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

March 25, 2020

A taxonomic revision of the south-eastern dragon lizards of the Smaug warreni (Boulenger) species complex in southern Africa, with the description of a new species (Squamata: Cordylidae)

409 downloads

3,356 views

Michael F. Bates, Edward L. Stanley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8526 PubMed 32257631

March 6, 2020

Captorhinid reptiles from the lower Permian Pedra de Fogo Formation, Piauí, Brazil: the earliest herbivorous tetrapods in Gondwana

3 citations

884 downloads

2,379 views

Juan C. Cisneros, Kenneth Angielczyk, Christian F. Kammerer, Roger M.H. Smith, Jörg Fröbisch, Claudia A. Marsicano, Martha Richter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8719 PubMed 32185112

March 24, 2020

Cirripectes matatakaro, a new species of combtooth blenny from the Central Pacific, illuminates the origins of the Hawaiian fish fauna

1 citation

370 downloads

2,292 views

Mykle L. Hoban, Jeffrey T. Williams

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8852 PubMed 32231888

March 10, 2020

Effects of mucus trail following on the distance between individuals of opposite sex and its influence on the evolution of the trait in the Ezo abalone Haliotis discus hannai

189 downloads

1,854 views

Yukio Matsumoto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8710 PubMed 32195052

March 3, 2020

Evolutionary history of the Cameroon radiation of puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachidae: Phrynobatrachus), with descriptions of two critically endangered new species from the northern Cameroon Volcanic Line

1 citation

367 downloads

1,583 views

Václav Gvoždík, Tadeáš Nečas, Matej Dolinay, Breda M. Zimkus, Andreas Schmitz, Eric B. Fokam

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8393 PubMed 32175182

March 2, 2020

Circadian preferences of birdwatchers in Poland: do “owls” prefer watching night birds, and “larks” prefer daytime ones?

2 citations

220 downloads

1,484 views

Martyna Frątczak, Tim H. Sparks, Christoph Randler, Piotr Tryjanowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8673 PubMed 32175191

March 26, 2020

How many ontogenetic points are needed to accurately describe the ontogeny of a cephalopod conch? A case study of the modern nautilid Nautilus pompilius

234 downloads

1,408 views

Amane Tajika, Christian Klug

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8849 PubMed 32257649

March 16, 2020

A multiplex centrality metric for complex social networks: sex, social status, and family structure predict multiplex centrality in rhesus macaques

2 citations

438 downloads

1,405 views

Brianne Beisner, Niklas Braun, Márton Pósfai, Jessica Vandeleest, Raissa D’Souza, Brenda McCowan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8712 PubMed 32211232

March 27, 2020

A biogeographic framework of octopod species diversification: the role of the Isthmus of Panama

1 citation

275 downloads

1,283 views

Francoise D. Lima, Jan M. Strugnell, Tatiana S. Leite, Sergio M.Q. Lima

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8691 PubMed 32257633

March 17, 2020

Climatic variation in Africa and Europe has combined effects on timing of spring migration in a long-distance migrant Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus

423 downloads

1,221 views

Magdalena Remisiewicz, Les G. Underhill

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8770 PubMed 32211237

March 4, 2020

Recent advances on the estimation of the thermal reaction norm for sex ratios

2 citations

277 downloads

1,123 views

F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois, B. Alejandra Morales-Mérida, Catherine E. Hart, Jean-Michel Guillon, Matthew H. Godfrey, Erik Navarro, Marc Girondot

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8451 PubMed 32181050

March 5, 2020

Application of a high-quality, high-volume trap–neuter–return model of community cats in Seoul, Korea

211 downloads

1,035 views

Yoonju Cho, Kyunghee Kim, Min Su Kim, Inhyung Lee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8711 PubMed 32185110

March 11, 2020

Acoustic divergence in advertisement calls among three sympatric Microhyla species from East China

2 citations

528 downloads

1,011 views

Zhi-Qiang Chen, You-Fu Lin, Yun Tang, Guo-Hua Ding, Yan-Qing Wu, Zhi-Hua Lin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8708 PubMed 32201644

March 24, 2020

Masticatory musculature of the African mole-rats (Rodentia: Bathyergidae)

2 citations

213 downloads

993 views

Philip G. Cox, Chris G. Faulkes, Nigel C. Bennett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8847 PubMed 32231887

March 6, 2020

Effects of outdoor ranging on external and internal health parameters for hens from different rearing enrichments

6 citations

327 downloads

939 views

Md Saiful Bari, Yan C.S.M. Laurenson, Andrew M. Cohen-Barnhouse, Stephen W. Walkden-Brown, Dana L.M. Campbell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8720 PubMed 32185113

March 10, 2020

Testing the individual and social learning abilities of task-naïve captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes sp.) in a nut-cracking task

2 citations

310 downloads

890 views

Damien Neadle, Elisa Bandini, Claudio Tennie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8734 PubMed 32195057

March 5, 2020

Monitoring nearshore ecosystem health using Pacific razor clams (Siliqua patula) as an indicator species

319 downloads

886 views

Lizabeth Bowen, Katrina L. Counihan, Brenda Ballachey, Heather Coletti, Tuula Hollmen, Benjamin Pister, Tammy L. Wilson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8761 PubMed 32185117

March 19, 2020

Ship rats and island reptiles: patterns of co-existence in the Mediterranean

1 citation

188 downloads

739 views

Daniel Escoriza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8821 PubMed 32219035

March 2, 2020

Vertical distribution of megafauna on the Bering Sea slope based on ROV survey

273 downloads

699 views

Elena Rybakova, Sergey Galkin, Andrey Gebruk, Nadezhda Sanamyan, Alexander Martynov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8628 PubMed 32175187

March 20, 2020

The combined effects of temperature and aromatase inhibitor on metamorphosis, growth, locomotion, and sex ratio of tiger frog (Hoplobatrachus rugulosus) tadpoles

229 downloads

643 views

Yun Tang, Zhi-Qiang Chen, You-Fu Lin, Jing-Yi Chen, Guo-Hua Ding, Xiang Ji

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8834 PubMed 32219039

March 25, 2020

Morphology and molecular phylogeny of three new deep-sea species of Chrysogorgia (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) from seamounts in the tropical Western Pacific Ocean

3 citations

197 downloads

641 views

Yu Xu, Zifeng Zhan, Kuidong Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8832 PubMed 32257645

March 3, 2020

Banat donkey, a neglected donkey breed from the central Balkans (Serbia)

263 downloads

628 views

Ljubodrag Stanisic, Jelena M. Aleksić, Vladimir Dimitrijevic, Branislav Kovačević, Jevrosima Stevanovic, Zoran Stanimirovic

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8598 PubMed 32175186

March 3, 2020

Chronic arsenate exposure affects amphipod size distribution and reproduction

167 downloads

486 views

Ioanna Visviki, Michael L. Judge

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8645 PubMed 32175189

March 5, 2020

Congenital feeding response to a novel prey in a Mexican gartersnake

128 downloads

337 views

Javier Manjarrez, Constantino Macías Garcia, Hugh Drummond

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8718 PubMed 32185111

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