Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 17, 2020

CoproID predicts the source of coprolites and paleofeces using microbiome composition and host DNA content

Maxime Borry, Bryan Cordova, Angela Perri, Marsha Wibowo, Tanvi Prasad Honap, Jada Ko, Jie Yu, Kate Britton, Linus Girdland-Flink, Robert C. Power, Ingelise Stuijts, Domingo C. Salazar-García, Courtney Hofman, Richard Hagan, Thérèse Samdapawindé Kagoné, Nicolas Meda, Helene Carabin, David Jacobson, Karl Reinhard, Cecil Lewis, Aleksandar Kostic, Choongwon Jeong, Alexander Herbig, Alexander Hübner, Christina Warinner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9001 PubMed 32337106

April 14, 2020

Clinical applicability of the Feline Grimace Scale: real-time versus image scoring and the influence of sedation and surgery

Marina C. Evangelista, Javier Benito, Beatriz P. Monteiro, Ryota Watanabe, Graeme M. Doodnaught, Daniel S.J. Pang, Paulo V. Steagall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8967 PubMed 32322445

April 13, 2020

Estimating the evolutionary rates in mosasauroids and plesiosaurs: discussion of niche occupation in Late Cretaceous seas

Daniel Madzia, Andrea Cau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8941 PubMed 32322442

April 6, 2020

Blue carbon of Mexico, carbon stocks and fluxes: a systematic review

Jorge A. Herrera-Silveira, Monica A. Pech-Cardenas, Sara M. Morales-Ojeda, Siuling Cinco-Castro, Andrea Camacho-Rico, Juan P. Caamal Sosa, Juan E. Mendoza-Martinez, Eunice Y. Pech-Poot, Jorge Montero, Claudia Teutli-Hernandez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8790 PubMed 32292646

April 3, 2020

An unusual 100-million-year old holometabolan larva with a piercing mouth cone

Joachim T. Haug, Mario Schädel, Viktor A. Baranov, Carolin Haug

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8661 PubMed 32280565

April 24, 2020

A scoping review of determinants of performance in dressage

Sarah Jane Hobbs, Lindsay St George, Janet Reed, Rachel Stockley, Clare Thetford, Jonathan Sinclair, Jane Williams, Kathryn Nankervis, Hilary M. Clayton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9022 PubMed 32355578

April 20, 2020

Effects of biodegradable plastic film mulching on soil microbial communities in two agroecosystems

Sreejata Bandopadhyay, Henry Y. Sintim, Jennifer M. DeBruyn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9015 PubMed 32341903

April 29, 2020

Diversity and paleoenvironmental implications of an elasmobranch assemblage from the Oligocene–Miocene boundary of Ecuador

Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Jaime A. Villafaña, Carlos De Gracia, F. Fernando Flores-Alcívar, René Kindlimann, Juan Abella

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9051 PubMed 32391203

April 7, 2020

Diffusion tubes: a method for the mass culture of ctenophores and other pelagic marine invertebrates

Wyatt L. Patry, MacKenzie Bubel, Cypress Hansen, Thomas Knowles

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8938 PubMed 32292660

April 22, 2020

Insight into the kinematics of blue whale surface foraging through drone observations and prey data

Leigh G. Torres, Dawn R. Barlow, Todd E. Chandler, Jonathan D. Burnett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8906 PubMed 32351781

April 30, 2020

Phylogeography of the widespread Caribbean spiny orb weaver Gasteracantha cancriformis

Lisa Chamberland, Fabian C. Salgado-Roa, Alma Basco, Amanda Crastz-Flores, Greta J. Binford, Ingi Agnarsson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8976 PubMed 32391201

April 17, 2020

Assessing and genotyping threatened staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis nurseries during restoration in southeast Dominican Republic

Johanna Calle-Triviño, Renata Rivera-Madrid, María Geovana León-Pech, Camilo Cortés-Useche, Rita Inés Sellares-Blasco, Margarita Aguilar-Espinosa, Jesús Ernesto Arias-González

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8863 PubMed 32337099

April 6, 2020

Living (stained) foraminifera in the Lesser Syrtis (Tunisia): influence of pollution and substratum

Akram El Kateb, Valentina Beccari, Stephanie Stainbank, Silvia Spezzaferri, Giovanni Coletti

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8839 PubMed 32292648

April 2, 2020

Nitrogen eutrophication particularly promotes turf algae in coral reefs of the central Red Sea

Denis B. Karcher, Florian Roth, Susana Carvalho, Yusuf C. El-Khaled, Arjen Tilstra, Benjamin Kürten, Ulrich Struck, Burton H. Jones, Christian Wild

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8737 PubMed 32274261

April 17, 2020

New fossil lizard specimens from a poorly-known squamate assemblage in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA

C. Henrik Woolley, Nathan D. Smith, Joseph J.W. Sertich

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8846 PubMed 32337098

April 23, 2020

“Candidatus Trichorickettsia mobilis”, a Rickettsiales bacterium, can be transiently transferred from the unicellular eukaryote Paramecium to the planarian Dugesia japonica

Letizia Modeo, Alessandra Salvetti, Leonardo Rossi, Michele Castelli, Franziska Szokoli, Sascha Krenek, Valentina Serra, Elena Sabaneyeva, Graziano Di Giuseppe, Sergei I. Fokin, Franco Verni, Giulio Petroni

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8977 PubMed 32351785

April 1, 2020

New anatomical information on Dsungaripterus weii Young, 1964 with focus on the palatal region

He Chen, Shunxing Jiang, Alexander W.A. Kellner, Xin Cheng, Xinjun Zhang, Rui Qiu, Yang Li, Xiaolin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8741 PubMed 32274262

April 21, 2020

Additions to the phylogeny of colubrine snakes in Southwestern Asia, with description of a new genus and species (Serpentes: Colubridae: Colubrinae)

Mahdi Rajabizadeh, R. Alexander Pyron, Roman Nazarov, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Dominique Adriaens, Anthony Herrel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9016 PubMed 32341904

April 8, 2020

Monitoring the influx of new species through citizen science: the first introduced ant in Denmark

Julie K. Sheard, Nathan J. Sanders, Carsten Gundlach, Sämi Schär, Rasmus Stenbak Larsen