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July 2020

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

July 9, 2020

Sharing for science: high-resolution trophic interactions revealed rapidly by social media

Robin A. Maritz, Bryan Maritz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9485 PubMed 32714662

July 3, 2020

A little frog leaps a long way: compounded colonizations of the Indian Subcontinent discovered in the tiny Oriental frog genus Microhyla (Amphibia: Microhylidae)

Vladislav A. Gorin, Evgeniya N. Solovyeva, Mahmudul Hasan, Hisanori Okamiya, D.M.S. Suranjan Karunarathna, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Anslem de Silva, Watinee Juthong, Konstantin D. Milto, Luan Thanh Nguyen, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Alexander Haas, David P. Bickford, Indraneil Das, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9411 PubMed 32685285

July 10, 2020

Arthropod IGF, relaxin and gonadulin, putative orthologs of Drosophila insulin-like peptides 6, 7 and 8, likely originated from an ancient gene triplication

Jan A. Veenstra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9534 PubMed 32728497

July 2, 2020

Elephants in the neighborhood: patterns of crop-raiding by Asian elephants within a fragmented landscape of Eastern India

Dipanjan Naha, Suraj Kumar Dash, Abhisek Chettri, Akashdeep Roy, Sambandam Sathyakumar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9399 PubMed 32676222

July 24, 2020

Effectiveness of non-lethal predator deterrents to reduce livestock losses to leopard attacks within a multiple-use landscape of the Himalayan region

Dipanjan Naha, Pooja Chaudhary, Gaurav Sonker, Sambandam Sathyakumar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9544 PubMed 32775051

July 3, 2020

Treating coral bleaching as weather: a framework to validate and optimize prediction skill

Thomas M. DeCarlo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9449 PubMed 32685288

July 29, 2020

The diet of otters (Lutra lutra) on the Agri river system, one of the most important presence sites in Italy: a molecular approach

Maria Buglione, Simona Petrelli, Claudia Troiano, Tommaso Notomista, Eleonora Rivieccio, Domenico Fulgione

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9606 PubMed 32821542

July 28, 2020

Ancient globetrotters—connectivity and putative native ranges of two cosmopolitan biofouling amphipods

Jan Beermann, Allison K. Hall-Mullen, Charlotte Havermans, Joop WP Coolen, Richard PMA Crooijmans, Bert Dibbits, Christoph Held, Andrea Desiderato

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9613 PubMed 33194336

July 14, 2020

Establishment and characterization of fantail goldfish fin (FtGF) cell line from goldfish, Carassius auratus for in vitro propagation of Cyprinid herpes virus-2 (CyHV-2)

Arathi Dharmaratnam, Raj Kumar, Basheer Saidmuhammed Valaparambil, Neeraj Sood, Pravata Kumar Pradhan, Sweta Das, T. Raja Swaminathan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9373 PubMed 33005480

July 23, 2020

Disentangling biological variability and taphonomy: shape analysis of the limb long bones of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Plateosaurus

Rémi Lefebvre, Ronan Allain, Alexandra Houssaye, Raphaël Cornette

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9359 PubMed 32775045

July 16, 2020

Genetic variation of the Chilean endemic long-haired mouse Abrothrix longipilis (Rodentia, Supramyomorpha, Cricetidae) in a geographical and environmental context

Lourdes Valdez, Marcial Quiroga-Carmona, Guillermo D’Elía

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9517 PubMed 32742796

July 21, 2020

Doing nothing and what it looks like: inactivity in fattening cattle

Sara Hintze, Freija Maulbetsch, Lucy Asher, Christoph Winckler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9395 PubMed 33005481

July 16, 2020

The chemotactic swimming behavior of bird schistosome miracidia in the presence of compatible and incompatible snail hosts

Anna Marszewska, Anna Cichy, Jana Bulantová, Petr Horák, Elżbieta Żbikowska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9487 PubMed 32742786

July 17, 2020

Mechanisms behind bottom-up effects: eutrophication increases fecundity by shortening the interspawning interval in stickleback

Anne Saarinen, Ulrika Candolin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9521 PubMed 32742798

July 14, 2020

Soil macro-fauna respond to environmental variations along a coastal-inland gradient

Xiaoxue Zheng, Yan Tao, Zhongqiang Wang, Chen Ma, Hong He, Xiuqin Yin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9532 PubMed 32742801

July 10, 2020

In or out: Response slowing across housing conditions as a measure of affect in three Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

Molly McGuire, Jennifer M. Vonk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9525 PubMed 32728496

July 8, 2020

Exceptionally preserved ‘skin’ in an Early Cretaceous fish from Colombia

Andrés Alfonso-Rojas, Edwin-Alberto Cadena

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9479 PubMed 32714661

July 22, 2020

Salivary proteome of a Neotropical primate: potential roles in host defense and oral food perception

Fabiola Carolina Espinosa-Gómez, Eliel Ruíz-May, Juan Carlos Serio-Silva, Colin A. Chapman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9489 PubMed 32765966

July 28, 2020

Energy balance of food in a detrito-bryophagous groundhopper (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae)

Kateřina Kuřavová, Jan Šipoš, Petr Kočárek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9603 PubMed 33240579

July 9, 2020

A collection of hexactinellids (Porifera) from the deep South Atlantic and North Pacific: new genus, new species and new records

Cristiana Castello-Branco, Allen G. Collins, Eduardo Hajdu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9431 PubMed 32714660

July 28, 2020

Testing pterosaur ingroup relationships through broader sampling of avemetatarsalian taxa and characters and a range of phylogenetic analysis techniques

Matthew G. Baron

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9604 PubMed 33005485

July 9, 2020

Molecular phylogenetics and evolutionary history of the endemic land snail genus Everettia in northern Borneo

Thor-Seng Liew, Mohammad Effendi Marzuki, Menno Schilthuizen, Yansen Chen, Jaap J. Vermeulen, Jayasilan Mohd-Azlan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9416 PubMed 32714659

July 21, 2020

Identification and expression pattern of chemosensory genes in the transcriptome of Propsilocerus akamusi

Chuncai Yan, Xiaoya Sun, Wei Cao, Ruoqun Li, Cong Zhao, Zeyang Sun, Wenbin Liu, Lina Pan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9584 PubMed 32742817

July 31, 2020

Heritability of the extra-pair mating behaviour of the pied flycatcher in Western Siberia

Vladimir G. Grinkov, Andreas Bauer, Helmut Sternberg, Michael Wink

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9571 PubMed 32821536

July 20, 2020

Raccoon roundworm prevalence (Baylisascaris procyonis) at the North Carolina Zoo, USA

Meghan M. Louis, Larry J. Minter, James R. Flowers, Michael K. Stoskopf, Suzanne Kennedy-Stoskopf

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9426 PubMed 32742774

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