Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

July 23, 2020

Plastid genomics of Nicotiana (Solanaceae): insights into molecular evolution, positive selection and the origin of the maternal genome of Aztec tobacco (Nicotiana rustica)

Furrukh Mehmood, Abdullah, Zartasha Ubaid, Iram Shahzadi, Ibrar Ahmed, Mohammad Tahir Waheed, Peter Poczai, Bushra Mirza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9552 PubMed 32775052

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 3, 2020

Addressing incomplete lineage sorting and paralogy in the inference of uncertain salmonid phylogenetic relationships

Matthew A. Campbell, Thaddaeus J. Buser, Michael E. Alfaro, J. Andrés López

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9389 PubMed 32685284

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 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