Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

August 12, 2020

Perils and pitfalls of mixed-effects regression models in biology

Matthew J. Silk, Xavier A. Harrison, David J. Hodgson

August 14, 2020

Multi-omics analysis to examine microbiota, host gene expression and metabolites in the intestine of black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) with different growth performance

Tanaporn Uengwetwanit, Umaporn Uawisetwathana, Sopacha Arayamethakorn, Juthatip Khudet, Sage Chaiyapechara, Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri, Wanilada Rungrassamee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9646 PubMed 32864208

August 19, 2020

Six complete mitochondrial genomes of mayflies from three genera of Ephemerellidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) with inversion and translocation of trnI rearrangement and their phylogenetic relationships

Xiao-Dong Xu, Yi-Yang Jia, Si-Si Cao, Zi-Yi Zhang, Kenneth B. Storey, Dan-Na Yu, Jia-Yong Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9740 PubMed 32879803

August 24, 2020

Epibiont hydroids on beachcast Sargassum in the Mexican Caribbean

María A. Mendoza-Becerril, Elisa Serviere-Zaragoza, Alejandra Mazariegos-Villarreal, Crisalejandra Rivera-Perez, Dale R. Calder, Erika F. Vázquez-Delfín, Yolanda Freile-Pelegrín, José Agüero, Daniel Robledo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9795 PubMed 32903993

August 19, 2020

Satellite tracking reveals a new migration route of black-necked cranes (Grus nigricollis) in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Ye Wang, Chunrong Mi, Yumin Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9715 PubMed 32879798

August 27, 2020

In situ SEM/EDS compositional characterization of osteocytes and blood vessels in fossil and extant turtles on untreated bone surfaces; different preservational pathways microns away

Edwin-Alberto Cadena

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9833 PubMed 32913685

August 17, 2020

Determination of fitness traits of Orius strigicollis Poppius (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) on Pectinophora gossypiella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) using two-sex life table analysis

Shahzaib Ali, Qian Zhu, Waqar Jaleel, Shakeel Ur Rehman, Muhammad Asim Rasheed, Muhammad Musa Khan, Yasir Islam, Muhammad Hafeez, Xingmiao Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9594 PubMed 32874777

August 3, 2020

Characterization of two myostatin genes in pufferfish Takifugu bimaculatus: sequence, genomic structure, and expression

Yinzhen Sheng, Yulong Sun, Xin Zhang, Haifu Wan, Chengjie Yao, Keying Liang, Leibin Li, Bo Liu, Jianxing Zhong, Ziping Zhang, Yilei Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9655 PubMed 32832276

August 13, 2020

The evolution of feeding within Euchelicerata: data from the fossil groups Eurypterida and Trigonotarbida illustrate possible evolutionary pathways

Carolin Haug

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9696

August 26, 2020

Idiosyncratic liver pigment alterations of five frog species in response to contrasting land use patterns in the Brazilian Cerrado

Lilian Franco-Belussi, Diogo B. Provete, Rinneu E. Borges, Classius De Oliveira, Lia Raquel S. Santos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9751 PubMed 32913675

August 13, 2020

Steroid hormones and chondrichthyan reproduction: physiological functions, scientific research, and implications for conservation

Edgar Eduardo Becerril-García, Marcial Arellano-Martínez, Daniela Bernot-Simon, Edgar Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla, Felipe Galván-Magaña, Céline Godard-Codding

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9686

August 3, 2020

White-handed gibbons discriminate context-specific song compositions

Julie Andrieu, Samuel G. Penny, Hélène Bouchet, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Ulrich H. Reichard, Klaus Zuberbühler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9477 PubMed 32832260

August 6, 2020

Recent population expansion of longtail tuna Thunnus tonggol (Bleeker, 1851) inferred from the mitochondrial DNA markers

Noorhani Syahida Kasim, Tun Nurul Aimi Mat Jaafar, Rumeaida Mat Piah, Wahidah Mohd Arshaad, Siti Azizah Mohd Nor, Ahasan Habib, Mazlan Abd. Ghaffar, Yeong Yik Sung, Muhd Danish-Daniel, Min Pau Tan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9679 PubMed 32844067

August 18, 2020

New records of a lost species and a geographic range expansion for sengis in the Horn of Africa

Steven Heritage, Houssein Rayaleh, Djama G. Awaleh, Galen B. Rathbun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9652 PubMed 32879790

August 14, 2020

Slender salamanders (genus Batrachoseps) reveal Southern California to be a center for the diversification, persistence, and introduction of salamander lineages

Elizabeth L. Jockusch, Robert W. Hansen, Robert N. Fisher, David B. Wake

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9599 PubMed 32864205

August 12, 2020

Taxonomic identification and biological traits of Platystethynium triclavatum (Donev & Huber, 2002), comb. n. (Hymenoptera, Mymaridae), a newly recorded egg parasitoid of the Italian endemic pest Barbitistes vicetinus (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae)

Giacomo Ortis, Serguei V. Triapitsyn, Giacomo Cavaletto, Isabel Martinez-Sañudo, Luca Mazzon