Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 4, 2020

Mortality of native and invasive ladybirds co-infected by ectoparasitic and entomopathogenic fungi

Danny Haelewaters, Thomas Hiller, Emily A. Kemp, Paul S. van Wielink, David I. Shapiro-Ilan, M. Catherine Aime, Oldřich Nedvěd, Donald H. Pfister, Ted E. Cottrell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10110 PubMed 33194385

November 5, 2020

Diversity of the gut microbiome in three grasshopper species using 16S rRNA and determination of cellulose digestibility

Jian-Mei Wang, Jing Bai, Fang-Yuan Zheng, Yao Ling, Xiang Li, Jing Wang, Yong-Chao Zhi, Xin-Jiang Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10194 PubMed 33194406

November 19, 2020

Wing morphological responses to latitude and colonisation in a range expanding butterfly

Evelyn D. Taylor-Cox, Callum J. Macgregor, Amy Corthine, Jane K. Hill, Jenny A. Hodgson, Ilik J. Saccheri

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10352 PubMed 33240660

November 27, 2020

Eco-morphological diversity of larvae of soldier flies and their closest relatives in deep time

Viktor A. Baranov, Yinan Wang, Rok Gašparič, Sonja Wedmann, Joachim T. Haug

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10356 PubMed 33312767

November 16, 2020

Diversity of edible insects in a Natural World Heritage Site of India: entomophagy attitudes and implications for food security in the region

Jayanta Kr Das, Arup Kumar Hazarika, Unmilan Kalita, Subhash Khanna, Tarali Kalita, Sangeeta Choudhury

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10248 PubMed 33240615

November 2, 2020

Transcriptome and gene expression analysis of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) during developmental stages

Hongjun Yang, Danping Xu, Zhihang Zhuo, Jiameng Hu, Baoqian Lu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10223 PubMed 33194414

November 27, 2020

Invasion history of Harmonia axyridis (Pallas, 1773) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Ecuador

Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Emilia Peñaherrera-Romero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10461 PubMed 33312773

November 23, 2020

Exposure to low concentrations of pesticide stimulates ecological functioning in the dung beetle Onthophagus nuchicornis

Paul Manning, G. Christopher Cutler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10359 PubMed 33282556

November 20, 2020

Genome-wide identification and analysis of the thiolase family in insects

Shou-Min Fang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10393 PubMed 33240678

November 23, 2020

Sensation of the tiniest kind: the antennal sensilla of the smallest free-living insect Scydosella musawasensis (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae)

Anna V. Diakova, Alexey A. Polilov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10401 PubMed 33282562

November 30, 2020

Using high-resolution melting to identify Calliphoridae (blowflies) species from Brazil

Pablo Viana Oliveira, Francine Alves Nogueira de Almeida, Magda Delorence Lugon, Karolinni Bianchi Britto, Janyra Oliveira-Costa, Alexandre Rosa Santos, Greiciane Gaburro Paneto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9680 PubMed 33335803

November 3, 2020

Identification and functional characterization of SlDronc in Spodoptera littoralis

Hao Liu, Ke Zhou, Zhouning Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10329 PubMed 33194452

November 3, 2020

Clonal versus non-clonal milkweeds (Asclepias spp.) respond differently to stem damage, affecting oviposition by monarch butterflies

Elise He, Anurag A. Agrawal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10296 PubMed 33194443