Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 11, 2020

Age relationships with telomere length, body weight and body length in wild dugong (Dugong dugon)

Phaothep Cherdsukjai, Kittisak Buddhachat, Janine Brown, Manthanee Kaewkool, Anocha Poommouang, Patcharaporn Kaewmong, Kongkiat Kittiwattanawong, Korakot Nganvongpanit

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10319 PubMed 33240643

November 23, 2020

A meta-analysis contrasting active versus passive restoration practices in dryland agricultural ecosystems

M. Florencia Miguel, H. Scott Butterfield, Christopher J. Lortie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10428 PubMed 33282566

November 17, 2020

Tropical peatlands and their conservation are important in the context of COVID-19 and potential future (zoonotic) disease pandemics

Mark E. Harrison, Lahiru S. Wijedasa, Lydia E.S. Cole, Susan M. Cheyne, Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad, Liana Chua, Greta C. Dargie, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Suspense A. Ifo, Muhammad Ali Imron, Dianna Kopansky, Trilianty Lestarisa, Patrick J. O’Reilly, Julie Van Offelen, Johannes Refisch, Katherine Roucoux, Jito Sugardjito, Sara A. Thornton, Caroline Upton, Susan Page

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10283 PubMed 33240628

November 9, 2020

The genetic diversity and population structure of two endemic Amazonian quillwort (Isoetes L.) species

Mirella Pupo Santos, João V.S. Rabelo Araujo, Arthur V. Sant’anna Lopes, Julio Cesar Fiorio Vettorazzi, Marcela Santana Bastos Boechat, Fernanda AbreuSantana Arêdes, Naiara Viana Campos, Emiliano Nicolas Calderon, Fernando M. Gomes Santos, Tais Nogueira Fernandes, Rodrigo Nunes da Fonseca, Messias Gonzaga Pereira, Guilherme Oliveira, Daniel Basilio Zandonadi, RodrigoLemes Martins, Francisco de Assis Esteves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10274 PubMed 33240624

November 3, 2020

Habitat preference, movements and growth of giant mottled eels, Anguilla marmorata, in a small subtropical Amami-Oshima Island river

Hikaru Itakura, Ryoshiro Wakiya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10187 PubMed 33194404

November 13, 2020

Cytokine RT-qPCR and ddPCR for immunological investigations of the endangered Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) and other mammals

María-Ignacia Meza Cerda, Rachael Gray, Damien P. Higgins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10306 PubMed 33240637

November 20, 2020

Response of Bolivian gray titi monkeys (Plecturocebus donacophilus) to an anthropogenic noise gradient: behavioral and hormonal correlates

Lucero M. Hernani Lineros, Amélie Chimènes, Audrey Maille, Kimberly Dingess, Damián I. Rumiz, Patrice Adret