Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 8, 2020

Genetic diversity and population structure of eddoe taro in China using genome-wide SNP markers

Zhixin Wang, Yalin Sun, Xinfang Huang, Feng Li, Yuping Liu, Honglian Zhu, Zhengwei Liu, Weidong Ke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10485 PubMed 33354429

December 17, 2020

A molecular survey based on eDNA to assess the presence of a clown featherback (Chitala ornata) in a confined environment

Maslin Osathanunkul, Toshifumi Minamoto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10338 PubMed 33362954

December 4, 2020

Description of a new genus and species for a common and widespread Amazonian satyrine butterfly (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Satyrini)

Shinichi Nakahara, Gerardo Lamas, Keith Willmott, Marianne Espeland

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10324 PubMed 33335806

December 3, 2020

Foliar mycoendophytome of an endemic plant of the Mediterranean biome (Myrtus communis) reveals the dominance of basidiomycete woody saprotrophs

Aline Bruna M. Vaz, Paula Luize C. Fonseca, Felipe F. Silva, Gabriel Quintanilha-Peixoto, Inmaculada Sampedro, Jose A. Siles, Anderson Carmo, Rodrigo B. Kato, Vasco Azevedo, Fernanda Badotti, Juan A. Ocampo, Carlos A. Rosa, Aristóteles Góes-Neto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10487 PubMed 33344092

December 22, 2020

Diversification and selection pattern of CYP6B genes in Japanese Papilio butterflies and their association with host plant spectra

Ai Sato, Yu Okamura, Masashi Murakami

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10625 PubMed 33391886

December 7, 2020

Neither ant dominance nor abundance explain ant-plant network structure in Mexican temperate forests

Brenda Juárez-Juárez, Mariana Cuautle, Citlalli Castillo-Guevara, Karla López-Vázquez, María Gómez-Ortigoza, María Gómez-Lazaga, Cecilia Díaz-Castelazo, Carlos Lara, Gibrán R. Pérez-Toledo, Miguel Reyes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10435 PubMed 33354422

December 21, 2020

Synoptic revision of the fern genus Elaphoglossum Schott ex J.Sm. (Dryopteridaceae) in Madagascar, with the description of 23 new taxa, all but one endemic

Germinal Rouhan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10484 PubMed 33391872

December 11, 2020

Portanini (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Peru: checklist with new records and descriptions of two new species

Jádila Santos Prando, Clayton Corrêa Gonçalves, Daniela Maeda Takiya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10222 PubMed 33365204