Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 17, 2020

Evolution of Wolbachia mutualism and reproductive parasitism: insight from two novel strains that co-infect cat fleas

Timothy P. Driscoll, Victoria I. Verhoeve, Cassia Brockway, Darin L. Shrewsberry, Mariah Plumer, Spiridon E. Sevdalis, John F. Beckmann, Laura M. Krueger, Kevin R. Macaluso, Abdu F. Azad, Joseph J. Gillespie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10646 PubMed 33362982

December 22, 2020

Supraspecific units in correlative niche modeling improves the prediction of geographic potential of biological invasions

Sandra Castaño-Quintero, Jazmín Escobar-Luján, Luis Osorio-Olvera, A Townsend Peterson, Xavier Chiappa-Carrara, Enrique Martínez-Meyer, Carlos Yañez-Arenas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10454 PubMed 33391868

December 2, 2020

Ixodes scapularis microbiome correlates with life stage, not the presence of human pathogens, in ticks submitted for diagnostic testing

Joshua C. Gil, Zeinab H. Helal, Guillermo Risatti, Sarah M. Hird

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10424 PubMed 33344080

December 15, 2020

Climatic niche comparison between closely related trans-Palearctic species of the genus Orthocephalus (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae)

Anna A. Namyatova

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10517 PubMed 33362973

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 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

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 7, 2020

Influence of montane altitudinal ranges on species distribution models; evidence in Andean blow flies

Mariano Altamiranda-Saavedra, Eduardo Amat, Luz Miryam Gómez-P

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10370 PubMed 33354415

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 3, 2020

Bacterial exposure leads to variable mortality but not a measurable increase in surface antimicrobials across ant species

Omar Halawani, Robert R. Dunn, Amy M. Grunden, Adrian A. Smith