Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 4, 2020

Comparing multiple comparisons: practical guidance for choosing the best multiple comparisons test

Stephen Midway, Matthew Robertson, Shane Flinn, Michael Kaller

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10387 PubMed 33335808

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 18, 2020

Time of night and moonlight structure vertical space use by insectivorous bats in a Neotropical rainforest: an acoustic monitoring study

Dylan G.E. Gomes, Giulliana Appel, Jesse R. Barber

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10591 PubMed 33384906

December 18, 2020

Utilizing sponge spicules in taxonomic, ecological and environmental reconstructions: a review

Magdalena Łukowiak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10601 PubMed 33384908

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 14, 2020

Trends in summer presence of fin whales in the Western Mediterranean Sea Region: new insights from a long-term monitoring program

Paola Tepsich, Ilaria Schettino, Fabrizio Atzori, Marta Azzolin, Ilaria Campana, Lara Carosso, Simone Cominelli, Roberto Crosti, Léa David, Nathalie Di-Méglio, Francesca Frau, Martina Gregorietti, Veronica Mazzucato, Clara Monaco, Aurelie Moulins, Miriam Paraboschi, Giuliana Pellegrino, Massimiliano Rosso, Marine Roul, Sébastien Saintignan, Antonella Arcangeli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10544 PubMed 33362978

December 17, 2020

Distribution and species diversity of the floating green macroalgae and micro-propagules in the Subei Shoal, southwestern Yellow Sea

Xiaoxiang Miao, Jie Xiao, Qinzeng Xu, Shiliang Fan, Zongling Wang, Xiao Wang, Xuelei Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10538 PubMed 33362976

December 15, 2020

Canines and carnassials as indicators of sociality in durophagous hyaenids: analyzing the past to understand the present

Juan Antonio Pérez-Claros, Carlos Coca-Ortega

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10541 PubMed 33362977

December 22, 2020

The ecomorphology of the shell of extant turtles and its applications for fossil turtles

Laura Dziomber, Walter G. Joyce, Christian Foth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10490 PubMed 33391873

December 1, 2020

The gut microbiota in the common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus): a report from the Beijing Raptor Rescue Center

Yu Guan, Hongfang Wang, Yinan Gong, Jianping Ge, Lei Bao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9970 PubMed 33344069

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 1, 2020

Tracking the dynamics of individual gut microbiome of sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus during gut regeneration

Yohei Yamazaki, Yuichi Sakai, Juanwen Yu, Sayaka Mino, Tomoo Sawabe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10260 PubMed 33344070

December 21, 2020

The positive effect of coexisting ecosystem engineers: a unique seaweed-mussel association provides refuge for native mud crabs against a non-indigenous predator

Paula Tummon Flynn, Keegan McCarvill, K. Devon Lynn, Pedro A. Quijón

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10540 PubMed 33391877

December 14, 2020

Convict cichlid parents that stay with the same mate develop unique and consistent divisions of roles

Jennifer L. Snekser, Murray Itzkowitz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10534 PubMed 33362975

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 8, 2020

Density-dependent condition of juvenile penaeid shrimps in seagrass-dominated aquatic vegetation beds located at different distance from a tidal inlet

Zeferino Blanco-Martínez, Roberto Pérez-Castañeda, Jesús Genaro Sánchez-Martínez, Flaviano Benavides-González, Jaime Luis Rábago-Castro, María de la Luz Vázquez-Sauceda, Lorena Garrido-Olvera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10496 PubMed 33354432

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 10, 2020

Multi-year pair-bonding in Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii)

Alan J. Couch, Fiona Dyer, Mark Lintermans

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10460 PubMed 33354425

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