Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 13, 2021

Geographic potential of the world’s largest hornet, Vespa mandarinia Smith (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), worldwide and particularly in North America

Claudia Nuñez-Penichet, Luis Osorio-Olvera, Victor H. Gonzalez, Marlon E. Cobos, Laura Jiménez, Devon A. DeRaad, Abdelghafar Alkishe, Rusby G. Contreras-Díaz, Angela Nava-Bolaños, Kaera Utsumi, Uzma Ashraf, Adeola Adeboje, A. Townsend Peterson, Jorge Soberon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10690 PubMed 33520462

January 21, 2021

A review of the carotid artery and facial nerve canal systems in extant turtles

Yann Rollot, Serjoscha W. Evers, Walter G. Joyce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10475 PubMed 33552706

January 8, 2021

Silk derived formulations for accelerated wound healing in diabetic mice

Muniba Tariq, Hafiz Muhammad Tahir, Samima Asad Butt, Shaukat Ali, Asma Bashir Ahmad, Chand Raza, Muhammad Summer, Ali Hassan, Junaid Nadeem

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10232 PubMed 33510964

January 22, 2021

ACPT gene is inactivated in mammalian lineages that lack enamel or teeth

Yuan Mu, Xin Huang, Rui Liu, Yulin Gai, Na Liang, Daiqing Yin, Lei Shan, Shixia Xu, Guang Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10219 PubMed 33552707

January 6, 2021

Does Drosophila sechellia escape parasitoid attack by feeding on a toxic resource?

Laura Salazar-Jaramillo, Bregje Wertheim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10528 PubMed 33505786

January 5, 2021

Bacterial meta-analysis of chicken cecal microbiota

Luis Alberto Chica Cardenas, Viviana Clavijo, Martha Vives, Alejandro Reyes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10571 PubMed 33505795

January 20, 2021

Offshore marine actinopterygian assemblages from the Maastrichtian–Paleogene of the Pindos Unit in Eurytania, Greece

Thodoris Argyriou, Donald Davesne

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10676 PubMed 33552722

January 25, 2021

Description and rediagnosis of the crested hadrosaurid (Ornithopoda) dinosaur Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus on the basis of new cranial remains

Terry A. Gates, David C. Evans, Joseph J.W. Sertich

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10669 PubMed 33552721

January 29, 2021

Brown bear communication hubs: patterns and correlates of tree rubbing and pedal marking at a long-term marking site

Eloy Revilla, Damián Ramos Fernández, Alberto Fernández-Gil, Agnieszka Sergiel, Nuria Selva, Javier Naves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10447 PubMed 33575120

January 13, 2021

Acoustic monitors and direct observations provide similar but distinct perspectives on bird assemblages in a lowland forest of eastern Ecuador

John G. Blake

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10565 PubMed 33520440

January 12, 2021

Records of ctenophores from South Africa

Mark J. Gibbons, Steve H.D. Haddock, George I. Matsumoto, Craig Foster

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10697 PubMed 33520464

January 15, 2021

A new caimanine alligatorid from the Middle Eocene of Southwest Texas and implications for spatial and temporal shifts in Paleogene crocodyliform diversity

Michelle R. Stocker, Christopher A. Brochu, E. Christopher Kirk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10665 PubMed 33520458

January 22, 2021

Acoustic cues to individuality in wild male adult African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana)

Kaja Wierucka, Michelle D. Henley, Hannah S. Mumby

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10736 PubMed 33552734

January 22, 2021

Prebiotic supplementation effect on Escherichia coli and Salmonella species associated with experimentally induced intestinal coccidiosis in rabbits

Shawky M. Aboelhadid, Shaymaa Hashem, El-Sayed Abdel-Kafy, Lilian N. Mahrous, Eman M. Farghly, Abdel-Azeem S. Abdel-Baki, Saleh Al-Quraishy, Asmaa A. Kamel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10714 PubMed 33552731

January 29, 2021

Dynamics of locomotion in the seed harvesting ant Messor barbarus: effect of individual body mass and transported load mass

Hugo Merienne, Gérard Latil, Pierre Moretto, Vincent Fourcassié

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10664 PubMed 33575127

January 21, 2021

The influence of rare birds on observer effort and subsequent rarity discovery in the American birdwatching community

Jesse A. Laney, Tyler A. Hallman, Jenna R. Curtis, W. Douglas Robinson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10713 PubMed 33552730

January 13, 2021

Exploring the relationship of Homalosilpha and Mimosilpha (Blattodea, Blattidae, Blattinae) from a morphological and molecular perspective, including a description of four new species

Shuran Liao, Yishu Wang, Duting Jin, Rong Chen, Zongqing Wang, Yanli Che