Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

February 10, 2021

Marine amphipods as a new live prey for ornamental aquaculture: exploring the potential of Parhyale hawaiensis and Elasmopus pectenicrus

Jorge Arturo Vargas-Abúndez, Humberto Ivan López-Vázquez, Maite Mascaró, Gemma Leticia Martínez-Moreno, Nuno Simões

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10840 PubMed 33614288

February 18, 2021

Pseudocnidae of ribbon worms (Nemertea): ultrastructure, maturation, and functional morphology

Timur Yu Magarlamov, James M. Turbeville, Alexei V. Chernyshev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10912 PubMed 33643715

February 23, 2021

Comparison between cultured and wild Pacific white shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) vitellogenesis: next-generation sequencing and relative expression of genes directly and indirectly related to reproduction

Araceli Lorena Montes-Dominguez, Jesus Arian Avena-Soto, Jorge Luis Lizarraga-Rodriguez, Rodrigo de Jesus Perez-Gala, Stephanie Jimenez-Gutierrez, Jesus Alberto Sotelo-Falomir, Fernando Marino Pinzon-Miranda, Francisco Martinez-Perez, Horacio Alberto Muñoz-Rubi, Dario Chavez-Herrera, Laura Rebeca Jimenez-Gutierrez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10694 PubMed 33665004

February 24, 2021

A new kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the early to middle Miocene of the western North Pacific and a revision of kentriodontid phylogeny

Zixuan Guo, Naoki Kohno

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10945 PubMed 33665037

February 18, 2021

Metasychis varicollaris sp. nov. and report of Metasychis gotoi (Maldanidae, Annelida) from the China Seas

Yueyun Wang, Xinzheng Li, Chunsheng Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10608 PubMed 33643700