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March 2021

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

March 31, 2021

eDNAir: proof of concept that animal DNA can be collected from air sampling

Elizabeth L. Clare, Chloe K. Economou, Chris G. Faulkes, James D. Gilbert, Frances Bennett, Rosie Drinkwater, Joanne E. Littlefair

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11030 PubMed 33850648

March 19, 2021

A fresh look at an old concept: home-range estimation in a tidy world

Johannes Signer, John R. Fieberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11031 PubMed 33954027

March 30, 2021

VirION2: a short- and long-read sequencing and informatics workflow to study the genomic diversity of viruses in nature

Olivier Zablocki, Michelle Michelsen, Marie Burris, Natalie Solonenko, Joanna Warwick-Dugdale, Romik Ghosh, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Matthew B. Sullivan, Ben Temperton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11088 PubMed 33850654

March 16, 2021

Nitrogen fertilizer reduction in combination with Azolla cover for reducing ammonia volatilization and improving nitrogen use efficiency of rice

Guoying Yang, Hongting Ji, Hongjiang Liu, Yanfang Feng, Yuefang Zhang, Liugen Chen, Zhi Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11077 PubMed 33777536

March 25, 2021

Large-scale movements of common bottlenose dolphins in the Atlantic: dolphins with an international courtyard

Ana Dinis, Carlota Molina, Marta Tobeña, Annalisa Sambolino, Karin Hartman, Marc Fernandez, Sara Magalhães, Rui Peres dos Santos, Fabian Ritter, Vidal Martín, Natacha Aguilar de Soto, Filipe Alves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11069 PubMed 33828915

March 3, 2021

Influence of water availability and temperature on estimates of microbial extracellular enzyme activity

Enrique J. Gomez, Jose A. Delgado, Juan M. Gonzalez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10994 PubMed 33717705

March 4, 2021

Changes in diversity and community assembly of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) after rainforest conversion to rubber and oil palm plantations

André Junggebauer, Tamara R. Hartke, Daniel Ramos, Ina Schaefer, Damayanti Buchori, Purnama Hidayat, Stefan Scheu, Jochen Drescher

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11012 PubMed 33717710

March 3, 2021

An integrative approach to infer systematic relationships and define species groups in the shrub frog genus Raorchestes, with description of five new species from the Western Ghats, India

Sonali Garg, Robin Suyesh, Sandeep Das, Mark A. Bee, S. D. Biju

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10791 PubMed 33717674

March 25, 2021

Warming resistant corals from the Gulf of Aqaba live close to their cold-water bleaching threshold

Jessica Bellworthy, Maoz Fine

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11100 PubMed 33828920

March 2, 2021

Trophic niche differentiation and utilisation of food resources in Collembola is altered by rainforest conversion to plantation systems

Winda Ika Susanti, Rahayu Widyastuti, Stefan Scheu, Anton Potapov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10971 PubMed 33717699

March 9, 2021

Fall supplemental feeding increases population growth rate of an endangered caribou herd

Douglas C. Heard, Kathryn L. Zimmerman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10708 PubMed 33854825

March 4, 2021

The influence of fish farm activity on the social structure of the common bottlenose dolphin in Sardinia (Italy)

Serena Frau, Fabio Ronchetti, Francesco Perretti, Alberto Addis, Giulia Ceccherelli, Gabriella La Manna

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10960 PubMed 33717695

March 1, 2021

Temperate southern Australian coastal waters are characterised by surprisingly high rates of nitrogen fixation and diversity of diazotrophs

Lauren F. Messer, Mark V. Brown, Paul D. Van Ruth, Mark Doubell, Justin R. Seymour

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10809 PubMed 33717676

March 19, 2021

DNA metabarcoding of zooplankton communities: species diversity and seasonal variation revealed by 18S rRNA and COI

Lina Zhao, Xue Zhang, Mengyue Xu, Ying Mao, Yuan Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11057 PubMed 33777533

March 9, 2021

Long-term storage of feces at −80 °C versus −20 °C is negligible for 16S rRNA amplicon profiling of the equine bacterial microbiome

Stefan Gavriliuc, Mason R. Stothart, Astrid Henry, Jocelyn Poissant

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10837 PubMed 33854827

March 17, 2021

Habitat suitability of cetaceans in the Gulf of Mexico using an ecological niche modeling approach

M. Rafael Ramírez-León, María C. García-Aguilar, Alfonsina E. Romo-Curiel, Zurisaday Ramírez-Mendoza, Arturo Fajardo-Yamamoto, Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10834 PubMed 33777512

March 24, 2021

Integrating morphological and molecular approaches for characterizing four species of Dactylogyrus (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from Moroccan cyprinids, with comments on their host specificity and phylogenetic relationships

Eva Řehulková, Imane Rahmouni, Antoine Pariselle, Andrea Šimková

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10867 PubMed 33828906

March 10, 2021

Forbidden links, trait matching and modularity in plant-hummingbird networks: Are specialized modules characterized by higher phenotypic floral integration?

Jaume Izquierdo-Palma, Maria del Coro Arizmendi, Carlos Lara, Juan Francisco Ornelas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10974 PubMed 33854834

March 1, 2021

Mammal-exclusion fencing improves the nesting success of an endangered native Hawaiian waterbird

Dain L. Christensen, Kristen C. Harmon, Nathaniel H. Wehr, Melissa R. Price

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10722 PubMed 33717665

March 4, 2021

Differential gene expression in a tripartite interaction: Drosophila, Spiroplasma and parasitic wasps

Victor Manuel Higareda Alvear, Mariana Mateos, Diego Cortez, Cecilia Tamborindeguy, Esperanza Martinez-Romero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11020 PubMed 33717711

March 10, 2021

When ecological marginality is not geographically peripheral: exploring genetic predictions of the centre-periphery hypothesis in the endemic plant Lilium pomponium

Gabriele Casazza, Carmelo Macrì, Davide Dagnino, Maria Guerrina, Marianick Juin, Luigi Minuto, John D. Thompson, Alex Baumel, Frédéric Médail

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11039 PubMed 33854841

March 16, 2021

Phylogeny and evolution of Lasiopodomys in subfamily Arvivolinae based on mitochondrial genomics

Luye Shi, Likuan Liu, Xiujuan Li, Yue Wu, Xiangyu Tian, Yuhua Shi, Zhenlong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10850 PubMed 33777513

March 4, 2021

Compositional and functional profiling of the rhizosphere microbiomes of the invasive weed Ageratina adenophora and native plants

Yun Xia, Minghua Dong, Lei Yu, Lingdong Kong, Robert Seviour, Yunhong Kong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10844 PubMed 33717679

March 31, 2021

Post-emergence seedling damage due to vertebrate pests and its impact on soybean establishment

Jay Ram Lamichhane

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11106 PubMed 33850655

March 10, 2021

Activity strategy and pattern of the Siberian jerboa (Orientallactaga sibirica) in the Alxa desert region, China

Yu Ji, Shuai Yuan, Heping Fu, Suwen Yang, Fan Bu, Xin Li, Xiaodong Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10996 PubMed 33854836

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