Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

March 16, 2021

Reproducible, portable, and efficient ancient genome reconstruction with nf-core/eager

James A. Fellows Yates, Thiseas C. Lamnidis, Maxime Borry, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Zandra Fagernäs, Stephen Clayton, Maxime U. Garcia, Judith Neukamm, Alexander Peltzer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10947 PubMed 33777521

March 10, 2021

Settling taxonomic and nomenclatural problems in brine shrimps, Artemia (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca), by integrating mitogenomics, marker discordances and nomenclature rules

Lucía Sainz-Escudero, E. Karen López-Estrada, Paula Carolina Rodríguez-Flores, Mario García-París

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10865 PubMed 33854829

March 4, 2021

Maniraptoran pelvic musculature highlights evolutionary patterns in theropod locomotion on the line to birds

Matthew M. Rhodes, Donald M. Henderson, Philip J. Currie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10855 PubMed 33717681

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 31, 2021

New alignment-based sequence extraction software (ALiBaSeq) and its utility for deep level phylogenetics

Alexander Knyshov, Eric R.L. Gordon, Christiane Weirauch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11019 PubMed 33850647

March 10, 2021

A novel predicted ADP-ribosyltransferase-like family conserved in eukaryotic evolution

Zbigniew Wyżewski, Marcin Gradowski, Marianna Krysińska, Małgorzata Dudkiewicz, Krzysztof Pawłowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11051 PubMed 33854844

March 9, 2021

The emotional canvas of human screams: patterns and acoustic cues in the perceptual categorization of a basic call type

Jonathan W. M. Engelberg, Jay W. Schwartz, Harold Gouzoules

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10990 PubMed 33854835

March 8, 2021

A revision of Prolimulus woodwardi Fritsch, 1899 with comparison to other highly paedomorphic belinurids

Lorenzo Lustri, Lukáš Laibl, Russell D.C. Bicknell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10980 PubMed 33732551

March 31, 2021

Systematic analysis of JmjC gene family and stress-response expression of KDM5 subfamily genes in Brassica napus

Xinghui He, Qianwen Wang, Jiao Pan, Boyu Liu, Ying Ruan, Yong Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11137 PubMed 33850662

March 23, 2021

ITS secondary structure reconstruction to resolve taxonomy and phylogeny of the Betula L. genus

Andrii S. Tarieiev, Oliver Gailing, Konstantin V. Krutovsky

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10889 PubMed 33828907

March 19, 2021

Mating system of Datura inoxia: association between selfing rates and herkogamy within populations

Vania Jiménez-Lobato, Juan Núñez-Farfán

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10698 PubMed 33777507

March 9, 2021

Age constraint for the Moreno Hill Formation (Zuni Basin) by CA-TIMS and LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon geochronology

Charl D. Cilliers, Ryan T. Tucker, James L. Crowley, Lindsay E. Zanno

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10948 PubMed 33854833

March 2, 2021

Ontogeny of highly variable ceratitid ammonoids from the Anisian (Middle Triassic)

Eva Alexandra Bischof, Nils Schlüter, Dieter Korn, Jens Lehmann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10931 PubMed 33717689

March 3, 2021

Cranial ornamentation in the Late Cretaceous nodosaurid ankylosaur Hungarosaurus

Attila Ősi, János Magyar, Károly Rosta, Matthew Vickaryous

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11010 PubMed 33717709

March 8, 2021

Two centuries from species discovery to diagnostic characters: molecular and morphological evidence for narrower species limits in the widespread SW Australian Anarthria gracilis complex (Restionaceae s.l./Anarthriaceae, Poales)

Constantin I. Fomichev, Terry D. Macfarlane, Carmen M. Valiejo-Roman, Tahir H. Samigullin, Galina V. Degtjareva, Barbara G. Briggs, Dmitry D. Sokoloff

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10935 PubMed 33732546

March 15, 2021

Divergent morphological responses to millennia of climate change in two species of bats from Hall’s Cave, Texas, USA

Molly Moroz, Illiam S.C. Jackson, Daniel Ramirez, Melissa E. Kemp

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10856 PubMed 33777514

March 22, 2021

Structure and comparative analysis of the mitochondrial genomes of Liolaemus lizards with different modes of reproduction and ploidy levels

Julian Valdes, Sergio Sebastian Samoluk, Cristian Simón Abdala, Diego Baldo, Guillermo Seijo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10677 PubMed 33828904