Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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 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 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 30, 2021

Aggressiveness-related behavioural types in the pearly razorfish

Martina Martorell-Barceló, Júlia Mulet, Javier Sanllehi, Marco Signaroli, Arancha Lana, Margarida Barcelo-Serra, Eneko Aspillaga, Josep Alós

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10731 PubMed 33850638

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 5, 2021

Genetic variation of Nigerian cattle inferred from maternal and paternal genetic markers

David H. Mauki, Adeniyi C. Adeola, Said I. Ng’ang’a, Abdulfatai Tijjani, Ibikunle Mark Akanbi, Oscar J. Sanke, Abdussamad M. Abdussamad, Sunday C. Olaogun, Jebi Ibrahim, Philip M. Dawuda, Godwin F. Mangbon, Paul S. Gwakisa, Ting-Ting Yin, Min-Sheng Peng, Ya-Ping Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10607 PubMed 33717663

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 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 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 31, 2021

Sinomacrops bondei, a new anurognathid pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and comments on the group

Xuefang Wei, Rodrigo Vargas Pêgas, Caizhi Shen, Yanfang Guo, Waisum Ma, Deyu Sun, Xuanyu Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11161 PubMed 33850665

March 2, 2021

Taxonomic revision of the Malagasy Aphaenogaster swammerdami group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sandor Csősz, Ana C. Loss, Brian L. Fisher

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10900 PubMed 33717685

March 18, 2021

Supplementary feeding of cattle-yak in the cold season alters rumen microbes, volatile fatty acids, and expression of SGLT1 in the rumen epithelium

Yuzhu Sha, Jiang Hu, Bingang Shi, Renqing Dingkao, Jiqing Wang, Shaobin Li, Wei Zhang, Yuzhu Luo, Xiu Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11048 PubMed 33777531

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 2, 2021

Putative carboxylesterase gene identification and their expression patterns in Hyphantria cunea (Drury)

Jia Ye, Dingze Mang, Ke Kang, Cheng Chen, Xiaoqing Zhang, Yanping Tang, Endang R. Purba, Liwen Song, Qing-He Zhang, Longwa Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10919 PubMed 33717687

March 4, 2021

A review of the diagnosis and geographical distribution of the recently described flea toad Brachycephalus sulfuratus in relation to B. hermogenesi (Anura: Brachycephalidae)

Marcos R. Bornschein, Luiz Fernando Ribeiro, Larissa Teixeira, Ricardo Belmonte-Lopes, Leonardo Amaral de Moraes, Leandro Corrêa, Giovanni Nachtigall Maurício, Júnior Nadaline, Marcio R. Pie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10983 PubMed 33717704

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 10, 2021

Determining insulin sensitivity from glucose tolerance tests in Iberian and landrace pigs

José Miguel Rodríguez-López, Manuel Lachica, Lucrecia González-Valero, Ignacio Fernández-Fígares

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11014 PubMed 33854837

March 16, 2021

Photosymbiosis in Late Triassic scleractinian corals from the Italian Dolomites

Katarzyna Frankowiak, Ewa Roniewicz, Jarosław Stolarski