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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 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

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 15, 2021

The montane trees of the Cameroon Highlands, West-Central Africa, with Deinbollia onanae sp. nov. (Sapindaceae), a new primate-dispersed, Endangered species

Martin Cheek, Jean Michel Onana, Hazel M. Chapman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11036 PubMed 33777527

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 8, 2021

Longitudinal metabarcode analysis of karst bacterioplankton microbiomes provide evidence of epikarst to cave transport and community succession

Kendall V. Morse, Dylan R. Richardson, Teresa L. Brown, Robert D. Vangundy, Aubrey Bruce Cahoon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10757 PubMed 33732542

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 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 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 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 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 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 9, 2021

Conservation actions and ecological context: optimizing coral reef local management in the Dominican Republic

Camilo Cortés-Useche, Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado, Johanna Calle-Triviño, Rita Sellares Blasco, Victor Galván, Jesús E. Arias-González

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10925 PubMed 33854832

March 25, 2021

Genetic signatures of population bottlenecks, relatedness, and inbreeding highlight recent and novel conservation concerns in the Egyptian vulture

Guillermo Blanco, Francisco Morinha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11139 PubMed 33828925

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 1, 2021

Phenotype study of multifoliolate leaf formation in Trifolium alexandrinum L.

Devendra Ram Malaviya, Ajoy Kumar Roy, Pankaj Kaushal, Shalini Pathak, Ruslan Kalendar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10874 PubMed 33717683

March 10, 2021

Short-term variation in abundance of four Acartia species (Copepoda, Calanoida) in a eutrophic bay

Seo Yeol Choi, Min Ho Seo, Ho Young Soh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10835 PubMed 33854826

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 26, 2021

A taxonomically detailed and large-scale view of the factors affecting the distribution and abundance of tree species planted in private gardens of Christchurch city, New Zealand

Wei Quan, Jon J. Sullivan, Colin D. Meurk, Glenn H. Stewart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10588 PubMed 33828902

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