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April 15, 2021

Diversity patterns and drivers of soil microbial communities in urban and suburban park soils of Shanghai, China

Weiwei Zhang, Jigang Han, Haibing Wu, Qicheng Zhong, Wen Liu, Shanwen He, Lang Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11231 PubMed 33959419

April 7, 2021

Diversity structure of the microbial communities in the guts of four neotropical termite species

Surendra Vikram, Joel D. Arneodo, Javier Calcagno, Maximiliano Ortiz, Maria Laura Mon, Clara Etcheverry, Don A. Cowan, Paola Talia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10959 PubMed 33868801

April 19, 2021

A DNA barcode library for the butterflies of North America

Jacopo D’Ercole, Vlad Dincă, Paul A. Opler, Norbert Kondla, Christian Schmidt, Jarrett D. Phillips, Robert Robbins, John M. Burns, Scott E. Miller, Nick Grishin, Evgeny V. Zakharov, Jeremy R. DeWaard, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Paul D.N. Hebert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11157 PubMed 33976967

April 8, 2021

Measuring change in biological communities: multivariate analysis approaches for temporal datasets with low sample size

Hannah L. Buckley, Nicola J. Day, Bradley S. Case, Gavin Lear

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11096 PubMed 33889442

April 23, 2021

Bosminopsis deitersi (Crustacea: Cladocera) as an ancient species group: a revision

Petr G. Garibian, Dmitry P. Karabanov, Anna N. Neretina, Derek J. Taylor, Alexey A. Kotov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11310 PubMed 33981506

April 2, 2021

A new brachylophosaurin (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico

Andrew T. McDonald, Douglas G. Wolfe, Elizabeth A. Freedman Fowler, Terry A. Gates

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11084 PubMed 33859873

April 27, 2021

Comparative transcriptome and histological analyses provide insights into the skin pigmentation in Minxian black fur sheep (Ovis aries)

Xiaolei Shi, Jianping Wu, Xia Lang, Cailian Wang, Yan Bai, David Greg Riley, Lishan Liu, Xiaoming Ma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11122 PubMed 33986980

April 6, 2021

Phylogenomic analyses reveal a Gondwanan origin and repeated out of India colonizations into Asia by tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae)

Saoirse Foley, Henrik Krehenwinkel, Dong-Qiang Cheng, William H. Piel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11162 PubMed 33868819

April 8, 2021

Changes in the analysis of temporal community dynamics data: a 29-year literature review

Hannah L. Buckley, Nicola J. Day, Gavin Lear, Bradley S. Case

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11250 PubMed 33889452

April 5, 2021

Three new Luticola D.G.Mann (Bacillariophyta) species from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) found in terrestrial diatom assemblages dominated by widely distributed taxa

Łukasz Peszek, Mateusz Rybak, Horst Lange-Bertalot, John Patrick Kociolek, Andrzej Witkowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11142 PubMed 33868817

April 14, 2021

Unraveling the genetic diversity and structure of Quercus liaotungensis population through analysis of microsatellite markers

Bin Guo, Xiangchun Hao, Lijun Han, Yu Zhai, Shuai Zhou, Si Chen, Da Ren, Xinmin An

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10922 PubMed 33954024

April 14, 2021

Meiogyne oligocarpa (Annonaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China

Bine Xue, Yun-Yun Shao, Chun-Fen Xiao, Ming-Fai Liu, Yongquan Li, Yun-Hong Tan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10999 PubMed 33959409

April 6, 2021

Identification problems of travelling snail species—new exotic introductions to tropical greenhouses in Gothenburg, Sweden (Gastropoda: Achatinellidae, Strobilopsidae, Helicarionidae)

Ira Richling, Ted von Proschwitz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11185 PubMed 33868824

April 2, 2021

Systematics of ‘lithistid’ tetractinellid demosponges from the Tropical Western Atlantic—implications for phylodiversity and bathymetric distribution

Astrid Schuster, Shirley A. Pomponi, Andrzej Pisera, Paco Cárdenas, Michelle Kelly, Gert Wörheide, Dirk Erpenbeck

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10775 PubMed 33859870

April 22, 2021

Evolutionary genomics of endangered Hawaiian tree snails (Achatinellidae: Achatinellinae) for conservation of adaptive capacity

Melissa R. Price, Michael G. Hadfield, Ingrid S.S. Knapp, Robert J. Toonen, Zac H. Forsman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10993 PubMed 33981486

April 7, 2021

Depicting the mating system and patterns of contemporary pollen flow in trees of the genus Anadenanthera (Fabaceae)

Juliana Massimino Feres, Alison G. Nazareno, Leonardo M. Borges, Marcela Corbo Guidugli, Fernando Bonifacio-Anacleto, Ana Lilia Alzate-Marin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10579 PubMed 33868794

April 19, 2021

Elatostema qinzhouense (Urticaceae), a new species from limestone karst in Guangxi, China

Longfei Fu, Alexandre K. Monro, Tiange Yang, Fang Wen, Bo Pan, Zibing Xin, Zhixiang Zhang, Yigang Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11148 PubMed 33976965

April 7, 2021

Biocontrol of invasive pheretimoid earthworms using Beauveria bassiana

Maryam Nouri-Aiin, Josef H. Görres

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11101 PubMed 33868811

April 15, 2021

Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities associated with Larix gemelinii Rupr. in the Great Khingan Mountains, China

Yonglong Wang, Yanling Zhao, Ying Xu, Jianjun Ma, Busayo Joshua Babalola, Yongjun Fan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11230 PubMed 33959418

April 16, 2021

Optimizing speleological monitoring efforts: insights from long-term data for tropical iron caves

Leonardo Carreira Trevelin, Matheus Henrique Simões, Xavier Prous, Thadeu Pietrobon, Iuri Viana Brandi, Rodolfo Jaffé

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11271 PubMed 33959423

April 29, 2021

DNA-based diversity assessment reveals a new coral barnacle, Cantellius alveoporae sp. nov. (Balanomorpha: Pyrgomatidae) exclusively associated with the high latitude coral Alveopora japonica in the waters of southern Korea

Hyun Kyong Kim, Benny K.K. Chan, Sung Joon Song, Jong Seong Khim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11284 PubMed 33986998

April 7, 2021

Limited influence of marine sediment lyophilization on prokaryotic community structure assessed via amplicon sequencing: an example from environmentally contrasted sediment layers in Toulon harbor (France)

Benjamin Misson, Cédric Garnier, Alexandre J. Poulain

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11075 PubMed 33868808

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