Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

June 22, 2021

Increasing 28 mitogenomes of Ephemeroptera, Odonata and Plecoptera support the Chiastomyaria hypothesis with three different outgroup combinations

Dan-Na Yu, Pan-Pan Yu, Le-Ping Zhang, Kenneth B. Storey, Xin-Yan Gao, Jia-Yong Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11402 PubMed 34221707

June 17, 2021

A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia

Stephen F. Poropat, Matt A. White, Tim Ziegler, Adele H. Pentland, Samantha L. Rigby, Ruairidh J. Duncan, Trish Sloan, David A. Elliott

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11544 PubMed 34178452

June 24, 2021

Comparative phylogeography uncovers evolutionary past of Holarctic dragonflies

Manpreet Kohli, Marie Djernæs, Melissa Sanchez Herrera, Göran Sahlen, Erik Pilgrim, Thomas J. Simonsen, Kent Olsen, Jessica Ware

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11338 PubMed 34221703

June 1, 2021

Population structure, adaptation and divergence of the meadow spittlebug, Philaenus spumarius (Hemiptera, Aphrophoridae), revealed by genomic and morphological data

Sofia G. Seabra, Ana S.B. Rodrigues, Sara E. Silva, Ana Carina Neto, Francisco Pina-Martins, Eduardo Marabuto, Vinton Thompson, Michael R. Wilson, Selçuk Yurtsever, Antti Halkka, Maria Teresa Rebelo, Paulo A.V. Borges, José A. Quartau, Chris D. Jiggins, Octávio S. Paulo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11425 PubMed 34131518

June 7, 2021

A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia

Scott A. Hocknull, Melville Wilkinson, Rochelle A. Lawrence, Vladislav Konstantinov, Stuart Mackenzie, Robyn Mackenzie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11317 PubMed 34164230

June 16, 2021

Cranial anatomy of Bolotridon frerensis, an enigmatic cynodont from the Middle Triassic of South Africa, and its phylogenetic significance

Luisa C. Pusch, Christian F. Kammerer, Jörg Fröbisch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11542 PubMed 34178451

June 24, 2021

Intra-subject sample size effects in plantar pressure analyses

Juliet McClymont, Russell Savage, Todd C. Pataky, Robin Crompton, James Charles, Karl T. Bates

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11660 PubMed 34221737

June 1, 2021

A new pterosaur tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous of Wuerho, Junggar Basin, China: inferring the first putative pterosaur trackmaker

Yang Li, Xiaolin Wang, Shunxing Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11361 PubMed 34131515

June 17, 2021

Embryonic development and perinatal skeleton in a limbless, viviparous lizard, Anguis fragilis (Squamata: Anguimorpha)

Tomasz Skawiński, Grzegorz Skórzewski, Bartosz Borczyk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11621 PubMed 34178475

June 18, 2021

Evolutionary and ecological processes influencing chemical defense variation in an aposematic and mimetic Heliconius butterfly

Anniina L. K. Mattila, Chris D. Jiggins, Øystein H. Opedal, Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich, Érika C. Pinheiro de castro, W. Owen McMillan, Caroline Bacquet, Marjo Saastamoinen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11523 PubMed 34178447

June 8, 2021

Unsupervised learning of satellite images enhances discovery of late Miocene fossil sites in the Urema Rift, Gorongosa, Mozambique

João d’Oliveira Coelho, Robert L. Anemone, Susana Carvalho

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11573 PubMed 34164235

June 23, 2021

Rare evidence for ‘gnawing-like’ behavior in a small-bodied theropod dinosaur

Caleb M. Brown, Darren H. Tanke, David W.E. Hone

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11557 PubMed 34221716

June 30, 2021

New austrolimulid from Russia supports role of Early Triassic horseshoe crabs as opportunistic taxa

Russell D.C. Bicknell, Dmitry E. Shcherbakov