Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

August 31, 2021

Dongsha Atoll is an important stepping-stone that promotes regional genetic connectivity in the South China Sea

Shang Yin Vanson Liu, Jacob Green, Dana Briggs, Ruth Hastings, Ylva Jondelius, Skylar Kensinger, Hannah Leever, Sophia Santos, Trevor Throne, Chi Cheng, Hawis Madduppa, Robert J. Toonen, Michelle R. Gaither, Eric D. Crandall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12063 PubMed 34540369

August 19, 2021

A new species of Phrynoglossus Peters, 1867; Dicroglossidae) from southeastern Bangladesh, with comments on the genera Occidozyga and Phrynoglossus

Scott Trageser, Hassan Al-Razi, Marjan Maria, Fahimuzzaman Nobel, Md. Asaduzzaman, Shahriar Caesar Rahman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11998 PubMed 34466290

August 17, 2021

Diverse methanogens, bacteria and tannase genes in the feces of the endangered volcano rabbit (Romerolagus diazi)

Leslie M. Montes-Carreto, José Luis Aguirre-Noyola, Itzel A. Solís-García, Jorge Ortega, Esperanza Martinez-Romero, José Antonio Guerrero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11942 PubMed 34458021

August 20, 2021

Measurement error using a SeeMaLab structured light 3D scanner against a Microscribe 3D digitizer

Dolores Messer, Michelle S. Svendsen, Anders Galatius, Morten T. Olsen, Vedrana A. Dahl, Knut Conradsen, Anders B. Dahl

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11804 PubMed 34484981

August 17, 2021

Reproductive aspects of the poorly known and critically endangered freshwater snail Heleobia atacamensis (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea)

Gonzalo A. Collado, Elizabeth Chihuailaf, Natalia Muñoz-Herrera, Manuel Contreras, Fernando Novoa, Moisés A. Valladares

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11550 PubMed 34458016

August 30, 2021

The distribution of benthic amphipod crustaceans in Indonesian seas

Tri Arfianti, Mark John Costello

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12054 PubMed 34540368

August 20, 2021

Phylogeography of high Andean killifishes Orestias (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) in Caquena and Lauca sub-basins of the Altiplano (Chile): mitochondrial and nuclear analysis of an endangered fish

Violeta Cárcamo-Tejer, Irma Vila, Francisco Llanquín-Rosas, Alberto Sáez-Arteaga, Claudia Guerrero-Jiménez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11917 PubMed 34484986

August 30, 2021

Ciprofloxacin reduces tenocyte viability and proteoglycan synthesis in short-term explant cultures of equine tendon

Stuart James, Johannes Schuijers, John Daffy, Jill Cook, Tom Samiric

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12003 PubMed 34540363

August 6, 2021

Snakes on an African plain: the radiation of Crotaphopeltis and Philothamnus into open habitat (Serpentes: Colubridae)

Hanlie M. Engelbrecht, William R. Branch, Krystal A. Tolley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11728 PubMed 34434643

August 11, 2021

Muvi schmallenbergi gen. nov., sp. nov. (Crustacea, Tanaidacea) from the southeast Australian coast, with comments on the distribution and habitat preferences of Chondropodinae

Piotr Jóźwiak, Magdalena Błażewicz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11607 PubMed 34447616

August 5, 2021

Congruence between morphology-based species and Barcode Index Numbers (BINs) in Neotropical Eumaeini (Lycaenidae)

Carlos Prieto, Christophe Faynel, Robert Robbins, Axel Hausmann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11843 PubMed 34430077

August 30, 2021

When size matters: the first comprehensive anatomical study of a species of “Condylocardiidae”, an extremely miniaturized bivalve

Flávio Dias Passos, Alan Rodrigo Batistão, Rüdiger Bieler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12108 PubMed 34540376

August 18, 2021

Phylogenetic relationships, origin and historical biogeography of the genus Sprattus (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae)

Cristian B. Canales-Aguirre, Peter A. Ritchie, Sebastián Hernández, Victoria Herrera-Yañez, Sandra Ferrada Fuentes, Fernanda X. Oyarzún, Cristián E. Hernández, Ricardo Galleguillos, Gloria Arratia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11737 PubMed 34466280

August 16, 2021

Behavioral phenotyping of cancer pain in domesticated cats with naturally occurring squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue: initial validation studies provide evidence for regional and widespread algoplasticity

Yen-Hao Erik Lai, B. Duncan X. Lascelles, Michael W. Nolan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11984 PubMed 34458024

August 23, 2021

First report of leopard fossils from a limestone cave in Kenting area, southern Taiwan

Tzu-Chin Chi, Yi Gan, Tzu-Ruei Yang, Chun-Hsiang Chang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12020 PubMed 34513335

August 18, 2021

Co-occurrence in ant primary parasitoids: a Camponotus rectangularis colony as host of two eucharitid wasp genera

Gabriela Pérez-Lachaud, Jean-Paul Lachaud