Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

August 31, 2021

Trophic niches reflect compositional differences in microbiota among Caribbean sea urchins

Ruber Rodríguez-Barreras, Eduardo L. Tosado-Rodríguez, Filipa Godoy-Vitorino

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12084 PubMed 34540373

August 6, 2021

A new Andean treefrog (Amphibia: Hyloscirtus bogotensis group) from Ecuador: an example of community involvement for conservation

Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig, Diego Batallas-Revelo, Callie Broaddus, Miguel Urgilés-Merchán, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Juan M. Guayasamin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11914 PubMed 34434655

August 11, 2021

Biogeography, diversity and environmental relationships of shelf and deep-sea benthic Amphipoda around Iceland

Anne-Nina Lörz, Stefanie Kaiser, Jens Oldeland, Caroline Stolter, Karlotta Kürzel, Saskia Brix

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11898 PubMed 34447625

August 26, 2021

Sponges of Western Mediterranean seamounts: new genera, new species and new records

Julio A. Díaz, Sergio Ramírez-Amaro, Francesc Ordines

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11879 PubMed 34527436

August 19, 2021

Connectivity in Spanish metapopulation of Dupont’s lark may be maintained by dispersal over medium-distance range and stepping stones

Alexander García-Antón, Vicente Garza, Juan Traba

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11925 PubMed 34466286

August 20, 2021

Reeling them in: taxonomy of marine annelids used as bait by anglers in the Western Cape Province, South Africa

Carol Simon, Jyothi Kara, Alheit du Toit, Hendré van Rensburg, Caveshlin Naidoo, Conrad A. Matthee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11847 PubMed 34484982

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 18, 2021

Avian extinctions induced by the oldest Amazonian hydropower mega dam: evidence from museum collections and sighting data spanning 172 years

Luiza Magalli Pinto Henriques, Sidnei Dantas, Lucyana Barros Santos, Anderson S. Bueno, Carlos A. Peres

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11979 PubMed 34466289

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 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 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 12, 2021

Quantifying bite force in coexisting tayassuids and feral suids: a comparison between morphometric functional proxies and in vivo measurements

Fernando L. Sicuro, Luiz Flamarion B. Oliveira, Carla D. Hendges, Carlos Fonseca

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11948 PubMed 34447633

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 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