Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

September 6, 2021

Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem

Jonathan P. Rio, Philip D. Mannion

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12094 PubMed 34567843

September 9, 2021

The importance of molecular characters when morphological variability hinders diagnosability: systematics of the moon jellyfish genus Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)

Jonathan W. Lawley, Edgar Gamero-Mora, Maximiliano M. Maronna, Luciano M. Chiaverano, Sérgio N. Stampar, Russell R. Hopcroft, Allen G. Collins, André C. Morandini

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11954 PubMed 34589293

September 21, 2021

Who’s who in Magelona: phylogenetic hypotheses under Magelonidae Cunningham & Ramage, 1888 (Annelida: Polychaeta)

Kate Mortimer, Kirk Fitzhugh, Ana Claudia dos Brasil, Paulo Lana

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11993 PubMed 35070516

September 28, 2021

Cryptocentrus steinhardti (Actinopterygii; Gobiidae): a new species of shrimp-goby, and a new invasive to the Mediterranean Sea

Menachem Goren, Nir Stern

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12136 PubMed 34692246

September 16, 2021

Evidence from the resurrected family Polyrhabdinidae Kamm, 1922 (Apicomplexa: Gregarinomorpha) supports the epimerite, an attachment organelle, as a major eugregarine innovation

Gita G. Paskerova, Tatiana S. Miroliubova, Andrea Valigurová, Jan Janouškovec, Magdaléna Kováčiková, Andrei Diakin, Yuliya Ya. Sokolova, Kirill V. Mikhailov, Vladimir V. Aleoshin, Timur G. Simdyanov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11912 PubMed 34616591

September 24, 2021

New free-living nematode species and records (Chromadorea: Plectida and Desmodorida) from the edge and axis of Kermadec Trench, Southwest Pacific Ocean

Daniel Leduc

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12037 PubMed 34631310

September 10, 2021

A new species of Proceratophrys Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920 (Anura, Odontophrynidae) from Southern Amazonia, Brazil

Diego J. Santana, Leandro Alves da Silva, Anathielle Caroline Sant’Anna, Donald B. Shepard, Sarah Mângia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12012 PubMed 34595064

September 29, 2021

The oldest species of Peltoperleidus (Louwoichthyiformes, Neopterygii) from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of China, with phylogenetic and biogeographic implications

Guang-Hui Xu