Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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 13, 2021

Biogeography rather than substrate type determines bacterial colonization dynamics of marine plastics

Ashley K. Coons, Kathrin Busch, Mark Lenz, Ute Hentschel, Erik Borchert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12135 PubMed 34603853

September 21, 2021

Response of plant diversity and soil physicochemical properties to different gap sizes in a Pinus massoniana plantation

Qian Lyu, Jiangli Liu, Junjie Liu, Yan Luo, Luman Chen, Gang Chen, Kuangji Zhao, Yuqin Chen, Chuan Fan, Xianwei Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12222 PubMed 34616636

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 3, 2021

Spatial distribution of parrotfishes and groupers in an Okinawan coral reef: size-related associations in relation to habitat characteristics

Atsushi Nanami

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12134 PubMed 34557361

September 15, 2021

The expansion and diversity of the CYP75 gene family in Vitaceae

Yang Xiao, Jun Wen, Ran Meng, Ying Meng, Qiang Zhou, Ze-Long Nie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12174 PubMed 34616623

September 20, 2021

Cortinarius subsalor and C. tibeticisalor spp. nov., two new species from the section Delibuti from China

Meng-Le Xie, Jun-Liang Chen, Chayanard Phukhamsakda, Bálint Dima, Yong-Ping Fu, Rui-Qing Ji, Ke Wang, Tie-Zheng Wei, Yu Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11982 PubMed 34616595

September 28, 2021

Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Mischonyx Bertkau, 1880, with taxonomic changes and three new species description (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae)

Caio Gueratto, Alípio Benedetti, Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11682 PubMed 34692238

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 21, 2021

Impact of urbanization on functional diversity in macromycete communities along an urban ecosystem in Southwest Mexico

Marko Gómez-Hernández, Emily Avendaño-Villegas, María Toledo-Garibaldi, Etelvina Gándara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12191 PubMed 34616630

September 28, 2021

Influence of Pleistocene climatic oscillations on the phylogeography and demographic history of endemic vulnerable trees (section Magnolia) of the Tropical Montane Cloud Forest in Mexico

Yessica Rico, M. Ángel León-Tapia, Marisol Zurita-Solís, Flor Rodríguez-Gómez, Suria Gisela Vásquez-Morales

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12181 PubMed 34692249

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 10, 2021

Synopsis of Habenaria s.l. (Orchidaceae) in New Guinea and adjacent islands

Marta Kolanowska, Marta Kras, Sławomir Nowak, Dariusz L. Szlachetko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12011 PubMed 34603848

September 23, 2021

Pristimantis achupalla sp. n., a new minute species of direct-developing frog (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae) inhabiting bromeliads of the montane forest of the Amazonian Andes of Puno, Peru

Alex Ttito, Alessandro Catenazzi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11878 PubMed 34631306

September 29, 2021

Anthropogenic transformations of river ecosystems are not always bad for the environment: Multi-taxa analyses of changes in aquatic and terrestrial environments after dredging of a small lowland river

Robert Stryjecki, Andrzej Zawal, Tomasz Krepski, Edyta Stępień, Edyta Buczyńska, Paweł Buczyński, Stanisław Czachorowski, Łukasz Jankowiak, Joanna Pakulnicka, Anna Sulikowska-Drozd, Vladimir Pešić, Grzegorz Michoński, Michał Grabowski, Aleksandra Jabłońska, Magdalena Achrem, Tomasz Olechwir, Lech Pietrzak, Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12224 PubMed 34703668

September 2, 2021

Species diversity and community structure of crustacean zooplankton in the highland small waterbodies in Northwest Yunnan, China

Xing Chen, Qinghua Cai, Lu Tan, Shuoran Liu, Wen Xiao, Lin Ye

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12103 PubMed 34557354

September 27, 2021

MINTIA: a metagenomic INserT integrated assembly and annotation tool

Philippe Bardou, Sandrine Laguerre, Sarah Maman Haddad, Sabrina Legoueix Rodriguez, Elisabeth Laville, Claire Dumon, Gabrielle Potocki-Veronese, Christophe Klopp

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11885 PubMed 34692239

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