Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

September 27, 2021

Long distance (>20 km) downstream detection of endangered stream frogs suggests an important role for eDNA in surveying for remnant amphibian populations

Cecilia Villacorta-Rath, Conrad J. Hoskin, Jan M. Strugnell, Damien Burrows

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12013 PubMed 34692243

September 27, 2021

Development of droplet digital Polymerase Chain Reaction assays for the detection of long-finned (Anguilla dieffenbachii) and short-finned (Anguilla australis) eels in environmental samples

Georgia Thomson-Laing, Russleigh Parai, Laura T. Kelly, Xavier Pochon, Rewi Newnham, Marcus J. Vandergoes, Jamie D. Howarth, Susanna A. Wood

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12157 PubMed 34692247

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 8, 2021

No adverse effect of a maternal high carbohydrate diet on their offspring, in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Therese Callet, Hongyan Li, Anne Surget, Frederic Terrier, Franck Sandres, Anthony Lanuque, Stephane Panserat, Lucie Marandel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12102 PubMed 34589301

September 20, 2021

Diverse traits of aquatic plants cannot individually explain their consumption by the generalist gastropod Biomphalairia glabrata

Renato Crespo Pereira, Nathália Nocchi, Tatiana U.P. Konno, Angelica R. Soares

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12031 PubMed 34616600

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