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 8, 2021

High bycatch rates of manta and devil rays in the “small-scale” artisanal fisheries of Sri Lanka

Daniel Fernando, Joshua D. Stewart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11994 PubMed 34589295

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 27, 2021

Evolutionary drivers of the hump-shaped latitudinal gradient of benthic polychaete species richness along the Southeastern Pacific coast

Rodrigo A. Moreno, Fabio A. Labra, Darko D. Cotoras, Patricio A. Camus, Dimitri Gutiérrez, Luis Aguirre, Nicolás Rozbaczylo, Elie Poulin, Nelson A. Lagos, Daniel Zamorano, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12010 PubMed 34692242

September 13, 2021

Catostylus tagi (Class: Scyphozoa, Order: Discomedusae, Suborder: Rhizostomida, Family: Catostylidae) life cycle and first insight into its ecology

Sonia K.M. Gueroun, Tatiana M. Torres, Antonina Dos Santos, Nuno Vasco-Rodrigues, João Canning-Clode, Carlos Andrade

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12056 PubMed 34603850

September 24, 2021

The modeled distribution of corals and sponges surrounding the Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges with implications for high seas conservation

Samuel Georgian, Lance Morgan, Daniel Wagner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11972 PubMed 34631308

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 23, 2021

Large-scale differences in diversity and functional adaptations of prokaryotic communities from conserved and anthropogenically impacted mangrove sediments in a tropical estuary

Carolina O. De Santana, Pieter Spealman, Vania Melo, David Gresham, Taise de Jesus, Eddy Oliveira, Fabio Alexandre Chinalia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12229 PubMed 34631324

September 9, 2021

Tackling the phylogenetic conundrum of Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Medusozoa: Hydrozoa) by assessing competing tree topologies with targeted high-throughput sequencing

Bastian Bentlage, Allen G. Collins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12104 PubMed 34589302

September 21, 2021

Mass mortality of pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata (Gould)) in Japan in 2019 and 2020 is caused by an unidentified infectious agent

Tomomasa Matsuyama, Satoshi Miwa, Tohru Mekata, Yuta Matsuura, Tomokazu Takano, Chihaya Nakayasu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12180 PubMed 34616626

September 15, 2021

Identification and characterization of expression profiles of neuropeptides and their GPCRs in the swimming crab, Portunus trituberculatus

Shisheng Tu, Rui Xu, Mengen Wang, Xi Xie, Chenchang Bao, Dongfa Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12179 PubMed 34616625

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 29, 2021

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

Guang-Hui Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12225 PubMed 34703669

September 10, 2021

Seagrass contribution to blue carbon in a shallow karstic coastal area of the Gulf of Mexico

Tania C. Cota Lucero, Jorge A. Herrera-Silveira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12109 PubMed 34595067

September 13, 2021

Substrate type and palaeodepth do not affect the Middle Jurassic taxonomic diversity of crinoids

Mariusz A. Salamon, Anna Feldman-Olszewska, Sreepat Jain, Bruno B.M. Ferré, Karolina Paszcza, Bartosz J. Płachno

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12017 PubMed 34603849

September 28, 2021

Genetic diversity across the mitochondrial genome of eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Chani R. Rue, Jason D. Selwyn, Patricia M. Cockett, Bryan Gillis, Lauren Gurski, Philip Jose, Brandi L. Kutil, Sharon F. Magnuson, Luz Ángela López de Mesa, R Deborah Overath, Delbert Lee Smee, Christopher E. Bird

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12205 PubMed 34692250

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