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 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 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 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 29, 2021

Discordance in maternal and paternal genetic markers in lesser long-nosed bat Leptonycteris yerbabuenae, a migratory bat: recent expansion to the North and male phylopatry

Roberto-Emiliano Trejo-Salazar, Gabriela Castellanos-Morales, DulceCarolina Hernández-Rosales, Niza Gámez, Jaime Gasca-Pineda, Miguel Rene Morales Garza, Rodrigo Medellin, Luis E. Eguiarte

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12168 PubMed 34703665

September 3, 2021

Beetle bombing always deters praying mantises

Shinji Sugiura

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11657 PubMed 34557341

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 13, 2021

Habitat ephemerality affects the evolution of contrasting growth strategies and cannibalism in anuran larvae

Dogeun Oh, Yongsu Kim, Sohee Yoo, Changku Kang