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 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 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 30, 2021

Highly comparable metabarcoding results from MGI-Tech and Illumina sequencing platforms

Sten Anslan, Vladimir Mikryukov, Kęstutis Armolaitis, Jelena Ankuda, Dagnija Lazdina, Kristaps Makovskis, Lars Vesterdal, Inger Kappel Schmidt, Leho Tedersoo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12254 PubMed 34703674

September 20, 2021

A comprehensive review and call for studies on firefly larvae

William B. Riley, Simone Policena Rosa, Luiz Felipe Lima da Silveira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12121 PubMed 34616609

September 7, 2021

Potential applications of personality assessments to the management of non-human primates: a review of 10 years of study

Max Norman, Lewis J. Rowden, Guy Cowlishaw

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12044 PubMed 34589296

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 9, 2021

Apis andreniformis associated Actinomycetes show antimicrobial activity against black rot pathogen (Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris)

Yaowanoot Promnuan, Saran Promsai, Wasu Pathom-aree, Sujinan Meelai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12097 PubMed 34589300

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 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 10, 2021

Capturing and analyzing pattern diversity: an example using the melanistic spotted patterns of leopard geckos

Tilmann Glimm, Maria Kiskowski, Nickolas Moreno, Ylenia Chiari

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11829 PubMed 34595062

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 23, 2021

Ontogenetic moulting behavior of the Cambrian oryctocephalid trilobite Arthricocephalites xinzhaiheensis

Yifan Wang, Jin Peng, Dezhi Wang, Hui Zhang, Xiuchun Luo, Yunbin Shao, Quanyi Sun, Chenchen Ling, Qiujun Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12217 PubMed 34631322

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 22, 2021

Chimpanzee facial gestures and the implications for the evolution of language

Brittany Florkiewicz, Matthew Campbell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12237

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 9, 2021

Acoustic individuality in the hissing calls of the male black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix)

Lucie Hambálková, Richard Policht, Jiří Horák, Vlastimil Hart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11837 PubMed 34589291

September 27, 2021

Evolution of inbreeding: a gaze into five Italian beef cattle breeds history

Giacomo Rovelli, Maria Gracia Luigi-Sierra, Dailu Guan, Fiorella Sbarra, Andrea Quaglia, Francesca Maria Sarti, Marcel Amills, Emiliano Lasagna

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12049 PubMed 34692245

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