Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Hebert Hernán Soto Gonzáles, Ofelda Peñuelas-Rubio, Leandris Argentel-Martínez, Aurelio Leyva Ponce, María Hermelinda Herrera Andrade, Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Jorge González Aguilera, Paulo Eduardo Teodoro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12297 PubMed 34754617

October 28, 2021

Wild gut microbiomes reveal individuals, species, and location as drivers of variation in two critically endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers

Maria S. Costantini, Matthew C.I. Medeiros, Lisa H. Crampton, Floyd A. Reed

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12291 PubMed 34760361

October 1, 2021

Effects of a natural precipitation gradient on fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages in coastal streams

Sean Kinard, Christopher J. Patrick, Fernando Carvallo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12137 PubMed 34703662

October 21, 2021

Effects of grazing intensity on forage nutritive value of dominant grass species in Borana rangelands of Southern Ethiopia

Yeneayehu Fenetahun, Yuan You, Tihunie Fentahun, Xu Xinwen, Wang Yong-dong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12204 PubMed 34721964

October 20, 2021

Spinal malformations in a naturally isolated Neotropical fish population

Franciele Fernanda Kerniske, Jonathan Pena Castro, Luz Elena De la Ossa-Guerra, Bruna Angelina Mayer, Vinícius Abilhoa, Igor de Paiva Affonso, Roberto Ferreira Artoni

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12239 PubMed 34721968

October 29, 2021

Modeling the current distribution suitability and future dynamics of Culicoides imicola under climate change scenarios

Hongyan Gao, Long Wang, Jun Ma, Xiang Gao, Jianhua Xiao, Hongbin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12308 PubMed 34760364

October 20, 2021

Comparative transcriptome analyses of different Salvia miltiorrhiza varieties during the accumulation of tanshinones

Jingwen Zhou, Rui Liu, Min Shuai, Zhu-Yun Yan, Xin Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12300 PubMed 34721983

October 26, 2021

Removal or component reversal of local geomagnetic field affects foraging orientation preference in migratory insect brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens

Yingchao Zhang, Weidong Pan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12351 PubMed 34760372

October 19, 2021

Vocal communication in wild chimpanzees: a call rate study

Anne-Sophie Crunchant, Fiona A. Stewart, Alex K. Piel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12326 PubMed 34721995

October 7, 2021

Heronry distribution and site preference dynamics of tree-nesting colonial waterbirds in Tamil Nadu

Sadrack Jabaraj Dhanaraj Frank, Govindan Veeraswami Gopi, Bivash Pandav

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12256 PubMed 34707938

October 15, 2021

Biometric indices and population parameters of three polynemid fishes from Batang Lassa Estuary of East Malaysia

M. Golam Mustafa, Amy Halimah Rajaee, Hadi Hamli, Khairul Adha A. Rahim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12183 PubMed 34721960

October 22, 2021

Anti-fouling activity and toxicity of the Mediterranean alien sponge Paraleucilla magna Klautau, Monteiro & Borojevic, 2004 (Porifera, Calcarea)

Caterina Longo, Roberta Trani, Carlotta Nonnis Marzano, Maria Mercurio, Tamara Lazic, Pietro Cotugno, Erika Santobianchi, Maria Flavia Gravina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12279 PubMed 34733587

October 5, 2021

Urbanization processes drive divergence at the major histocompatibility complex in a common waterbird

Ewa Pikus, Radosław Włodarczyk, Jan Jedlikowski, Piotr Minias

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12264 PubMed 34707940

October 19, 2021

A noteworthy case of rewilding Chinese yew from a garden population in eastern China

Kaidi Li, Guangfu Zhang, Ying Zhang, M. Patrick Griffith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12341 PubMed 34721999

October 14, 2021

Characteristics and factors influencing the natural regeneration of Larix principis-rupprechtii seedlings in northern China

Weiwen Zhao, Wenjun Liang, Youzhi Han, Xi Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12327 PubMed 34721996

October 6, 2021

The soil microbiomics of intact, degraded and partially-restored semi-arid succulent thicket (Albany Subtropical Thicket)

Micaela Schagen, Jason Bosch, Jenny Johnson, Robbert Duker, Pedro Lebre, Alastair J. Potts, Don A. Cowan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12176 PubMed 34707927

October 5, 2021

Impacts of land cover change on the plant resources of an endangered pollinator

Emma P. Gómez-Ruiz, Thomas E. Lacher Jr, Antonio Moreno-Talamantes, José Juan Flores Maldonado

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11990 PubMed 34707921

October 27, 2021

Differences in insectivore bird diets in coffee agroecosystems driven by obligate or generalist guild, shade management, season, and year

Julie A. Jedlicka, Stacy M. Philpott, Martha L. Baena, Peter Bichier, Thomas V. Dietsch, Laney H. Nute, Suzanne M. Langridge, Ivette Perfecto, Russell Greenberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12296 PubMed 34760362

October 28, 2021

Rapid authenticity testing of artificially bred green turtles (Chelonia mydas) using microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA markers

Ting Zhang, Liu Lin, Daniel Gaillard, Fang Chen, Huaiqing Chen, Meimei Li, Shannan Wu, Zhao Wang, Haitao Shi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12410 PubMed 34760392

October 12, 2021

Changes in soil bacterial and fungal communities in response to Bacillus megaterium NCT-2 inoculation in secondary salinized soil

Bin Wang, Shaohua Chu, Xiaorui Liu, Dan Zhang, Xiaotong Chai, Xijia Yang, Yuee Zhi, Yaowei Chi, Pei Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12309 PubMed 34721987

October 14, 2021

Seasonal trends of the polyp expansion and nutritional condition of Alcyonium acaule (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea)

Lucia Rizzo, Ida Fiorillo, Sergio Rossi