Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

October 1, 2021

Shifts from cis-to trans-splicing of five mitochondrial introns in Tolypanthus maclurei

Runxian Yu, Chenyu Sun, Ying Liu, Renchao Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12260 PubMed 34703675

October 1, 2021

A histological survey of avian post-natal skeletal ontogeny

Jessie Atterholt, Holly N. Woodward

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12160 PubMed 34703663

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 1, 2021

Stress distribution in the bonobo (Pan paniscus) trapeziometacarpal joint during grasping

Timo van Leeuwen, G. Harry van Lenthe, Evie E. Vereecke, Marco T. Schneider

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12068 PubMed 34703659

October 27, 2021

Relatively low tooth replacement rate in a sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Ruyang Basin of central China

Huali Chang, Hai-Lu You, Li Xu, Waisum Ma, Diansong Gao, Songhai Jia, Mengli Xia, Jiming Zhang, Yu Li, Xirui Wang, Di Liu, Jie Li, Jianhua Zhang, Lili Yang, Xuefang Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12361 PubMed 34760377

October 5, 2021

The largest theropod track site in Yunnan, China: a footprint assemblage from the Lower Jurassic Fengjiahe Formation

Hongqing Li, Claire Peyre de Fabrègues, Shundong Bi, Yi Wang, Xing Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11788 PubMed 34707920

October 19, 2021

New phiocricetomyine rodents (Hystricognathi) from the Jebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum Depression, Egypt

Shorouq F. Al-Ashqar, Erik R. Seiffert, Dorien de Vries, Sanaa El-Sayed, Mohamed S. Antar, Hesham M. Sallam

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12074 PubMed 34721955

October 19, 2021

Upright walking has driven unique vascular specialization of the hominin ilium

Dexter Zirkle, Richard S. Meindl, C. Owen Lovejoy