Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

César Canché-Collí, Humberto Estrella-Maldonado, Luis A. Medina-Medina, Humberto Moo-Valle, Luz Maria Calvo-Irabien, Elisa Chan-Vivas, Rosalina Rodríguez, Azucena Canto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12164 PubMed 34721958

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 21, 2021

A new vertebrate fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Holly Creek Formation of the Trinity Group, southwest Arkansas, USA

Celina A. Suarez, Joseph Frederickson, Richard L. Cifelli, Jeffrey G. Pittman, Randall L. Nydam, ReBecca K. Hunt-Foster, Kirsty Morgan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12242 PubMed 34721970

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 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 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 8, 2021

Genetic effects of long-term captive breeding on the endangered pygmy hog

Deepanwita Purohit, Shivakumara Manu, Muthuvarmadam Subramanian Ram, Shradha Sharma, Harika Chinchilam Patnaik, Parag Jyoti Deka, Goutam Narayan, Govindhaswamy Umapathy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12212 PubMed 34707930

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 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 29, 2021

Cryptic diversity in the subgenus Oxyphortica (Diptera, Drosophilidae, Stegana)

Ya-Lian Wang, Nan-Nan Wang, Yuan Zhang, Shun-Chern Tsaur, Hong-Wei Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12347 PubMed 34760370

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 19, 2021

Marine amphipods (Parhyale hawaiensis) as an alternative feed for the lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus, Perri 1810): nutritional value and feeding trial

Jorge Arturo Vargas-Abúndez, Gemma Leticia Martínez-Moreno, Nuno Simões, Elsa Noreña-Barroso, Maite Mascaró

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12288 PubMed 34721977

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 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 27, 2021

Age and lunar cycle predict harbor porpoise bycatch in the south-western Baltic Sea

Dennis Brennecke, Magnus Wahlberg, Anita Gilles, Ursula Siebert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12284 PubMed 34760359

October 29, 2021

Construction of a high-density linkage map and detection of sex-specific markers in Penaeus japonicus

Yaqun Zhang, Chuantao Zhang, Na Yao, Jingxian Huang, Xiangshan Sun, Bingran Zhao, Hengde Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12390 PubMed 34760384

October 15, 2021

Testis development in the Japanese eel is affected by photic signals through melatonin secretion

Ji-Yeon Hyeon, Jun-Hwan Byun, Eun-Su Kim, Yoon-Seong Heo, Kodai Fukunaga, Shin-Kwon Kim, Satoshi Imamura, Se-Jae Kim, Akihiro Takemura, Sung-Pyo Hur

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12289 PubMed 34721978

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 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 26, 2021

Identification of genes and gene expression associated with dispersal capacity in the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Victor A. Shegelski, Maya L. Evenden, Dezene P.W. Huber, Felix A.H. Sperling

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12382 PubMed 34754626