Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 3, 2021

Integrative analysis of Iso-Seq and RNA-seq data reveals transcriptome complexity and differentially expressed transcripts in sheep tail fat

Zehu Yuan, Ling Ge, Jingyi Sun, Weibo Zhang, Shanhe Wang, Xiukai Cao, Wei Sun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12454 PubMed 34760406

November 29, 2021

Whole-limb scaling of muscle mass and force-generating capacity in amniotes

Peter J. Bishop, Mark A. Wright, Stephanie E. Pierce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12574 PubMed 34909284

November 24, 2021

The structure and functional profile of ruminal microbiota in young and adult reindeers (Rangifer tarandus) consuming natural winter-spring and summer-autumn seasonal diets

Elena Yildirim, Larisa Ilina, Georgy Laptev, Valentina Filippova, Evgeni Brazhnik, Timur Dunyashev, Andrey Dubrovin, Natalia Novikova, Daria Tiurina, Nikolay Tarlavin, Kasim Laishev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12389 PubMed 34900412

November 4, 2021

Relationships between environmental variables and spatial and temporal distribution of jack mackerel (Trachurus japonicus) in the Beibu Gulf, South China Sea

Yuting Feng, Haiyi Shi, Gang Hou, Hui Zhao, Changming Dong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12337 PubMed 34760365

November 12, 2021

Exploring women’s oxytocin responses to interactions with their pet cats

Elizabeth A. Johnson, Arianna Portillo, Nikki E. Bennett, Peter B. Gray

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12393 PubMed 34824911

November 23, 2021

A decrease in reports on road-killed animals based on citizen science during COVID-19 lockdown

Daniel Dörler, Florian Heigl

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12464 PubMed 34900421

November 25, 2021

Biogeographic evidence supports the Old Amazon hypothesis for the formation of the Amazon fluvial system

Karen Méndez-Camacho, Omar Leon-Alvarado, Daniel R. Miranda-Esquivel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12533 PubMed 34900439

November 15, 2021

Potential lineage transmission within the active microbiota of the eggs and the nauplii of the shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris: possible influence of the rearing water and more

Carolane Giraud, Nolwenn Callac, Maxime Beauvais, Jean-René Mailliez, Dominique Ansquer, Nazha Selmaoui-Folcher, Dominique Pham, Nelly Wabete, Viviane Boulo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12241 PubMed 34820157

November 9, 2021

MtDNA species-level phylogeny and delimitation support significantly underestimated diversity and endemism in the largest Neotropical cichlid genus (Cichlidae: Crenicichla)

Oldřich Říčan, Klára Dragová, Adriana Almirón, Jorge Casciotta, Jens Gottwald, Lubomír Piálek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12283 PubMed 34820161

November 11, 2021

Habitat connectivity and resource selection in an expanding bobcat (Lynx rufus) population

Viorel D. Popescu, Madeline Kenyon, Ryan K. Brown, Marissa A. Dyck, Suzanne Prange, William E. Peterman, Catherine Dennison

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12460 PubMed 34824917

November 4, 2021

Global gap-analysis of amphipod barcode library

Anna Maria Jażdżewska, Anne Helene S. Tandberg, Tammy Horton, Saskia Brix

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12352 PubMed 34760373

November 15, 2021

Integrated population modelling reveals potential drivers of demography from partially aligned data: a case study of snowy plover declines under human stressors

Qing Zhao, Kristen Heath-Acre, Daniel Collins, Warren Conway, Mitch D. Weegman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12475 PubMed 34820197

November 30, 2021

Mapping the hidden diversity of the Geophagus sensu stricto species group (Cichlidae: Geophagini) from the Amazon basin

Aline Mourão Ximenes, Pedro Senna Bittencourt, Valéria Nogueira Machado, Tomas Hrbek, Izeni Pires Farias

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12443 PubMed 34909270

November 17, 2021

Experimental validation of otolith-based age and growth reconstructions across multiple life stages of a critically endangered estuarine fish

Wilson Xieu, Levi S. Lewis, Feng Zhao, Rachel A. Fichman, Malte Willmes, Tien-Chieh Hung, Luke Ellison, Troy Stevenson, Galen Tigan, Andrew A. Schultz, James A. Hobbs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12280 PubMed 34820160

November 17, 2021

Estimating the differences in critical thermal maximum and metabolic rate of Helicoverpa punctigera (Wallengren) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) across life stages

Samuel A. Bawa, Peter C. Gregg, Alice P. Del Soccoro, Cara Miller, Nigel R. Andrew

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12479 PubMed 34820201

November 26, 2021

Monitoring newt communities in urban area using eDNA metabarcoding

Léo Charvoz, Laure Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil, Emanuela Reo, Jacques Thiébaud, Jan Pawlowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12357 PubMed 34900410

November 2, 2021

Senescence as a trade-off between successful land colonisation and longevity: critical review and analysis of a hypothesis

Tomasz Bilinski, Aneta Bylak, Krzysztof Kukuła, Renata Zadrag-Tecza