Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 9, 2021

The phylogenetic nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaurs

Daniel Madzia, Victoria M. Arbour, Clint A. Boyd, Andrew A. Farke, Penélope Cruzado-Caballero, David C. Evans

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12362 PubMed 34966571

December 22, 2021

The metabolism and role of free fatty acids in key physiological processes in insects of medical, veterinary and forensic importance

Agata Kaczmarek, Mieczysława Boguś

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12563 PubMed 35036124

December 7, 2021

Macrobenthic community responses to multiple environmental stressors in a subtropical estuary

Fernanda M. Souza, Eliandro R. Gilbert, Kalina M. Brauko, Luciano Lorenzi, Eunice Machado, Mauricio G. Camargo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12427 PubMed 34966574

December 3, 2021

Disentangling direct and indirect effects of local temperature on abundance of mountain birds and implications for understanding global change impacts

Francesco Ceresa, Petra Kranebitter, Juan S. Monrós, Franco Rizzolli, Mattia Brambilla

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12560 PubMed 34950536

December 15, 2021

Microbial associations of shallow-water Mediterranean marine cave Solenogastres (Mollusca)

Elena Vortsepneva, Pierre Chevaldonné, Alexandra Klyukina, Elizaveta Naduvaeva, Christiane Todt, Anna Zhadan, Alexander Tzetlin, Ilya Kublanov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12655 PubMed 35003936

December 21, 2021

Phenotypic differentiation of the slow worm lizards (Squamata: Anguis) across their contact zone in Central Europe

Norbert Benkovský, Jiří Moravec, Veronika Gvoždíková Javůrková, Helena Šifrová, Václav Gvoždík, David Jandzik

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12482 PubMed 35036115

December 6, 2021

The phylogenetic affinities and morphological peculiarities of the bird-like dinosaur Borogovia gracilicrus from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia

Andrea Cau, Daniel Madzia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12640 PubMed 34963824

December 17, 2021

Methodological recommendations for assessing scleractinian and octocoral recruitment to settlement tiles

Leah M. Harper, Lindsay K. Huebner, Elijah D. O’Cain, Rob Ruzicka, Daniel F. Gleason, Nicole D. Fogarty

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12549 PubMed 35003917

December 14, 2021

Comparison of African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) fatty acid profiles in whole blood, whole blood dried on blood spot cards, serum, and plasma

Jordan Wood, Larry J. Minter, Doug Bibus, Michael K. Stoskopf, Vivek Fellner, Kimberly Ange-van Heugten

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12650 PubMed 35003934

December 14, 2021

Growth and feeding ecology of coniform conodonts

Isabella Leonhard, Bryan Shirley, Duncan J. E. Murdock, John Repetski, Emilia Jarochowska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12505 PubMed 34993015

December 10, 2021

A new and very spiny lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Echinosaura) from the Andes in northwestern Ecuador

Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Omar Torres-Carvajal, Juan P. Reyes-Puig, Miguel A. Urgiles-Merchán, Claudia Koch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12523 PubMed 34966579

December 9, 2021

The carbon and nitrogen budget of Desmophyllum dianthus—a voracious cold-water coral thriving in an acidified Patagonian fjord

Sandra R. Maier, Carin Jantzen, Jürgen Laudien, Verena Häussermann, Günter Försterra, Astrid Cornils, Jutta Niggemann, Thorsten Dittmar, Claudio Richter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12609 PubMed 34966598

December 10, 2021

Current freezing and thawing scenarios employed by North Atlantic fisheries: their potential role in Newfoundland and Labrador’s northern cod (Gadus morhua) fishery

Pete Brown, Deepika Dave

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12526 PubMed 34966580

December 15, 2021

Foreflipper and hindflipper muscle reconstructions of Cryptoclidus eurymerus in comparison to functional analogues: introduction of a myological mechanism for flipper twisting

Anna Krahl, Ulrich Witzel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12537 PubMed 35003916

December 23, 2021

Reinvestigating the phylogeny of Myriapoda with more extensive taxon sampling and novel genetic perspective

Jiajia Wang, Yu Bai, Haifeng Zhao, Ruinan Mu, Yan Dong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12691 PubMed 35036164

December 14, 2021

Occupancy of wild southern pig-tailed macaques in intact and degraded forests in Peninsular Malaysia

Anna Holzner, D. Mark Rayan, Jonathan Moore, Cedric Kai Wei Tan, Laura Clart, Lars Kulik, Hjalmar Kühl, Nadine Ruppert, Anja Widdig

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12462 PubMed 34993012

December 7, 2021

Foraging ecology of the amphibious mudskipper Periophthalmus chrysospilos (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae)

Quang Minh Dinh, Ton Huu Duc Nguyen, Tran Thi Huyen Lam, Tien Thi Kieu Nguyen, Giang Van Tran, Zeehan Jaafar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12582 PubMed 34966591

December 10, 2021

Identification of Theileria spp. in sheep and goats from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, using molecular techniques

Dina M. Metwally, Reem Alajmi, Muslimah N. Alsulami, Isra M. Al-Turaiki, Rewaida Abdel-Gaber, Afrah F. Alkhuriji, Haleema H. Albohiri, Khalil Mohamed, Hanadi B. Baghdadi, Manal F. El-Khadragy, Guillermo T. Isaias, Saeed El-Ashram

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12596 PubMed 34966592

December 9, 2021

Comparative and phylogenomic analyses of mitochondrial genomes in Coccinellidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea)

Xinghao Li, Nan Song, Heng Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12169 PubMed 34966567

December 8, 2021

The cost of a meal: factors influencing prey profitability in Australian fur seals

Nelle Meyers, Cassie N. Speakman, Nicole A.S.-Y. Dorville, Mark A. Hindell, Jayson M. Semmens, Jacquomo Monk, Alistair M.M. Baylis, Daniel Ierodiaconou, Andrew J. Hoskins, Greg J. Marshall, Kyler Abernathy, John P.Y. Arnould

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12608 PubMed 34966597

December 15, 2021

The cnidarian parasite Ceratonova shasta utilizes inherited and recruited venom-like compounds during infection

Benjamin Americus, Nicole Hams, Anna M. L. Klompen, Gema Alama-Bermejo, Tamar Lotan, Jerri L. Bartholomew, Stephen D. Atkinson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12606 PubMed 35003924

December 10, 2021

A fresh look at Cladarosymblema narrienense, a tetrapodomorph fish (Sarcopterygii: Megalichthyidae) from the Carboniferous of Australia, illuminated via X-ray tomography

Alice M. Clement, Richard Cloutier, Jing Lu, Egon Perilli, Anton Maksimenko, John Long

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12597 PubMed 34966593

December 16, 2021

Putative fossil blood cells reinterpreted as diagenetic structures

Dana E. Korneisel, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Sarah Werning, Shuhai Xiao