Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 10, 2022

An integrative taxonomic revision of slug-eating snakes (Squamata: Pareidae: Pareineae) reveals unprecedented diversity in Indochina

Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Tan Van Nguyen, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Platon V. Yushchenko, Peter Brakels, Linh Hoang Nguyen, Hung Ngoc Nguyen, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Nikolai Orlov, Gernot Vogel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12713 PubMed 35047234

January 6, 2022

Uvariopsis dicaprio (Annonaceae) a new tree species with notes on its pollination biology, and the Critically Endangered narrowly endemic plant species of the Ebo Forest, Cameroon

George Gosline, Martin Cheek, Jean Michel Onana, Eric Ngansop Tchatchouang, Xander M. van der Burgt, Lorna MacKinnon, Léo-Paul M. J. Dagallier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12614 PubMed 35036131

January 13, 2022

ChiroVox: a public library of bat calls

Tamás Görföl, Joe Chun-Chia Huang, Gábor Csorba, Dorottya Győrössy, Péter Estók, Tigga Kingston, Kriszta Lilla Szabadi, Ellen McArthur, Juliana Senawi, Neil M. Furey, Vuong Tan Tu, Vu Dinh Thong, Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan, Emy Ritta Jinggong, Melissa Donnelly, Jayaraj Vijaya Kumaran, Jian-Nan Liu, Shiang-Fan Chen, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Ying-Yi Ho, Heng-Chia Chang, Nurul-Ain Elias, Nur-Izzati Abdullah, Lee-Sim Lim, C Daniel Squire, Sándor Zsebők

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12445 PubMed 35070499

January 25, 2022

Seasonal and diel variations in the vertical distribution, composition, abundance and biomass of zooplankton in a deep Chilean Patagonian Fjord

Nur Garcia-Herrera, Astrid Cornils, Jürgen Laudien, Barbara Niehoff, Juan Höfer, Günter Försterra, Humberto E. González, Claudio Richter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12823 PubMed 35127292

January 17, 2022

Sixteenth-century tomatoes in Europe: who saw them, what they looked like, and where they came from

Tinde van Andel, Rutger A. Vos, Ewout Michels, Anastasia Stefanaki

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12790 PubMed 35111406

January 19, 2022

DnoisE: distance denoising by entropy. An open-source parallelizable alternative for denoising sequence datasets

Adrià Antich, Creu Palacín, Xavier Turon, Owen S. Wangensteen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12758 PubMed 35111399

January 24, 2022

Impervious surface and local abiotic conditions influence arthropod communities within urban greenspaces

Garrett M. Maher, Graham A. Johnson, Justin D. Burdine

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12818 PubMed 35127289

January 18, 2022

A new ancient lineage of ablepharine skinks (Sauria: Scincidae) from eastern Himalayas with notes on origin and systematics of the group

Zeeshan A. Mirza, Andrey M. Bragin, Harshal Bhosale, Gaurang G. Gowande, Harshil Patel, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12800 PubMed 35111410

January 21, 2022

Chondrochelia Guţu, 2016 (Crustacea, Peracarida, Tanaidacea, Leptocheliidae) from North America: new species, redescription and distribution using morphological and molecular data

Jani Jarquín-González, Luis F. Carrera-Parra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12773 PubMed 35116196

January 10, 2022

DNA barcoding and morphological identification of spiny lobsters in South Korean waters: a new record of Panulirus longipes and Panulirus homarus homarus

Sachithra Amarin Hettiarachchi, Ji-Yeon Hyeon, Angka Mahardini, Hyung-Suk Kim, Jun-Hwan Byun, Han-Jun Kim, Jong-Gyun Jeong, Jung-Kyu Yeo, Shin-Kwon Kim, Se-Jae Kim, Youn-Seong Heo, Jonathan Sathyadith, Do-Hyung Kang, Sung-Pyo Hur

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12744 PubMed 35047236

January 20, 2022

Galapagos land iguanas as ecosystem engineers

Washington Tapia, James P. Gibbs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12711 PubMed 35116195

January 20, 2022

Genetic diversity of indigenous guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) using microsatellite markers in northern Togo

Aïcha Edith Soara, Essodina Talaki, Guiguigbaza-Kossigan Dayo, Isidore Houaga, Kokou Tona, Mohammed Bakkali

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12637 PubMed 35116192

January 12, 2022

Extra high superoxide dismutase in host tissue is associated with improving bleaching resistance in “thermal adapted” and Durusdinium trenchii-associating coral

Jih-Terng Wang, Yi-Ting Wang, Chaolun Allen Chen, Pei-Jei Meng, Kwee Siong Tew, Pei-Wen Chiang, Sen-Lin Tang