Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

March 22, 2022

The biogeography of bent-toed geckos, Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae)

L. Lee Grismer, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Evan S.H. Quah, Jesse L. Grismer, Perry L. Wood Jr

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13153 PubMed 35341041

March 18, 2022

Two new glassfrogs (Centrolenidae: Hyalinobatrachium) from Ecuador, with comments on the endangered biodiversity of the Andes

Juan M. Guayasamin, Rebecca M. Brunner, Anyelet Valencia-Aguilar, Daniela Franco-Mena, Eva Ringler, Anderson Medina Armijos, Carlos Morochz, Lucas Bustamante, Ross J. Maynard, Jaime Culebras

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13109 PubMed 35321409

March 11, 2022

The evolution of reproductive strategies in turtles

Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen, Rafael S. Henrique, Pedro Henrique Dias, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13014 PubMed 35295558

March 3, 2022

Hurricane María drives increased indoor proliferation of filamentous fungi in San Juan, Puerto Rico: a two-year culture-based approach

Lorraine N. Vélez-Torres, Benjamín Bolaños-Rosero, Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, Felix E. Rivera-Mariani, Juan P. Maestre, Kerry Kinney, Humberto Cavallin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12730 PubMed 35261816

March 24, 2022

First fossil-leaf floras from Brunei Darussalam show dipterocarp dominance in Borneo by the Pliocene

Peter Wilf, Xiaoyu Zou, Michael P. Donovan, László Kocsis, Antonino Briguglio, David Shaw, JW Ferry Slik, Joseph J. Lambiase

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12949 PubMed 35356469

March 4, 2022

Morphological description and molecular identification of Myxobolus dajiangensis n. sp. (Myxozoa: Myxobolidae) from the gill of Cyprinus carpio in southwest China

Miao-miao Wang, Jin-ye Zhang, Yuan-jun Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13023 PubMed 35265398

March 21, 2022

State of biodiversity documentation in the Philippines: Metadata gaps, taxonomic biases, and spatial biases in the DNA barcode data of animal and plant taxa in the context of species occurrence data

Carmela Maria P. Berba, Ambrocio Melvin A. Matias

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13146 PubMed 35341040

March 21, 2022

N-mixture models provide informative crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) abundance estimates in dynamic environments

José António Lemos Barão-Nóbrega, Mauricio González-Jaurégui, Robert Jehle

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12906 PubMed 35341055

March 25, 2022

Crop damage by vertebrates in Latin America: current knowledge and potential future management directions

Adrián Alejandro Cuesta Hermira, Fernanda Michalski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13185 PubMed 35356474

March 7, 2022

Loss of gut microbial diversity in the cultured, agastric fish, Mexican pike silverside (Chirostoma estor: Atherinopsidae)

Jesús Mateo Amillano-Cisneros, Perla T. Hernández-Rosas, Bruno Gomez-Gil, Pamela Navarrete-Ramírez, María Gisela Ríos-Durán, Carlos Cristian Martínez-Chávez, David Johnston-Monje, Carlos Antonio Martínez-Palacios, Luciana Raggi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13052 PubMed 35282279

March 31, 2022

Insight into the cryptic diversity and phylogeography of the peculiar fried egg jellyfish Phacellophora (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa, Ulmaridae)

Carlos J. Moura, Nikolai Ropa, Bruno Ivo Magalhães, João M. Gonçalves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13125 PubMed 35382009

March 15, 2022

Freeze-drying can replace cold-chains for transport and storage of fecal microbiome samples

Hanna M. Bensch, Conny Tolf, Jonas Waldenström, Daniel Lundin, Markus Zöttl

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13095 PubMed 35310158

March 22, 2022

Bird protection treatments reduce bird-window collision risk at low-rise buildings within a Pacific coastal protected area

Krista L. De Groot, Amy G. Wilson, René McKibbin, Sarah A. Hudson, Kimberly M. Dohms, Andrea R. Norris, Andrew C. Huang, Ivy B. J. Whitehorne, Kevin T. Fort, Christian Roy, Julie Bourque, Scott Wilson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13142 PubMed 35341053

March 22, 2022

Upside-down in volcanic ash: crown reconstruction of the early Permian seed fern Medullosa stellata with attached foliated fronds

Ludwig Luthardt, Mathias Merbitz, Evgeny Fridland, Ronny Rößler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13051 PubMed 35341054

March 7, 2022

A new Amazonian species of Allobates Zimmermann & Zimmermann, 1988 (Aromobatidae) with a trilled advertisement call

Leandro A. Silva, Ricardo Marques, Henrique Folly, Diego J. Santana

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13026 PubMed 35282285

March 16, 2022

Onyx disparamphis sp. n. (Nematoda, Desmodorida) from South Korea with a taxonomic review of the genus

Alexei V. Tchesunov, Raehyuk Jeong, Wonchoel Lee