Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 18, 2022

Concentration and quantification of Tilapia tilapinevirus from water using a simple iron flocculation coupled with probe-based RT-qPCR

Suwimon Taengphu, Pattanapon Kayansamruaj, Yasuhiko Kawato, Jerome Delamare-Deboutteville, Chadag Vishnumurthy Mohan, Ha Thanh Dong, Saengchan Senapin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13157 PubMed 35462762

April 19, 2022

Unlocking Andean sigmodontine diversity: five new species of Chilomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae) from the montane forests of Ecuador

Jorge Brito, Nicolás Tinoco, C. Miguel Pinto, Rubí García, Claudia Koch, Vincent Fernandez, Santiago Burneo, Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13211 PubMed 35462758

April 12, 2022

New insights into the cranial osteology of the Early Cretaceous paracryptodiran turtle Lakotemys australodakotensis

Yann Rollot, Serjoscha W. Evers, Richard L. Cifelli, Walter G. Joyce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13230 PubMed 35437477

April 22, 2022

Biological control potential of entomopathogenic fungal strains against peach Fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Ghulam Murtaza, Muhammad Naeem, Saba Manzoor, Hammad Ahmad Khan, Emad M. Eed, Waqar Majeed, Hussain Ahmed Makki, Uzma Ramzan, Umm E. Ummara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13316 PubMed 35480558

April 8, 2022

Times and partners are a-changin’: relationships between declining food abundance, breeding success, and divorce in a monogamous seabird species

David Pelletier, Magella Guillemette

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13073 PubMed 35419215

April 22, 2022

Species identification of introduced veronicellid slugs in Japan

Takahiro Hirano, Osamu Kagawa, Masanori Fujimoto, Takumi Saito, Shota Uchida, Daishi Yamazaki, Shun Ito, Shovon Mohammad Shariar, Takuo Sawahata, Satoshi Chiba

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13197 PubMed 35480566

April 28, 2022

Differentiated historical demography and ecological niche forming present distribution and genetic structure in coexisting two salamanders (Amphibia, Urodela, Hynobiidae) in a small island, Japan

Keita Niwa, Dung Van Tran, Kanto Nishikawa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13202 PubMed 35505683

April 7, 2022

The soft tissue and skeletal anatomy of two Late Jurassic ichthyosaur specimens from the Solnhofen archipelago

Lene L. Delsett, Henrik Friis, Martina Kölbl-Ebert, Jørn H. Hurum

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13173 PubMed 35415019

April 6, 2022

Early Pleistocene large mammals from Maka’amitalu, Hadar, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia

John Rowan, Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, Christopher J. Campisano, Faysal Bibi, René Bobe, Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Stephen R. Frost, Tomas Getachew, Christopher C. Gilbert, Margaret E. Lewis, Sahleselasie Melaku, Eric Scott, Antoine Souron, Lars Werdelin, William H. Kimbel, Kaye E. Reed

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13210 PubMed 35411256

April 7, 2022

The first fossil immature of Elmidae: an unusual riffle beetle larva preserved in Baltic amber

Ana Zippel, Viktor A. Baranov, Jörg U. Hammel, Marie K. Hörnig, Carolin Haug, Joachim T. Haug

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13025 PubMed 35415015

April 20, 2022

DNA barcoding for biodiversity assessment: Croatian stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera)

Dora Hlebec, Ignac Sivec, Martina Podnar, Mladen Kučinić

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13213 PubMed 35469200

April 15, 2022

Genetic diversity and population structure of muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) from Nigeria

Adeniyi C. Adeola, Foluke E. Sola-Ojo, Yusuf A. Opeyemi, Abel O. Oguntunji, Lotanna Micah Nneji, Muslim K. Ewuola, Semiu F. Bello, Wasiu A. Olaniyi, Adeosun T. Adesoji, Alex P. Karuno, Oscar J. Sanke, Ebiakpo Lucky Daniel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13236 PubMed 35444865

April 19, 2022

Morphological, functional, and phylogenetic aspects of the head capsule of the cockroach Ergaula capucina (Insecta/Blattodea)

Benjamin Wipfler, Felix Triesch, Dominic Evangelista, Tom Weihmann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12470 PubMed 35462775

April 22, 2022

Species limits and recent diversification of Cerradomys (Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyini) during the Pleistocene

Camilla B. Di-Nizo, Elkin Y. Suárez-Villota, Maria José J. Silva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13011 PubMed 35480563

April 22, 2022

An earliest Triassic age for Tasmaniolimulus and comments on synchrotron tomography of Gondwanan horseshoe crabs

Russell D.C. Bicknell, Patrick M. Smith, Tom Brougham, Joseph J. Bevitt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13326 PubMed 35480564

April 25, 2022

Excito-repellency of Myristica fragrans Houtt. and Curcuma longa L. extracts from Southern Thailand against Aedes aegypti (L.)

Phuangthip Bhoopong, Theeraphap Chareonviriyaphap, Chutipong Sukkanon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13357 PubMed 35497187

April 18, 2022

Five new mitogenomes sequences of Calidridine sandpipers (Aves: Charadriiformes) and comparative mitogenomics of genus Calidris

Wan Chen, Keer Miao, Junqi Wang, Hao Wang, Wan Sun, Sijia Yuan, Site Luo, Chaochao Hu, Qing Chang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13268 PubMed 35462767

April 20, 2022

Population biological traits of Periophthalmus chrysospilos Bleeker, 1853 in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Quang Minh Dinh, Ton Huu Duc Nguyen, Tien Thi Kieu Nguyen, Tran Thi Huyen Lam, Ngon Trong Truong, Dinh Dac Tran

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13289 PubMed 35469199

April 20, 2022

Ubaldo Márquez-Luna, Carlos Lara, Pablo Corcuera, Pedro Luis Valverde

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13331 PubMed 35469196

April 13, 2022

First DNA barcode library for the ichthyofauna of the Jos Plateau (Nigeria) with comments on potential undescribed fish species

Michael Olaoluwa Popoola, Frédéric Dieter Benedikt Schedel, Paul DN Hebert, Ulrich Kurt Schliewen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13049 PubMed 35437472

April 7, 2022

Historical significance and taxonomic status of Ischyrodon meriani (Pliosauridae) from the Middle Jurassic of Switzerland

Daniel Madzia, Sven Sachs, Christian Klug

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13244 PubMed 35415018

April 14, 2022

The potency of minerals to reduce oriental fruit fly infestation in chili fruits

Josua Crystovel Pangihutan, Danar Dono, Yusup Hidayat

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13198 PubMed 35441060

April 5, 2022

Does size matter? An analysis of the niche width and vulnerability to climate change of fourteen species of the genus Crotalus from North America

Jorge Luis Becerra-López, Raciel Cruz-Elizalde, Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista, Itzel Magno-Benítez, Claudia Ballesteros-Barrera, Javier Alvarado-Díaz, Robert W. Bryson Jr, Uriel Hernández-Salinas, César A. Díaz-Marín, Christian Berriozabal-Islas, Karen Fraire-Galindo, Juan Tello-Ruiz, Alexander Czaja, María Guadalupe Torres-Delgado

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13154 PubMed 35402099

April 19, 2022

Exposure of adult sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius to stranded heavy fuel oil causes developmental toxicity on larval offspring

Xuanbo Wang, Xishan Li, Deqi Xiong, Hang Ren, Huishu Chen, Zhonglei Ju

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13298 PubMed 35462773

April 6, 2022

Transcriptome profiling reveals stress-responsive gene networks in cattle muscles

Isabelle Cassar-Malek, Lise Pomiès, Anne de la Foye, Jérémy Tournayre, Céline Boby, Jean-François Hocquette

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13150 PubMed 35411255