Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 26, 2022

Need for split: integrative taxonomy reveals unnoticed diversity in the subaquatic species of Pseudohygrohypnum (Pylaisiaceae, Bryophyta)

Vladimir E. Fedosov, Anna V. Shkurko, Alina V. Fedorova, Elena A. Ignatova, Evgeniya N. Solovyeva, John C. Brinda, Michael S. Ignatov, Jan Kučera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13260 PubMed 35497188

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

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 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 25, 2022

A DNA barcode survey of insect biodiversity in Pakistan

Muhammad Ashfaq, Arif M. Khan, Akhtar Rasool, Saleem Akhtar, Naila Nazir, Nazeer Ahmed, Farkhanda Manzoor, Jayme Sones, Kate Perez, Ghulam Sarwar, Azhar A. Khan, Muhammad Akhter, Shafqat Saeed, Riffat Sultana, Hafiz Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad A. Rafi, Romana Iftikhar, Muhammad Tayyib Naseem, Mariyam Masood, Muhammad Tufail, Santosh Kumar, Sabila Afzal, Jaclyn McKeown, Ahmed Ali Samejo, Imran Khaliq, Michelle L. D’Souza, Shahid Mansoor, Paul D. N. Hebert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13267 PubMed 35497186

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 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 18, 2022

Mitogenomics and phylogenetics of twelve species of African Saturniidae (Lepidoptera)

Zwannda Nethavhani, Rieze Straeuli, Kayleigh Hiscock, Ruan Veldtman, Andrew Morton, Rolf G. Oberprieler, Barbara van Asch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13275 PubMed 35462770

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