Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

June 30, 2022

Taxonomic and functional nematode diversity in Maldivian coral degradation zones: patterns across reef typologies and depths

Eleonora Grassi, Monica Montefalcone, Lucia Cesaroni, Loretta Guidi, Maria Balsamo, Federica Semprucci

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13644 PubMed 35791363

June 20, 2022

Diversity of an uncommon elastic hypersaline microbial mat along a small-scale transect

Laura Espinosa-Asuar, Camila Monroy-Guzmán, David Madrigal-Trejo, Marisol Navarro-Miranda, Jazmin Sánchez-Pérez, Jhoselinne Buenrostro Muñoz, Juan Villar, Julián Felipe Cifuentes Camargo, Maria Kalambokidis, Diego A. Esquivel-Hernandez, Mariette Viladomat Jasso, Ana E. Escalante, Patricia Velez, Mario Figueroa, Anahi Martinez-Cardenas, Santiago Ramirez-Barahona, Jaime Gasca-Pineda, Luis E. Eguiarte, Valeria Souza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13579 PubMed 35757167

June 2, 2022

A new hybodontiform shark (Strophodus Agassiz 1838) from the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian-Hauterivian) of Colombia

Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Edwin-Alberto Cadena

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13496 PubMed 35673391

June 16, 2022

Population structure in Quercus suber L. revealed by nuclear microsatellite markers

Filipe Sousa, Joana Costa, Carla Ribeiro, Marta Varandas, Francisco Pina-Martins, Fernanda Simões, José Matos, Maria Glushkova, Célia Miguel, Maria Manuela Veloso, Margarida Oliveira, Cândido Pinto Ricardo, Dora Batista, Octávio S. Paulo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13565 PubMed 35729909

June 14, 2022

The seasonal investigation of Symbiodiniaceae in broadcast spawning, Acropora humilis and brooding, Pocillopora cf. damicornis corals

Suppakarn Jandang, Voranop Viyakarn, Yuki Yoshioka, Chuya Shinzato, Suchana Chavanich

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13114 PubMed 35722256

June 29, 2022

A framework for near-real time monitoring of diversity patterns based on indirect remote sensing, with an application in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest

Andrea Paz, Thiago S. Silva, Ana C. Carnaval

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13534 PubMed 35789655

June 15, 2022

Habitat variability and faunal zonation at the Ægir Ridge, a canyon-like structure in the deep Norwegian Sea

Saskia Brix, Stefanie Kaiser, Anne-Nina Lörz, Morgane Le Saout, Mia Schumacher, Frederic Bonk, Hronn Egilsdottir, Steinunn Hilma Olafsdottir, Anne Helene S. Tandberg, James Taylor, Simon Tewes, Joana R. Xavier, Katrin Linse

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13394 PubMed 35726260

June 8, 2022

Genetic diversity and demography of Bufo japonicus and B. torrenticola (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) influenced by the Quaternary climate

Kazumi Fukutani, Masafumi Matsui, Dung Van Tran, Kanto Nishikawa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13452 PubMed 35698618

June 21, 2022

Adapting mark-recapture methods to estimating accepted species-level diversity: a case study with terrestrial Gastropoda

Gary Rosenberg, Kurt Auffenberg, Ruud Bank, Rüdiger Bieler, Philippe Bouchet, David Herbert, Frank Köhler, Thomas A. Neubauer, Eike Neubert, Barna Páll-Gergely, Ira Richling, Simon Schneider

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13139 PubMed 35757168

June 29, 2022

Genetic diversity analysis for wild and cultivated accessions of Cymbopogon citratus (D.C.) Stapf using phytochemical and molecular markers

Bushra Shamsheer, Nadia Riaz, Zubaida Yousaf, Sajjad Hyder, Arusa Aftab, Rashid Iqbal, Muhammad Habib ur Rahman, Ibrahim Al-Ashkar, Khalid F. Almutairi, Ayman El Sabagh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13505 PubMed 35789659

June 28, 2022

High-resolution melting (HRM) curve analysis as a potential tool for the identification of earthworm species and haplotypes

Anna Vaupel, Bernd Hommel, Lukas Beule

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13661 PubMed 35782097

June 1, 2022

First genomic resource for an endangered neotropical mega-herbivore: the complete mitochondrial genome of the forest-dweller (Baird’s) tapir (Tapirus bairdii)

Caroline C. Ennis, Jorge Ortega, J. Antonio Baeza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13440 PubMed 35669959

June 29, 2022

Fungal diversity in shade-coffee plantations in Soconusco, Mexico

Eugenia Zarza, Alejandra López-Pastrana, Anne Damon, Karina Guillén-Navarro, Luz Verónica García-Fajardo