Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

August 5, 2022

Skimming for barcodes: rapid production of mitochondrial genome and nuclear ribosomal repeat reference markers through shallow shotgun sequencing

Mykle L. Hoban, Jonathan Whitney, Allen G. Collins, Christopher Meyer, Katherine R. Murphy, Abigail J. Reft, Katherine E. Bemis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13790 PubMed 35959477

August 2, 2022

Phytotoxic effects of Acacia saligna dry leachates on germination, seedling growth, photosynthetic performance, and gene expression of economically important crops

Haifa Abdulaziz Sakit ALHaithloul, Muhammad Ishfaq Khan, Arafa Musa, Mohammed M. Ghoneim, Ayshah Aysh ALrashidi, Imtiaz Khan, Ehab Azab, Adil A. Gobouri, Mahmoud R. Sofy, Mohamed El-Sherbiny, Mona H. Soliman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13623 PubMed 35935250

August 23, 2022

Accurate image-based identification of macroinvertebrate specimens using deep learning—How much training data is needed?

Toke T. Høye, Mads Dyrmann, Christian Kjær, Johnny Nielsen, Marianne Bruus, Cecilie L. Mielec, Maria S. Vesterdal, Kim Bjerge, Sigurd A. Madsen, Mads R. Jeppesen, Claus Melvad

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13837 PubMed 36032940

August 16, 2022

Rainforest conversion to rubber and oil palm reduces abundance, biomass and diversity of canopy spiders

Daniel Ramos, Tamara R. Hartke, Damayanti Buchori, Nadine Dupérré, Purnama Hidayat, Mayanda Lia, Danilo Harms, Stefan Scheu, Jochen Drescher

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13898 PubMed 35990898

August 15, 2022

Building a synthesis of economic costs of biological invasions in New Zealand

Thomas W. Bodey, Zachary T. Carter, Phillip J. Haubrock, Ross N. Cuthbert, Melissa J. Welsh, Christophe Diagne, Franck Courchamp

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13580 PubMed 35990909

August 2, 2022

Modeling the potential distribution of different types of Dendrocalamus sinicus, the strongest woody bamboo in the world, with MaxEnt model

Peitong Dou, Yuran Dong, Lingna Chen, Han-Qi Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13847 PubMed 35935247

August 8, 2022

Full-length 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing reveals the variation of epibiotic microbiota associated with two shrimp species of Alvinocarididae: possibly co-determined by environmental heterogeneity and specific recognition of hosts

Min Hui, Aiyang Wang, Jiao Cheng, Zhongli Sha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13758 PubMed 35966925

August 3, 2022

A new nurse frog of the Allobates tapajos species complex (Anura: Aromobatidae) from the upper Madeira River, Brazilian Amazonia

Miquéias Ferrão, James Hanken, Albertina P. Lima

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13751 PubMed 35942125

August 23, 2022

Predictability and transferability of local biodiversity environment relationships

Martin Jung

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13872 PubMed 36032939

August 23, 2022

Drift macroalgal distribution in northern Gulf of Mexico seagrass meadows

Kelly M. Correia, Scott B. Alford, Benjamin A. Belgrad, Kelly M. Darnell, M. Zachary Darnell, Bradley T. Furman, Margaret O. Hall, Christian T. Hayes, Charles W. Martin, Ashley M. McDonald, Delbert L. Smee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13855 PubMed 36032953

August 18, 2022

A simple hierarchical model for heterogeneity in the evolutionary correlation on a phylogenetic tree

Liam J. Revell, Ken S. Toyama, D. Luke Mahler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13910 PubMed 35999851

August 29, 2022

Accelerating the discovery of rare tree species in Amazonian forests: integrating long monitoring tree plot data with metabolomics and phylogenetics for the description of a new species in the hyperdiverse genus Inga Mill

Juan Ernesto Guevara Andino, Consuelo Hernández, Renato Valencia, Dale Forrister, María-José Endara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13767 PubMed 36061752

August 26, 2022

A new species of lotic breeding salamander (Amphibia, Caudata, Hynobiidae) from Shikoku, Japan

Sally Kanamori, Kanto Nishikawa, Masafumi Matsui, Shingo Tanabe