Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

September 21, 2022

DNA metabarcoding reveals that coyotes in New York City consume wide variety of native prey species and human food

Carol S. Henger, Emily Hargous, Christopher M. Nagy, Mark Weckel, Claudia Wultsch, Konstantinos Krampis, Neil Duncan, Linda Gormezano, Jason Munshi-South

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13788 PubMed 36164598

September 21, 2022

Effect of ZnO and CuO nanoparticles on the growth, nutrient absorption, and potential health risk of the seasonal vegetable Medicago polymorpha L.

Hongting Ji, Zhi Guo, Guodong Wang, Xin Wang, Hongjiang Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14038 PubMed 36164609

September 5, 2022

Mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) metabarcoding of Foraminifera communities using taxon-specific primers

Jan-Niklas Macher, Dimitra Maria Bloska, Maria Holzmann, Elsa B. Girard, Jan Pawlowski, Willem Renema

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13952 PubMed 36093332

September 16, 2022

Shifts in water column microbial composition associated to lakes with different trophic conditions: “Lagunas de Montebello” National Park, Chiapas, México

Alfredo Yanez-Montalvo, Bernardo Aguila, Elizabeth Selene Gómez-Acata, Miriam Guerrero-Jacinto, Luis A. Oseguera, Luisa I. Falcón, Javier Alcocer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13999 PubMed 36132223

September 22, 2022

Effect of nitrogen fertilizer on seed yield and quality of Kengyilia melanthera (Triticeae, Poaceae)

Shuai Yuan, Yao Ling, Yi Xiong, Chenglin Zhang, Lina Sha, Minghong You, Xiong Lei, Shiqie Bai, Xiao Ma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14101 PubMed 36168437

September 15, 2022

On the move: spatial ecology and habitat use of red fox in the Trans-Himalayan cold desert

Hussain S. Reshamwala, Pankaj Raina, Zehidul Hussain, Shaheer Khan, Rodolfo Dirzo, Bilal Habib

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13967 PubMed 36128190

September 22, 2022

Population dynamics and resource availability drive seasonal shifts in the consumptive and competitive impacts of introduced house mice (Mus musculus) on an island ecosystem

Michael J. Polito, Bret Robinson, Pete Warzybok, Russell W. Bradley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13904 PubMed 36168433

September 28, 2022

When aggressiveness could be too risky: linking personality traits and predator response in superb fairy-wrens

Jack Bilby, Diane Colombelli-Négrel, Andrew C. Katsis, Sonia Kleindorfer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14011 PubMed 36193436

September 1, 2022

CPUE standardization for southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) in the Korean tuna longline fishery, accounting for spatiotemporal variation in targeting through data exploration and clustering

Simon D. Hoyle, Sung Il Lee, Doo Nam Kim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13951 PubMed 36068868

September 28, 2022

Do pheromone traps help to reduce new attacks of Ips typographus at the local scale after a sanitary cut?

Alexandre Kuhn, Louis Hautier, Gilles San Martin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14093 PubMed 36193434

September 23, 2022

Hidden interactions in the intertidal rocky shore: variation in pedal mucus microbiota among marine grazers that feed on epilithic biofilm communities

Clara Arboleda-Baena, Claudia Belén Pareja, Isadora Pla, Ramiro Logares, Rodrigo De la Iglesia, Sergio Andrés Navarrete

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13642 PubMed 36172502

September 2, 2022

Satellite remote sensing of environmental variables can predict acoustic activity of an orthopteran assemblage

Diego A. Gomez-Morales, Orlando Acevedo-Charry

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13969 PubMed 36071828

September 15, 2022

Bombardier beetles repel invasive bullfrogs

Shinji Sugiura, Tomoki Date

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13805 PubMed 36128194

September 29, 2022

Physiological, biochemical and phytohormone responses of Elymus nutans to α-pinene-induced allelopathy

Mengci Chen, Youming Qiao, Xiaolong Quan, Huilan Shi, Zhonghua Duan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14100 PubMed 36196396

September 13, 2022

High temperature mortality of Wolbachia impacts the sex ratio of the parasitoid Ooencyrtus mirus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae)

Nancy R. Power, Paul F. Rugman-Jones, Richard Stouthamer, Fatemeh Ganjisaffar, Thomas M. Perring

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13912 PubMed 36117539

September 16, 2022

Understanding the distribution and fine-scale habitat selection of mesocarnivores along a habitat quality gradient in western Himalaya

Meghna Bandyopadhyay, A. Cole Burton, Sandeep Kumar Gupta, Ramesh Krishnamurthy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13993 PubMed 36132214

September 29, 2022

Mutualist- and antagonist-mediated selection contribute to trait diversification of flowers

Luyao Huang, Yang Liu, Liwen Dou, Shaobin Pan, Zhuangzhuang Li, Jin Zhang, Jia Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14107 PubMed 36196403

September 28, 2022

Cold water and harmful algal blooms linked to coral reef collapse in the Eastern Tropical Pacific

Caroline Palmer, Carlos Jimenez, Giovanni Bassey, Eleazar Ruiz, Tatiana Villalobos Cubero, Maria Marta Chavarria Diaz, Xavier A. Harrison, Robert Puschendorf

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14081 PubMed 36193424

September 1, 2022

Plant traits and environment: floating leaf blade production and turnover of Nymphoides peltata (S.G. Gmel.) O. Kuntze (Menyanthaceae)

Peter F. Klok, Gerard van der Velde

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13976 PubMed 36068866

September 28, 2022

Endangered plant species under differing anthropogenic interventions: how to preserve Pterygopleurum neurophyllum in Wondong wetland?

Seongjun Kim, Hwan-Joon Park, Chang Woo Lee, Nam Young Kim, Jung Eun Hwang, Byoung-Doo Lee, Hyeong Bin Park, Jiae An, JuHyoung Baek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14050 PubMed 36193426

September 22, 2022

Ovarian development, spawning season, size at maturity and fecundity of Acentrogobius viridipunctatus (Valenciennes, 1837) in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Quang Minh Dinh, Ton Huu Duc Nguyen, Ngon Trong Truong, Diep Xuan Doan, Tien Thi Kieu Nguyen