Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

October 18, 2022

Computer vision supports primary access to meat by early Homo 1.84 million years ago

Lucía Cobo-Sánchez, Marcos Pizarro-Monzo, Gabriel Cifuentes-Alcobendas, Blanca Jiménez García, Natalia Abellán Beltrán, Lloyd A. Courtenay, Audax Mabulla, Enrique Baquedano, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14148 PubMed 36275476

October 27, 2022

Exploring the effect of Jasmonic Acid for Aphids control for improving the yield of Triticum aestivum varieties

Huma Aslam, Sajida Mushtaq, Sadia Maalik, Naheed Bano, Emad M. Eed, Amir Bibi, Ayesha Tahir, Iram Ijaz, Samina Tanwir, Amany S. Khalifa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14018 PubMed 36320566

October 18, 2022

Artificial light at night correlates with seabird groundings: mapping city lights near a seabird breeding hotspot

Ariel-Micaiah Heswall, Lynn Miller, Ellery J. McNaughton, Amy L. Brunton-Martin, Kristal E. Cain, Megan R. Friesen, Anne C. Gaskett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14237 PubMed 36275461

October 11, 2022

Intensive hunting changes human-wildlife relationships

Arielle Waldstein Parsons, Martin Wikelski, Brigitta Keeves von Wolff, Jan Dodel, Roland Kays

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14159 PubMed 36248718

October 7, 2022

Changes in whistle parameters of two common bottlenose dolphin ecotypes as a result of the physical presence of the research vessel

Simone Antichi, Jorge Urbán R., Sergio Martínez-Aguilar, Lorena Viloria-Gómora

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14074 PubMed 36225904

October 21, 2022

Ontogenetic growth in the crania of Exaeretodon argentinus (Synapsida: Cynodontia) captures a dietary shift

Brenen Wynd, Fernando Abdala, Sterling J. Nesbitt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14196 PubMed 36299507

October 19, 2022

Morphometric and meristic diversity of the species Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807) (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in Saudi Arabia

Abdulaziz R. Alqahtani, Ahmed Badry, Fahd Mohammed Abd Al Galil, Zuhair S. Amr

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14198 PubMed 36281363

October 6, 2022

The cloacal microbiome of a cavity-nesting raptor, the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni)

Alessandra Costanzo, Roberto Ambrosini, Andrea Franzetti, Andrea Romano, Jacopo G. Cecere, Michelangelo Morganti, Diego Rubolini, Isabella Gandolfi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13927 PubMed 36221261

October 10, 2022

A new bilaterally injured trilobite presents insight into attack patterns of Cambrian predators

Ruiwen Zong, Russell D.C. Bicknell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14185 PubMed 36248717

October 6, 2022

Vegetation height and structure drive foraging habitat selection of the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni) in intensive agricultural landscapes

Sara Cioccarelli, Anna Terras, Giacomo Assandri, Alessandro Berlusconi, Nunzio Grattini, Alessandro Mercogliano, Aliona Pazhera, Andrea Sbrilli, Jacopo G. Cecere, Diego Rubolini, Michelangelo Morganti

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13979 PubMed 36221268

October 24, 2022

High susceptibility of Tetranychus merganser (Acari: Tetranychidae), an emergent pest of the tropical crop Carica papaya, towards Metarhizium anisopliae s.l. and Beauveria bassiana strains

Elizabeth Alfaro-Valle, Aída Martínez-Hernández, Gabriel Otero-Colina, Joel Lara-Reyna

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14064 PubMed 36312755

October 28, 2022

Luminescent characteristics and mitochondrial COI barcodes of nine cohabitated Taiwanese fireflies

King-Siang Goh, Liang-Jong Wang, Jing-Han Ni, Tzi-Yuan Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14195 PubMed 36325176

October 31, 2022

Bioacoustic differentiation of calls in the chiffchaff complex

Maria Calviño-Cancela, Laura Piña, Julio Martín-Herrero