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January 2023

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

January 9, 2023

Be positive: customized reference databases and new, local barcodes balance false taxonomic assignments in metabarcoding studies

Francesco Mugnai, Federica Costantini, Anne Chenuil, Michèle Leduc, José Miguel Gutiérrez Ortega, Emese Meglécz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14616 PubMed 36643652

January 26, 2023

Applicability of VGGish embedding in bee colony monitoring: comparison with MFCC in colony sound classification

Nayan Di, Muhammad Zahid Sharif, Zongwen Hu, Renjie Xue, Baizhong Yu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14696 PubMed 36721779

January 18, 2023

Microplastic contamination in canned fish sold in Türkiye

Sedat Gündoğdu, Ali Riza Köşker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14627 PubMed 36691479

January 25, 2023

Scaling patterns of body plans differ among squirrel ecotypes

Tate J. Linden, Abigail E. Burtner, Johannah Rickman, Annika McFeely, Sharlene E. Santana, Chris J. Law

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14800 PubMed 36718452

January 13, 2023

Systematics and diversification of the Ichthyomyini (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) revisited: evidence from molecular, morphological, and combined approaches

Jorge Salazar-Bravo, Nicolás Tinoco, Horacio Zeballos, Jorge Brito, Daniela Arenas-Viveros, David Marín-C, José Daniel Ramírez-Fernández, Alexandre R. Percequillo, Jr., Thomas E. Lee, Sergio Solari, Javier Colmenares-Pinzon, Carlos Nivelo, Bernal Rodríguez Herrera, William Merino, Cesar E. Medina, Oscar Murillo-García, Ulyses F.J. Pardiñas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14319 PubMed 36655048

January 23, 2023

Assessing the breeding phenology of a threatened frog species using eDNA and automatic acoustic monitoring

Ying Chen, Orianne Tournayre, Haolun Tian, Stephen C. Lougheed

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14679 PubMed 36710869

January 17, 2023

Upper Norian conodonts from the Baoshan block, western Yunnan, southwestern China, and implications for conodont turnover

Weiping Zeng, Haishui Jiang, Yan Chen, James Ogg, Muhui Zhang, Hanxinshuo Dong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14517 PubMed 36684668

January 23, 2023

Individuality and stability of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faecal microbiota through time

Raphael Eisenhofer, Kylie L. Brice, Michaela DJ Blyton, Scott E. Bevins, Kellie Leigh, Brajesh K. Singh, Kristofer M. Helgen, Ian Hough, Christopher B. Daniels, Natasha Speight, Ben D. Moore

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14598 PubMed 36710873

January 25, 2023

Effects of different proportions of stevia stalk on nutrient utilization and rumen fermentation in ruminal fluid derived from sheep

Xia Zhang, Ting Jiao, Shumin Ma, Xin Chen, Zhengwen Wang, Shengguo Zhao, Yue Ren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14689 PubMed 36718442

January 11, 2023

Taxonomic review of Saguinus mystax (Spix, 1823) (Primates, Callitrichidae), and description of a new species

Gerson Paulino Lopes, Fábio Rohe, Fabrício Bertuol, Erico Polo, Ivan Junqueira Lima, João Valsecchi, Tamily Carvalho Melo Santos, Stephen D. Nash, Maria Nazareth Ferreira da Silva, Jean P. Boubli, Izeni Pires Farias, Tomas Hrbek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14526 PubMed 36647446

January 25, 2023

Facilitation of a free-roaming apex predator in working lands: evaluating factors that influence leopard spatial dynamics and prey availability in a South African biodiversity hotspot

Eugene Greyling, Jessica Comley, Michael I. Cherry, Alison J. Leslie, Lana Müller

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14575 PubMed 36718440

January 13, 2023

Chinese striped-neck turtles vocalize underwater and show differences in peak frequency among different age and sex groups

Lu Zhou, Jinhong Lei, Xiaofei Zhai, Haitao Shi, Jichao Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14628 PubMed 36655045

January 3, 2023

Insular holobionts: persistence and seasonal plasticity of the Balearic wall lizard (Podarcis lilfordi) gut microbiota

Laura Baldo, Giacomo Tavecchia, Andreu Rotger, José Manuel Igual, Joan Lluís Riera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14511 PubMed 36620745

January 25, 2023

Inferring fish behaviour at the trawl mouth from escape location

Vang Y. Nguyen, Shannon M. Bayse, Haraldur Arnar Einarsson, Ólafur Arnar Ingólfsson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14746 PubMed 36718448

January 13, 2023

Surviving on the edge: present and future effects of climate warming on the common frog (Rana temporaria) population in the Montseny massif (NE Iberia)

Albert Montori, Fèlix Amat

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14527 PubMed 36655044

January 9, 2023

Assessing factors influencing students’ perceptions towards animal species conservation

Heliene Mota Pereira, Franciany Braga-Pereira, Luane Maria Melo Azeredo, Luiz Carlos Serramo Lopez, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14553 PubMed 36643645

January 12, 2023

Primate tooth crown nomenclature revisited

Simon A. Chapple, Matthew M. Skinner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14523 PubMed 36650833

January 24, 2023

RNAi-based knockdown of candidate gut receptor genes altered the susceptibility of Spodoptera frugiperda and S. litura larvae to a chimeric toxin Cry1AcF

Tushar K. Dutta, Kodhandaraman Santhoshkumar, Arudhimath Veeresh, Chandramani Waghmare, Chetna Mathur, Rohini Sreevathsa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14716 PubMed 36710863

January 25, 2023

Genetic diversity, structure, and effective population size of an endangered, endemic hoary bat, ʻōpeʻapeʻa, across the Hawaiian Islands

Corinna A. Pinzari, M. Renee Bellinger, Donald Price, Frank J. Bonaccorso

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14365 PubMed 36718450

January 30, 2023

Feeding habits of four-finger threadfin fish, Eleutheronema tetradactylum, and its diet interaction with co-existing fish species in the coastal waters of Thailand

Teuku Haris Iqbal, Sukree Hajisamae, Apiradee Lim, Sitthisak Jantarat, Wen-Xiong Wang, Karl W.K. Tsim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14688 PubMed 36743965

January 24, 2023

Effects of the environmental conditions and seasonality on a population survey of the Andean condor Vultur gryphus in the tropical Andes

Sandra Márquez-Alvis, Luis Martin Vallejos, Santiago Paredes-Guerrero, Luis Pollack-Velasquez, Gabriel Silva Santos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14763 PubMed 36710865

January 16, 2023

Stories told by corals, algae, and sea-urchins in a Mesoamerican coral reef: degradation trumps succession

Isael Victoria-Salazar, Edgar J. González, Jorge A. Meave, Miguel-Ángel Ruiz-Zárate, Héctor A. Hernández-Arana

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14680 PubMed 36684679

January 10, 2023

The bony cap and its distinction from the distal phalanx in humans, cats, and horses

Shannon Smith, Laurel R. Yohe, Nikos Solounias

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14352 PubMed 36643632

January 10, 2023

Distribution, conservation status and proposed measures for preservation of Radiodiscus microgastropods in Chile

Gonzalo A. Collado, Rodrigo B. Salvador, Marcela Vidal, Fernanda Parra Aravena, Vannia Delgado, Cristian Torres-Díaz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14027 PubMed 36643651

January 13, 2023

Taxonomic review of the genus Stenocaris Sars (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Cylindropsyllidae), with (re)descriptions of two Stenocaris species from the Far East

Jong Guk Kim, Kyuhee Cho, Seong Myeong Yoon, Jimin Lee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14623 PubMed 36655041

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