Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 14, 2023

New specimens and species of the Oligocene toothed baleen whale Coronodon from South Carolina and the origin of Neoceti

Robert W. Boessenecker, Brian L. Beatty, Jonathan H. Geisler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14795

April 10, 2023

Giant, swimming mouths: oral dimensions of extant sharks do not accurately predict body size in Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi: Arthrodira)

Russell Engelman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15131 PubMed 37065696

April 4, 2023

Counter culture: causes, extent and solutions of systematic bias in the analysis of behavioural counts

Joel L. Pick, Nyil Khwaja, Michael A. Spence, Malika Ihle, Shinichi Nakagawa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15059 PubMed 37033727

April 24, 2023

Personality traits, rank attainment, and siring success throughout the lives of male chimpanzees of Gombe National Park

Alexander Weiss, Joseph T. Feldblum, Drew M. Altschul, David Anthony Collins, Shadrack Kamenya, Deus Mjungu, Steffen Foerster, Ian C. Gilby, Michael L. Wilson, Anne E. Pusey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15083 PubMed 37123001

April 10, 2023

Overcoming the gender bias in ecology and evolution: is the double-anonymized peer review an effective pathway over time?

Cibele Cássia-Silva, Barbbara Silva Rocha, Luisa Fernanda Liévano-Latorre, Mariane Brom Sobreiro, Luisa Maria Diele-Viegas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15186 PubMed 37065686

April 24, 2023

Sex differences in gene expression and alternative splicing in the Chinese horseshoe bat

Wenli Chen, Weiwei Zhou, Qianqian Li, Xiuguang Mao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15231 PubMed 37123006

April 24, 2023

Hidden diversity: comparative functional morphology of humans and other species

Erin A. McKenney, Amanda R. Hale, Janiaya Anderson, Roxanne Larsen, Colleen Grant, Robert R. Dunn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15148 PubMed 37123005

April 25, 2023

Macroevolutionary patterns in intragenomic rDNA variability among planktonic foraminifera

Mattia Greco, Raphaël Morard, Kate Darling, Michal Kucera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15255 PubMed 37123000

April 27, 2023

Expanded sampling of New Zealand glass sponges (Porifera: Hexactinellida) provides new insights into biodiversity, chemodiversity, and phylogeny of the class

Martin Dohrmann, Henry M. Reiswig, Michelle Kelly, Sadie Mills, Simone Schätzle, Miriam Reverter, Natascha Niesse, Sven Rohde, Peter Schupp, Gert Wörheide

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15017 PubMed 37131989

April 14, 2023

The skull variation of the olive field mouse Abrothrix olivacea (Cricetidae: Abrotrichini) is localized and correlated to the ecogeographic features of its geographic distribution

Marcial Quiroga-Carmona, Pablo Teta, Guillermo D’Elía

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15200 PubMed 37077313

April 3, 2023

The honest sound of physical effort

Andrey Anikin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14944 PubMed 37033726

April 12, 2023

Observations on heterodonty within the dentition of the Atlantic Sharpnose Shark, Rhizoprionodon terraenovae (Richardson, 1836), from the north-central Gulf of Mexico, USA, with implications on the fossil record

Jun A. Ebersole, Abigail T. Kelosky, Bryan L. Huerta-Beltrán, David J. Cicimurri, J. Marcus Drymon