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 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 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 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 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 10, 2023

Life cycle evolution in the trilobites Balangia and Duyunaspis from the Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of South China

Zhengpeng Chen, Yuanlong Zhao, Xinglian Yang, Jorge Esteve, Xiong Liu, Shengguang Chen