Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

May 2, 2023

Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity

Sarah W. Davies, Matthew H. Gamache, Lauren I. Howe-Kerr, Nicola G. Kriefall, Andrew C. Baker, Anastazia T. Banaszak, Line Kolind Bay, Anthony J. Bellantuono, Debashish Bhattacharya, Cheong Xin Chan, Danielle C. Claar, Mary Alice Coffroth, Ross Cunning, Simon K. Davy, Javier del Campo, Erika M. Díaz-Almeyda, Jörg C. Frommlet, Lauren E. Fuess, Raúl A. González-Pech, Tamar L. Goulet, Kenneth D. Hoadley, Emily J. Howells, Benjamin C. C. Hume, Dustin W. Kemp, Carly D. Kenkel, Sheila A. Kitchen, Todd C. LaJeunesse, Senjie Lin, Shelby E. McIlroy, Ryan McMinds, Matthew R. Nitschke, Clinton A. Oakley, Raquel S. Peixoto, Carlos Prada, Hollie M. Putnam, Kate Quigley, Hannah G. Reich, James Davis Reimer, Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty, Stephanie M. Rosales, Osama S. Saad, Eugenia M. Sampayo, Scott R. Santos, Eiichi Shoguchi, Edward G. Smith, Michael Stat, Timothy G. Stephens, Marie E. Strader, David J. Suggett, Timothy D. Swain, Cawa Tran, Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Christian R. Voolstra, Mark E. Warner, Virginia M. Weis, Rachel M. Wright, Tingting Xiang, Hiroshi Yamashita, Maren Ziegler, Adrienne M. S. Correa, John Everett Parkinson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15023 PubMed 37151292

May 16, 2023

Microbial biomarker detection in shrimp larvae rearing water as putative bio-surveillance proxies in shrimp aquaculture

Nolwenn Callac, Carolane Giraud, Viviane Boulo, Nelly Wabete, Dominique Pham

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15201 PubMed 37214103

May 25, 2023

The DNA barcode reveals cryptic diversity and a new record for the genus Leporinus (Characiformes, Anostomidae) in the hydrographic basins of central northern Brazil

Maria Histelle Sousa Nascimento, Deborah Gaído Aragão, Jordânia Leticia Nascimento Silva, Renato Correia Lima, José Luis Olivan Birindelli, Elmary Costa Fraga, Maria Claudene Barros

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15184 PubMed 37250713

May 11, 2023

The role of solar radiation and tidal emersion on oxidative stress and glutathione synthesis in mussels exposed to air

Daniel C. Moreira, Marcus Aurélio da Costa Tavares Sabino, Marina Minari, Felipe Torres Brasil Kuzniewski, Ronaldo Angelini, Marcelo Hermes-Lima

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15345 PubMed 37193036

May 5, 2023

Pollination efficacy of stingless bees, Tetragonula pagdeni Schwarz (Apidae: Meliponini), on greenhouse tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum Linnaeus)

Kanyanat Wongsa, Orawan Duangphakdee, Atsalek Rattanawannee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15367 PubMed 37168539

May 8, 2023

The effect of combined dietary supplementation of herbal additives on carcass traits, meat quality, immunity and cecal microbiota composition in Hungarian white geese

Guilin Fu, Yuxuan Zhou, Yupu Song, Chang Liu, Manjie Hu, Qiuyu Xie, Jingbo Wang, Yuxin Zhang, Yumeng Shi, Shuhao Chen, Jingtao Hu, Yongfeng Sun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15316 PubMed 37180579

May 3, 2023

Impact of artificial waterholes on temporal partitioning in a carnivore guild: a comparison of activity patterns at artificial waterholes to roads and trails

Charlotte Krag, Linnea Worsøe Havmøller, Lourens Swanepoel, Gigi Van Zyl, Peter Rask Møller, Rasmus Worsøe Havmøller

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15253 PubMed 37159833

May 15, 2023

Effects of the speed on the webbed foot kinematics of mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

Dianlei Han, Hairui Liu, Zhiqian Tong, Jiahang Pan, Xinzhong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15362 PubMed 37214106

May 11, 2023

Current environmental status of the oyster farms on Lake Kamo in Japan; viral control of the harmful bloom of Heterocapsa circularisquama

Natsuko Nakayama, Saho Kitatsuji, Masami Hamaguchi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14813 PubMed 37193035

May 9, 2023

Two new syntopic species of glassfrogs (Amphibia, Centrolenidae, Centrolene) from the southwestern Andes of Ecuador

Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Juan C. Sánchez-Nivicela, Santiago R. Ron

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15195 PubMed 37187515

May 29, 2023

Time series analysis of survival and oviposition cycle duration of Anopheles funestus (Giles) in Mozambique

Jacques D. Charlwood, Thomas A. Smith, Ayubo Kampango, Erzelia V. E. Tomas, Nakul Chitnis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15230 PubMed 37273537

May 9, 2023

Factors shaping the gut microbiome of five species of lizards from different habitats

Diana S. Vasconcelos, D. James Harris, Isabel Damas-Moreira, Ana Pereira, Raquel Xavier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15146 PubMed 37187519

May 25, 2023

Integrative species delimitation helps to find the hidden diversity of the leaf-litter frog Ischnocnema manezinho (Garcia, 1996) (Anura, Brachycephalidae), endemic to the southern Atlantic Forest

Caroline Batistim Oswald, Rafael Félix de Magalhães, Paulo C.A. Garcia, Fabrício R. Santos, Selvino Neckel-Oliveira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15393 PubMed 37250715

May 18, 2023

Kukri snakes Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 of the Western Palearctic with the resurrection of Contia transcaspica Nikolsky, 1902 (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae)

Justin L. Lee, Platon V. Yushchenko, Konstantin D. Milto, Mahdi Rajabizadeh, Eskandar Rastegar Pouyani, Daniel Jablonski, Rafaqat Masroor, Suranjan Karunarathna, Ashok Kumar Mallik, Princia Dsouza, Nikolai Orlov, Roman Nazarov, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15185 PubMed 37220522

May 30, 2023

A survey of epibiont hydrozoans on Sargassum

Cecilia Odette Carral-Murrieta, Antonio C. Marques, Elisa Serviere-Zaragoza, Mariae C. Estrada-González, Amanda F. Cunha, Marina O. Fernandez, Alejandra Mazariegos-Villarreal, Karla León-Cisneros, Juan López-Vivas, José Agüero, María A. Mendoza-Becerril

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15423 PubMed 37273545

May 9, 2023

The effects of the E3 ubiquitin–protein ligase UBR7 of Frankliniella occidentalis on the ability of insects to acquire and transmit TSWV

Junxia Shi, Junxian Zhou, Fan Jiang, Zhihong Li, Shuifang Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15385 PubMed 37187513

May 11, 2023

Kekveus brevisulcatus sp. nov., a new featherwing beetle from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae)

Yan-Da Li, Shûhei Yamamoto, Alfred F. Newton, Chen-Yang Cai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15306 PubMed 37193020

May 23, 2023

Minimizing the variables of voiding spot assay for comparison between laboratories

Chuang Luo, Juan Liu, Jiali Yang, Xiang Xie, Weiqun Yu, Huan Chen