Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

October 11, 2023

Microbiota plasticity in tilapia gut revealed by meta-analysis evaluating the effect of probiotics, prebiotics, and biofloc

Marcel Martinez-Porchas, Aranza Preciado-Álvarez, Francisco Vargas-Albores, Martina Hilda Gracia-Valenzuela, Francesco Cicala, Luis Rafael Martinez-Cordova, Diana Medina-Félix, Estefania Garibay-Valdez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16213 PubMed 37842054

October 3, 2023

Current knowledge of the Southern Hemisphere marine microbiome in eukaryotic hosts and the Strait of Magellan surface microbiome project

Manuel Ochoa-Sánchez, Eliana Paola Acuña Gomez, Lia Ramírez-Fenández, Luis E. Eguiarte, Valeria Souza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15978 PubMed 37810788

October 9, 2023

Replacing mechanical protection with colorful faces–twice: parallel evolution of the non-operculate marine worm-snail genera Thylacodes (Guettard, 1770) and Cayo n. gen. (Gastropoda: Vermetidae)

Rüdiger Bieler, Timothy M. Collins, Rosemary Golding, Camila Granados-Cifuentes, John M. Healy, Timothy A. Rawlings, Petra Sierwald

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15854 PubMed 37842057

October 9, 2023

Bird diversity along an urban to rural gradient in large tropical cities peaks in mid-level urbanization

Marcela Suarez-Rubio, Paul J.J. Bates, Thein Aung, Nay Myo Hlaing, Sai Sein Lin Oo, Yu Kay Zin Htun, Saw Myat Ohn Mar, Aye Myint, Thin Lae Lae Wai, Pann Mo Mo, Lutz Fehrmann, Nils Nölke, Christoph Kleinn, Swen C. Renner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16098 PubMed 37842049

October 9, 2023

Temporal and spatial patterns of small vertebrate roadkill in a supercity of eastern China

Qiong Wu, Taozhu Sun, Yumeng Zhao, Cong Yu, Junhua Hu, Zhongqiu Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16251 PubMed 37842032

October 5, 2023

Impact of forest disturbance on microarthropod communities depends on underlying ecological gradients and species traits

Davide Nardi, Diego Fontaneto, Matteo Girardi, Isaac Chini, Daniela Bertoldi, Roberto Larcher, Cristiano Vernesi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15959 PubMed 37814629

October 6, 2023

Species catalogue of Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) Alberts, 1850 (Gastropoda: Bulimulidae) from Brazil and new data on morphology and distribution of Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) interpunctus (Martens, 1887)

Maria Isabel Pinto Ferreira Macedo, Ximena Maria Constanza Ovando, Sthefane D’ávila

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16037 PubMed 37818325

October 26, 2023

Forest habitats and plant communities strongly predicts Megachilidae bee biodiversity

Lindsie M. McCabe, Paige Chesshire, Neil S. Cobb

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16145 PubMed 37904844

October 10, 2023

Persisting roadblocks in arthropod monitoring using non-destructive metabarcoding from collection media of passive traps

Lucas Sire, Paul Schmidt Yáñez, Annie Bézier, Béatrice Courtial, Susan Mbedi, Sarah Sparmann, Laurent Larrieu, Rodolphe Rougerie, Christophe Bouget, Michael T. Monaghan, Elisabeth A. Herniou, Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16022 PubMed 37842065

October 24, 2023

Population genetic structure and hybrid zone analyses for species delimitation in the Japanese toad (Bufo japonicus)

Kazumi Fukutani, Masafumi Matsui, Kanto Nishikawa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16302 PubMed 37901459

October 6, 2023

Global change impacts on bird biodiversity in South Asia: potential effects of future land-use and climate change on avian species richness in Pakistan

Imran Khaliq, Matthias Biber, Diana E. Bowler, Christian Hof

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16212 PubMed 37818326

October 2, 2023

Mitochondrial sequence data reveal population structure within Pustulosa pustulosa

David Rodriguez, Stephen F. Harding, Shashwat Sirsi, Kelly McNichols-O’Rourke, Todd Morris, Michael R. J. Forstner, Astrid N. Schwalb