Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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 17, 2023

A revised terminology for male genitalia in Hymenoptera (Insecta), with a special emphasis on Ichneumonoidea

Davide Dal Pos, István Mikó, Elijah J. Talamas, Lars Vilhelmsen, Barbara J. Sharanowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15874 PubMed 37868054

October 5, 2023

Calcareous dinoflagellate blooms during the Late Cretaceous ‘greenhouse’ world—a case study from western Ukraine

Agnieszka Ciurej, Zofia Dubicka, Andriy Poberezhskyy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16201 PubMed 37814625

October 23, 2023

Harnessing the power of comparative genomics to support the distinction of sister species within Phyllosticta and development of highly specific detection of Phyllosticta citricarpa causing citrus black spot by real-time PCR

Renaud Ioos, Alexandra Puertolas, Camille Renault, Aida Ndiaye, Isabelle Cerf-Wendling, Jacqueline Hubert, Wen Wang, Chen Jiao, Hongye Li, Josep Armengol, Jaime Aguayo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16354 PubMed 37901471

October 9, 2023

Machine learning algorithms accurately identify free-living marine nematode species

Simone Brito de Jesus, Danilo Vieira, Paula Gheller, Beatriz P. Cunha, Fabiane Gallucci, Gustavo Fonseca

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16216 PubMed 37842061

October 5, 2023

Biodiversity of symbiotic microalgae associated with meiofaunal marine acoels in Southern Japan

Siratee Riewluang, Kevin C. Wakeman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16078 PubMed 37814628

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 11, 2023

Mitochondrial genome characteristics of six Phylloscopus species and their phylogenetic implication

Chao Yang, Xiaomei Dong, Qingxiong Wang, Xiang Hou, Hao Yuan, Xuejuan Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16233 PubMed 37842035

October 16, 2023

Phylomitogenomics elucidates the evolution of symbiosis in Thoracotremata (Decapoda: Cryptochiridae, Pinnotheridae, Varunidae)

Tao Xu, Henrique Bravo, Sancia E.T. van der Meij

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16217 PubMed 37868050

October 19, 2023

Evolutionary insights on critically endangered Kashmir red deer or hangul (Cervus hanglu hanglu) through a mitogenomic lens

Khursheed Ahmad, Ankit Shankar Pacha, Rashid Yahya Naqash, Sathish Kumar Peddamma, Srinivas Yellapu, Shenu Hudson, Dushyant Singh Baghel, Parag Nigam, Samrat Mondol

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15746 PubMed 37872949

October 10, 2023

Complete chloroplast genome assembly and phylogenetic analysis of blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum), red and white currant (Ribes rubrum), and gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa) provide new insights into the phylogeny of Grossulariaceae

Xinyu Sun, Ying Zhan, Songlin Li, Yu Liu, Qiang Fu, Xin Quan, Jinyu Xiong, Huixin Gang, Lijun Zhang, Huijuan Qi, Aoxue Wang, Junwei Huo, Dong Qin, Chenqiao Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16272 PubMed 37842068

October 24, 2023

Integrative approaches to a revision of the liverwort in genus Aneura (Aneuraceae, Marchantiophyta) from Thailand

Nopparat Anantaprayoon, Passorn Wonnapinij, Ekaphan Kraichak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16284 PubMed 37901454

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 2, 2023

Epiperipatus puri sp. nov., a new velvet worm from Atlantic Forest in Southeastern Brazil (Onychophora, Peripatidae)

Cristiano Sampaio Costa, Amanda Cruz Mendes, Alessandro Ponce de Leão Giupponi