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 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 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 16, 2023

Genome sizes and repeatome evolution in zoantharians (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia: Zoantharia)

Chloé Julie Loïs Fourreau, Hiroki Kise, Mylena Daiana Santander, Stacy Pirro, Maximiliano M. Maronna, Angelo Poliseno, Maria E.A. Santos, James Davis Reimer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16188 PubMed 37868064

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 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 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 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 11, 2023

Impacts of land use change on native plant-butterfly interaction networks from central Mexico

Deysi Muñoz-Galicia, Carlos Lara, Citlalli Castillo-Guevara, Mariana Cuautle, Claudia Rodríguez-Flores

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16205 PubMed 37842070

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 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