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

An acoustic-based method for locating maternity colonies of rare woodland bats

Kieran D. O’Malley, Henry Schofield, Patrick G.R. Wright, Daniel Hargreaves, Tom Kitching, Marina Bollo Palacios, Fiona Mathews

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15951 PubMed 37810793

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 11, 2023

Bridging the gap between sustainability and profitability: unveiling the untapped potential of sea cucumber viscera

Muhammad Fatratullah Muhsin, Yushinta Fujaya, Andi Aliah Hidayani, Hanafiah Fazhan, Wan Adibah Wan Mahari, Su Shiung Lam, Alexander Chong Shu-Chien, Youji Wang, Nor Afiqah-Aleng, Nita Rukminasari, Khor Waiho

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16252 PubMed 37842055

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 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 16, 2023

Developing a semi-pelagic trawl to capture redfish in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada

Vang Y. Nguyen, Shannon M. Bayse, Paul D. Winger, Harold DeLouche, George Legge

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16244 PubMed 37868062

October 9, 2023

Use of micro and macroalgae extracts for the control of vector mosquitoes

Ozge Tufan-Cetin, Huseyin Cetin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16187 PubMed 37842039

October 18, 2023

Sexual dimorphism in skull size and shape of Laticauda colubrina (Serpentes: Elapidae)

Bartosz Borczyk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16266 PubMed 37868070

October 17, 2023

Implications of dominance hierarchy on hummingbird-plant interactions in a temperate forest in Northwestern Mexico

Gabriel López-Segoviano, Maribel Arenas-Navarro, Laura E. Nuñez-Rosas, María del Coro Arizmendi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16245 PubMed 37868051

October 26, 2023

Five new malformed trilobites from Cambrian and Ordovician deposits from the Natural History Museum

Russell D.C. Bicknell, Patrick M. Smith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16326 PubMed 37904847

October 26, 2023

Morphology and ontogeny of carpus and tarsus in stereospondylomorph temnospondyls

Florian Witzmann, Nadia Fröbisch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16182 PubMed 37904842

October 4, 2023

CmHem, a hemolin-like gene identified from Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, involved in metamorphosis and baculovirus infection

Guangjie Han, Chuanming Li, Nan Zhang, Qin Liu, Lixin Huang, Yang Xia, Jian Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16225 PubMed 37810787

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

Effects of food-based enrichment on enclosure use and behavioral patterns in captive mammalian predators: a case study from an Austrian wildlife park

Verena Puehringer-Sturmayr, Monika Fiby, Stephanie Bachmann, Stefanie Filz, Isabella Grassmann, Theresa Hoi, Claudia Janiczek, Didone Frigerio

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16091 PubMed 37842040

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

Automatic identification and morphological comparison of bivalve and brachiopod fossils based on deep learning

Jiarui Sun, Xiaokang Liu, Yunfei Huang, Fengyu Wang, Yongfang Sun, Jing Chen, Daoliang Chu, Haijun Song

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16200 PubMed 37842038

October 4, 2023

Genome sequence analysis of Malayan pangolin (Manis javanica) forensic samples reveals the presence of Paraburkholderia fungorum sequences

Ka Yun Tan, Siwei Deng, Tze King Tan, Ranjeev Hari, Frankie Thomas Sitam, Rofina Yasmin Othman, Kum Thong Wong, Taznim Begam Mohd Mohidin, Siew Woh Choo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16002 PubMed 37810781

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 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