Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 5, 2024

phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things)

Liam J. Revell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16505 PubMed 38192598

January 31, 2024

Insulin signaling and pharmacology in humans and in corals

Meghana Hosahalli Shivananda Murthy, Paniz Jasbi, Whitney Lowe, Lokender Kumar, Monsurat Olaosebikan, Liza Roger, Jinkyu Yang, Nastassja Lewinski, Noah Daniels, Lenore Cowen, Judith Klein-Seetharaman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16804 PubMed 38313028

January 8, 2024

Performance of tree-building methods using a morphological dataset and a well-supported Hexapoda phylogeny

Felipe Francisco Barbosa, José Ricardo M. Mermudes, Claudia A. M. Russo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16706 PubMed 38213769

January 4, 2024

Relationships among cost, citation, and access in journal publishing by an ecology and evolutionary biology department at a U.S. university

A. Townsend Peterson, Marlon E. Cobos, Ben Sikes, Jorge Soberon, Luis Osorio-Olvera, Josh Bolick, Ada Emmett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16514 PubMed 38188154

January 19, 2024

Four new complete mitochondrial genomes of Gobioninae fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) and their phylogenetic implications

Yongtao Tang, Wenwen Ma, Xin Chen, Guoxing Nie, Chuanjiang Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16632 PubMed 38259668

January 9, 2024

A new perspective on the taxonomy and systematics of Arvicolinae (Gray, 1821) and a new time-calibrated phylogeny for the clade

Charles B. Withnell, Simon G. Scarpetta

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16693 PubMed 38223757

January 31, 2024

Static versus dynamic muscle modelling in extinct species: a biomechanical case study of the Australopithecus afarensis pelvis and lower extremity

Ashleigh L.A. Wiseman, James P. Charles, John R. Hutchinson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16821 PubMed 38313026

January 29, 2024

Biology, ecology, and biogeography of eremic praying mantis Blepharopsis mendica (Insecta: Mantodea)

Zohreh Mirzaee, Marianna V.P. Simões, Roberto Battiston, Saber Sadeghi, Martin Wiemers, Thomas Schmitt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16814 PubMed 38304188

January 31, 2024

New materials of plesiacerathere (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from the late Early Miocene of Northern China

Danhui Sun, Tao Deng, Shiqi Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16822 PubMed 38313009

January 19, 2024

Unidirectional hybridization between American paddlefish Polyodon spathula (Walbaum, 1792) and sterlet Acipenser ruthenus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Jenő Káldy, Georgina Fazekas, Balázs Kovács, Mariann Molnár, Bence Lázár, Nóra Pálinkás-Bodzsár, Uroš Ljubobratović, Gyöngyvér Fazekas, Gyula Kovács, Eszter Várkonyi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16717 PubMed 38259665

January 25, 2024

A vertebra of a small species of Pachycetus from the North Sea and its inner structure and vascularity compared with other basilosaurid vertebrae from the same site

Henk Jan van Vliet, Mark E.J. Bosselaers, Dirk K. Munsterman, Marcel L. Dijkshoorn, Jeffrey Joël de Groen, Klaas Post

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16541 PubMed 38774542

January 2, 2024

Speeding up iterative applications of the BUILD supertree algorithm

Benjamin D. Redelings, Mark T. Holder

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16624 PubMed 38188165