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February 2024

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

February 26, 2024

How to account for behavioral states in step-selection analysis: a model comparison

Jennifer Pohle, Johannes Signer, Jana A. Eccard, Melanie Dammhahn, Ulrike E. Schlägel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16509 PubMed 38426131

February 21, 2024

Exotic and native plants play equally important roles in supporting and structuring plant-hummingbird networks within urban green spaces

Monserrat Sánchez Sánchez, Carlos Lara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16996 PubMed 38406283

February 29, 2024

Transformation of the pectoral girdle in pennaraptorans: critical steps in the formation of the modern avian shoulder joint

Qian Wu, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Shiying Wang, Zhonghe Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16960 PubMed 38436017

February 26, 2024

Emergent trees in Colophospermum mopane woodland: influence of elephant density on persistence versus attrition

Timothy O’Connor, Angela Ferguson, Bruce W. Clegg, Nita Pallett, Jeremy J. Midgley, Julius Shimbani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16961 PubMed 38426137

February 13, 2024

Population structure and fecundity of the Xanthid crab Leptodius exaratus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) on the rocky shore of Gujarat state, India

Krupal Patel, Heris Patel, Swapnil Gosavi, Kauresh Vachhrajani, Jigneshkumar Trivedi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16916 PubMed 38371378

February 29, 2024

Modeling target-density-based cull strategies to contain foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks

Rachel L. Seibel, Amanda J. Meadows, Christopher Mundt, Michael Tildesley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16998 PubMed 38436010

February 28, 2024

triact package for R: analyzing the lying behavior of cows from accelerometer data

Michael Simmler, Stijn P. Brouwers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17036 PubMed 38436021

February 21, 2024

Heavy metal movement through insect food chains in pristine thermal springs of Yellowstone National Park

Braymond Adams, John Bowley, Monica Rohwer, Erik Oberg, Kelly Willemssens, Wendy Wintersteen, Robert K.D. Peterson, Leon G. Higley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16827 PubMed 38406272

February 27, 2024

Discovering unknown Madagascar biodiversity: integrative taxonomy of raft spiders (Pisauridae: Dolomedes)

Kuang-Ping Yu, Matjaž Kuntner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16781 PubMed 38435991

February 21, 2024

Arthrological reconstructions of the pterosaur neck and their implications for the cervical position at rest

Richard Buchmann, Taissa Rodrigues

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16884 PubMed 38406270

February 23, 2024

Drop it all: extraction-free detection of targeted marine species through optimized direct droplet digital PCR

Michelle Scriver, Ulla von Ammon, Cody Youngbull, Xavier Pochon, Jo-Ann L. Stanton, Neil J. Gemmell, Anastasija Zaiko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16969 PubMed 38410796

February 28, 2024

Telomere length and dynamics in Astyanax mexicanus cave and surface morphs

Enrico Lunghi, Helena Bilandžija

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16957 PubMed 38435987

February 29, 2024

Downsizing a heavyweight: factors and methods that revise weight estimates of the giant fossil whale Perucetus colossus

Ryosuke Motani, Nicholas D. Pyenson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16978 PubMed 38436015

February 26, 2024

New records of immature aquatic Diptera from the Foulden Maar Fossil-Lagerstätte, New Zealand, and their biogeographic implications

Viktor O. Baranov, Joachim T. Haug, Uwe Kaulfuss

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17014 PubMed 38426144

February 29, 2024

Plectronoceratids (Cephalopoda) from the latest Cambrian at Black Mountain, Queensland, reveal complex three-dimensional siphuncle morphology, with major taxonomic implications

Alexander Pohle, Peter Jell, Christian Klug

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17003 PubMed 38436030

February 26, 2024

Biodegradation of polyethylene in digestive gland homogenates of marine invertebrates

Aleksandra Istomina, Victor Chelomin, Andrey Mazur, Avianna Zhukovskaya, Alexander Karpenko, Marina Mazur

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17041 PubMed 38426135

February 29, 2024

Coral geometry and why it matters

Samuel E. Kahng, Eric Odle, Kevin C. Wakeman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17037 PubMed 38436029

February 28, 2024

Halichoeres sanchezi n. sp., a new wrasse from the Revillagigedo Archipelago of Mexico, tropical eastern Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Labridae)

Benjamin C. Victor, Benjamin W. Frable, William B. Ludt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16828 PubMed 38436023

February 28, 2024

Double jeopardy: global change and interspecies competition threaten Siberian cranes

Linqiang Gao, Chunrong Mi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17029 PubMed 38436031

February 1, 2024

Resolving taphonomic and preparation biases in silicified faunas through paired acid residues and X-ray microscopy

Gabriel S. Jacobs, Sarah Monique Jacquet, Tara Selly, James D. Schiffbauer, John Warren Huntley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16767 PubMed 38313011

February 8, 2024

Two new species of Erythroneurini (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from southern China based on morphology and complete mitogenomes

Ni Zhang, Jinqiu Wang, Tianyi Pu, Can Li, Yuehua Song

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16853 PubMed 38344292

February 26, 2024

Conservation gaps and priorities of range-restricted birds in the Northern Andes

Wilderson Medina, Stuart L. Pimm, Ryan M. Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16893 PubMed 38426143

February 21, 2024

Would future climate warming cause zoonotic diseases to spread over long distances?

Fan Bu, Xiuxian Yue, Shanshan Sun, Yongling Jin, Linlin Li, Xin Li, Rong Zhang, Zhenghaoni Shang, Haiwen Yan, Haoting Zhang, Shuai Yuan, Xiaodong Wu, Heping Fu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16811 PubMed 38406275

February 29, 2024

Mowing wet meadows reduces the health of their snail communities

Roland Farkas, Miklós Bán, Zoltán Barta

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16783 PubMed 38435995

February 27, 2024

The decline and fall of the mammalian stem

Neil Brocklehurst

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17004 PubMed 38436024

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