Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

May 31, 2024

Current and future scenarios of suitability and expansion of cassava brown streak disease, Bemisia tabaci species complex, and cassava planting in Africa

Geofrey Sikazwe, Rosita Endah epse Yocgo, Pietro Landi, David M. Richardson, Cang Hui

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17386 PubMed 38832032

May 31, 2024

New records of non-indigenous species from the eastern Mediterranean Sea (Crustacea, Mollusca), with a revision of genus Isognomon (Mollusca: Bivalvia)

Paolo G. Albano, Yuanyuan Hong, Jan Steger, Moriaki Yasuhara, Stefano Bartolini, Cesare Bogi, Marija Bošnjak, Marina Chiappi, Valentina Fossati, Mehmet Fatih Huseyinoglu, Carlos Jiménez, Hadas Lubinevsky, Arseniy R. Morov, Simona Noè, Magdalene Papatheodoulou, Vasilis Resaikos, Martin Zuschin, Tamar Guy-Haim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17425 PubMed 38832036

May 30, 2024

Metagenomic insight into taxonomic composition, environmental filtering and functional redundancy for shaping worldwide modern non-lithifying microbial mats

Mariette Viladomat Jasso, Manuel García-Ulloa, Icoquih Zapata-Peñasco, Luis E. Eguiarte, Valeria Souza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17412 PubMed 38827283

May 30, 2024

Seasonal dynamics and environmental drivers of tissue and mucus microbiomes in the staghorn coral Acropora pulchra

Therese C. Miller, Bastian Bentlage

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17421 PubMed 38827308

May 30, 2024

The unexpected effect of the compound microbial agent NP-M2 on microbial community dynamics in a nonylphenol-contaminated soil: the self-stability of soil ecosystem

Zhaoliang Chen, Juanqin Zhang, Weiguang Lv, Hanlin Zhang, Shuangxi Li, Haiyun Zhang, Yue Shen, Chunnu Geng, Naling Bai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17424 PubMed 38827279

May 30, 2024

Analysis of rotational grazing management for sheep in mixed grassland

Zongyong Tong, Xianlin Dai, Yu Wang, Xianglin Li, Feng He, Guomei Yin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17453 PubMed 38827294

May 28, 2024

Impact of biological manure substitution on grain yield, nitrogen recovery efficiency, and soil biochemical properties

Zhili Sun, Chengshun Wang, Jiabao Wang, Gang Wu, Manman Yuan, Haiming Zou, Yixiang Sun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17475 PubMed 38827300

May 28, 2024

Elevational variation in morphology and biomass allocation in carpathian snowbell Soldanella carpatica (Primulaceae)

Piotr Kiełtyk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17500 PubMed 38827286

May 24, 2024

Polymorphism in the aggressive mimicry lure of the parasitic freshwater mussel Lampsilis fasciola

Trevor L. Hewitt, Paul D. Johnson, Michael Buntin, Talia Y. Moore, Diarmaid Ó Foighil

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17359 PubMed 38803583

May 23, 2024

Variation in fine-scale water table depth drives abundance of a unique semi-terrestrial crayfish species

Molly C. Carlson, Dusty A. Swedberg, Elizabeth A. Miernicki, Christopher A. Taylor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17330 PubMed 38799066

May 22, 2024

Abiotic processes control carbon dioxide dynamics in temperate karst lakes

Mariana Vargas-Sánchez, Javier Alcocer, Eric Puche, Salvador Sánchez-Carrillo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17393 PubMed 38799067

May 22, 2024

Determining the plant-pollinator network in a culturally significant food and medicine garden in the Great Lakes region

Shelby D. Gibson, Thomas M. Onuferko, Lisa Myers, Sheila R. Colla

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17401 PubMed 38799060

May 22, 2024

Temperature-size responses during ontogeny are independent of progenitors’ thermal environments

Gerard Martínez-De León, Micha Fahrni, Madhav P. Thakur

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17432 PubMed 38799056

May 21, 2024

Measuring multi-year changes in the Symbiodiniaceae algae in Caribbean corals on coral-depleted reefs

Ross Cunning, Elizabeth A. Lenz, Peter J. Edmunds

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17358 PubMed 38827291

May 20, 2024

Temperature-driven dynamics: unraveling the impact of climate change on cryptic species interactions within the Litoditis marina complex

Anna-Maria Vafeiadou, Kevin Geldhof, Wissam Barhdadi, Jan M. Baetens, Bernard De Baets, Tom Moens, Aisling J. Daly

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17324 PubMed 38784398

May 17, 2024

Leeches Baicalobdella torquata feed on hemolymph but have a low effect on the cellular immune response of amphipod Eulimnogammarus verrucosus from Lake Baikal

Anna Nazarova, Andrei Mutin, Denis Skafar, Nadezhda Bolbat, Sofya Sedova, Polina Chupalova, Vasiliy Pomazkin, Polina Drozdova, Anton Gurkov, Maxim Timofeyev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17348 PubMed 38770098

May 17, 2024

Comparing trophic position estimates using bulk and compound specific stable isotope analyses: applying new approaches to mackerel icefish Champsocephalus gunnari

Jose Antonio Canseco, Edwin J. Niklitschek, Claudio Quezada-Romegialli, Chris Yarnes, Chris Harrod

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17372 PubMed 38770096

May 17, 2024

Occurrence patterns of sympatric forest wallabies: assessing the influence of structural habitat attributes on the coexistence of Thylogale thetis and T. stigmatica

Lucy E.V. Smith, Nigel R. Andrew, Karl Vernes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17383 PubMed 38770092

May 16, 2024

Seasonal occurrence and individual variability of bull sharks, Carcharhinus leucas, in a marine reserve of the southwestern Gulf of California

Frida Lara-Lizardi, Eleazar Castro, Vianey Leos Barajas, Juan Manuel Morales, Edgar Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla, James Ketchum