Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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 8, 2024

No sex difference in preen oil chemical composition during incubation in Kentish plovers

Marc Gilles, András Kosztolányi, Afonso D. Rocha, Innes C. Cuthill, Tamás Székely, Barbara A. Caspers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17243 PubMed 38737740

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 30, 2024

Phylogeny and divergence time estimation of Io moths and relatives (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Automeris)

Chelsea Skojec, Chandra Earl, Christian D. Couch, Paul Masonick, Akito Y. Kawahara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17365 PubMed 38827314

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 30, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic “anthropause” decreased plastic ingestion in neotropic cormorants Nannopterum brasilianus in Lima, Peru

Laura Catalina Porras-Parra, Carlos B. Zavalaga, Alvaro Rios

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17407 PubMed 38827310

May 7, 2024

Pathological caudal skeleton of an ichthyodectiform fish from the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation of western Kansas, USA

S Christopher Bennett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17353 PubMed 38737736

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 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 6, 2024

Whole-genome analysis of Escherichia coli isolated from wild Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) and North China leopard (Panthera pardus japonensis)

Hongjia Li, Tianming Lan, Hao Zhai, Mengchao Zhou, Denghui Chen, Yaxian Lu, Lei Han, Jinpu Wei, Shaochun Zhou, Haitao Xu, Lihong Tian, Guangshun Jiang, Zhijun Hou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17381 PubMed 38726379

May 27, 2024

Association of maternal genetics with the gut microbiome and eucalypt diet selection in captive koalas

Kotaro Kondo, Mirei Suzuki, Mana Amadaira, Chiharu Araki, Rie Watanabe, Koichi Murakami, Shinsaku Ochiai, Tadatoshi Ogura, Takashi Hayakawa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17385 PubMed 38818452

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

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17192 PubMed 38766482

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