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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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