Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

June 25, 2024

Using feces to indicate plastic pollution in terrestrial vertebrate species in western Thailand

Jiraporn Teampanpong, Prateep Duengkae

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17596 PubMed 38948236

June 21, 2024

Path for recovery: an ecological overview of the Jambato Harlequin Toad (Bufonidae: Atelopus ignescens) in its last known locality, Angamarca Valley, Ecuador

Mateo A. Vega-Yánez, Amanda B. Quezada-Riera, Blanca Rios-Touma, María del Carmen Vizcaíno-Barba, William Millingalli, Orlando Ganzino, Luis A. Coloma, Elicio E. Tapia, Nadine Dupérré, Mónica Páez-Vacas, David Parra-Puente, Daniela Franco-Mena, Gabriela Gavilanes, David Salazar-Valenzuela, Carlos A. Valle, Juan M. Guayasamin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17344 PubMed 38915382

June 20, 2024

Lokiceratops rangiformis gen. et sp. nov. (Ceratopsidae: Centrosaurinae) from the Campanian Judith River Formation of Montana reveals rapid regional radiations and extreme endemism within centrosaurine dinosaurs

Mark A. Loewen, Joseph J. W. Sertich, Scott Sampson, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Savhannah Carpenter, Brock Sisson, Anna Øhlenschlæger, Andrew A. Farke, Peter J. Makovicky, Nick Longrich, David C. Evans

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17224 PubMed 38912046

June 26, 2024

First fossil species of family Hyidae (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) confirms 99 million years of ecological stasis in a Gondwanan lineage

Liza M. Röschmann, Mark S. Harvey, Yanmeng Hou, Danilo Harms, Ulrich Kotthoff, Jörg U. Hammel, Dong Ren, Stephanie F. Loria

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17515 PubMed 38948233

June 11, 2024

Using bioluminescence as a tool for studying diversity in marine zooplankton and dinoflagellates: an initial assessment

Francis Letendre, Abigail Blackburn, Ed Malkiel, Michael Twardowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17516 PubMed 38881863

June 25, 2024

Not so cryptic–differences between mating calls of Hyla arborea and Hyla orientalis from Bulgaria

Simeon Lukanov