Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 7, 2025

Recognising depression in non-human primates: a narrative review of reported signs of depression

Jonas C. P. van Oosten, Annemie Ploeger, Elisabeth H. M. Sterck

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18766 PubMed 39802190

January 29, 2025

High speciation in the cryptic Pristimantis celator clade (Anura: Strabomantidae) of the Mira river basin, Ecuador-Colombia

Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Juan P. Reyes-Puig, Carolina Reyes-Puig, Gabriela Lagla-Chimba, Christian Paucar-Veintimilla, Miguel A. Urgiles-Merchán, Julio C. Carrión-Olmedo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18680 PubMed 39897485

January 30, 2025

Life expectancy of cats in Britain: moggies and mollies live longer

Fernando Mata

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18869 PubMed 39897493

January 9, 2025

Habitat sharing and interspecies interactions in caves used by bats in the Republic of Congo

Morgane Labadie, Serge Morand, Mathieu Bourgarel, Fabien Roch Niama, Guytrich Franel Nguilili, N’Kaya Tobi, Alexandre Caron, Helene De Nys

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18145 PubMed 39802183

January 10, 2025

Treatment options for Achilles tendinopathy: a scoping review of preclinical studies

Nathanael Opoku Agyeman-Prempeh, Huub Maas, George L. Burchell, Neal L. Millar, Maarten H. Moen, Theodoor Henri Smit

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18143 PubMed 39807157

January 23, 2025

Re-evaluation of mastodon material from Oregon and Washington, USA, Alberta, Canada, and Hidalgo and Jalisco, Mexico

Alton C. Dooley, Chris Widga, Brittney E. Stoneburg, Christopher Jass, Victor M. Bravo-Cuevas, Andrew Boehm, Eric Scott, Andrew T. McDonald, Mark Volmut

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18848 PubMed 39866561

January 3, 2025

The non-indigenous dung beetle (Onthophagus nuchicornis) can effectively reproduce using the dung of indigenous eastern North American mammals

Alexe Indigo, Katelyn Stokes, Olivia Burchell, Paul Manning

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18674 PubMed 39763702

January 16, 2025

Temporal drivers of abundance and community structure of scyphozoan jellyfish in tropical coastal waters

Wan Mohd Syazwan, Amy Yee-Hui Then, Ving Ching Chong, Mohammed Rizman-Idid

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18483 PubMed 39830958

January 14, 2025

Do goats recognise humans cross-modally?

Marianne A. Mason, Stuart Semple, Harry H. Marshall, Alan G. McElligott

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18786 PubMed 39830959

January 31, 2025

Three new species of the spider genus Naphrys Edwards (Araneae, Salticidae) under morphology and molecular data with notes in the distribution of Naphrys acerba (Peckham & Peckham) from Mexico

Juan Maldonado-Carrizales, Alejandro Valdez-Mondragón, María L. Jiménez-Jiménez, Javier Ponce-Saavedra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18775 PubMed 39902320

January 17, 2025

Deep cryptic diversity in the Craugastor podiciferus Species Group (Anura: Craugastoridae) of Isthmian Central America revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear data

Erick Arias, Andrew J. Crawford, Andreas Hertz, Gabriela Parra Olea

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18212 PubMed 39834790

January 6, 2025

Contact zone of slow worms Anguis fragilis Linnaeus, 1758 and Anguis colchica (Nordmann, 1840) in Poland

Grzegorz Skórzewski, Bartosz Borczyk, Stanisław Bury, Daniel Kulik, Jan Kotusz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18563 PubMed 39790455

January 30, 2025

A new species of parrot snake, Leptophis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Brazilian Cerrado

Nelson R. Albuquerque, Roullien H. Martins, Priscila S. Carvalho, Donald B. Shepard, Diego J. Santana

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18528 PubMed 39897499

January 2, 2025

Mapping species of greatest conservation need and solar energy potential in the arid Southwest for future sustainable development

Kylee Fleckenstein, Adam Stein, Heather L. Bateman, Fabio De Albuquerque

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18568 PubMed 39763700

January 17, 2025

Body size prediction in scorpions: a phylogenetic comparative examination of linear measurements of individual body parts

Stênio Í. A. Foerster

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18621 PubMed 39834793

January 7, 2025

Reproductive strategies in loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta: polyandry and polygyny in a Southwest Atlantic rookery

Laís Amorim, Lara Chieza, Jake A. Lasala, Sarah de Souza Alves Teodoro, Wesley D. Colombo, Ana Carolina Barcelos, Paula Rodrigues Lopes Guimarães, João Luiz Guedes da Fonseca, Ana Claudia Jorge Marcondes, Alexsandro Santos, Sarah Vargas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18714 PubMed 39802182

January 14, 2025

Demography and homing behavior in the poorly-known Philippine flat-headed frog Barbourula busuangensis (Anura: Bombinatoridae)

Marta Miñarro, Patricia Burrowes, Claudia Lansac, Gregorio Sánchez-Montes, Leticia E. Afuang, Ignacio De la Riva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18694 PubMed 39830956

January 2, 2025

How many reptile and amphibian species are in Uganda, and why it matters for global biodiversity conservation

Daniel F. Hughes, Mathias Behangana

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18704 PubMed 39763708

January 8, 2025

Genetic analysis of Pinna rudis L 1758 (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pinnidae) in the Northwest Cabo Verde Islands (Central-East Atlantic)

Evandro P. Lopes, Sarah Santos, Raquel Xavier, Joana L. Santos, M. Pilar Cabezas, Fernando Sequeira, António M. Santos