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April 11, 2025

Assessing reliability and accuracy of qPCR, dPCR and ddPCR for estimating mitochondrial DNA copy number in songbird blood and sperm cells

Laima Bagdonaitė, Erica H. Leder, Jan T. Lifjeld, Arild Johnsen, Quentin Mauvisseau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19278 PubMed 40231068

April 18, 2025

Ex-situ avian sex skews: determinants and implications for conservation

Clancy A. Hall, Gabriel C. Conroy, Dominique A. Potvin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19312 PubMed 40260192

April 4, 2025

Fecal glucocorticoid metabolite and T3 profiles of orphaned elephants differ from non-orphaned elephants in Zambia

Daniella E. Chusyd, Janine L. Brown, Steve Paris, Nicole Boisseau, Webster Mwaanga, Moses Kasongo, Lisa Olivier, Stephanie L. Dickinson, Bailey Ortyl, Tessa Steiniche, Steven N. Austad, David B. Allison, Michael D. Wasserman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19122 PubMed 40196305

April 1, 2025

Comparative larval morphology of four Pteroptyx (Coleoptera, Lampyridae, Luciolinae) species in Thailand

Suparada Boonloi, Parichart Laksanawimol, Soraya Jaikla, Marc A. Branham, Anchana Thancharoen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19190 PubMed 40191752

April 11, 2025

An update on Aenocyon dirus in the interior of North America: new records, radiocarbon dates, ZooMS spectra, and isotopic data for an iconic late Pleistocene carnivore

Matthew G. Hill, Christopher C. Widga, Todd A. Surovell, Kurt M. Wilson, Sarah A. Allaun, McKenna L. Litynski, Jason Titcomb

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19219 PubMed 40231072

April 8, 2025

Comparative analyses of the gut microbiome of two sympatric rodent species, Myodes rufocanus and Apodemus peninsulae, in northeast China based on metagenome sequencing

Jing Cao, Shengze Wang, Ruobing Ding, Yijia Liu, Baodong Yuan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19260 PubMed 40226542

April 16, 2025

The tadpole of Chiasmocleis altomontana (Anura: Microhylidae)

Leandro B. C. Menezes, Marcos R. Severgnini, Tiago L. Pezzuti, Michel V. Garey, Diogo B. Provete

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19220 PubMed 40256735

April 4, 2025

First three new species of free-living marine nematodes of the Molgolaimus (Nematoda: Desmodoridae) from the continental shelf of the Brazilian coast (Atlantic Ocean)

Alex Manoel, Patrícia F. Neres, Andre M. Esteves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19156 PubMed 40196304

April 15, 2025

Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) potentially associated with residual feed intake in Qinchuan beef cattle by hypothalamus and duodenum RNA-Seq data

Zonghua Su, Chenglong Li, Chaoyun Yang, YanLing Ding, Xiaonan Zhou, Junjie Xu, Chang Qu, Yuangang Shi, Cong-Jun Li, Xiaolong Kang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19270 PubMed 40256725

April 14, 2025

Diversity and distribution of the caddisfly genus Atopsyche Banks, 1905 in Ecuador, with the description of seven new species (Trichoptera: Hydrobiosidae)

Ernesto Rázuri-Gonzales, Ralph Holzenthal, Blanca Ríos-Touma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18769 PubMed 40247834

April 24, 2025

A phylogeographic pattern of the trans-Palaearctic littoral water flea Pleuroхus truncatus (O.F. Müller, 1785) (Cladocera: Chydoridae)

Alexey A. Kotov, Petr G. Garibian, Anna N. Neretina, Dmitry P. Karabanov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19355 PubMed 40292101

April 28, 2025

Redescription of four Epiperipatus species with an update on the distribution of Epiperipatus acacioi (Marcus & Marcus, 1955)

Cristiano Sampaio Costa, Robson de Almeida Zampaulo, Santelmo Vasconcelos, Michele Molina, Igor Cizauskas, Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19168 PubMed 40313385

April 30, 2025

A study of repetitive sequences in the genome of Sinopodisma qinlingensis

Xiongyan Yin, Nan Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Lijia Gan, Yimeng Nie, Yuan Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19358 PubMed 40321811

April 30, 2025

Establishing isotopic turnover rates and trophic discrimination factors in tiger beetle (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) larvae through a diet switch experiment

Lesa S. Giesbrecht, Aaron J. Bell, Timothy D. Jardine, Sean M. Prager, Iain D. Phillips

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19279 PubMed 40321820

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