Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

May 28, 2025

A hundred species, mostly new—first assessment of ribbon worm diversity and distribution in Oman

Svetlana Maslakova, Irina Cherneva, Ethan Kahn, Audrey Wong, Gustav Paulay

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19438 PubMed 40452930

May 13, 2025

Susceptibility and resistance profiles of field and laboratory strains of Trogoderma granarium Everts to pirimiphos-methyl, alpha-cypermethrin and spinetoram

Muhammad Bukhari, Hafiz Azhar Ali Khan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19423 PubMed 40386236

May 5, 2025

Oral history as a citizen science tool to understand biodiversity loss and environmental changes: on firefly extirpation in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

Danna Betsabe Rivera Ramírez, Cisteil X. Pérez-Hernández, Yaayé Arellanes-Cancino, Luis Mendoza-Cuenca

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19413 PubMed 40343085

May 29, 2025

Volatile organic compounds from entomopathogenic and nematophagous fungi repel banana weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus) under banana field conditions

Ana Lozano-Soria, Ana Piedra-Buena Diaz, Federico Lopez-Moya, Miguel Valverde-Urrea, Jose J. Zubcoff, Jose Emilio Martinez-Perez, Javier Lopez-Cepero, Luis V. Lopez-Llorca

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19414 PubMed 40452941

May 28, 2025

An ethogram of facial behaviour in domestic horses: evolutionary perspectives on form and function

Kate Lewis, Sebastian D. McBride, Jérôme Micheletta, Matthew O. Parker, Alan V. Rincon, Jen Wathan, Leanne Proops

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19309

May 27, 2025

Xenobiotic resistance in mosquito eggs: current understanding and data gaps

Uday Turaga, Steven T. Peper, Carlos J. Garcia, Steven M. Presley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19523 PubMed 40452935

May 27, 2025

Comparative analysis of fecal microbiota of central and eastern black-necked cranes (Grus nigricollis) wintering in Yunnan Province, China

Ruimei Wang, Yixuan Wang, Lulu Deng, Binghui Wang, Mingfei Shi, Zeya Yang, Dong Hu, Zijiao Zhao, Ruiling Yuan, Jiuxuan Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19520 PubMed 40452926

May 27, 2025

Diet and prey selectivity in co-occurring eelpout fish and bythograeid crabs in a deep-sea hydrothermal vent community

Deidric B. Davis, Nancy Smith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19476 PubMed 40452940

May 23, 2025

Phylogeographic analysis of long-legged bats, Macrophyllum macrophyllum, with notes on roosting behavior and natural history

Guilherme S.T. Garbino, Thiago Borges Fernandes Semedo, Juliane Saldanha, Daniela Cristina Ferreira, Rogerio Vieira Rossi, Maria Nazareth Ferreira da Silva, Burton K. Lim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19432 PubMed 40421367

May 22, 2025

Description of a novel Ligia species from Nihoa, a remote island in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument

Carlos A. Santamaria, Annabelle Bork, Alexandra J. Larson, Daniel J. Link

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19373 PubMed 40416627

May 9, 2025

In vitro feasibility of bovine and canine whole blood and commercially prepared canine packed red blood cells as a source of xenotransfusion in swine (Sus scrofa domestica)

Victoria Diaz, Deanna M. W. Schaefer, Pierre-Yves Mulon, Xiaojuan Zhu, Joe Smith, Luca Giori, Chiara Hampton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19436 PubMed 40356671

May 9, 2025

Close neighbors, not intruders: investigating the role of tank bromeliads in shaping faunal microbiomes

Rodolfo Martínez-Mota, Antonio Acini Vásquez-Aguilar, Dolores Hernández-Rodríguez, Emilio A. Suárez-Domínguez, Thorsten Krömer