Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

October 31, 2025

Schizoperavietnamica sp. nov. (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Miraciidae), a new species from a mangrove zone in Vietnam, with description of a new species, and a key to the species from the Oriental region, Sulawesi, and East Asia

Ngoc-Son Tran, Thi-Phuong Pham, Minh Anh Dam, Chaichat Boonyanusith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20246

October 30, 2025

Size and body condition drive the energetic cost of a baleen whale foraging in shallow habitat

Clara N. Bird, Enrico Pirotta, Leslie New, Jamie M. Cornelius, James L. Sumich, Kate M. Colson, K.C. Bierlich, Lisa Hildebrand, Alejandro Apolo Fernández Ajó, Annie Doron, Leigh G. Torres

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20247

October 28, 2025

Application of intestinal microbiota in marine fish for assessing the toxicity of typical pollutants: a literature review

Yunzhi Feng, Haolong Xu, Guohua Xu, Dong Sun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20248 PubMed 41180478

October 28, 2025

Power analyses to inform clutch sampling design to determine the breeding sex ratio in populations with multiple paternity

Vic Quennessen, Mariana M.B.P. Fuentes, Lisa Komoroske, J. Wilson White

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20165 PubMed 41180495

October 24, 2025

Changes in mercury content in oysters in relation to sediment and seston content in the Colombian Caribbean lagoons

Anubis Vélez-Mendoza, Jeimmy Paola Rico-Mora, Néstor Hernando Campos-Campos, Margui Lorena Almario-García, Adolfo Sanjuan-Muñoz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19868 PubMed 41158998

October 22, 2025

Influence of temperature on developmental and biochemical traits of the red squat lobster Grimothea monodon (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) during early ontogeny

Marco Quispe-Machaca, Luis Olavarría, Gabriela Torres, Ángel Urzúa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20278 PubMed 41142307

October 21, 2025

Impacts of tropical cyclones on Northwest Atlantic seabirds: insights from a Category 1 hurricane

Tori V. Burt, Robert J. Blackmore, Sydney M. Collins, Kyle J. N. d’Entremont, Christopher R. E. Ward, Joshua Cunningham, Cerren Richards, Fiona Le Taro, Sabina I. Wilhelm, Amanda E. Bates, Stephanie Avery-Gomm, William A. Montevecchi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20157 PubMed 41142300

October 20, 2025

Effects of low-level electric current on the growth of Amphistegina lobifera and its photosynthetic diatom endosymbionts

Federica Rebecchi, Davide Lattanzi, Sigal Abramovich, Patrizia Ambrogini, Fabrizio Frontalini, Christiane Schmidt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20160 PubMed 41142305

October 17, 2025

Remarkable dominance of myctophid otoliths in Upper Miocene Chagres Formation, Caribbean Panama

Chien-Hsiang Lin, Aaron O’Dea

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20155 PubMed 41122236

October 14, 2025

Metabarcoding analysis reveals hidden eukaryotic plankton biodiversity in the Ross Sea, Antarctica