Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

September 30, 2025

Metagenomes and metagenome-assembled genomes from tidal lagoons at a New York City waterfront park

Sally Kong, Eliana Abrams, Yehuda Binik, Christina Cappelli, Mathew Chu, Taiyo Cornett, Isayah Culbertson, Epifania Garcia, Jada Henry, Kristy Lam, D.B. Lampman, Grace Morenko, Illusion Rivera, Tanasia Swift, Isabella Torres, Rayven Velez, Elliot Waxman, Serena Wessely, Anthony Yuen, Casey K. Lardner, J.L. Weissman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20081 PubMed 41048389

September 30, 2025

Unlocking the genomic potential of historical and formalin-fixed specimens: phylogenetic insights from museum-preserved threadfin fishes (Teleostei: Polynemidae)

Matthew G. Girard, Kevin R. Chovanec

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20029

September 25, 2025

Geographic distributions and patterns of co-occurrence among black-bellied and shovel-nosed salamanders (Desmognathus spp.) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Aidan Shaw, Rebecca Chastain, Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20110 PubMed 41025047

September 25, 2025

Elevational surveys of Sulawesi herpetofauna 2: Mount Katopasa on the Eastern Peninsula of Sulawesi island, Indonesia

Isaac W. Krone, Benjamin R. Karin, Jeffrey H. Frederick, Sina S. Amini, Simon G. Scarpetta, Amir Hamidy, Syahfitri Anita, Awal Riyanto, Evy Arida, Wahyu Tri Laksono, Umilaela Arifin, Bryan H. Bach, Collin Bos, Charlotte K. Jennings, Alexander L. Stubbs, Kinsington Peterson, Sucheng Shi, Jimmy A. McGuire

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20024 PubMed 41025049

September 23, 2025

On the composition and temporal dynamics of a snake community at the Cerrado-Amazonia ecotone

Arthur Sena, Guarino Rinaldi Colli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20025 PubMed 41018902

September 22, 2025

Distribution and evolution of the western European water frogs (genus Pelophylax) from Catalonia, northeastern Spain

Bernat Burriel-Carranza, Carolina Molina-Duran, Karin Tamar, Laia Pérez-Sorribes, Jhulyana López-Caro, Mar Cirac, Daniel Fernandez-Guiberteau, Salvador Carranza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19895 PubMed 41018896

September 19, 2025

Microbial communities inhabiting the surface and gleba of white (Tuber magnatum) and black (Tuber macrosporum) truffles from Russia

Ekaterina V. Malygina, Nadezhda A. Potapova, Natalia A. Imidoeva, Tatiana N. Vavilina, Alexander Yu Belyshenko, Maria M. Morgunova, Maria E. Dmitrieva, Victoria N. Shelkovnikova, Anfisa A. Vlasova, Olga E. Lipatova, Vladimir M. Zhilenkov, Anna A. Batalova, Elina E. Stoyanova, Denis V. Axenov-Gribanov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20037 PubMed 40989903

September 16, 2025

Digitized endocasts and brains: a perspective on measurements and historical analyses of the evolution of 172 fossil and extant amniote specimens

Harry J. Jerison, Catherine M. Early, Andrew A. Farke, Ashley C. Morhardt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19826 PubMed 40980061

September 15, 2025

Global species richness of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata): latitudinal trends and insular colonization

Adolfo Cordero-Rivera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20004 PubMed 40980072

September 5, 2025

Species variability of Pinus elliottii, P. elliottii×P. caribaea, and P. massoniana in response to pinewood nematode infection

Ming Zeng, Xiaoliang Che, Zhe Wang, Yang Liu, Leping Deng, Yehuang Guo, Ting Huang, Wenbing Guo