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February 2018

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Relationships between coral planar area, surface area and volume

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February 6, 2018

Relationships between coral planar area, surface area and volume

This study explores the relationship between 2D and 3D metrics of coral size. Researchers used a photogrammetric approach, with open-source software, to estimate the ability of photogrammetry to provide measurement estimates of corals in 3D

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February 14, 2018

The axial skeleton of Poposaurus langstoni (Pseudosuchia: Poposauroidea) and its implications for accessory intervertebral articulation evolution in pseudosuchian archosaurs

Candice M. Stefanic, Sterling J. Nesbitt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4235 PubMed 29472991

February 27, 2018

Psychrophrynella glauca sp. n., a new species of terrestrial-breeding frogs (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae) from the montane forests of the Amazonian Andes of Puno, Peru

Alessandro Catenazzi, Alex Ttito

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4444 PubMed 29507835

February 14, 2018

Benthic grazing in a eutrophic river: cascading effects of zoobenthivorous fish mask direct effects of herbivorous fish

Madlen Gerke, Daniel Cob Chaves, Marc Richter, Daniela Mewes, Jörg Schneider, Dirk Hübner, Carola Winkelmann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4381 PubMed 29473006

February 26, 2018

Pharmacokinetics and safety of oral glyburide in dogs with acute spinal cord injury

Nick Jeffery, C. Elizabeth Boudreau, Megan Konarik, Travis Mays, Virginia Fajt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4387 PubMed 29503767

February 14, 2018

Codominant grasses differ in gene expression under experimental climate extremes in native tallgrass prairie

Ava M. Hoffman, Meghan L. Avolio, Alan K. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4394 PubMed 29473008

February 15, 2018

Metagenomic analysis of orange colored protrusions from the muscle of Queen Conch Lobatus gigas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Jaison H. Cuartas, Juan F. Alzate, Claudia X. Moreno-Herrera, Edna J. Marquez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4307 PubMed 29472996

February 27, 2018

Seasonal variation in the abundance and distribution of Anomalocardia flexuosa (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Veneridae) in an estuarine intertidal plain

Jacqueline S. Silva-Cavalcanti, Monica F. Costa, Luis H.B. Alves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4332 PubMed 29507822

February 5, 2018

Sea cucumbers reduce chromophoric dissolved organic matter in aquaculture tanks

Seyed Mohammad Sadeghi-Nassaj, Teresa S. Catalá, Pedro A. Álvarez, Isabel Reche

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4344 PubMed 29423348

February 9, 2018

Comparison of complex networks and tree-based methods of phylogenetic analysis and proposal of a bootstrap method

Aristóteles Góes-Neto, Marcelo V.C. Diniz, Daniel S. Carvalho, Gilberto C. Bomfim, Angelo A. Duarte, Jerzy A. Brzozowski, Thierry C. Petit Lobão, Suani T.R. Pinho, Charbel N. El-Hani, Roberto F.S. Andrade

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4349 PubMed 29441237

February 7, 2018

Bioreactor virome metagenomics sequencing using DNA spike-ins

Geert Cremers, Lavinia Gambelli, Theo van Alen, Laura van Niftrik, Huub J.M. Op den Camp

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4351 PubMed 29441238

February 7, 2018

Calpain activation and disturbance of autophagy are induced in cortical neurons in vitro by exposure to HA/β-Ga₂O₃:Cr³⁺ nanoparticles

Yu Lei, Chengkun Wang, Quan Jiang, Xiaoyi Sun, Yongzhong Du, Yaofeng Zhu, Yingmei Lu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4365 PubMed 29441243

February 14, 2018

Ontogeny of long-range vocalizations in a Neotropical fossorial rodent: the Anillaco Tuco-Tuco (Ctenomys sp.)

Juan Pablo Amaya, Juan Ignacio Areta