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November 2015

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Kingman reef

November 10, 2015

Can we measure beauty?

Researchers have shown that an objective computational analysis of photographic images can be used to assess the health of a coral reef. The results have even wider posible application. The authors have also created a website using the techniques developed in this article where you can upload your own image to and get an 'aesthetic' score back.

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November 24, 2015

Are neonicotinoid insecticides driving declines of widespread butterflies?

Andre S. Gilburn, Nils Bunnefeld, John McVean Wilson, Marc S. Botham, Tom M. Brereton, Richard Fox, Dave Goulson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1402 PubMed 26623186

November 3, 2015

Removal of concentrated sulfamethazine by acclimatized aerobic sludge and possible metabolic products

Na Yang, Junfeng Wan, Shiju Zhao, Yan Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1359 PubMed 26557437

November 19, 2015

Unbiased high-throughput characterization of mussel transcriptomic responses to sublethal concentrations of the biotoxin okadaic acid

Victoria Suarez-Ulloa, Juan Fernandez-Tajes, Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido, M. Veronica Prego-Faraldo, Fernanda Florez-Barros, Alexia Sexto-Iglesias, Josefina Mendez, Jose M. Eirin-Lopez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1429 PubMed 26618092

November 10, 2015

Chemotaxis and degradation of organophosphate compound by a novel moderately thermo-halo tolerant Pseudomonas sp. strain BUR11: evidence for possible existence of two pathways for degradation

Santanu Pailan, Pradipta Saha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1378 PubMed 26587344