Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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 3, 2015

Alpine endemic spiders shed light on the origin and evolution of subterranean species

Stefano Mammola, Marco Isaia, Miquel A. Arnedo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1384 PubMed 26734503

November 30, 2015

Variation in the flowering time orthologs BrFLC and BrSOC1 in a natural population of Brassica rapa

Steven J. Franks, Beatriz Perez-Sweeney, Maya Strahl, Anna Nowogrodzki, Jennifer J. Weber, Rebecca Lalchan, Kevin P. Jordan, Amy Litt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1339 PubMed 26644966

November 26, 2015

Adaptive divergence in resistance to herbivores in Datura stramonium

Guillermo Castillo, Pedro L. Valverde, Laura L. Cruz, Johnattan Hernández-Cumplido, Guadalupe Andraca-Gómez, Juan Fornoni, Edson Sandoval-Castellanos, Erika Olmedo-Vicente, César M. Flores-Ortiz, Juan Núñez-Farfán

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1411 PubMed 26644970

November 19, 2015

Variation in partner benefits in a shrimp—sea anemone symbiosis

C. Seabird McKeon, James L. O’Donnell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1409 PubMed 26618082