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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

A critical survey of vestigial structures in the postcranial skeletons of extant mammals

Phil Senter, John G. Moch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1439 PubMed 26623192

November 26, 2015

Learning from a provisioning site: code of conduct compliance and behaviour of whale sharks in Oslob, Cebu, Philippines

Anna Schleimer, Gonzalo Araujo, Luke Penketh, Anna Heath, Emer McCoy, Jessica Labaja, Anna Lucey, Alessandro Ponzo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1452 PubMed 26644984

November 5, 2015

Variation in species diversity and functional traits of sponge communities near human populations in Bocas del Toro, Panama

Cole G. Easson, Kenan O. Matterson, Christopher J. Freeman, Stephanie K. Archer, Robert W. Thacker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1385 PubMed 26587347

November 24, 2015

A tide prediction and tide height control system for laboratory mesocosms

Luke P. Miller, Jeremy D. Long

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1442 PubMed 26623195

November 17, 2015

Ecological drivers and habitat associations of estuarine bivalves

C. Seabird McKeon, Björn G. Tunberg, Cora A. Johnston, Daniel J. Barshis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1348 PubMed 26587338

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 3, 2015

Baseline coral disease surveys within three marine parks in Sabah, Borneo

Jennifer Miller, Michael J. Sweet, Elizabeth Wood, John Bythell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1391 PubMed 26732905

November 3, 2015

Development and application of molecular biomarkers for characterizing Caribbean Yellow Band Disease in Orbicella faveolata

Michael Morgan, Kylia Goodner, James Ross, Angela Z. Poole, Elizabeth Stepp, Christopher H. Stuart, Cydney Wilbanks, Ernesto Weil

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1371 PubMed 26557440

November 24, 2015

Dynamics in benthic community composition and influencing factors in an upwelling-exposed coral reef on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica

Ines Stuhldreier, Celeste Sánchez-Noguera, Florian Roth, Carlos Jiménez, Tim Rixen, Jorge Cortés, Christian Wild