February 2017

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How boxer crabs acquire their anemones

Lybia leptochelis

January 31, 2017

How boxer crabs acquire their anemones

Researchers observed that Lybia boxer crabs engage in fights where they steal sea anemones from one another, after which each crab splits their sea anemone into two identical clones.

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February 28, 2017
Facilitating permeability of landscapes impacted by roads for protected amphibians: patterns of movement for the great crested newt
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2922 PubMed 28265490
February 28, 2017
An extremely sensitive nested PCR-RFLP mitochondrial marker for detection and identification of salmonids in eDNA from water samples
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3045 PubMed 28265514
February 7, 2017
Evolutionary and functional implications of hypervariable loci within the skin virome
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2959 PubMed 28194314
February 28, 2017
Genomic analysis of ST88 community-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Ghana
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3047 PubMed 28265515
February 21, 2017
Counting complete? Finalising the plant inventory of a global biodiversity hotspot
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2984 PubMed 28243528
February 8, 2017
Screening of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) accessions to acidity and aluminium stresses
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2963 PubMed 28194315
February 14, 2017
Spawning aggregation of white-streaked grouper Epinephelus ongus: spatial distribution and annual variation in the fish density within a spawning ground
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3000 PubMed 28229026
February 2, 2017
Medial knee joint contact force in the intact limb during walking in recently ambulatory service members with unilateral limb loss: a cross-sectional study
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2960 PubMed 28168120
February 22, 2017
Using visuo-kinetic virtual reality to induce illusory spinal movement: the MoOVi Illusion
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3023 PubMed 28243537
February 28, 2017
Immediate effects of EVA midsole resilience and upper shoe structure on running biomechanics: a machine learning approach
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3026 PubMed 28265506
February 2, 2017
Are sawfishes still present in Mozambique? A baseline ecological study
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2950 PubMed 28168114
February 1, 2017
Successive DNA extractions improve characterization of soil microbial communities
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2915 PubMed 28168105
February 2, 2017
Effects of rhodomyrtone on Gram-positive bacterial tubulin homologue FtsZ
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2962 PubMed 28168121
February 16, 2017
High richness of insect herbivory from the early Miocene Hindon Maar crater, Otago, New Zealand
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2985 PubMed 28224051
February 1, 2017
Epidermal cell death in frogs with chytridiomycosis
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2925 PubMed 28168107
February 8, 2017
Trace elements during primordial plexiform network formation in human cerebral organoids
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2927 PubMed 28194309
February 16, 2017
Variant profiling of evolving prokaryotic populations
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2997 PubMed 28224054
February 21, 2017
Intersexual differences of heat shock response between two amphipods (Eulimnogammarus verrucosus and Eulimnogammarus cyaneus) in Lake Baikal
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2864 PubMed 28243524
February 23, 2017
Development and validation of a 36-gene sequencing assay for hereditary cancer risk assessment
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3046 PubMed 28243543
February 23, 2017
Genetic diversity and differentiation in reef-building Millepora species, as revealed by cross-species amplification of fifteen novel microsatellite loci
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2936 PubMed 28243525
February 28, 2017
Predatory blue crabs induce stronger nonconsumptive effects in eastern oysters Crassostrea virginica than scavenging blue crabs
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3042 PubMed 28265512
February 16, 2017
Understanding morphological variability in a taxonomic context in Chilean diplomystids (Teleostei: Siluriformes), including the description of a new species
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2991 PubMed 28224053
February 14, 2017
An open source device for operant licking in rats
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2981 PubMed 28229020
February 21, 2017
A detailed observation of the ejection and retraction of defense tissue acontia in sea anemone (Exaiptasia pallida)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2996 PubMed 28243530
February 2, 2017
Do syntopic host species harbour similar symbiotic communities? The case of Chaetopterus spp. (Annelida: Chaetopteridae)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2930 PubMed 28168108
How boxer crabs acquire their anemones

Lybia leptochelis

January 31, 2017

How boxer crabs acquire their anemones

Researchers observed that Lybia boxer crabs engage in fights where they steal sea anemones from one another, after which each crab splits their sea anemone into two identical clones.

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