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
Neogene paleogeography provides context for understanding the origin and spatial distribution of cryptic diversity in a widespread Balkan freshwater amphipod
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3016 PubMed 28265503
February 23, 2017
Tartrazine induces structural and functional aberrations and genotoxic effects in vivo
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3041 PubMed 28243541
February 21, 2017
Seven new species of Night Frogs (Anura, Nyctibatrachidae) from the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot of India, with remarkably high diversity of diminutive forms
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3007 PubMed 28243532
February 28, 2017
Construction patterns of birds’ nests provide insight into nest-building behaviours
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3010 PubMed 28265501
February 7, 2017
Off the scale: a new species of fish-scale gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Geckolepis) with exceptionally large scales
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2955 PubMed 28194313
February 21, 2017
On Prophoca and Leptophoca (Pinnipedia, Phocidae) from the Miocene of the North Atlantic realm: redescription, phylogenetic affinities and paleobiogeographic implications
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3024 PubMed 28243538
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
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
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 22, 2017
Gait changes in a line of mice artificially selected for longer limbs
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3008 PubMed 28243533
February 16, 2017
Exoskeletons of Bougainvilliidae and other Hydroidolina (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa): structure and composition
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2964 PubMed 28224050
February 21, 2017
Molecular and morphological data reveal three new cryptic species of Chiasmocleis (Mehely 1904) (Anura, Microhylidae) endemic to the Atlantic Forest, Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3005 PubMed 28243531
February 21, 2017
How patch size and refuge availability change interaction strength and population dynamics: a combined individual- and population-based modeling experiment
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2993 PubMed 28243529
February 7, 2017
Large-scale gene flow in the barnacle Jehlius cirratus and contrasts with other broadly-distributed taxa along the Chilean coast
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2971 PubMed 28194316
February 2, 2017
A new glimpse on Mesozoic zooplankton—150 million-year-old lobster larvae
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2966 PubMed 28168123
February 28, 2017
Evidence for high inter-generational individual quality in yellow-eyed penguins
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2935 PubMed 28265492
February 15, 2017
Small-scale spatial variation in population- and individual-level reproductive parameters of the blue-legged hermit crab Clibanarius tricolor
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3004 PubMed 28229028
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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