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February 2017

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

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 2, 2017

Geography shapes the phylogeny of frailejones (Espeletiinae Cuatrec., Asteraceae): a remarkable example of recent rapid radiation in sky islands

Mauricio Diazgranados, Janet C. Barber

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2968 PubMed 28168124

February 21, 2017

Counting complete? Finalising the plant inventory of a global biodiversity hotspot

Martina Treurnicht, Jonathan F. Colville, Lucas N. Joppa, Onno Huyser, John Manning

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

Kiflemariam Y. Belachew, Frederick L. Stoddard

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2963 PubMed 28194315

February 16, 2017

High richness of insect herbivory from the early Miocene Hindon Maar crater, Otago, New Zealand

Anna Lena Möller, Uwe Kaulfuss, Daphne E. Lee, Torsten Wappler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2985 PubMed 28224051

February 8, 2017

Cropping system diversification for food production in Mindanao rubber plantations: a rice cultivar mixture and rice intercropped with mungbean

Rosa Fe Hondrade, Edwin Hondrade, Lianqing Zheng, Francisco Elazegui, Jo-Anne Lynne Joy E. Duque, Christopher C. Mundt, Casiana M. Vera Cruz, Karen A. Garrett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2975 PubMed 28194318

February 9, 2017

Molecular characterization and genetic diversity of Jatropha curcas L. in Costa Rica

Marcela Vásquez-Mayorga, Eric J. Fuchs, Eduardo J. Hernández, Franklin Herrera, Jesús Hernández, Ileana Moreira, Elizabeth Arnáez, Natalia M. Barboza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2931 PubMed 28289556

February 7, 2017

Vascular plant biodiversity of the lower Coppermine River valley and vicinity (Nunavut, Canada): an annotated checklist of an Arctic flora

Jeffery M. Saarela, Paul C. Sokoloff, Roger D. Bull

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2835 PubMed 28194307

February 28, 2017

Limited effects of source population identity and number on seagrass transplant performance

Alyssa B. Novak, Holly K. Plaisted, Cynthia G. Hays, Randall A. Hughes