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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 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 7, 2017
Vascular plant biodiversity of the lower Coppermine River valley and vicinity (Nunavut, Canada): an annotated checklist of an Arctic flora
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2835 PubMed 28194307
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 9, 2017
Phylogenetic factorization of compositional data yields lineage-level associations in microbiome datasets
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2969 PubMed 28289558
February 2, 2017
Geography shapes the phylogeny of frailejones (Espeletiinae Cuatrec., Asteraceae): a remarkable example of recent rapid radiation in sky islands
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2968 PubMed 28168124
February 16, 2017
Compacting and correcting Trinity and Oases RNA-Seq de novo assemblies
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2988 PubMed 28224052
February 28, 2017
Spatial distribution of environmental DNA in a nearshore marine habitat
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3044 PubMed 28265513
February 14, 2017
­Genomic data mining of the marine actinobacteria Streptomyces sp. H-KF8 unveils insights into multi-stress related genes and metabolic pathways involved in antimicrobial synthesis
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2912 PubMed 28229018
February 28, 2017
How conserved are the conserved 16S-rRNA regions?
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3036 PubMed 28265511
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 15, 2017
Opportunities drive the global distribution of protected areas
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2989 PubMed 28229022
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 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 2, 2017
Demographic, ecological, and physiological responses of ringed seals to an abrupt decline in sea ice availability
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2957 PubMed 28168119
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 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
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 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 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 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 23, 2017
Eotaria citrica, sp. nov., a new stem otariid from the “Topanga” formation of Southern California
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3022 PubMed 28243536
February 14, 2017
Modafinil decreases anxiety-like behaviour in zebrafish
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2994 PubMed 28229024
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
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 15, 2017
Risk analysis of colorectal cancer incidence by gene expression analysis
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3003 PubMed 28229027
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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