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
13 citations
793 downloads
3,961 views
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animal-behavior
biosphere-interactions
conservation-biology
ecology
mathematical-biology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2922 PubMed 28265490
February 22, 2017
Making inference from wildlife collision data: inferring predator absence from prey strikes
2 citations
283 downloads
2,029 views
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conservation-biology
ecology
mathematical-biology
statistics
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3014 PubMed 28243534
February 21, 2017
How patch size and refuge availability change interaction strength and population dynamics: a combined individual- and population-based modeling experiment
8 citations
394 downloads
1,680 views
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ecology
mathematical-biology
zoology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2993 PubMed 28243529
February 15, 2017
Risk analysis of colorectal cancer incidence by gene expression analysis
12 citations
637 downloads
2,543 views
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bioinformatics
mathematical-biology
molecular-biology
oncology
statistics
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3003 PubMed 28229027
February 9, 2017
Phylogenetic factorization of compositional data yields lineage-level associations in microbiome datasets
34 citations
1,074 downloads
5,518 views
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computational-biology
ecology
mathematical-biology
microbiology
statistics
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2969 PubMed 28289558
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.

- read article

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