Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

May 17, 2017

Metabarcoding monitoring analysis: the pros and cons of using co-extracted environmental DNA and RNA data to assess offshore oil production impacts on benthic communities

Olivier Laroche, Susanna A. Wood, Louis A. Tremblay, Gavin Lear, Joanne I. Ellis, Xavier Pochon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3347 PubMed 28533985

May 31, 2017

Alien vs. predator: bacterial challenge alters coral microbiomes unless controlled by Halobacteriovorax predators

Rory M. Welsh, Stephanie M. Rosales, Jesse R. Zaneveld, Jérôme P. Payet, Ryan McMinds, Steven L. Hubbs, Rebecca L. Vega Thurber

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3315 PubMed 28584701

May 17, 2017

Microbiome patterns across the gastrointestinal tract of the rabbitfish Siganus fuscescens

Shaun Nielsen, Jackson Wilkes Walburn, Adriana Vergés, Torsten Thomas, Suhelen Egan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3317 PubMed 28533966

May 31, 2017

Largest baleen whale mass mortality during strong El Niño event is likely related to harmful toxic algal bloom

Verena Häussermann, Carolina S. Gutstein, Michael Bedington, David Cassis, Carlos Olavarria, Andrew C. Dale, Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro, Maria Jose Perez-Alvarez, Hector H. Sepúlveda, Kaitlin M. McConnell, Fanny E. Horwitz, Günter Försterra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3123 PubMed 30038848

May 23, 2017

Storm effects on intertidal invertebrates: increased beta diversity of few individuals and species

Guilherme N. Corte, Thomas A. Schlacher, Helio H. Checon, Carlos A.M. Barboza, Eduardo Siegle, Ross A. Coleman, Antonia Cecília Z. Amaral

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3360 PubMed 28560108

May 4, 2017

Oceanic adults, coastal juveniles: tracking the habitat use of whale sharks off the Pacific coast of Mexico

Dení Ramírez-Macías, Nuno Queiroz, Simon J. Pierce, Nicolas E. Humphries, David W. Sims, Juerg M. Brunnschweiler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3271 PubMed 28484673

May 30, 2017

Patterns of bleaching and mortality following widespread warming events in 2014 and 2015 at the Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve, Hawai‘i

Ku‘ulei S. Rodgers, Keisha D. Bahr, Paul L. Jokiel, Angela Richards Donà

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3355 PubMed 28584703

May 25, 2017

Invasive lionfish had no measurable effect on prey fish community structure across the Belizean Barrier Reef

Serena Hackerott, Abel Valdivia, Courtney E. Cox, Nyssa J. Silbiger, John F. Bruno

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3270 PubMed 28560093

May 16, 2017

Quantifying climate change impacts emphasises the importance of managing regional threats in the endangered Yellow-eyed penguin

Thomas Mattern, Stefan Meyer, Ursula Ellenberg, David M. Houston, John T. Darby, Melanie Young, Yolanda van Heezik, Philip J. Seddon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3272 PubMed 28533952

May 16, 2017

Worldwide exploration of the microbiome harbored by the cnidarian model, Exaiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864) indicates a lack of bacterial association specificity at a lower taxonomic rank

Tanya Brown, Christopher Otero, Alejandro Grajales, Estefania Rodriguez, Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3235 PubMed 28533949

May 31, 2017

Selection of housekeeping genes as internal controls for quantitative RT-PCR analysis of the veined rapa whelk (Rapana venosa)

Hao Song, Xin Dang, Yuan-qiu He, Tao Zhang, Hai-yan Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3398 PubMed 28584723

May 25, 2017

A molecular phylogeny of the spiny lobster Panulirus homarus highlights a separately evolving lineage from the Southwest Indian Ocean

Sohana P. Singh, Johan C. Groeneveld, Abdulaziz Al-Marzouqi, Sandi Willows-Munro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3356 PubMed 28560106

May 23, 2017

Effectiveness of coral relocation as a mitigation strategy in Kāne‘ohe Bay, Hawai‘i

Ku’ulei S. Rodgers, Koi Lorance, Angela Richards Donà, Yuko Stender, Claire Lager, Paul L. Jokiel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3346 PubMed 28560102

May 25, 2017

The role of kelp crabs as consumers in bull kelp forests—evidence from laboratory feeding trials and field enclosures

Katie Dobkowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3372 PubMed 28560113

May 10, 2017

Sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) survival, oil spills, shrimp fisheries, and hurricanes

Ryan M. Huang, Oron L. Bass Jr, Stuart L. Pimm

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3287 PubMed 28503374

May 2, 2017

Porites superfusa mortality and recovery from a bleaching event at Palmyra Atoll, USA

Kathryn Anne Furby, Jennifer Ellen Smith, Stuart Adrian Sandin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3204 PubMed 28480135

May 10, 2017

A survey of fishes associated with Hawaiian deep-water Halimeda kanaloana (Bryopsidales: Halimedaceae) and Avrainvillea sp. (Bryopsidales: Udoteaceae) meadows

Ross C. Langston, Heather L. Spalding

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3307 PubMed 28503381

May 11, 2017

The density and biomass of mesozooplankton and ichthyoplankton in the Negro and the Amazon Rivers during the rainy season: the ecological importance of the confluence boundary

Ryota Nakajima, Elvis V. Rimachi, Edinaldo N. Santos-Silva, Laura S.F. Calixto, Rosseval G. Leite, Adi Khen, Tetsuo Yamane, Anthony I. Mazeroll, Jomber C. Inuma, Erika Y.K. Utumi, Akira Tanaka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3308 PubMed 28507821

May 17, 2017

Among-site variability in the stochastic dynamics of East African coral reefs

Katherine A. Allen, John F. Bruno, Fiona Chong, Damian Clancy, Tim R. McClanahan, Matthew Spencer, Kamila Żychaluk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3290 PubMed 28533955

May 11, 2017

Estimating the effect of burrowing shrimp on deep-sea sediment community oxygen consumption

Daniel Leduc, Conrad A. Pilditch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3309 PubMed 28507822

May 18, 2017

Divergent evolutionary histories of DNA markers in a Hawaiian population of the coral Montipora capitata

Hollie M. Putnam, Diane K. Adams, Ehud Zelzion, Nicole E. Wagner, Huan Qiu, Tali Mass, Paul G. Falkowski, Ruth D. Gates, Debashish Bhattacharya