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October 2017

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Machine learning to analyze colon glands

Malignant colorectal cancer

October 3, 2017

Machine learning to analyze colon glands

Due to the large variability of biological tissue, machine learning techniques have shown superior performance over conventional image processing methods. Here, researchers present a deep neural network-based approach for segmentation and classification of glands in tissue of benign and malignant colorectal cancer.

October 24, 2017

A massive update of non-indigenous species records in Mediterranean marinas

44 citations

1,969 downloads

5,481 views

Aylin Ulman, Jasmine Ferrario, Anna Occhpinti-Ambrogi, Christos Arvanitidis, Ada Bandi, Marco Bertolino, Cesare Bogi, Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou, Burak Ali Çiçek, Alan Deidun, Alfonso Ramos-Esplá, Cengiz Koçak, Maurizio Lorenti, Gemma Martinez-Laiz, Guenda Merlo, Elisa Princisgh, Giovanni Scribano, Agnese Marchini

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3954 PubMed 29085752

October 5, 2017

Clone wars: asexual reproduction dominates in the invasive range of Tubastraea spp. (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) in the South-Atlantic Ocean

18 citations

460 downloads

3,174 views

Katia Cristina Cruz Capel, Robert J. Toonen, Caio T.C.C. Rachid, Joel C. Creed, Marcelo V. Kitahara, Zac Forsman, Carla Zilberberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3873 PubMed 29018611

October 20, 2017

Influence of current climate, historical climate stability and topography on species richness and endemism in Mesoamerican geophyte plants

15 citations

611 downloads

2,467 views

Victoria Sosa, Israel Loera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3932 PubMed 29062605

October 5, 2017

New whaitsioids (Therapsida: Therocephalia) from the Teekloof Formation of South Africa and therocephalian diversity during the end-Guadalupian extinction

11 citations

728 downloads

3,731 views

Adam K. Huttenlocker, Roger M.H. Smith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3868 PubMed 29018609

October 3, 2017

A preliminary survey of zoantharian endosymbionts shows high genetic variation over small geographic scales on Okinawa-jima Island, Japan

11 citations

340 downloads

1,893 views

Hatsuko Noda, John Everett Parkinson, Sung-Yin Yang, James Davis Reimer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3740 PubMed 29018596

October 10, 2017

Illegal use of natural resources in federal protected areas of the Brazilian Amazon

10 citations

1,676 downloads

5,540 views

Érico E. Kauano, Jose M.C. Silva, Fernanda Michalski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3902 PubMed 29038758

October 16, 2017

Microbial community diversity patterns are related to physical and chemical differences among temperate lakes near Beaver Island, MI

7 citations

477 downloads

2,402 views

Miranda H. Hengy, Dean J. Horton, Donald G. Uzarski, Deric R. Learman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3937 PubMed 29062609

October 2, 2017

Framework for community functioning: synthesis of stress gradient and resource partitioning concepts

7 citations

401 downloads

1,593 views

Sophia I. Passy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3885 PubMed 29018618

October 27, 2017

Multivariate ordination identifies vegetation types associated with spider conservation in brassica crops

4 citations

510 downloads

1,632 views

Hafiz Sohaib Ahmed Saqib, Minsheng You, Geoff M. Gurr

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3795 PubMed 29085741

October 26, 2017

Species–specific crab predation on the hydrozoan clinging jellyfish Gonionemus sp. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), subsequent crab mortality, and possible ecological consequences

3 citations

519 downloads

2,980 views

Mary R. Carman, David W. Grunden, Annette F. Govindarajan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3966 PubMed 29085761

October 10, 2017

Infection of army ant pupae by two new parasitoid mites (Mesostigmata: Uropodina)

3 citations

471 downloads

3,737 views

Adrian Brückner, Hans Klompen, Andrew Iain Bruce, Rosli Hashim, Christoph von Beeren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3870 PubMed 29038753

October 19, 2017

Range expansion of a fouling species indirectly impacts local species interactions

2 citations

357 downloads

1,294 views

Cori J. Speights, Michael W. McCoy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3911 PubMed 29062602

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