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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

2,024 downloads

5,687 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

20 citations

500 downloads

3,468 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 4, 2017

Impact of land reclamation and agricultural water regime on the distribution and conservation status of the endangered Dryophytes suweonensis

17 citations

427 downloads

2,609 views

Amaël Borzée, Kyungmin Kim, Kyongman Heo, Piotr G. Jablonski, Yikweon Jang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3872 PubMed 29018610

October 10, 2017

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

12 citations

1,725 downloads

5,821 views

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

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

October 26, 2017

Constructing stage-structured matrix population models from life tables: comparison of methods

11 citations

906 downloads

2,046 views

Masami Fujiwara, Jasmin Diaz-Lopez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3971 PubMed 29085763

October 5, 2017

Assessing the living and dead proportions of cold-water coral colonies: implications for deep-water Marine Protected Area monitoring in a changing ocean

6 citations

692 downloads

2,623 views

Johanne Vad, Covadonga Orejas, Juan Moreno-Navas, Helen S. Findlay, J. Murray Roberts

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3705 PubMed 29018595

October 18, 2017

Ongoing removals of invasive lionfish in Honduras and their effect on native Caribbean prey fishes

5 citations

699 downloads

2,692 views

Friederike Peiffer, Sonia Bejarano, Giacomo Palavicini de Witte, Christian Wild

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3818 PubMed 29062597

October 12, 2017

Seasonal and year-round use of the Kushiro Wetland, Hokkaido, Japan by sika deer (Cervus nippon yesoensis)

3 citations

532 downloads

1,953 views

Hino Takafumi, Tatsuya Kamii, Takunari Murai, Ryoto Yoshida, Atsuki Sato, Yasuyuki Tachiki, Rika Akamatsu, Tsuyoshi Yoshida

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3869 PubMed 29038752

October 19, 2017

Range expansion of a fouling species indirectly impacts local species interactions

3 citations

371 downloads

1,319 views

Cori J. Speights, Michael W. McCoy

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

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