Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

October 24, 2017

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

44 citations

1,971 downloads

5,485 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 13, 2017

Multigene phylogeny of the scyphozoan jellyfish family Pelagiidae reveals that the common U.S. Atlantic sea nettle comprises two distinct species (Chrysaora quinquecirrha and C. chesapeakei)

17 citations

1,372 downloads

6,973 views

Keith M. Bayha, Allen G. Collins, Patrick M. Gaffney

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3863 PubMed 29043109

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

679 downloads

2,551 views

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

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

October 24, 2017

Diversity of fish sound types in the Pearl River Estuary, China

6 citations

667 downloads

2,464 views

Zhi-Tao Wang, Douglas P. Nowacek, Tomonari Akamatsu, Ke-Xiong Wang, Jian-Chang Liu, Guo-Qin Duan, Han-Jiang Cao, Ding Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3924 PubMed 29085746

October 13, 2017

Sediment microbial taxonomic and functional diversity in a natural salinity gradient challenge Remane’s “species minimum” concept

12 citations

665 downloads

2,471 views

Christina Pavloudi, Jon B. Kristoffersen, Anastasis Oulas, Marleen De Troch, Christos Arvanitidis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3687 PubMed 29043106

October 18, 2017

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

5 citations

656 downloads

2,566 views

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

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

October 27, 2017

Novel mesostructured inclusions in the epidermal lining of Artemia franciscana ovisacs show optical activity

3 citations

641 downloads

2,625 views

Elena Hollergschwandtner, Thomas Schwaha, Josef Neumüller, Ulrich Kaindl, Daniela Gruber, Margret Eckhard, Michael Stöger-Pollach, Siegfried Reipert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3923 PubMed 29093995

October 11, 2017

Light induced intraspecific variability in response to thermal stress in the hard coral Stylophora pistillata

530 downloads

3,036 views

Arjen Tilstra, Tim Wijgerde, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Joana Falcão Salles, Ido Pen, Ronald Osinga, Christian Wild

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3802 PubMed 29038747

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 2, 2017

Diverse responses of Symbiodinium types to menthol and DCMU treatment

1 citation

495 downloads

1,860 views

Jih-Terng Wang, Shashank Keshavmurthy, Tzu-Ying Chu, Chaolun Allen Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3843 PubMed 29018600

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

3,175 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 6, 2017

Cryptic biodiversity and phylogeographic patterns of Seychellois Ligia isopods

3 citations

424 downloads

2,179 views

Carlos A. Santamaria, Joanna K. Bluemel, Nancy Bunbury, Melinda Curran

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3894 PubMed 29018626

October 19, 2017

First record of the family Sphyrapodidae Guţu, 1980 (Crustacea: Peracarida: Apseudomorpha) with the description of a new species of Sphyrapus from the Colombian Caribbean

1 citation

414 downloads

2,256 views

Andrés G. Morales-Núñez, Catalina Morales-Ruiz, Néstor E. Ardila

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3947 PubMed 29071166

October 19, 2017

Range expansion of a fouling species indirectly impacts local species interactions

2 citations

357 downloads

1,295 views

Cori J. Speights, Michael W. McCoy

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

October 27, 2017

Comparative demography of two common scleractinian corals: Orbicella annularis and Porites astreoides

6 citations

356 downloads

1,431 views

Francisco J. Soto-Santiago, Alex Mercado-Molina, Koralis Reyes-Maldonado, Yaileen Vélez, Claudia P. Ruiz-Díaz, Alberto Sabat

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3906 PubMed 29093994

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 2017

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Malignant colorectal cancer

Machine learning to analyze colon glands

October 2017

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Malignant colorectal cancer

Machine learning to analyze colon glands

Malignant colorectal cancer

Machine learning to analyze colon glands

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