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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 31, 2017

Male-male competition and female choice are differentially affected by male call acoustics in the serrate-legged small treefrog, Kurixalus odontotarsus

4 citations

414 downloads

1,372 views

Bicheng Zhu, Jichao Wang, Longhui Zhao, Qinghua Chen, Zhixin Sun, Yue Yang, Steven E. Brauth, Yezhong Tang, Jianguo Cui

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3980 PubMed 29104826

October 27, 2017

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

6 citations

355 downloads

1,428 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 24, 2017

Norwegian honey bees surviving Varroa destructor mite infestations by means of natural selection

25 citations

834 downloads

5,616 views

Melissa A.Y. Oddie, Bjørn Dahle, Peter Neumann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3956 PubMed 29085753

October 10, 2017

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

3 citations

471 downloads

3,733 views

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

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

October 6, 2017

Effects of invasion history on physiological responses to immune system activation in invasive Australian cane toads

10 citations

365 downloads

2,020 views

Daniel Selechnik, Andrea J. West, Gregory P. Brown, Kerry V. Fanson, BriAnne Addison, Lee A. Rollins, Richard Shine

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3856 PubMed 29018604

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

1,891 views

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

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

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