Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 5, 2017

A microbial survey of the International Space Station (ISS)

Jenna M. Lang, David A. Coil, Russell Y. Neches, Wendy E. Brown, Darlene Cavalier, Mark Severance, Jarrad T. Hampton-Marcell, Jack A. Gilbert, Jonathan A. Eisen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4029 PubMed 29492330

December 14, 2017

Unraveling the structure and composition of Varadero Reef, an improbable and imperiled coral reef in the Colombian Caribbean

Valeria Pizarro, Sara C. Rodríguez, Mateo López-Victoria, Fernando A. Zapata, Sven Zea, Claudia T. Galindo-Martínez, Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Joseph Pollock, Mónica Medina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4119 PubMed 29259841

December 13, 2017

Shift of symbiont communities in Acropora tenuis juveniles under heat stress

Makiko Yorifuji, Saki Harii, Ryota Nakamura, Masayuki Fudo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4055 PubMed 29255647

December 6, 2017

Cytochrome c oxidase barcodes for aquatic oligochaete identification: development of a Swiss reference database

Régis Vivien, Maria Holzmann, Inge Werner, Jan Pawlowski, Michel Lafont, Benoit J.D. Ferrari

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4122 PubMed 29230362

December 12, 2017

Artificial night light alters nocturnal prey interception outcomes for morphologically variable spiders

Suet Wai Yuen, Timothy C. Bonebrake

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4070 PubMed 29250464

December 13, 2017

Combining occurrence and abundance distribution models for the conservation of the Great Bustard

Chunrong Mi, Falk Huettmann, Rui Sun, Yumin Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4160 PubMed 29255652

December 4, 2017

Patterns in artisanal coral reef fisheries revealed through local monitoring efforts

David G. Delaney, Lida T. Teneva, Kostantinos A. Stamoulis, Jonatha L. Giddens, Haruko Koike, Tom Ogawa, Alan M. Friedlander, John N. Kittinger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4089 PubMed 29226033

December 13, 2017

In silico identification of off-target pesticidal dsRNA binding in honey bees (Apis mellifera)

Christina L. Mogren, Jonathan Gary Lundgren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4131 PubMed 29255651

December 11, 2017

Disentangling diatom species complexes: does morphometry suffice?

Saúl Blanco, María Borrego-Ramos, Adriana Olenici

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4159 PubMed 29250472

December 6, 2017

Ecomorphological inferences in early vertebrates: reconstructing Dunkleosteus terrelli (Arthrodira, Placodermi) caudal fin from palaeoecological data

Humberto G. Ferrón, Carlos Martínez-Pérez, Héctor Botella

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4081 PubMed 29230354

December 20, 2017

The effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and root interaction on the competition between Trifolium repens and Lolium perenne

Haiyan Ren, Tao Gao, Jian Hu, Gaowen Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4183 PubMed 29340232

December 6, 2017

Mass marking of juvenile Schizothorax wangchiachii (Fang) with alizarin red S and evaluation of stock enhancement in the Jinping area of the Yalong River

Kun Yang, Shu Li, Xiaoshuai Liu, Weixiong Gan, Longjun Deng, Yezhong Tang, Zhaobin Song

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4142 PubMed 29230371

December 1, 2017

Unanticipated discovery of two rare gastropod molluscs from recently located hydrothermally influenced areas in the Okinawa Trough

Chong Chen, Hiromi Kayama Watanabe, Junichi Miyazaki, Shinsuke Kawagucci

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4121 PubMed 29209579

December 13, 2017

Evaluating the role of wild songbirds or rodents in spreading avian influenza virus across an agricultural landscape

Derek D. Houston, Shahan Azeem, Coady W. Lundy, Yuko Sato, Baoqing Guo, Julie A. Blanchong, Phillip C. Gauger, David R. Marks, Kyoung-Jin Yoon, James S. Adelman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4060 PubMed 29255648

December 5, 2017

Interpopulational and seasonal variation in the chemical signals of the lizard Gallotia galloti

Roberto García-Roa, Rodrigo Megía-Palma, Jesús Ortega, Manuel Jara, Pilar López, José Martín

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3992 PubMed 29230352

December 19, 2017

The first observations of Ischnochiton (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) movement behaviour, with comparison between habitats differing in complexity

Kiran Liversage, Kirsten Benkendorff

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4180 PubMed 29302396