Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

The International Space Station

December 5, 2017

Census of microbial life on the International Space Station

Microbiologists have analyzed swabs taken by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and compared them with samples from homes on Earth as well as the Human Microbiome Project. They found that the microbial community in this unique habitat was very diverse and more closely resembled that of homes than of humans.

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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 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 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 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 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