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December 2017

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Census of microbial life on the International Space Station

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.

December 14, 2017

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

6 citations

601 downloads

4,552 views

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 5, 2017

SDMtoolbox 2.0: the next generation Python-based GIS toolkit for landscape genetic, biogeographic and species distribution model analyses

43 citations

778 downloads

3,689 views

Jason L. Brown, Joseph R. Bennett, Connor M. French

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4095 PubMed 29230356

December 15, 2017

How many species of mammals are there in Brazil? New records of rare rodents (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) from Amazonia raise the current known diversity

2 citations

862 downloads

2,833 views

Alexandre R. Percequillo, Jeronymo Dalapicolla, Edson F. Abreu-Júnior, Paulo Ricardo O. Roth, Katia M.P.M.B. Ferraz, Elisandra A. Chiquito

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4071 PubMed 29259840

December 8, 2017

Species diversity and drivers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a semi-arid mountain in China

14 citations

854 downloads

1,997 views

He Zhao, Xuanzhen Li, Zhiming Zhang, Yong Zhao, Jiantao Yang, Yiwei Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4155 PubMed 29230378

December 13, 2017

Shift of symbiont communities in Acropora tenuis juveniles under heat stress

7 citations

413 downloads

1,853 views

Makiko Yorifuji, Saki Harii, Ryota Nakamura, Masayuki Fudo

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

December 1, 2017

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

3 citations

319 downloads

1,850 views

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

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

December 13, 2017

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

2 citations

441 downloads

1,656 views

Chunrong Mi, Falk Huettmann, Rui Sun, Yumin Guo

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

December 5, 2017

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

4 citations

282 downloads

1,594 views

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

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

December 11, 2017

Arsenophonus and Sodalis replacements shape evolution of symbiosis in louse flies

6 citations

339 downloads

1,423 views

Eva Šochová, Filip Husník, Eva Nováková, Ali Halajian, Václav Hypša

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4099 PubMed 29250466

December 5, 2017

Changes of arthropod diversity across an altitudinal ecoregional zonation in Northwestern Argentina

6 citations

373 downloads

1,299 views

Andrea X. González-Reyes, Jose A. Corronca, Sandra M. Rodriguez-Artigas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4117 PubMed 29230361

December 5, 2017

Comparative analyses of putative toxin gene homologs from an Old World viper, Daboia russelii

349 downloads

1,264 views

Neeraja M. Krishnan, Binay Panda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4104 PubMed 29230357

December 11, 2017

A molecular phylogenetic appraisal of the acanthostomines Acanthostomum and Timoniella and their position within Cryptogonimidae (Trematoda: Opisthorchioidea)

3 citations

286 downloads

1,235 views

Andrés Martínez-Aquino, Victor M. Vidal-Martínez, M. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4158 PubMed 29250471

December 6, 2017

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

8 citations

268 downloads

1,116 views

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

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

December 5, 2017

Microcos magnifica (Sparrmanniaceae) a new species of cloudforest tree from Cameroon

4 citations

256 downloads

910 views

Martin Cheek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4137 PubMed 29230369

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