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March 2018

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First endemic freshwater Gammarus from Crete

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March 9, 2018

First endemic freshwater Gammarus from Crete

Researchers describe Gammarus plaitisi (a Gammarid amphipod), endemic to Cretan streams. The divergence of the new species is strongly connected to the geological history of the island.

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March 28, 2018

Limb-use by foraging marine turtles, an evolutionary perspective

Jessica A. Fujii, Don McLeish, Andrew J. Brooks, John Gaskell, Kyle S. Van Houtan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4565 PubMed 29610708

March 19, 2018

The effect of tides on nearshore environmental DNA

Ryan P. Kelly, Ramón Gallego, Emily Jacobs-Palmer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4521 PubMed 29576982

March 6, 2018

The little shrimp that could: phylogeography of the circumtropical Stenopus hispidus (Crustacea: Decapoda), reveals divergent Atlantic and Pacific lineages

‘Ale‘alani Dudoit, Matthew Iacchei, Richard R. Coleman, Michelle R. Gaither, William E. Browne, Brian W. Bowen, Robert J. Toonen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4409 PubMed 29527409

March 19, 2018

Assessing the disturbance potential of small unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) on gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) at breeding colonies in Nova Scotia, Canada

Lauren Arona, Julian Dale, Susan G. Heaslip, Michael O. Hammill, David W. Johnston

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4467 PubMed 29576950

March 13, 2018

Strong genetic differentiation in tropical seagrass Enhalus acoroides (Hydrocharitaceae) at the Indo-Malay Archipelago revealed by microsatellite DNA

I Nyoman Giri Putra, Yuliana Fitri Syamsuni, Beginer Subhan, Made Pharmawati, Hawis Madduppa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4315 PubMed 29576933

March 23, 2018

The first Oligocene sea turtle (Pan-Cheloniidae) record of South America

Edwin Cadena, Juan Abella, Maria Gregori

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4554 PubMed 29593944

March 30, 2018

Acidification increases abundances of Vibrionales and Planctomycetia associated to a seaweed-grazer system: potential consequences for disease and prey digestion efficiency

Tania Aires, Alexandra Serebryakova, Frédérique Viard, Ester A. Serrão, Aschwin H. Engelen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4377 PubMed 29610702

March 22, 2018

Will the California Current lose its nesting Tufted Puffins?

Christopher J. Hart, Ryan P. Kelly, Scott F. Pearson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4519 PubMed 29593940

March 26, 2018

Description of a Zostera marina catalase gene involved in responses to temperature stress

Yu Zang, Jiao Liu, Xue Xi Tang, Bin Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4532 PubMed 29607258

March 2, 2018

Reproduction and community structure of fish from winter catch sites from industrial shrimp bycatch from the northeast and southeast Mexican Pacific

Jorge de Jesus Tirado-Ibarra, Mariany Loya-Rodriguez, Jose Carlos Morales-Arevalo, Isabel Rosario Muñoz-Garcia, Francisco Martinez-Perez, Jorge Saul Ramirez-Perez, Laura Rebeca Jimenez-Gutierrez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4460 PubMed 29507841

March 12, 2018

Out of Asia: mitochondrial evolutionary history of the globally introduced supralittoral isopod Ligia exotica

Luis A. Hurtado, Mariana Mateos, Chang Wang, Carlos A. Santamaria, Jongwoo Jung, Valiallah Khalaji-Pirbalouty, Won Kim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4337 PubMed 29576934

March 27, 2018

Infection by Parorchis acanthus (Trematoda) decreases grazing by the keystone gastropod, Littoraria irrorata

Joseph P. Morton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4544 PubMed 29607259

March 26, 2018

Female harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) behavioral response to playbacks of underwater male acoustic advertisement displays

Leanna P. Matthews, Brittany Blades, Susan E. Parks