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Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Blue whale migratory pathways along the Eastern South Pacific

Tracks of five wide-ranging blue whales tagged in Chilean Northern Patagonia.

April 30, 2018

Blue whale migratory pathways along the Eastern South Pacific

Researchers tracked 10 blue whales and documented their individual variations in departure time, northbound migratory routes and potential wintering grounds in the Eastern South Pacific.

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May 4, 2018

DNA metabarcoding of littoral hard-bottom communities: high diversity and database gaps revealed by two molecular markers

Owen S. Wangensteen, Creu Palacín, Magdalena Guardiola, Xavier Turon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4705 PubMed 29740514

May 23, 2018

An improved primer set and amplification protocol with increased specificity and sensitivity targeting the Symbiodinium ITS2 region

Benjamin C.C. Hume, Maren Ziegler, Julie Poulain, Xavier Pochon, Sarah Romac, Emilie Boissin, Colomban de Vargas, Serge Planes, Patrick Wincker, Christian R. Voolstra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4816 PubMed 29844969

May 24, 2018

Reef fish communities are spooked by scuba surveys and may take hours to recover

Michael J. Emslie, Alistair J. Cheal, M. Aaron MacNeil, Ian R. Miller, Hugh P.A. Sweatman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4886 PubMed 29844998

May 30, 2018

Top-down and bottom-up controls on southern New England salt marsh crab populations

Kenneth B. Raposa, Richard A. McKinney, Cathleen Wigand, Jeffrey W. Hollister, Cassie Lovall, Katelyn Szura, Jr., John A. Gurak, Jason McNamee, Christopher Raithel, Elizabeth B. Watson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4876 PubMed 29868281

May 18, 2018

Effects of sandfish (Holothuria scabra) removal on shallow-water sediments in Fiji

Steven Lee, Amanda K. Ford, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Christian Wild, Sebastian C.A. Ferse

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4773 PubMed 29796344

May 17, 2018

The effect of climate change on the distribution of a tropical zoanthid (Palythoa caribaeorum) and its ecological implications

Leonardo M. Durante, Igor C.S. Cruz, Tito M.C. Lotufo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4777 PubMed 29785350

May 11, 2018

Lighten up the dark: metazoan parasites as indicators for the ecology of Antarctic crocodile icefish (Channichthyidae) from the north-west Antarctic Peninsula

Thomas Kuhn, Vera M.A. Zizka, Julian Münster, Regina Klapper, Simonetta Mattiucci, Judith Kochmann, Sven Klimpel