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May 2018

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

53 citations

1,280 downloads

5,505 views

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

29 citations

738 downloads

3,056 views

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

25 citations

639 downloads

3,993 views

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

12 citations

559 downloads

2,294 views

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

Effect of elevated temperature on membrane lipid saturation in Antarctic notothenioid fish

8 citations

480 downloads

2,342 views

Vanita C. Malekar, James D. Morton, Richard N. Hider, Robert H. Cruickshank, Simon Hodge, Victoria J. Metcalf

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4765 PubMed 29796342

May 8, 2018

Biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef—how adequately is it protected?

7 citations

1,257 downloads

7,017 views

Zoe T. Richards, Jon C. Day

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4747 PubMed 29761059

May 17, 2018

Comparing the catch composition, profitability and discard survival from different trammel net designs targeting common spiny lobster (Palinurus elephas) in a Mediterranean fishery

7 citations

480 downloads

1,674 views

Gaetano Catanese, Hilmar Hinz, Maria del Mar Gil, Miquel Palmer, Michael Breen, Antoni Mira, Elena Pastor, Amalia Grau, Andrea Campos-Candela, Elka Koleva, Antoni Maria Grau, Beatriz Morales-Nin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4707 PubMed 29785340

May 17, 2018

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

6 citations

478 downloads

1,788 views

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

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

May 9, 2018

Primary producers may ameliorate impacts of daytime CO₂ addition in a coastal marine ecosystem

6 citations

433 downloads

1,925 views

Matthew E.S. Bracken, Nyssa J. Silbiger, Genevieve Bernatchez, Cascade J.B. Sorte

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4739 PubMed 29761055

May 25, 2018

Shelters can negatively affect growth and welfare in lumpfish if feed is delivered continuously

6 citations

385 downloads

1,819 views

Asa Johannesen, Nakita E. Joensen, Eyðfinn Magnussen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4837 PubMed 29844984

May 24, 2018

The variable monoaminergic outcomes of cleaner fish brains when facing different social and mutualistic contexts

6 citations

250 downloads

1,020 views

Murilo S. de Abreu, João P.M. Messias, Per-Ove Thörnqvist, Svante Winberg, Marta C. Soares

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4830 PubMed 29844980

May 9, 2018

Pelagic larval duration, growth rate, and population genetic structure of the tidepool snake moray Uropterygius micropterus around the southern Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and the central Philippines

4 citations

563 downloads

2,551 views

Wen-Chien Huang, Jui-Tsung Chang, Chun Liao, Atsushi Tawa, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Te-Yu Liao, Jen-Chieh Shiao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4741 PubMed 29761056

May 18, 2018

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

4 citations

504 downloads

3,290 views

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

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

May 25, 2018

Feeding behavior and trophic interaction of three shark species in the Galapagos Marine Reserve

4 citations

443 downloads

2,217 views

Diego Páez-Rosas, Paul Insuasti-Zarate, Marjorie Riofrío-Lazo, Felipe Galván-Magaña

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4818 PubMed 29844971

May 18, 2018

Fitness consequences of fish circadian behavioural variation in exploited marine environments

4 citations

363 downloads

1,479 views

Martina Martorell-Barceló, Andrea Campos-Candela, Josep Alós

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4814 PubMed 29796349

May 9, 2018

The performance of cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, in a reversal learning task varies across experimental paradigms

4 citations

315 downloads

1,463 views

Simon Gingins, Fanny Marcadier, Sharon Wismer, Océane Krattinger, Fausto Quattrini, Redouan Bshary, Sandra A. Binning

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4745 PubMed 29761057

May 17, 2018

Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) feeding behavior on static fishing gear, effect of SMART (Selective Magnetic and Repellent-Treated) hook deterrent technology, and factors influencing entanglement in bottom longlines

3 citations

559 downloads

2,336 views

Scott M. Grant, Rennie Sullivan, Kevin J. Hedges

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4751 PubMed 29785345

May 29, 2018

Genomic analysis of red-tide water bloomed with Heterosigma akashiwo in Geoje

3 citations

536 downloads

1,770 views

Hye-Eun Kang, Tae-Ho Yoon, Sunyoung Yoon, Hak Jun Kim, Hyun Park, Chang-Keun Kang, Hyun-Woo Kim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4854 PubMed 29868269

May 7, 2018

Small tropical islands with dense human population: differences in water quality of near-shore waters are associated with distinct bacterial communities

3 citations

507 downloads

2,030 views

Hauke F. Kegler, Christiane Hassenrück, Pia Kegler, Tim C. Jennerjahn, Muhammad Lukman, Jamaluddin Jompa, Astrid Gärdes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4555 PubMed 29761035

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

3 citations

480 downloads

1,189 views

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

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4638 PubMed 29770270

May 14, 2018

Chitin distribution in the Oithona digestive and reproductive systems revealed by fluorescence microscopy

3 citations

409 downloads

2,053 views

Kevin Sugier, Benoit Vacherie, Astrid Cornils, Patrick Wincker, Jean-Louis Jamet, Mohammed-Amin Madoui

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4685 PubMed 29780666

May 8, 2018

Sponge community of the western Black Sea shallow water caves: diversity and spatial distribution

2 citations

640 downloads

2,744 views

Alexander Ereskovsky, Oleg A. Kovtun, Konstantin K. Pronin, Apostol Apostolov, Dirk Erpenbeck, Viatcheslav Ivanenko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4596 PubMed 29761036

May 30, 2018

Assessment of the ecotoxicity of urban estuarine sediment using benthic and pelagic copepod bioassays

2 citations

499 downloads

1,711 views

Maria P. Charry, Vaughan Keesing, Mark Costello, Louis A. Tremblay

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4936 PubMed 29868297

May 30, 2018

Variations in early life history traits of Japanese anchovy Engraulis japonicus in the Yangtze River Estuary

2 citations

323 downloads

1,356 views

Chunlong Liu, Weiwei Xian, Shude Liu, Yifeng Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4789 PubMed 29868255

May 8, 2018

Fine grained compositional analysis of Port Everglades Inlet microbiome using high throughput DNA sequencing

1 citation

665 downloads

2,043 views

Lauren O’Connell, Song Gao, Donald McCorquodale, Jay Fleisher, Jose V. Lopez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4671 PubMed 29761039

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May 2018

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

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

Blue whale migratory pathways along the Eastern South Pacific

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

Blue whale migratory pathways along the Eastern South Pacific

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