May 2018

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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 23, 2018
A brief introduction to mixed effects modelling and multi-model inference in ecology
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4794 PubMed 29844961
May 28, 2018
Non-biological synthetic spike-in controls and the AMPtk software pipeline improve mycobiome data
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4925 PubMed 29868296
May 4, 2018
DNA metabarcoding of littoral hard-bottom communities: high diversity and database gaps revealed by two molecular markers
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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
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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
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4886 PubMed 29844998
May 8, 2018
Uncovering the hidden players in Lepidoptera biology: the heritable microbial endosymbionts
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4629 PubMed 29761037
May 25, 2018
The influence of temperature and photoperiod on the timing of brood onset in hibernating honey bee colonies
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4801 PubMed 29844964
May 18, 2018
Larval exposure to the neonicotinoid imidacloprid impacts adult size in the farmland butterfly Pieris brassicae
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4772 PubMed 29796343
May 30, 2018
Top-down and bottom-up controls on southern New England salt marsh crab populations
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4876 PubMed 29868281
May 17, 2018
Diet breadth and exploitation of exotic plants shift the core microbiome of Cephaloleia, a group of tropical herbivorous beetles
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4793 PubMed 29785353
May 8, 2018
Seasonal migrations, body temperature fluctuations, and infection dynamics in adult amphibians
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4698 PubMed 29761041
May 18, 2018
Effects of sandfish (Holothuria scabra) removal on shallow-water sediments in Fiji
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4773 PubMed 29796344
May 23, 2018
Endozoochory by mallard in New Zealand: what seeds are dispersed and how far?
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4811 PubMed 29844967
May 16, 2018
Overwintering temperature and body condition shift emergence dates of spring-emerging solitary bees
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4721 PubMed 29785341
May 17, 2018
The effect of climate change on the distribution of a tropical zoanthid (Palythoa caribaeorum) and its ecological implications
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4777 PubMed 29785350
May 1, 2018
Is the future already here? The impact of climate change on the distribution of the eastern coral snake (Micrurus fulvius)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4647 PubMed 29736330
May 7, 2018
Screening of polyhydroxyalkanoate-producing bacteria and PhaC-encoding genes in two hypersaline microbial mats from Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4780 PubMed 29761063
May 9, 2018
Development of a site fidelity index based on population capture-recapture data
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4782 PubMed 29761064
May 7, 2018
Low bacterial community diversity in two introduced aphid pests revealed with 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4725 PubMed 29761046
May 24, 2018
The role of gut microbiota in the regulation of standard metabolic rate in female Periplaneta americana
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4717 PubMed 29844953
May 23, 2018
Altitudinal patterns in breeding bird species richness and density in relation to climate, habitat heterogeneity, and migration influence in a temperate montane forest (South Korea)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4857 PubMed 29844993
May 24, 2018
Water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) of riparian springs in a small lowland river valley: what are the key factors for species distribution?
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4797 PubMed 29844962
May 10, 2018
Exotic lagomorph may influence eagle abundances and breeding spatial aggregations: a field study and meta-analysis on the nearest neighbor distance
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4746 PubMed 29761058
May 18, 2018
A quantitative approach to determine the taxonomic identity and ontogeny of the pycnodontiform fish Pycnodus (Neopterygii, Actinopterygii) from the Eocene of Bolca Lagerstätte, Italy
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4809 PubMed 29796348
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
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4638 PubMed 29770270
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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