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March 2019

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A new ancient lineage of frog endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

Live images of Astrobatrachus kurichiyana

March 12, 2019

A new ancient lineage of frog endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

Researchers describe a new species, Astrobatrachus kurichiyana sp. nov. The discovery of this species adds to the list of deeply divergent and monotypic or depauperate lineages with narrow geographic ranges in the southern massifs of the Western Ghats

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March 4, 2019

Capturing complexity: field-testing the use of ‘structure from motion’ derived virtual models to replicate standard measures of reef physical structure

Daniel T.I. Bayley, Andrew O.M. Mogg, Heather Koldewey, Andy Purvis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6540 PubMed 30863678

March 13, 2019

Coral-algal interactions at Weizhou Island in the northern South China Sea: variations by taxa and the exacerbating impact of sediments trapped in turf algae

Zhiheng Liao, Kefu Yu, Yinghui Wang, Xueyong Huang, Lijia Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6590 PubMed 30886777

March 20, 2019

Effects of handling and short-term captivity: a multi-behaviour approach using red sea urchins, Mesocentrotus franciscanus

Aneesh P.H. Bose, Daniel Zayonc, Nikolaos Avrantinis, Natasha Ficzycz, Jonathan Fischer-Rush, Fiona T. Francis, Siobhan Gray, Faye Manning, Haley Robb, Coralee Schmidt, Christine Spice, Aari Umedaly, Jeff Warden, Isabelle M. Côté

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6556 PubMed 30918753

March 29, 2019

Using opportunistic sightings to infer differential spatio-temporal use of western Mediterranean waters by the fin whale

Estefanía Torreblanca, Juan Antonio Camiñas, David Macías, Salvador García-Barcelona, Raimundo Real, José Carlos Báez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6673 PubMed 30956904

March 20, 2019

Transcriptome sequencing of olfactory-related genes in olfactory transduction of large yellow croaker (Larimichthy crocea) in response to bile salts