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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 1, 2019

Comparative transcriptomics of sympatric species of coral reef fishes (genus: Haemulon)

1 citation

880 downloads

1,939 views

Moisés A. Bernal, Groves B. Dixon, Mikhail V. Matz, Luiz A. Rocha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6541 PubMed 30842908

March 4, 2019

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

10 citations

671 downloads

2,196 views

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

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

March 21, 2019

Sea stars of the genus Henricia Gray, 1840 (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) from Vostok Bay, Sea of Japan

574 downloads

1,173 views

Anton Chichvarkhin, Olga Chichvarkhina, Daiki Wakita

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6585 PubMed 30923651

March 21, 2019

Oceanographic moorings as year-round laboratories for investigating growth performance and settlement dynamics in the Antarctic scallop Adamussium colbecki (E. A. Smith, 1902)

1 citation

572 downloads

1,293 views

Stefano Schiaparelli, Stefano Aliani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6373 PubMed 30923647

March 20, 2019

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

4 citations

524 downloads

2,399 views

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 14, 2019

Recognizing two new Hippolyte species (Decapoda, Caridea, Hippolytidae) from the South China Sea based on integrative taxonomy

1 citation

410 downloads

901 views

Zhi-Bin Gan, Xin-Zheng Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6605 PubMed 30886782

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

5 citations

399 downloads