Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

August 17, 2020

Microbiome dynamics in the tissue and mucus of acroporid corals differ in relation to host and environmental parameters

Giulia M. Marchioro, Bettina Glasl, Aschwin H. Engelen, Ester A. Serrão, David G. Bourne, Nicole S. Webster, Pedro R. Frade

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9644 PubMed 32874778

August 5, 2020

DNA barcoding of commercially important reef fishes in Weh Island, Aceh, Indonesia

Nur Fadli, Siti Azizah Mohd Nor, Ahmad Sofiman Othman, Hizir Sofyan, Zainal A. Muchlisin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9641 PubMed 32844060

August 24, 2020

Epibiont hydroids on beachcast Sargassum in the Mexican Caribbean

María A. Mendoza-Becerril, Elisa Serviere-Zaragoza, Alejandra Mazariegos-Villarreal, Crisalejandra Rivera-Perez, Dale R. Calder, Erika F. Vázquez-Delfín, Yolanda Freile-Pelegrín, José Agüero, Daniel Robledo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9795 PubMed 32903993

August 26, 2020

Spatial distribution of microbial communities among colonies and genotypes in nursery-reared Acropora cervicornis

Nicole Miller, Paul Maneval, Carrie Manfrino, Thomas K. Frazer, Julie L. Meyer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9635 PubMed 32913671

August 19, 2020

Population genomics reveals a mismatch between management and biological units in green abalone (Haliotis fulgens)

Paulina Mejía-Ruíz, Ricardo Perez-Enriquez, Jorge Alberto Mares-Mayagoitia, Fausto Valenzuela-Quiñonez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9722 PubMed 32879800

August 18, 2020

Transcriptome analysis provides a blueprint of coral egg and sperm functions

Julia Van Etten, Alexander Shumaker, Tali Mass, Hollie M. Putnam, Debashish Bhattacharya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9739 PubMed 32874783

August 7, 2020

Of power and despair in cetacean conservation: estimation and detection of trend in abundance with noisy and short time-series

Matthieu Authier, Anders Galatius, Anita Gilles, Jérôme Spitz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9436 PubMed 32844053

August 13, 2020

Steroid hormones and chondrichthyan reproduction: physiological functions, scientific research, and implications for conservation

Edgar Eduardo Becerril-García, Marcial Arellano-Martínez, Daniela Bernot-Simon, Edgar Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla, Felipe Galván-Magaña, Céline Godard-Codding

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9686

August 24, 2020

Identifying mangrove-coral habitats in the Florida Keys

Christina A. Kellogg, Ryan P. Moyer, Mary Jacobsen, Kimberly Yates

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9776 PubMed 32904138

August 27, 2020

The influence of bait on remote underwater video observations in shallow-water coastal environments associated with the North-Eastern Atlantic

Robyn E. Jones, Ross A. Griffin, Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley, Richard K.F. Unsworth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9744 PubMed 32923180

August 18, 2020

Fan worms (Annelida: Sabellidae) from Indonesia collected by the Snellius II Expedition (1984) with descriptions of three new species and tube microstructure

María Ana Tovar-Hernández, Harry A. ten Hove, Olev Vinn, Michał Zatoń, Jesús Angel de León-González, María Elena García-Garza