Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 22, 2020

Supraspecific units in correlative niche modeling improves the prediction of geographic potential of biological invasions

Sandra Castaño-Quintero, Jazmín Escobar-Luján, Luis Osorio-Olvera, A Townsend Peterson, Xavier Chiappa-Carrara, Enrique Martínez-Meyer, Carlos Yañez-Arenas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10454 PubMed 33391868

December 15, 2020

Description of the microbiota in epidermal mucus and skin of sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum and Negaprion brevirostris) and one stingray (Hypanus americanus)

Susana Caballero, Ana Maria Galeano, Juan Diego Lozano, Martha Vives

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10240 PubMed 33362953

December 18, 2020

Utilizing sponge spicules in taxonomic, ecological and environmental reconstructions: a review

Magdalena Łukowiak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10601 PubMed 33384908

December 14, 2020

Trends in summer presence of fin whales in the Western Mediterranean Sea Region: new insights from a long-term monitoring program

Paola Tepsich, Ilaria Schettino, Fabrizio Atzori, Marta Azzolin, Ilaria Campana, Lara Carosso, Simone Cominelli, Roberto Crosti, Léa David, Nathalie Di-Méglio, Francesca Frau, Martina Gregorietti, Veronica Mazzucato, Clara Monaco, Aurelie Moulins, Miriam Paraboschi, Giuliana Pellegrino, Massimiliano Rosso, Marine Roul, Sébastien Saintignan, Antonella Arcangeli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10544 PubMed 33362978

December 17, 2020

Distribution and species diversity of the floating green macroalgae and micro-propagules in the Subei Shoal, southwestern Yellow Sea

Xiaoxiang Miao, Jie Xiao, Qinzeng Xu, Shiliang Fan, Zongling Wang, Xiao Wang, Xuelei Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10538 PubMed 33362976

December 21, 2020

The Aichi Biodiversity Targets: achievements for marine conservation and priorities beyond 2020

Hannah Carr, Marina Abas, Loubna Boutahar, Olivia N. Caretti, Wing Yan Chan, Abbie S.A. Chapman, Sarah N. de Mendonça, Abigail Engleman, Filippo Ferrario, Kayelyn R. Simmons, Jana Verdura, Anna Zivian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9743 PubMed 33391861

December 1, 2020

Tracking the dynamics of individual gut microbiome of sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus during gut regeneration

Yohei Yamazaki, Yuichi Sakai, Juanwen Yu, Sayaka Mino, Tomoo Sawabe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10260 PubMed 33344070

December 21, 2020

The positive effect of coexisting ecosystem engineers: a unique seaweed-mussel association provides refuge for native mud crabs against a non-indigenous predator

Paula Tummon Flynn, Keegan McCarvill, K. Devon Lynn, Pedro A. Quijón

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10540 PubMed 33391877

December 21, 2020

Responses of branching reef corals Acropora digitifera and Montipora digitata to elevated temperature and pCO₂

Cristiana Manullang, Intan Herwindra Millyaningrum, Akira Iguchi, Aika Miyagi, Yasuaki Tanaka, Yukihiro Nojiri, Kazuhiko Sakai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10562 PubMed 33391879

December 17, 2020

Genome survey sequencing of the Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus: Genome size, nuclear rRNA operon, repetitive elements, and microsatellite discovery

J. Antonio Baeza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10554 PubMed 33362980

December 8, 2020

Density-dependent condition of juvenile penaeid shrimps in seagrass-dominated aquatic vegetation beds located at different distance from a tidal inlet

Zeferino Blanco-Martínez, Roberto Pérez-Castañeda, Jesús Genaro Sánchez-Martínez, Flaviano Benavides-González, Jaime Luis Rábago-Castro, María de la Luz Vázquez-Sauceda, Lorena Garrido-Olvera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10496 PubMed 33354432

December 3, 2020

Effects of monofilament nylon versus braided multifilament nylon gangions on catch rates of Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) in bottom set longlines

Scott M. Grant, Jenna G. Munden, Kevin J. Hedges

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10407 PubMed 33344077

December 18, 2020

Previous oil exposure alters Gulf Killifish Fundulus grandis oil avoidance behavior

Charles W. Martin, Ashley M. McDonald, Guillaume Rieucau, Brian J. Roberts

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10587 PubMed 33384905