Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

February 25, 2021

A community perspective on the concept of marine holobionts: current status, challenges, and future directions

Simon M. Dittami, Enrique Arboleda, Jean-Christophe Auguet, Arite Bigalke, Enora Briand, Paco Cárdenas, Ulisse Cardini, Johan Decelle, Aschwin H. Engelen, Damien Eveillard, Claire M.M. Gachon, Sarah M. Griffiths, Tilmann Harder, Ehsan Kayal, Elena Kazamia, François H. Lallier, Mónica Medina, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli, Teresa Maria Morganti, Laura Núñez Pons, Soizic Prado, José Pintado, Mahasweta Saha, Marc-André Selosse, Derek Skillings, Willem Stock, Shinichi Sunagawa, Eve Toulza, Alexey Vorobev, Catherine Leblanc, Fabrice Not

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10911 PubMed 33665032

February 2, 2021

Local dynamics of a white syndrome outbreak and changes in the microbial community associated with colonies of the scleractinian brain coral Pseudodiploria strigosa

Patricia E. Thome, Jacqueline Rivera-Ortega, Jenny C. Rodríguez-Villalobos, Daniel Cerqueda-García, Edgar O. Guzmán-Urieta, José Q. García-Maldonado, Natalia Carabantes, Eric Jordán-Dahlgren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10695 PubMed 33604172

February 10, 2021

Marine amphipods as a new live prey for ornamental aquaculture: exploring the potential of Parhyale hawaiensis and Elasmopus pectenicrus

Jorge Arturo Vargas-Abúndez, Humberto Ivan López-Vázquez, Maite Mascaró, Gemma Leticia Martínez-Moreno, Nuno Simões

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10840 PubMed 33614288

February 4, 2021

The natural product biosynthetic potential of Red Sea nudibranch microbiomes

Samar M. Abdelrahman, Nastassia V. Patin, Amro Hanora, Akram Aboseidah, Shimaa Desoky, Salha G. Desoky, Frank J. Stewart, Nicole B. Lopanik

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10525 PubMed 33604161

February 8, 2021

Rapid coral reef assessment using 3D modelling and acoustics: acoustic indices correlate to fish abundance, diversity and environmental indicators in West Papua, Indonesia

Mika Peck, Ricardo F. Tapilatu, Eveline Kurniati, Christopher Rosado

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10761 PubMed 33614275

February 2, 2021

Taxonomic, functional and expression analysis of viral communities associated with marine sponges

Mary Nguyen, Bernd Wemheuer, Patrick W. Laffy, Nicole S. Webster, Torsten Thomas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10715 PubMed 33604175

February 18, 2021

Pseudocnidae of ribbon worms (Nemertea): ultrastructure, maturation, and functional morphology

Timur Yu Magarlamov, James M. Turbeville, Alexei V. Chernyshev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10912 PubMed 33643715

February 23, 2021

Comparison between cultured and wild Pacific white shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) vitellogenesis: next-generation sequencing and relative expression of genes directly and indirectly related to reproduction

Araceli Lorena Montes-Dominguez, Jesus Arian Avena-Soto, Jorge Luis Lizarraga-Rodriguez, Rodrigo de Jesus Perez-Gala, Stephanie Jimenez-Gutierrez, Jesus Alberto Sotelo-Falomir, Fernando Marino Pinzon-Miranda, Francisco Martinez-Perez, Horacio Alberto Muñoz-Rubi, Dario Chavez-Herrera, Laura Rebeca Jimenez-Gutierrez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10694 PubMed 33665004

February 5, 2021

What are the limits on whale ear bone size? Non-isometric scaling of the cetacean bulla

Sabrina L. Groves, Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D. Pyenson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10882 PubMed 33604200

February 24, 2021

A new kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the early to middle Miocene of the western North Pacific and a revision of kentriodontid phylogeny

Zixuan Guo, Naoki Kohno

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10945 PubMed 33665037

February 11, 2021

Rapid relative increase of crustose coralline algae following herbivore exclusion in a reef of El Salvador

Xochitl E. Elías Ilosvay, Johanna Segovia, Sebastian Ferse, Walter Ernesto Elias, Christian Wild