Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

June 28, 2023

Multi-benthic size approach to unveil different environmental conditions in a Mediterranean harbor area (Ancona, Adriatic Sea, Italy)

Elisa Baldrighi, Sarah Pizzini, Elisa Punzo, Angela Santelli, Pierluigi Strafella, Tommaso Scirocco, Elena Manini, Daniele Fattorini, Claudio Vasapollo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15541 PubMed 37397025

June 23, 2023

New heterodont odontocetes from the Oligocene Pysht Formation in Washington State, U.S.A., and a reevaluation of Simocetidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti)

Jorge Velez-Juarbe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15576 PubMed 37377790

June 2, 2023

Functional responses of male and female European green crabs suggest potential sex-specific impacts of invasion

Kiara R. Kattler, Elizabeth M. Oishi, Em G. Lim, Hannah V. Watkins, Isabelle M. Côté

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15424 PubMed 37283895

June 13, 2023

The behavior of sympatric sea urchin species across an ecosystem state gradient

Dominic Franco C. Belleza, Takeshi Urae, Shin-ichiro Tanimae, Kento Toyama, Akari Isoda, Gregory N. Nishihara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15511 PubMed 37334121

June 7, 2023

Improving taxonomic classification of marine zooplankton by molecular approach: registration of taxonomically verified 18S and 28S rRNA gene sequences

Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Junya Hirai, Sirje Sildever, Kazuaki Tadokoro, Kiyotaka Hidaka, Iwao Tanita, Koh Nishiuchi, Naoki Iguchi, Hiromi Kasai, Noriko Nishi, Seiji Katakura, Yukiko Taniuchi, Taketoshi Kodama, Satokuni Tashiro, Misato Nakae, Yuji Okazaki, Satoshi Kitajima, Sayaka Sogawa, Toru Hasegawa, Tomonori Azumaya, Yutaka Hiroe, Daisuke Ambe, Takashi Setou, Daiki Ito, Akira Kusaka, Takeshi Okunishi, Takahiro Tanaka, Akira Kuwata, Daisuke Hasegawa, Shigeho Kakehi, Yugo Shimizu, Satoshi Nagai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15427 PubMed 37334134

June 15, 2023

Habitat-use of the vulnerable Atlantic Nurse Shark: a review

Vanessa Brito Bettcher, Ana Clara Sampaio Franco, Luciano Neves dos Santos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15540 PubMed 37337585

June 12, 2023

Development of a real-time PCR (qPCR) method for the identification of the invasive paddle crab Charybdis japonica (Crustacea, Portunidae)

Tiffany JS Simpson, Claire M. Wellington, Sherralee S. Lukehurst, Roger Huerlimann, Heather Veilleux, Michael Snow, Joana Dias, Justin I. McDonald

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15522 PubMed 37334135

June 21, 2023

Concordance of microbial and visual health indicators of white-band disease in nursery reared Caribbean coral Acropora cervicornis

Monica D. Schul, Dagny-Elise Anastasious, Lindsay J. Spiers, Julie L. Meyer, Thomas K. Frazer, Anya L. Brown

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15170 PubMed 37361046

June 29, 2023

Opportunistic consumption of marine pelagic, terrestrial, and chemosynthetic organic matter by macrofauna on the Arctic shelf: a stable isotope approach

Valentin Kokarev, Anna K. Zalota, Andrey Zuev, Alexei Tiunov, Petr Kuznetsov, Olga Konovalova, Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15595 PubMed 37404477

June 14, 2023

Medium-term acoustic monitoring of small cetaceans in Patagonia, Chile

Julie Patris, Franck Malige, Madeleine Hamame, Hervé Glotin, Valentin Barchasz, Valentin Gies, Sebastian Marzetti, Susannah Buchan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15292 PubMed 37334123

June 22, 2023

Comparative analysis of flavonoids, polyphenols and volatiles in roots, stems and leaves of five mangroves

Zhihua Wu, Xiuhua Shang, Guo Liu, Yaojian Xie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15529 PubMed 37366424

June 1, 2023

Baseline dynamics of Symbiodiniaceae genera and photochemical efficiency in corals from reefs with different thermal histories

Crystal J. McRae, Shashank Keshavmurthy, Hung-Kai Chen, Zong-Min Ye, Pei-Jie Meng, Sabrina L. Rosset, Wen-Bin Huang, Chaolun Allen Chen, Tung-Yung Fan, Isabelle M. Côté

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15421 PubMed 37283898

June 6, 2023

Assessment of aquatic food web and trophic niche as a measurement of recovery function in restored mangroves in the Southern Gulf of Mexico

Miriam Soria-Barreto, Rosela Pérez-Ceballos, Arturo Zaldívar-Jiménez, Rolando Gelabert Fernández

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15422 PubMed 37304885

June 13, 2023

Comparing quantile regression spline analyses and supervised machine learning for environmental quality assessment at coastal marine aquaculture installations

Kleopatra Leontidou, Verena Rubel, Thorsten Stoeck

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15425 PubMed 37334127

June 14, 2023

Three new species of Axinulus (Bivalvia: Thyasiridae) from the Japan and Kuril-Kamchatka trenches and abyssal zone of the northern Pacific Ocean

Gennady M. Kamenev