Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

September 7, 2023

Body size and trophic level increase with latitude, and decrease in the deep-sea and Antarctica, for marine fish species

Han-Yang Lin, Mark John Costello

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15880 PubMed 37701825

September 15, 2023

Divergent recovery trajectories of intertidal and subtidal coral communities highlight habitat-specific recovery dynamics following bleaching in an extreme macrotidal reef environment

P. Elias Speelman, Michael Parger, Verena Schoepf

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15987 PubMed 37727686

September 26, 2023

Genetic connectivity and population expansion inferred from multilocus analysis in Lutjanus alexandrei (Lutjanidae–Perciformes), an endemic snapper from Northeastern Brazilian coast

Ivana Veneza, Raimundo da Silva, Charles Ferreira, Patrícia Mendonça, Iracilda Sampaio, Grazielle Evangelista-Gomes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15973 PubMed 37780387

September 28, 2023

A metagenomic comparison of clearwater, probiotic, and Rapid BFT^TM on Pacific whiteleg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei cultures

Khor Waiho, Muhammad Syafiq Abd Razak, Mohd Zaidy Abdul Rahman, Zainah Zaid, Mhd Ikhwanuddin, Hanafiah Fazhan, Alexander Chong Shu-Chien, Nyok-Sean Lau, Ghazali Azmie, Ahmad Najmi Ishak, Mohammad Syahnon, Nor Azman Kasan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15758 PubMed 37790619

September 27, 2023

Gut content metabarcoding of specialized feeders is not a replacement for environmental DNA assays of seawater in reef environments

Joseph D. DiBattista, Shang Yin Vanson Liu, Maarten De Brauwer, Shaun P. Wilkinson, Katrina West, Adam Koziol, Michael Bunce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16075 PubMed 37790632

September 11, 2023

Spawning aggregations of checkered snapper (Lutjanus decussatus) and blackspot snapper (L. fulviflamma): seasonality, lunar-phase periodicity and spatial distribution within spawning ground

Atsushi Nanami

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15991 PubMed 38077430

September 18, 2023

Description of a common stauromedusa on the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada, Haliclystus sanjuanensis new species (Cnidaria: Staurozoa)

Claudia E. Mills, Hannah Westlake, Yayoi M. Hirano, Lucília S. Miranda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15944 PubMed 37744232

September 4, 2023

Progress in the discovery of isopods (Crustacea: Peracarida)—is the description rate slowing down?

Lena Hartebrodt, Simon Wilson, Mark John Costello

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15984 PubMed 37692117

September 26, 2023

Numbers of fish species, higher taxa, and phylogenetic similarity decrease with latitude and depth, and deep-sea assemblages are unique

Han-Yang Lin, Shane Wright, Mark John Costello

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16116 PubMed 37780369

September 27, 2023

Enhancing survivorship and growth of juvenile Montipora capitata using the Hawaiian collector urchin Tripneustes gratilla

Andrew R. Barrows, Joshua R. Hancock, David L. Cohen, Patrick Gorong, Matthew Lewis, Sean Louie, Lani Musselman, Carlo Caruso, Spencer Miller, Crawford Drury

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16113 PubMed 37790625

September 28, 2023

Areas of spatial overlap between common bottlenose dolphin, recreational boating, and small-scale fishery: management insights from modelling exercises

Gabriella La Manna, Fabio Ronchetti, Francesco Perretti, Giulia Ceccherelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16111 PubMed 37790616

September 21, 2023

Combining passive acoustic data from a towed hydrophone array with visual line transect data to estimate abundance and availability bias of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus)

Douglas B. Sigourney, Annamaria DeAngelis, Danielle Cholewiak, Debra Palka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15850 PubMed 37750078

September 19, 2023

PHFinder: assisted detection of point heteroplasmy in Sanger sequencing chromatograms

Marcos Suárez Menéndez, Vania E. Rivera-León, Jooke Robbins, Martine Berube, Per J. Palsbøll

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16028 PubMed 37744223

September 22, 2023

Trophic assessment of three sympatric batoid species in the Southern Gulf of California

Arturo Bell Enríquez-García, Víctor Hugo Cruz-Escalona, José D. Carriquiry, Nicolás R. Ehemann, Paola A. Mejía-Falla, Emigdio Marín-Enríquez, Christina Treinen-Crespo, José R. Vélez-Tacuri, Andrés F. Navia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16117 PubMed 37753172

September 7, 2023

Application of bubble streams to control biofouling on marine infrastructure—pontoon-scale implementation

Grant A. Hopkins, Nicholas Scott, Patrick Cahill

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16004 PubMed 37701841

September 21, 2023

Fishery catch is affected by geographic expansion, fishing down food webs and climate change in Aotearoa, New Zealand

Charles Patrick Lavin, Daniel Pauly, Donna Dimarchopoulou, Cui Liang, Mark John Costello

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16070 PubMed 37750081

September 1, 2023

Rational synthesis of total damage during cryoprotectant equilibration: modelling and experimental validation of osmomechanical, temperature, and cytotoxic damage in sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) oocytes

Dominic J. Olver, Pablo Heres, Estefania Paredes, James D. Benson