Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 26, 2024

Nuclear eDNA metabarcoding primers for anthozoan coral biodiversity assessment

Luke McCartin, Emma Saso, Samuel A. Vohsen, Nicole Pittoors, Penny Demetriades, Catherine S. McFadden, Andrea M. Quattrini, Santiago Herrera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18607 PubMed 39619181

November 28, 2024

Effects of temperature and size class on the gut digesta microbiota of the sea urchin Tripneustes ventricosus

Ruber Rodríguez-Barreras, Eduardo L. Tosado-Rodríguez, Anelisse Dominicci-Maura, Filipa Godoy-Vitorino

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18298 PubMed 39619195

November 14, 2024

Evaluation of traditional and bootstrapped methods for assessing data-poor fisheries: a case study on tropical seabob shrimp (Xiphopenaeus kroyeri) with an improved length-based mortality estimation method

Matheus de Barros, Ronaldo Oliveira-Filho, Alexandre Aschenbrenner, Mauricio Hostim-Silva, Julien Chiquieri, Ralf Schwamborn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18397 PubMed 39553727

November 12, 2024

Coral recruits demonstrate thermal resilience

Annika M. Lamb, Lesa M. Peplow, Peter L. Harrison, Craig A. Humphrey, Lorenzo Latini, Guy A. McCutchan, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18273 PubMed 39553712

November 4, 2024

Citizen science enhances understanding of sea turtle distribution in the Gulf of California

Stephanie J. Rousso, María Dinorah Herrero Perezrul, Agnese Mancini, Alan A. Zavala-Norzagaray, Jesse F. Senko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18203 PubMed 39512307

November 26, 2024

Viral metagenomic investigation of two Caribbean echinoderms, Diadema antillarum (Echinoidea) and Holothuria floridana (Holothuria)

Ian Hewson, Marilyn Brandt, Kayla Budd, Mya Breitbart, Christopher DeRito, Samuel Gittens Jr, Michael W. Henson, Alwin Hylkema, Moriah Sevier, Matthew Souza, Brayan Vilanova-Cuevas, Sarah Von Hoene

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18321 PubMed 39619205

November 25, 2024

Method selection affects the estimates of residency and site fidelity in bottlenose dolphins: testing sensitivity and performance of different methods using mark-resight data

Israel Huesca-Domínguez, Eduardo Morteo, Luis Gerardo Abarca-Arenas, Brian C. Balmer, Tara M. Cox, Christian A. Delfín-Alfonso, Isabel C. Hernández-Candelario

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18329 PubMed 39611015

November 11, 2024

Cryophysiology of coral microfragments: effects of chilling and cryoprotectant toxicity

Claire V. A. Lager, Riley Perry, Jonathan Daly, Christopher Page, Mindy Mizobe, Jessica Bouwmeester, Anthony N. Consiglio, Jake Carter, Matthew J. Powell-Palm, Mary Hagedorn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18447 PubMed 39544418

November 15, 2024

The complete mitochondrial DNA of the carnivorous sponge Lycopodina hypogea is putatively complemented by microDNAs

Thiago Silva de Paula, Dora de Moura Barbosa Leite, Gisele Lobo-Hajdu, Jean Vacelet, Fabiano Thompson, Eduardo Hajdu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18255 PubMed 39559335

November 8, 2024

Stable dominance of parasitic dinoflagellates in Antarctic sponges

Marileyxis R. López-Rodríguez, Catherine Gérikas Ribeiro, Susana Rodríguez-Marconi, Génesis Parada-Pozo, Maria Manrique-de-la-Cuba, Nicole Trefault

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18365 PubMed 39529628