by PeerJ Community | Mar 31, 2020 | Author Interview
We published a new biodiversity paper last week alerting the world to a brand new species of fish: ‘Cirripectes matatakaro, a new species of combtooth blenny from the Central Pacific, illuminates the origins of the Hawaiian fish fauna’ by Mykle Hoban and Jeffrey...
by PeerJ Community | Aug 7, 2018 | Community, Guest Post
Today we published “Evidence of acclimatization or adaptation in Hawaiian corals to higher ocean temperatures”. In this study, scientists replicate a landmark coral bleaching study from the 1970s to determine changes in coral sea temperature tolerance over...
by PeerJ Community | Aug 17, 2017 | Interviews
This week we published the study RNA expression and disease tolerance are associated with a “keystone mutation” in the ochre sea star Pisaster ochraceus by V. Katelyn Chandler and John P. Wares. Using RNA sequencing methods, the researchers identified a number of...
by PeerJ Community | Jun 14, 2017 | Interviews
Changes to bio-oceanographic conditions can trigger devastating mortality events for marine mammals. In March 2015, by far the largest reported mass mortality of baleen whales took place in a gulf in Southern Chile. In a recent research study published in PeerJ,...
by Alun Jones | May 11, 2017 | Interviews
Whale sharks are a majestic and endangered species on the IUCN red list whose numbers have been heavily impacted by human activity. As with many other oceanic species, there is very little known about their life history. Last week PeerJ published “Oceanic...
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