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December 2017

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Environmental Sciences Articles)

Variation in the chemical signals of the lizard Gallotia galloti

Gallotia galloti eisentrauti

December 5, 2017

Variation in the chemical signals of the lizard Gallotia galloti

Researchers sampled three subspecies of Tenerife lizards (Gallotia galloti) and analyzed the lipophilic fraction of their femoral gland secretions to characterize the potential interpopulational variation in their chemical signals

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December 19, 2017

Broad spectrum pesticide application alters natural enemy communities and may facilitate secondary pest outbreaks

Matthew P. Hill, Sarina Macfadyen, Michael A. Nash

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4179 PubMed 29302395

December 8, 2017

Species diversity and drivers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a semi-arid mountain in China

He Zhao, Xuanzhen Li, Zhiming Zhang, Yong Zhao, Jiantao Yang, Yiwei Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4155 PubMed 29230378

December 19, 2017

Profiling soil microbial communities with next-generation sequencing: the influence of DNA kit selection and technician technical expertise

Taha Soliman, Sung-Yin Yang, Tomoko Yamazaki, Holger Jenke-Kodama

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4178 PubMed 29302394

December 13, 2017

Shift of symbiont communities in Acropora tenuis juveniles under heat stress

Makiko Yorifuji, Saki Harii, Ryota Nakamura, Masayuki Fudo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4055 PubMed 29255647

December 14, 2017

Tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate disrupts dorsoventral patterning in zebrafish embryos

Subham Dasgupta, Sara M. Vliet, Allison Kupsco, Jessica K. Leet, Diego Altomare, David C. Volz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4156 PubMed 29259843

December 14, 2017

Unraveling the structure and composition of Varadero Reef, an improbable and imperiled coral reef in the Colombian Caribbean

Valeria Pizarro, Sara C. Rodríguez, Mateo López-Victoria, Fernando A. Zapata, Sven Zea, Claudia T. Galindo-Martínez, Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Joseph Pollock, Mónica Medina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4119 PubMed 29259841

December 12, 2017

Artificial night light alters nocturnal prey interception outcomes for morphologically variable spiders

Suet Wai Yuen, Timothy C. Bonebrake

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4070 PubMed 29250464

December 13, 2017

In silico identification of off-target pesticidal dsRNA binding in honey bees (Apis mellifera)

Christina L. Mogren, Jonathan Gary Lundgren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4131 PubMed 29255651

December 22, 2017

Agricultural constraints on microbial resource use and niche breadth in drainage ditches

Ellard R. Hunting, S. Henrik Barmentlo, Maarten Schrama, Peter M. van Bodegom, Yujia Zhai, Martina G. Vijver