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PeerJ — the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences is a peer-reviewed & Open Access journal
publishing primary research and reviews in biology, life sciences, environmental sciences, and medicine.
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27 May 2020
Effects of temperature on metabolic scaling in black carp
14 May 2020
Individual behavioral type captured by a Bayesian model comparison of cap making by sponge crabs
6 May 2020
Diversity of cultivable protease-producing bacteria and their extracellular proteases associated to scleractinian corals
4 May 2020
Fauna associated with shallow-water methane seeps in the Laptev Sea
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
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27 May 2020
Changes of liver transcriptome profiles following oxidative stress in streptozotocin-induced diabetes in mice
27 May 2020
Rapid identification of melioidosis agent by an insulated isothermal PCR on a field–deployable device
22 May 2020
Biochemical parameters, dynamic tensiometry and circulating nucleic acids for cattle blood analysis: a review
22 May 2020
Plant-derived angiogenin fusion protein’s cytoprotective effect on trabecular meshwork damage induced by Benzalkonium chloride in mice
Biodiversity and Conservation
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27 May 2020
Exact integer linear programming solvers outperform simulated annealing for solving conservation planning problems
26 May 2020
A new nematode species, Chromadorina tangaroa sp. nov. (Chromadorida: Chromadoridae) from the hull of a research vessel, New Zealand
20 May 2020
Distribution of the acoustic occurrence of dolphins during the summers 2011 to 2015 in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico
15 May 2020
Mitochondrial DNA variation in the Italian Heavy Draught Horse
Bioinformatics and Genomics
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21 May 2020
VIRdb: a comprehensive database for interactive analysis of genes/proteins involved in the pathogenesis of vitiligo
21 May 2020
Development and validation of a prognostic nomogram to predict overall survival and cancer-specific survival for patients with anaplastic thyroid carcinoma
20 May 2020
High expression of stromal signatures correlated with macrophage infiltration, angiogenesis and poor prognosis in glioma microenvironment
15 May 2020
Spirometric traits show quantile-dependent heritability, which may contribute to their gene-environment interactions with smoking and pollution
Brain and Cognition
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22 May 2020
A within-subject comparison of different relaxation therapies in eliciting physiological and psychological changes in young women
12 May 2020
Early language competence, but not general cognitive ability, predicts children’s recognition of emotion from facial and vocal cues
1 May 2020
Comparison of mobile and clinical EEG sensors through resting state simultaneous data collection
1 May 2020
Assessing the growth in clinical skills using a progress clinical skills examination
Ecology
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26 May 2020
The combined impacts of wheat spatial position and phenology on cereal aphid abundance
20 May 2020
Impact of cost distance and habitat fragmentation on the daily path length of Rhinopithecus bieti
18 May 2020
The influence of surrounding land cover on wetland habitat conditions: a case study of inland wetlands in South Korea
7 May 2020
Resampling-based methods for biologists
Environmental Science
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25 May 2020
Herbicide applications increase greenhouse gas emissions of alfalfa pasture in the inland arid region of northwest China
11 May 2020
Assessment and simulation of land use and land cover change impacts on the land surface temperature of Chaoyang District in Beijing, China
11 May 2020
Higher carbon sequestration potential and stability for deep soil compared to surface soil regardless of nitrogen addition in a subtropical forest
7 May 2020
Understanding PM2.5 concentration and removal efficiency variation in urban forest park—Observation at human breathing height
Microbiology
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27 May 2020
Prevalence and molecular characterization of some circulating strains of the peste-des-petits-ruminants virus in Saudi Arabia between 2014–2016
26 May 2020
Microbiome analysis of healthy and diseased sponges Lubomirskia baicalensis by using cell cultures of primmorphs
26 May 2020
Characterization of the bacterial microbiota composition and evolution at different intestinal tract in wild pigs (Sus scrofa ussuricus)
22 May 2020
Endosymbiotic adaptations in three new bacterial species associated with Dictyostelium discoideum: Paraburkholderia agricolaris sp. nov., Paraburkholderia hayleyella sp. nov., and Paraburkholderia bonniea sp. nov
Paleontology and Evolutionary Science
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22 May 2020
A new insect trackway from the Upper Jurassic—Lower Cretaceous eolian sandstones of São Paulo State, Brazil: implications for reconstructing desert paleoecology
22 May 2020
Oldest co-occurrence of Varanus and Python from Africa—first record of squamates from the early Miocene of Moghra Formation, Western Desert, Egypt
17 April 2020
New fossil lizard specimens from a poorly-known squamate assemblage in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA
13 April 2020
Estimating the evolutionary rates in mosasauroids and plesiosaurs: discussion of niche occupation in Late Cretaceous seas
Plant Biology
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27 May 2020
Evaluating Eucalyptus leaf colonization by Brasilonema octagenarum (Cyanobacteria, Scytonemataceae) using in planta experiments and genomics
14 May 2020
Identification of two functional xyloglucan galactosyltransferase homologs BrMUR3 and BoMUR3 in brassicaceous vegetables
6 May 2020
Cloning, sequencing, and expression analysis of 32 NAC transcription factors (MdNAC) in apple
5 May 2020
Genome-wide analysis of the superoxide dismutase (SOD) gene family in Zostera marina and expression profile analysis under temperature stress
Zoological Science
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26 May 2020
Descriptions of five new species of the salamander genus Chiropterotriton (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from eastern Mexico and the status of three currently recognized taxa
21 May 2020
SMRT sequencing of the full-length transcriptome of the Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
19 May 2020
Non-parallel changes in songbird migration timing are not explained by changes in stopover duration
19 May 2020
The ability of oriental magpies (Pica serica) to solve baited multiple-string problems
About the Journal
If you value thoughtful, constructive, rigorous review and want to publish quickly, our Journal Overview will help you assess if PeerJ is the right journal for your research team.
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Editorial Board
Editorial Board
Highly-qualified editors and advisors including 5 Nobel laureates
High-Impact Research
From the world's top institutions and academics. Median citation rate of 5
Quality Peer Review
Objective, in-depth reviewing based on methodological soundness
Publish fast, 24h Support
25 Days to first decision (median) and quick hands-on author support
Editors and advisors
Advisors and Academic Editors at PeerJ are experienced researchers who are experts in their respective fields. As a general rule, Academic Editors must be at Principal Investigator level or above and have published 25 or more peer-reviewed journal articles. Editors are vetted before being appointed, and their decisions are overseen for consistency.
Michael Rossmann
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Vladimir Uversky
D. Gareth Evans
Shuihua Wang
Christof Jäger
Annalisa Pastore
Cristina Nogueira
Jeffrey Stuart
Paula Soares
Paula Moreira
Mya Breitbart
Yves Van de Peer
Member institutions
151 institutions have prepaid PeerJ article fees, helping reduce publishing costs and making it easier for their researchers to publish Open Access.
University of Cambridge
Stanford University
Imperial College London
University of Pennsylvania
University College London
University of California, Berkeley
Partner societies
PeerJ works with major conferences and societies through sponsorships and curated collections to highlight societal member and conference delegate work. Collections are available for in-depth peer-reviewed research articles as well as conference abstracts.
WCMB World Congress on Marine Biodiversity
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
International Conference on Bioinformatics
German Conference on Bioinformatics
Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean
Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy