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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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3 July 2020
The impact of short-term exposure to near shore stressors on the early life stages of the reef building coral Montipora capitata
3 July 2020
Treating coral bleaching as weather: a framework to validate and optimize prediction skill
1 July 2020
Spawning of French grunts, Haemulon flavolineatum, in recirculating aquarium systems
24 June 2020
Ocean warming is the key filter for successful colonization of the migrant octocoral Melithaea erythraea (Ehrenberg, 1834) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
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3 July 2020
Identification of novel mutations in RNA-dependent RNA polymerases of SARS-CoV-2 and their implications on its protein structure
26 June 2020
Phylogenetic comparison between Type IX Secretion System (T9SS) protein components suggests evidence of horizontal gene transfer
26 June 2020
Conformational heterogeneity of Savinase from NMR, HDX-MS and X-ray diffraction analysis
25 June 2020
qPCR multiplex detection of microRNA and messenger RNA in a single reaction
Biodiversity and Conservation
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3 July 2020
Addressing incomplete lineage sorting and paralogy in the inference of uncertain salmonid phylogenetic relationships
29 June 2020
A new species of freshwater crab genus Fredius Pretzmann, 1967 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae) from a naturally isolated orographic forest enclave within the semiarid Caatinga in Ceará, northeastern Brazil
24 June 2020
A new species of frog (Terrarana, Strabomantidae, Phrynopus) from the Peruvian Andean grasslands
18 June 2020
Structural analysis of leucine, lysine and tryptophan mitochondrial tRNA of nesting turtles Caretta caretta (Testudines: Chelonioidea) in the Colombian Caribbean
Bioinformatics and Genomics
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2 July 2020
SSREnricher: a computational approach for large-scale identification of polymorphic microsatellites based on comparative transcriptome analysis
30 June 2020
Analysis of deubiquitinase OTUD5 as a biomarker and therapeutic target for cervical cancer by bioinformatic analysis
30 June 2020
Microenvironment-related gene TNFSF13B predicts poor prognosis in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma
29 June 2020
Shannon diversity index: a call to replace the original Shannon’s formula with unbiased estimator in the population genetics studies
Brain and Cognition
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3 July 2020
Diminishing returns as a function of disturbance
2 July 2020
Contextual violence and its link to social aggression: a study of community violence in Juárez
23 June 2020
Lateralized alpha oscillations are irrelevant for the behavioral retro-cueing benefit in visual working memory
19 June 2020
The common personal behavior and preventive measures among 42 uninfected travelers from the Hubei province, China during COVID-19 outbreak: a cross-sectional survey in Macao SAR, China
Ecology
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6 July 2020
Rodents’ responses to manipulated plant litter and seed densities: implications for restoration
23 June 2020
Assessing bias in demographic estimates from joint live and dead encounter models
19 June 2020
Temperature alters the shape of predator–prey cycles through effects on underlying mechanisms
18 June 2020
Parents know best: transgenerational predator recognition through parental effects
Environmental Science
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23 June 2020
Modelling of climate change impact on flow conditions in the lowland anastomosing river
15 June 2020
Comprehensive assessment of the coupling coordination degree between urbanization and ecological environment in the Siberian and Far East Federal Districts, Russia from 2005 to 2017
11 June 2020
Adsorption and bonding strength of chromium species by ferrihydrite from acidic aqueous solutions
2 June 2020
Monitoring of UN sustainable development goal SDG-9.1.1: study of Algerian “Belt and Road” expressways constructed by China
Microbiology
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1 July 2020
Effects of microbial evolution dominate those of experimental host-mediated indirect selection
30 June 2020
Microbial community analysis in the gills of abalones suggested possible dominance of epsilonproteobacterium in Haliotis gigantea
30 June 2020
Investigation of microbial community interactions between Lake Washington methanotrophs using genome-scale metabolic modeling
26 June 2020
Highly diverse root endophyte bacterial community is driven by growth substrate and is plant genotype-independent in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
Paleontology and Evolutionary Science
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26 June 2020
Tip dating with fossil sites and stratigraphic sequences
16 June 2020
Keraphyton gen. nov., a new Late Devonian fern-like plant from Australia
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
Plant Biology
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6 July 2020
Melatonin improves the germination rate of cotton seeds under drought stress by opening pores in the seed coat
3 July 2020
Genome-wide analysis of basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors in papaya (Carica papaya L.)
1 July 2020
Bioindicator potential of Ricinus communis to simulated rainfall containing potassium fluoride
17 June 2020
Legacy effects of historical grazing alter leaf stomatal characteristics in progeny plants
Zoological Science
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30 June 2020
Multi-predator assemblages, dive type, bathymetry and sex influence foraging success and efficiency in African penguins
26 June 2020
Description of soft tissue artifacts and related consequences on hindlimb kinematics during canine gait
23 June 2020
Life in a harsh environment: the effects of age, sex, reproductive condition, and season on hair cortisol concentration in a wild non-human primate
19 June 2020
Effects of supplementary feeding on the rumen morphology and bacterial diversity in lambs
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
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.
Jeffrey Stuart
Karl Friston
Advisor
Christof Jäger
Annalisa Pastore
Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman
Maria Tretiakova
Dominique Lison
Simon Baron-Cohen
Pamela Ronald
Advisor
Gianluca Tettamanti
Annamaria Vezzani
Member institutions
150 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