PeerJ articles

• Alcohol consumption and risk of fatty liver disease: a meta-analysis

  Published

  Oct 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Cao, Guoli
  2. Yi, Tingzhuang
  3. Liu, Qianqian
  4. Wang, Min
  5. Tang, Shaohui

• Social buffering and contact transmission: network connections have beneficial and detrimental effects on Shigella infection risk among captive rhesus macaques

  Published

  Oct 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Balasubramaniam, Krishna
  2. Beisner, Brianne
  3. Vandeleest, Jessica
  4. Atwill, Edward
  5. McCowan, Brenda

• Palaeoamyda messeliana nov. comb. (Testudines, Pan-Trionychidae) from the Eocene Messel Pit and Geiseltal localities, Germany, taxonomic and phylogenetic insights

  Published

  Oct 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Cadena, Edwin

• Sewage treatment plant associated genetic differentiation in the blue mussel from the Baltic Sea and Swedish west coast

  Published

  Oct 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Larsson, Josefine
  2. Lönn, Mikael
  3. Lind, Emma E.
  4. Świeżak, Justyna
  5. Smolarz, Katarzyna
  6. Grahn, Mats

• Widespread dieback of riparian trees on a dammed ephemeral river and evidence of local mitigation by tributary flows

  Published

  Oct 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Douglas, Caitlin M. S.
  2. Mulligan, Mark
  3. Harrison, Xavier A.
  4. Henschel, Joh R.
  5. Pettorelli, Nathalie
  6. Cowlishaw, Guy

• Genome-wide identification and characterization of TIFY family genes in Moso Bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) and expression profiling analysis under dehydration and cold stresses

  Published

  Oct 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Huang, Zhuo
  2. Jin, Si-Han
  3. Guo, Han-Du
  4. Zhong, Xiao-Juan
  5. He, Jiao
  6. Li, Xi
  7. Jiang, Ming-Yan
  8. Yu, Xiao-Fang
  9. Long, Hai
  10. Ma, Ming-Dong
  11. Chen, Qi-Bing

• The PARA-suite: PAR-CLIP specific sequence read simulation and processing

  Published

  Oct 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Kloetgen, Andreas
  2. Borkhardt, Arndt
  3. Hoell, Jessica I.
  4. McHardy, Alice C.

• Human altruistic tendencies vary with both the costliness of selfless acts and socioeconomic status

  Published

  Oct 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Grueter, Cyril C.
  2. Ingram, Jesse A.
  3. Lewisson, James W.
  4. Bradford, Olivia R.
  5. Taba, Melody
  6. Coetzee, Rebecca E.
  7. Sherwood, Michelle A.

• Specialization on pollen or nectar in bumblebee foragers is not associated with ovary size, lipid reserves or sensory tuning

  Published

  Oct 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Smith, Adam R.
  2. Graystock, Peter
  3. Hughes, William O.H.

• Evolution of genes involved in feeding preference and metabolic processes in Calliphoridae (Diptera: Calyptratae)

  Published

  Oct 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Cardoso, Gisele Antoniazzi
  2. Marinho, Marco Antonio Tonus
  3. Monfardini, Raquel Dietsche
  4. Espin, Ana Maria Lima de Azeredo
  5. Torres, Tatiana Teixeira