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April 2013

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Tadpole shrimps

April 2, 2013

Tadpole shrimps challenge the term ‘living fossil’

New genetic study into the diversification of tadpole shrimps (a group which includes Triops) casts doubt on the validity of the term ‘living fossil.’ Read more in this peer reviewed study from Mathers et al.

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April 2, 2013

Multiple global radiations in tadpole shrimps challenge the concept of ‘living fossils’

32 citations

1,816 downloads

10,783 views

Thomas C. Mathers, Robert L. Hammond, Ronald A. Jenner, Bernd Hänfling, Africa Gómez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.62 PubMed 23638400

April 2, 2013

Regulation of the heat stress response in Arabidopsis by MPK6-targeted phosphorylation of the heat stress factor HsfA2

51 citations

2,523 downloads

6,042 views

Alexandre Evrard, Mukesh Kumar, David Lecourieux, Jessica Lucks, Pascal von Koskull-Döring, Heribert Hirt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.59 PubMed 23638397

April 23, 2013

Predicting and mapping soil available water capacity in Korea

35 citations

1,638 downloads

5,820 views

Suk Young Hong, Budiman Minasny, Kyung Hwa Han, Yihyun Kim, Kyungdo Lee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.71 PubMed 23646290

April 9, 2013

Conservation genetics of extremely isolated urban populations of the northern dusky salamander (Desmognathus fuscus) in New York City

28 citations

1,253 downloads

5,524 views

Jason Munshi-South, Yana Zak, Ellen Pehek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.64 PubMed 23646283

April 23, 2013

Phylogeny of the plant genus Pachypodium (Apocynaceae)

10 citations

2,135 downloads

5,518 views

Dylan O. Burge, Kaila Mugford, Amy P. Hastings, Anurag A. Agrawal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.70 PubMed 23646289

April 16, 2013

Genome-wide association study of HLA-DQB1*06:02 negative essential hypersomnia

18 citations

1,009 downloads

4,415 views

Seik-Soon Khor, Taku Miyagawa, Hiromi Toyoda, Maria Yamasaki, Yoshiya Kawamura, Hisashi Tanii, Yuji Okazaki, Tsukasa Sasaki, Ling Lin, Juliette Faraco, Tom Rico, Yutaka Honda, Makoto Honda, Emmanuel Mignot, Katsushi Tokunaga

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.66 PubMed 23646285

April 16, 2013

Differential expression of miR-1, a putative tumor suppressing microRNA, in cancer resistant and cancer susceptible mice

16 citations

1,031 downloads

4,195 views

Jessica L. Fleming, Dustin L. Gable, Somayeh Samadzadeh-Tarighat, Luke Cheng, Lianbo Yu, Jessica L. Gillespie, Amanda Ewart Toland

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.68 PubMed 23646287

April 2, 2013

Immunization with tegument nucleotidases associated with a subcurative praziquantel treatment reduces worm burden following Schistosoma mansoni challenge

9 citations

631 downloads

3,075 views

Henrique K. Rofatto, Bogar O. Araujo-Montoya, Patrícia A. Miyasato, Julio Levano-Garcia, Dunia Rodriguez, Eliana Nakano, Sergio Verjovski-Almeida, Leonardo P. Farias, Luciana C.C. Leite

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.58 PubMed 23638396

April 30, 2013

Artifactual pyrosequencing reads in multiple-displacement-amplified sediment metagenomes from the Red Sea

3 citations

648 downloads

2,756 views

Yong Wang, On On Lee, Jiang Ke Yang, Tie Gang Li, Pei Yuan Qian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.69 PubMed 23646288

April 9, 2013

MCH and apomorphine in combination enhance action potential firing of nucleus accumbens shell neurons in vitro

6 citations

545 downloads