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Europe's Rarest Orchid Rediscovered on 'Lost World' Volcano in the Azores

Short-spurred Butterfly-orchid

December 10, 2013

Europe's Rarest Orchid Rediscovered on 'Lost World' Volcano in the Azores

Researchers studying speciation of butterfly orchids on the Azores have been startled to discover that the answer to a long-debated question “Do the islands support one species or two species?” is actually “three species”. Hochstetter’s Butterfly-orchid, newly recognized as a result of this study, is arguably Europe’s rarest orchid species. Read more in the peer reviewed article

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December 23, 2013

Succession of the turkey gastrointestinal bacterial microbiome related to weight gain

Jessica L. Danzeisen, Alamanda J. Calvert, Sally L. Noll, Brian McComb, Julie S. Sherwood, Catherine M. Logue, Timothy J. Johnson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.237 PubMed 24432198

December 23, 2013

Whole genome phylogeny for 21 Drosophila species using predicted 2b-RAD fragments

Arun S. Seetharam, Gary W. Stuart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.226 PubMed 24432193

December 19, 2013

Pathway-GPS and SIGORA: identifying relevant pathways based on the over-representation of their gene-pair signatures

Amir B.K. Foroushani, Fiona S.L. Brinkman, David J. Lynn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.229 PubMed 24432194

December 19, 2013

Synchronised provisioning at the nest: parental coordination over care in a socially monogamous species

Erica P. van Rooij, Simon C. Griffith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.232 PubMed 24432197

December 23, 2013

Genome engineering of mammalian haploid embryonic stem cells using the Cas9/RNA system

Takuro Horii, Sumiyo Morita, Mika Kimura, Ryouhei Kobayashi, Daiki Tamura, Ryou-u Takahashi, Hironobu Kimura, Isao Suetake, Hirokazu Ohata, Koji Okamoto, Shoji Tajima, Takahiro Ochiya, Yumiko Abe, Izuho Hatada

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.230 PubMed 24432195

December 10, 2013

Systematic revision of Platanthera in the Azorean archipelago: not one but three species, including arguably Europe’s rarest orchid

Richard M. Bateman, Paula J. Rudall, Mónica Moura

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.218 PubMed 24392284

December 12, 2013

Isotopic evidence for the spatial heterogeneity of the planktonic food webs in the transition zone between river and lake ecosystems

Hideyuki Doi, Elena I. Zuykova, Shuichi Shikano, Eisuke Kikuchi, Hiroshi Ota, Natalia I. Yurlova, Elena Yadrenkina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.222 PubMed 24392286

December 17, 2013

Sampling designs matching species biology produce accurate and affordable abundance indices

Grant Harris, Sean Farley, Gareth J. Russell, Matthew J. Butler, Jeff Selinger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.227 PubMed 24392290

December 3, 2013

Transient fusion and selective secretion of vesicle proteins in Phytophthora nicotianae zoospores

Weiwei Zhang, Leila M. Blackman, Adrienne R. Hardham

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.221 PubMed 24392285

December 10, 2013

Gammaretroviral vector encoding a fluorescent marker to facilitate detection of reprogrammed human fibroblasts during iPSC generation

Narasimhachar Srinivasakumar, Michail Zaboikin, Andrew M. Tidball, Asad A. Aboud, M. Diana Neely, Kevin C. Ess, Aaron B. Bowman, Friedrich G. Schuening

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.224 PubMed 24392288

December 17, 2013

Evolution of male life histories and age-dependent sexual signals under female choice

Joel J. Adamson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.225 PubMed 24392289

December 10, 2013

Neural representation of face familiarity in an awake chimpanzee

Hirokata Fukushima, Satoshi Hirata, Goh Matsuda, Ari Ueno, Kohki Fuwa, Keiko Sugama, Kiyo Kusunoki, Kazuo Hiraki, Masaki Tomonaga, Toshikazu Hasegawa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.223 PubMed 24392287