Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

August 19, 2014

Sequencing at sea: challenges and experiences in Ion Torrent PGM sequencing during the 2013 Southern Line Islands Research Expedition

Yan Wei Lim, Daniel A. Cuevas, Genivaldo Gueiros Z. Silva, Kristen Aguinaldo, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Andreas F. Haas, Mark Hatay, Savannah E. Sanchez, Linda Wegley-Kelly, Bas E. Dutilh, Timothy T. Harkins, Clarence C. Lee, Warren Tom, Stuart A. Sandin, Jennifer E. Smith, Brian Zgliczynski, Mark J.A. Vermeij, Forest Rohwer, Robert A. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.520 PubMed 25177534

August 21, 2014

Subsampled open-reference clustering creates consistent, comprehensive OTU definitions and scales to billions of sequences

Jai Ram Rideout, Yan He, Jose A. Navas-Molina, William A. Walters, Luke K. Ursell, Sean M. Gibbons, John Chase, Daniel McDonald, Antonio Gonzalez, Adam Robbins-Pianka, Jose C. Clemente, Jack A. Gilbert, Susan M. Huse, Hong-Wei Zhou, Rob Knight, J. Gregory Caporaso

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.545 PubMed 25177538

August 28, 2014

Graeme Shannon, Jesse S. Lewis, Brian D. Gerber

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.532 PubMed 25210658

August 5, 2014

Human hair shaft proteomic profiling: individual differences, site specificity and cuticle analysis

Chelsea N. Laatsch, Blythe P. Durbin-Johnson, David M. Rocke, Sophie Mukwana, Abby B. Newland, Michael J. Flagler, Michael G. Davis, Richard A. Eigenheer, Brett S. Phinney, Robert H. Rice

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.506 PubMed 25165623

August 12, 2014

Whale shark economics: a valuation of wildlife tourism in South Ari Atoll, Maldives

Edgar Fernando Cagua, Neal Collins, James Hancock, Richard Rees

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.515 PubMed 25165629

August 12, 2014

Intergenerational conflicts may help explain parental absence effects on reproductive timing: a model of age at first birth in humans

Cristina Moya, Rebecca Sear

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.512 PubMed 25165627

August 12, 2014

The mitochondrial genome of Paragonimus westermani (Kerbert, 1878), the Indian isolate of the lung fluke representative of the family Paragonimidae (Trematoda)

Devendra K. Biswal, Anupam Chatterjee, Alok Bhattacharya, Veena Tandon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.484 PubMed 25165620

August 12, 2014

Feeding behaviour of Caenorhabditis elegans is an indicator of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 virulence

Shawn Lewenza, Laetitia Charron-Mazenod, Lauriane Giroux, Alexandra D. Zamponi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.521 PubMed 25165631

August 12, 2014

The relationship between managed bees and the prevalence of parasites in bumblebees

Peter Graystock, Dave Goulson, William O.H. Hughes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.522 PubMed 25165632

August 12, 2014

Yawn contagion in humans and bonobos: emotional affinity matters more than species

Elisabetta Palagi, Ivan Norscia, Elisa Demuru

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.519 PubMed 25165630

August 5, 2014

RIM-DB: a taxonomic framework for community structure analysis of methanogenic archaea from the rumen and other intestinal environments

Henning Seedorf, Sandra Kittelmann, Gemma Henderson, Peter H. Janssen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.494 PubMed 25165621

August 14, 2014

Three dimensional digital reconstruction of the jaw adductor musculature of the extinct marsupial giant Diprotodon optatum

Alana C. Sharp

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.514 PubMed 25165628

August 26, 2014

Rice koji reduced body weight gain, fat accumulation, and blood glucose level in high-fat diet-induced obese mice

Yumiko Yoshizaki, Chihiro Kawasaki, Kai-Chun Cheng, Miharu Ushikai, Haruka Amitani, Akihiro Asakawa, Kayu Okutsu, Yoshihiro Sameshima, Kazunori Takamine, Akio Inui

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.540 PubMed 25237599

August 7, 2014

Asymmetric connectivity of spawning aggregations of a commercially important marine fish using a multidisciplinary approach

Adrian Munguia-Vega, Alexis Jackson, Silvio Guido Marinone, Brad Erisman, Marcia Moreno-Baez, Alfredo Girón-Nava, Tad Pfister, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Jorge Torre

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.511 PubMed 25165626

August 5, 2014

Insights on the structure and stability of Licanantase: a trimeric acid-stable coiled-coil lipoprotein from Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans

Fernando Abarca, Sebastian E. Gutierrez-Maldonado, Pilar Parada, Patricio Martinez, Alejandro Maass, Tomas Perez-Acle

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.457 PubMed 25165619

August 28, 2014

Disease dynamics and potential mitigation among restored and wild staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis

Margaret W. Miller, Kathryn E. Lohr, Caitlin M. Cameron, Dana E. Williams, Esther C. Peters

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.541 PubMed 25210660

August 28, 2014

New craniodental remains of Thylacinus potens (Dasyuromorphia: Thylacinidae), a carnivorous marsupial from the late Miocene Alcoota Local Fauna of central Australia

Adam M. Yates

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.547 PubMed 25237601

August 26, 2014

Evaluation of a semiquantitative SNAP test for measurement of bile acids in dogs

Rachel L. Seibert, Karen M. Tobias, Ann Reed, Karl R. Snyder

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.539 PubMed 25210659

August 26, 2014

Metabolic fingerprinting of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) liver to track interactions between dietary factors and seasonal temperature variations

Tomé S. Silva, Ana M.R. da Costa, Luís E.C. Conceição, Jorge P. Dias, Pedro M.L. Rodrigues, Nadège Richard

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.527 PubMed 25210655

August 19, 2014

Data-driven discovery of the spatial scales of habitat choice by elephants

Andrew F. Mashintonio, Stuart L. Pimm, Grant M. Harris, Rudi J. van Aarde, Gareth J. Russell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.504 PubMed 25177532

August 14, 2014

Recent genome reduction of Wolbachia in Drosophila recens targets phage WO and narrows candidates for reproductive parasitism

Jason A. Metcalf, Minhee Jo, Sarah R. Bordenstein, John Jaenike, Seth R. Bordenstein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.529 PubMed 25165636

August 7, 2014

No population bias to left-hemisphere language in 4-year-olds with language impairment

Dorothy V.M. Bishop, Georgina Holt, Andrew J.O. Whitehouse, Margriet Groen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.507 PubMed 25165624

August 26, 2014

A survey on cultivable heterotrophic bacteria inhabiting a thermally unstratified water column in an Atlantic Rainforest lake

Cláudia I. Lima-Bittencourt, Patrícia S. Costa, Mariana P. Reis, Alexandre B. Santos, Francisco A.R. Barbosa, Jean L. Valentin, Fabiano L. Thompson, Edmar Chartone-Souza, Andréa M.A. Nascimento

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.478 PubMed 25237594

August 14, 2014

Fast and accurate semantic annotation of bioassays exploiting a hybrid of machine learning and user confirmation

Alex M. Clark, Barry A. Bunin, Nadia K. Litterman, Stephan C. Schürer, Ubbo Visser

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.524 PubMed 25165633

August 19, 2014

Scaling of olfactory antennae of the terrestrial hermit crabs Coenobita rugosus and Coenobita perlatus during ontogeny

Lindsay D. Waldrop, Roxanne M. Bantay, Quang V. Nguyen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.535 PubMed 25177536