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September 2014

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Camel Cricket

September 2, 2014

Invasive Asian Camel Crickets are now common in U.S. homes

New research, made possible by citizen scientists across the US, finds that non-native camel cricket species have spread into homes across the eastern United States -

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September 30, 2014

Induced sensitivity of Bacillus subtilis colony morphology to mechanical media compression

Jessica K. Polka, Pamela A. Silver

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.597 PubMed 25289183

September 30, 2014

Detailed comparison of two popular variant calling packages for exome and targeted exon studies

Charles D. Warden, Aaron W. Adamson, Susan L. Neuhausen, Xiwei Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.600 PubMed 25289185

September 25, 2014

Swarm: robust and fast clustering method for amplicon-based studies

Frédéric Mahé, Torbjørn Rognes, Christopher Quince, Colomban de Vargas, Micah Dunthorn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.593 PubMed 25276506

September 25, 2014

Habitat creation and biodiversity maintenance in mangrove forests: teredinid bivalves as ecosystem engineers

Ian W. Hendy, Laura Michie, Ben W. Taylor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.591 PubMed 25276505

September 16, 2014

Population structure and residency patterns of whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, at a provisioning site in Cebu, Philippines

Gonzalo Araujo, Anna Lucey, Jessica Labaja, Catherine Lee So, Sally Snow, Alessandro Ponzo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.543 PubMed 25279256

September 23, 2014

Culture-independent detection and characterisation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. africanum in sputum samples using shotgun metagenomics on a benchtop sequencer

Emma L. Doughty, Martin J. Sergeant, Ifedayo Adetifa, Martin Antonio, Mark J. Pallen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.585 PubMed 25279265

September 30, 2014

GroopM: an automated tool for the recovery of population genomes from related metagenomes

Michael Imelfort, Donovan Parks, Ben J. Woodcroft, Paul Dennis, Philip Hugenholtz, Gene W. Tyson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.603 PubMed 25289188

September 2, 2014

Effects of deuterium oxide on cell growth and vesicle speed in RBL-2H3 cells

Roshni S. Kalkur, Andrew C. Ballast, Ashley R. Triplett, Kathrin Spendier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.553 PubMed 25237603

September 30, 2014

Effect of obesity and exercise on the expression of the novel myokines, Myonectin and Fibronectin type III domain containing 5

Jonathan M. Peterson, Ryan Mart, Cherie E. Bond

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.605 PubMed 25289190

September 30, 2014

Eutrophication and the dietary promotion of sea turtle tumors

Kyle S. Van Houtan, Celia M. Smith, Meghan L. Dailer, Migiwa Kawachi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.602 PubMed 25289187

September 23, 2014

A simple non-invasive method for measuring gross brain size in small live fish with semi-transparent heads

Joacim Näslund

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.586 PubMed 25279266

September 2, 2014

Evidence that ebolaviruses and cuevaviruses have been diverging from marburgviruses since the Miocene

Derek J. Taylor, Matthew J. Ballinger, Jack J. Zhan, Laura E. Hanzly, Jeremy A. Bruenn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.556 PubMed 25237605

September 25, 2014

Synergy as a rationale for phage therapy using phage cocktails

Matthew Schmerer, Ian J. Molineux, James J. Bull

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.590 PubMed 25279269

September 2, 2014

Exceptionally preserved insect fossils in the Late Jurassic lagoon of Orbagnoux (Rhône Valley, France)

André Nel, Patricia Nel, Régis Krieg-Jacquier, Jean-Marc Pouillon, Romain Garrouste

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.510 PubMed 25210652

September 23, 2014

Removing batch effects for prediction problems with frozen surrogate variable analysis

Hilary S. Parker, Héctor Corrada Bravo, Jeffrey T. Leek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.561 PubMed 25332844

September 23, 2014

Livestock as a potential biological control agent for an invasive wetland plant

Brian R. Silliman, Thomas Mozdzer, Christine Angelini, Jennifer E. Brundage, Peter Esselink, Jan P. Bakker, Keryn B. Gedan, Johan van de Koppel, Andrew H. Baldwin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.567 PubMed 25276502

September 23, 2014

Error estimates for the analysis of differential expression from RNA-seq count data

Conrad J. Burden, Sumaira E. Qureshi, Susan R. Wilson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.576 PubMed 25337456

September 25, 2014

Revision of the Late Jurassic crocodyliform Alligatorellus, and evidence for allopatric speciation driving high diversity in western European atoposaurids

Jonathan P. Tennant, Philip D. Mannion

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.599 PubMed 25279270

September 9, 2014

Psoralidin induces autophagy through ROS generation which inhibits the proliferation of human lung cancer A549 cells

Wenhui Hao, Xuenong Zhang, Wenwen Zhao, Xiuping Chen