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August 2015

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Wild bonobos

August 4, 2015

Flexible vocalizations in wild bonobos show similarities to development of human speech

Researchers have found that wild bonobos are able to vocalize in a similar manner to infant humans. Their findings challenge how we think about the evolution of communication and potentially move the dividing line between humans and other apes.

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August 27, 2015

MetaBAT, an efficient tool for accurately reconstructing single genomes from complex microbial communities

Dongwan D. Kang, Jeff Froula, Rob Egan, Zhong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1165 PubMed 26336640

August 25, 2015

Composition, taxonomy and functional diversity of the oropharynx microbiome in individuals with schizophrenia and controls

Eduardo Castro-Nallar, Matthew L. Bendall, Marcos Pérez-Losada, Sarven Sabuncyan, Emily G. Severance, Faith B. Dickerson, Jennifer R. Schroeder, Robert H. Yolken, Keith A. Crandall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1140 PubMed 26336637

August 13, 2015

A survey of HK, HPt, and RR domains and their organization in two-component systems and phosphorelay proteins of organisms with fully sequenced genomes

Baldiri Salvado, Ester Vilaprinyo, Albert Sorribas, Rui Alves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1183 PubMed 26339559

August 18, 2015

The application of fractional Mel cepstral coefficient in deceptive speech detection

Xinyu Pan, Heming Zhao, Yan Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1194 PubMed 26312185

August 18, 2015

Coalescent: an open-science framework for importance sampling in coalescent theory

Susanta Tewari, John L. Spouge