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March 2016

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Two new rodent species from the Eocene of Egypt

Birkamys korai

March 1, 2016

Two new rodent species from the Eocene of Egypt

Based on dental and rostrum remains, researchers describe and name two new rodents from approximately 34 million years ago.

March 14, 2016

The role of sex and age in the architecture of intrapopulation howler monkey-plant networks in continuous and fragmented rain forests

Julieta Benitez-Malvido, Ana Paola Martínez-Falcón, Wesley Dattilo, Ana María González-DiPierro, Rafael Lombera Estrada, Anna Traveset

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1809 PubMed 26989638

March 31, 2016

Association of NOD1, CXCL16, STAT6 and TLR4 gene polymorphisms with Malaysian patients with Crohn’s disease

Kek Heng Chua, Jin Guan Ng, Ching Ching Ng, Ida Hilmi, Khean Lee Goh, Boon Pin Kee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1843 PubMed 27069792

March 14, 2016

The effect of ribosomal protein S15a in lung adenocarcinoma

Yifan Zhang, Guangxin Zhang, Xin Li, Bingjin Li, Xingyi Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1792 PubMed 26989627

March 28, 2016

A citizen science approach to monitoring bleaching in the zoantharian Palythoa tuberculosa

John Everett Parkinson, Sung-Yin Yang, Iori Kawamura, Gordon Byron, Peter Alan Todd, James Davis Reimer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1815 PubMed 27069784

March 22, 2016

Lizard movement tracks: variation in path re-use behaviour is consistent with a scent-marking function

Stephan T. Leu, Grant Jackson, John F. Roddick, C. Michael Bull

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1844 PubMed 27019790

March 10, 2016

Updating movement estimates for American black ducks (Anas rubripes)

Orin J. Robinson, Conor P. McGowan, Patrick K. Devers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1787 PubMed 26989624

March 29, 2016

Specializations of the mandibular anatomy and dentition of Segnosaurus galbinensis (Theropoda: Therizinosauria)

Lindsay E. Zanno, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, Terry A. Gates

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1885 PubMed 27069815

March 10, 2016

Proteome-wide prediction of targets for aspirin: new insight into the molecular mechanism of aspirin

Shao-Xing Dai, Wen-Xing Li, Gong-Hua Li, Jing-Fei Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1791 PubMed 26989626

March 17, 2016

Changes in pigment, spectral transmission and element content of pink chicken eggshells with different pigment intensity during incubation

Yue Yu, Zhanming Li, Jinming Pan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1825 PubMed 27019785

March 15, 2016

Pre- and post-experimental manipulation assessments confirm the increase in number of birds due to the addition of nest boxes

Cecilia Cuatianquiz Lima, Constantino Macías Garcia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1806 PubMed 26998410

March 17, 2016

Sponge distribution and the presence of photosymbionts in Moorea, French Polynesia

Christopher J. Freeman, Cole G. Easson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1816 PubMed 27014516

March 21, 2016

An integrated text mining framework for metabolic interaction network reconstruction

Preecha Patumcharoenpol, Narumol Doungpan, Asawin Meechai, Bairong Shen, Jonathan H. Chan, Wanwipa Vongsangnak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1811 PubMed 27019783

March 14, 2016

ColoFinder: a prognostic 9-gene signature improves prognosis for 871 stage II and III colorectal cancer patients

Mingguang Shi, Jianmin He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1804 PubMed 26989635

March 14, 2016

Genetic variants in the MicroRNA biosynthetic pathway Gemin3 and Gemin4 are associated with a risk of cancer: a meta-analysis

Wenbo Zhu, Jun Zhao, Jieyu He, Daxun Qi, Lina Wang, Xu Ma, Pei Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1724 PubMed 27019773

March 10, 2016

From commensalism to parasitism in Carapidae (Ophidiiformes): heterochronic modes of development?

Eric Parmentier, Déborah Lanterbecq, Igor Eeckhaut

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1786 PubMed 26989623

March 10, 2016

Genetic diversity and structure in the Endangered Allen Cays Rock Iguana, Cyclura cychlura inornata

Andrea C. Aplasca, John B. Iverson, Mark E. Welch, Giuliano Colosimo, Evon R. Hekkala

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1793 PubMed 26989628

March 7, 2016

Response diversity of free-floating plants to nutrient stoichiometry and temperature: growth and resting body formation

Michael J. McCann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1781 PubMed 26989619

March 15, 2016

Movement, demographics, and occupancy dynamics of a federally-threatened salamander: evaluating the adequacy of critical habitat

Nathan F. Bendik, Kira D. McEntire, Blake N. Sissel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1817 PubMed 26998413

March 15, 2016

Molecular evidence of Burkholderia pseudomallei genotypes based on geographical distribution

Noorfatin Jihan Zulkefli, Vanitha Mariappan, Kumutha Malar Vellasamy, Chun Wie Chong, Kwai Lin Thong, Sasheela Ponnampalavanar, Jamuna Vadivelu, Cindy Shuan Ju Teh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1802 PubMed 26998408

March 10, 2016

Molecular phylogeny of porcelain crabs (Porcellanidae: Petrolisthes and allies) from the south eastern Pacific: the genera Allopetrolisthes and Liopetrolisthes are not natural entities

J. Antonio Baeza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1805 PubMed 26989636

March 8, 2016

A quantitative look on northwestern Tethyan foraminiferal assemblages, Campanian Nierental Formation, Austria

Erik Wolfgring, Michael Wagreich

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1757 PubMed 26989610

March 24, 2016

Development and characterization of 26 novel microsatellite loci for the trochid gastropod Gibbula divaricata (Linnaeus, 1758), using Illumina MiSeq next generation sequencing technology

Violeta López-Márquez, Ricardo García-Jiménez, José Templado, Annie Machordom

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1789 PubMed 27042392

March 29, 2016

Mussel biofiltration effects on attached bacteria and unicellular eukaryotes in fish-rearing seawater

Eleni Voudanta, Konstantinos Ar Kormas, Sebastién Monchy, Alice Delegrange, Dorothée Vincent, Savvas Genitsaris, Urania Christaki

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1829 PubMed 27069786

March 3, 2016

Aboveground carbon in Quebec forests: stock quantification at the provincial scale and assessment of temperature, precipitation and edaphic properties effects on the potential stand-level stocking

Louis Duchesne, Daniel Houle, Rock Ouimet, Marie-Claude Lambert, Travis Logan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1767 PubMed 26966680

March 10, 2016

Microgeographic variation in locomotor traits among lizards in a human-built environment

Colin Donihue

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1776 PubMed 26989616