Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

May 10, 2016

Heat shock factors in tomatoes: genome-wide identification, phylogenetic analysis and expression profiling under development and heat stress

Xuedong Yang, Weimin Zhu, Hui Zhang, Na Liu, Shoubo Tian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1961 PubMed 27190703

May 12, 2016

The genome and transcriptome of Phalaenopsis yield insights into floral organ development and flowering regulation

Jian-Zhi Huang, Chih-Peng Lin, Ting-Chi Cheng, Ya-Wen Huang, Yi-Jung Tsai, Shu-Yun Cheng, Yi-Wen Chen, Chueh-Pai Lee, Wan-Chia Chung, Bill Chia-Han Chang, Shih-Wen Chin, Chen-Yu Lee, Fure-Chyi Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2017 PubMed 27190718

May 10, 2016

Incorporation of an invasive plant into a native insect herbivore food web

Menno Schilthuizen, Lúcia P. Santos Pimenta, Youri Lammers, Peter J. Steenbergen, Marco Flohil, Nils G.P. Beveridge, Pieter T. van Duijn, Marjolein M. Meulblok, Nils Sosef, Robin van de Ven, Ralf Werring, Kevin K. Beentjes, Kim Meijer, Rutger A. Vos, Klaas Vrieling, Barbara Gravendeel, Young Choi, Robert Verpoorte, Chris Smit, Leo W. Beukeboom

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1954 PubMed 27190702

May 17, 2016

Yet another new species from one of the best-studied neotropical areas: Plantago humboldtiana (Plantaginaceae), an extremely narrow endemic new species from a waterfall in southern Brazil

Gustavo Hassemer, Nina Rønsted

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2050 PubMed 27231665

May 3, 2016

What is Atraphaxis L. (Polygonaceae, Polygoneae): cryptic taxa and resolved taxonomic complexity instead of the formal lumping and the lack of morphological synapomorphies

Olga V. Yurtseva, Oxana I. Kuznetsova, Maria E. Mavrodieva, Evgeny V. Mavrodiev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1977 PubMed 27168986

May 17, 2016

Transcriptomic analysis reveals distinct resistant response by physcion and chrysophanol against cucumber powdery mildew

Yanping Li, Shilin Tian, Xiaojun Yang, Xin Wang, Yuhai Guo, Hanwen Ni