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Behavioral flexibility in an invasive bird is independent of other
behaviors

Great-tailed grackle

July 12, 2016

Behavioral flexibility in an invasive bird is independent of other behaviors

Researchers investigated whether 'reversal learning' performance was linked to other behaviors in great-tailed grackles. The results provide potential insights into why this invasive species has been able to succeed.

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July 27, 2016

Further evidence of Chelonid herpesvirus 5 (ChHV5) latency: high levels of ChHV5 DNA detected in clinically healthy marine turtles

Alonzo Alfaro-Núñez, Anders Miki Bojesen, Mads F. Bertelsen, Nathan Wales, George H. Balazs, M. Thomas P. Gilbert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2274 PubMed 27547576

July 20, 2016

DNA barcode data accurately assign higher spider taxa

Jonathan A. Coddington, Ingi Agnarsson, Ren-Chung Cheng, Klemen Čandek, Amy Driskell, Holger Frick, Matjaž Gregorič, Rok Kostanjšek, Christian Kropf, Matthew Kweskin, Tjaša Lokovšek, Miha Pipan, Nina Vidergar, Matjaž Kuntner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2201 PubMed 27547527

July 6, 2016

Characterisation of an atypical manifestation of black band disease on Porites lutea in the Western Indian Ocean

Mathieu Séré, David A. Wilkinson, Michael H. Schleyer, Pascale Chabanet, Jean-Pascal Quod, Pablo Tortosa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2073 PubMed 27441106

July 14, 2016

Association between aberrant APC promoter methylation and breast cancer pathogenesis: a meta-analysis of 35 observational studies

Dan Zhou, Weiwei Tang, Wenyi Wang, Xiaoyan Pan, Han-Xiang An, Yun Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2203 PubMed 27478702

July 7, 2016

Comparative analysis of SNP candidates in disparate milk yielding river buffaloes using targeted sequencing

Ramesh Menon, Anand B. Patel, Chaitanya Joshi