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Mimicry adaptation between egg-cowries and octocorals

Mixed ovoposition

August 2, 2016

Mimicry adaptation between egg-cowries and octocorals

Researchers measured whether the various camouflage patterns of egg-cowries matched the different coral species that they inhabited.

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August 16, 2016

The health care and life sciences community profile for dataset descriptions

13 citations

677 downloads

5,706 views

Michel Dumontier, Alasdair J.G. Gray, M. Scott Marshall, Vladimir Alexiev, Peter Ansell, Gary Bader, Joachim Baran, Jerven T. Bolleman, Alison Callahan, José Cruz-Toledo, Pascale Gaudet, Erich A. Gombocz, Alejandra N. Gonzalez-Beltran, Paul Groth, Melissa Haendel, Maori Ito, Simon Jupp, Nick Juty, Toshiaki Katayama, Norio Kobayashi, Kalpana Krishnaswami, Camille Laibe, Nicolas Le Novère, Simon Lin, James Malone, Michael Miller, Christopher J. Mungall, Laurens Rietveld, Sarala M. Wimalaratne, Atsuko Yamaguchi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2331 PubMed 27602295

August 9, 2016

Temporal dynamics of the developing lung transcriptome in three common inbred strains of laboratory mice reveals multiple stages of postnatal alveolar development

30 citations

944 downloads

5,114 views

Kyle J. Beauchemin, Julie M. Wells, Alvin T. Kho, Vivek M. Philip, Daniela Kamir, Isaac S. Kohane, Joel H. Graber, Carol J. Bult

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2318 PubMed 27602285

August 9, 2016

Probing the origins of human acetylcholinesterase inhibition via QSAR modeling and molecular docking

26 citations

939 downloads

4,594 views

Saw Simeon, Nuttapat Anuwongcharoen, Watshara Shoombuatong, Aijaz Ahmad Malik, Virapong Prachayasittikul, Jarl E.S. Wikberg, Chanin Nantasenamat

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2322 PubMed 27602288

August 11, 2016

Metabolomics of pulmonary exacerbations reveals the personalized nature of cystic fibrosis disease

32 citations

873 downloads

3,662 views

Robert A. Quinn, Yan Wei Lim, Tytus D. Mak, Katrine Whiteson, Mike Furlan, Douglas Conrad, Forest Rohwer, Pieter Dorrestein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2174 PubMed 27602256

August 9, 2016

A comparison of blood gases, biochemistry, and hematology to ecomorphology in a health assessment of pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides)

11 citations

1,032 downloads

3,447 views

Sara Collins, Alex Dornburg, Joseph M. Flores, Daniel S. Dombrowski, Gregory A. Lewbart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2262 PubMed 27602261

August 24, 2016

Analysis of genotype diversity and evolution of Dengue virus serotype 2 using complete genomes

20 citations

1,619 downloads

3,286 views

Vaishali P. Waman, Pandurang Kolekar, Mukund R. Ramtirthkar, Mohan M. Kale, Urmila Kulkarni-Kale

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2326 PubMed 27635316

August 18, 2016

Microbe-ID: an open source toolbox for microbial genotyping and species identification

2 citations

641 downloads

2,937 views

Javier F. Tabima, Sydney E. Everhart, Meredith M. Larsen, Alexandra J. Weisberg, Zhian N. Kamvar, Matthew A. Tancos, Christine D. Smart, Jeff H. Chang, Niklaus J. Grünwald

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2279 PubMed 27602267

August 31, 2016

Genome-wide identification and characterization of GRAS transcription factors in sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)

16 citations

779 downloads

2,896 views

Yu Wang, Shenglu Shi, Ying Zhou, Yu Zhou, Jie Yang, Xiaoqing Tang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2388 PubMed 27635351

August 30, 2016

A heritability-based comparison of methods used to cluster 16S rRNA gene sequences into operational taxonomic units

21 citations

587 downloads

2,804 views

Matthew A. Jackson, Jordana T. Bell, Tim D. Spector, Claire J. Steves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2341 PubMed 27635321

August 17, 2016

MOST: a modified MLST typing tool based on short read sequencing

67 citations

444 downloads

2,680 views

Rediat Tewolde, Timothy Dallman, Ulf Schaefer, Carmen L. Sheppard, Philip Ashton, Bruno Pichon, Matthew Ellington, Craig Swift, Jonathan Green, Anthony Underwood

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2308 PubMed 27602279

August 23, 2016

CardioTF, a database of deconstructing transcriptional circuits in the heart system

1 citation

468 downloads

2,418 views

Yisong Zhen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2339 PubMed 27635320

August 23, 2016

SICLE: a high-throughput tool for extracting evolutionary relationships from phylogenetic trees

1 citation

492 downloads