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August 2016

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

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 31, 2016

Whole gut microbiome composition of damselfish and cardinalfish before and after reef settlement

Darren J. Parris, Rohan M. Brooker, Michael A. Morgan, Danielle L. Dixson, Frank J. Stewart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2412 PubMed 27635360

August 30, 2016

Epidemiology of Salmonella sp. in California cull dairy cattle: prevalence of fecal shedding and diagnostic accuracy of pooled enriched broth culture of fecal samples

Omran A. Abu Aboud, John M. Adaska, Deniece R. Williams, Paul V. Rossitto, John D. Champagne, Terry W. Lehenbauer, Robert Atwill, Xunde Li, Sharif S. Aly

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2386 PubMed 27635350

August 30, 2016

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

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

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

August 30, 2016

Genome sequencing-assisted identification and the first functional validation of N-acyl-homoserine-lactone synthases from the Sphingomonadaceae family

Han Ming Gan, Lucas K. Dailey, Nigel Halliday, Paul Williams, André O. Hudson, Michael A. Savka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2332 PubMed 27635318

August 24, 2016

Tree phyllosphere bacterial communities: exploring the magnitude of intra- and inter-individual variation among host species

Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Christian Messier, Steven W. Kembel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2367 PubMed 27635335

August 18, 2016

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

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 18, 2016

Isolation of an antimicrobial compound produced by bacteria associated with reef-building corals

Jean-Baptiste Raina, Dianne Tapiolas, Cherie A. Motti, Sylvain Foret, Torsten Seemann, Jan Tebben, Bette L. Willis, David G. Bourne

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2275 PubMed 27602265

August 17, 2016

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

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 17, 2016

Detection of a Yersinia pestis gene homologue in rodent samples

Timothy A. Giles, Alex D. Greenwood, Kyriakos Tsangaras, Tom C. Giles, Paul A. Barrow, Duncan Hannant, Abu-Bakr Abu-Median, Lisa Yon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2216 PubMed 27602258

August 11, 2016

Bunyaviruses are common in male and female Ixodes scapularis ticks in central Pennsylvania

Joyce M. Sakamoto, Terry Fei Fan Ng, Yasutsugu Suzuki, Hitoshi Tsujimoto, Xutao Deng, Eric Delwart, Jason L. Rasgon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2324 PubMed 27602290

August 10, 2016

Vegemite Beer: yeast extract spreads as nutrient supplements to promote fermentation

Edward D. Kerr, Benjamin L. Schulz