Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 8, 2016

Towards quantitative viromics for both double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses

Simon Roux, Natalie E. Solonenko, Vinh T. Dang, Bonnie T. Poulos, Sarah M. Schwenck, Dawn B. Goldsmith, Maureen L. Coleman, Mya Breitbart, Matthew B. Sullivan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2777 PubMed 28003936

December 1, 2016

On the intrinsic sterility of 3D printing

Russell Y. Neches, Kaitlin J. Flynn, Luis Zaman, Emily Tung, Nicholas Pudlo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2661 PubMed 27920950

December 13, 2016

Diversity, taxonomic composition, and functional aspects of fungal communities in living, senesced, and fallen leaves at five sites across North America

Jana M. U’Ren, A. Elizabeth Arnold

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2768 PubMed 27994976

December 22, 2016

Culturable bioaerosols along an urban waterfront are primarily associated with coarse particles

Angel Montero, M. Elias Dueker, Gregory D. O’Mullan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2827 PubMed 28028485

December 20, 2016

Seqenv: linking sequences to environments through text mining

Lucas Sinclair, Umer Z. Ijaz, Lars Juhl Jensen, Marco J.L. Coolen, Cecile Gubry-Rangin, Alica Chroňáková, Anastasis Oulas, Christina Pavloudi, Julia Schnetzer, Aaron Weimann, Ali Ijaz, Alexander Eiler, Christopher Quince, Evangelos Pafilis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2690 PubMed 28028456

December 22, 2016

Exploring the cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus) fecal microbiome, bacterial inhabitants of a worldwide pet

Luis David Alcaraz, Apolinar M. Hernández, Mariana Peimbert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2837 PubMed 28028487

December 15, 2016

In vitro gastrointestinal digestion study of a novel bio-tofu with special emphasis on the impact of microbial transglutaminase

Guangliang Xing, Xin Rui, Mei Jiang, Yu Xiao, Ying Guan, Dan Wang, Mingsheng Dong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2754 PubMed 27994970

December 14, 2016

Probabilistic adaptation in changing microbial environments

Yarden Katz, Michael Springer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2716 PubMed 27994963

December 14, 2016

Examination of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis mixed genotype infections in dairy animals using a whole genome sequencing approach

Fraser W. Davidson, Christina Ahlstrom, Jeroen De Buck, Hugh G. Whitney, Kapil Tahlan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2793 PubMed 27994984

December 21, 2016

Candidate pathogenicity islands in the genome of ‘Candidatus Rickettsiella isopodorum’, an intracellular bacterium infecting terrestrial isopod crustaceans

YaDong Wang, Christopher Chandler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2806 PubMed 28028472

December 20, 2016

Consumption of antimicrobial manuka honey does not significantly perturb the microbiota in the hind gut of mice

Doug Rosendale, Christine A. Butts, Cloe Erika de Guzman, Ian S. Maddox, Sheridan Martell, Lynn McIntyre, Margot A. Skinner, Hannah Dinnan, Juliet Ansell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2787 PubMed 28028466

December 20, 2016

The tuberculocidal activity of polyaniline and functionalised polyanilines

Julia Robertson, James Dalton, Siouxsie Wiles, Marija Gizdavic-Nikolaidis, Simon Swift

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2795 PubMed 28028468

December 21, 2016

Burkholderia pseudomallei type III secreted protein BipC: role in actin modulation and translocation activities required for the bacterial intracellular lifecycle

Wen Tyng Kang, Kumutha Malar Vellasamy, Lakshminarayanan Rajamani, Roger W. Beuerman, Jamuna Vadivelu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2532 PubMed 28028452

December 22, 2016

Brain transcriptomes of harbor seals demonstrate gene expression patterns of animals undergoing a metabolic disease and a viral infection

Stephanie M. Rosales, Rebecca L. Vega Thurber