Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 6, 2016

Harmine stimulates proliferation of human neural progenitors

Vanja Dakic, Renata de Moraes Maciel, Hannah Drummond, Juliana M. Nascimento, Pablo Trindade, Stevens K. Rehen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2727 PubMed 27957390

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 7, 2016

Meta-analysis reveals that seed-applied neonicotinoids and pyrethroids have similar negative effects on abundance of arthropod natural enemies

Margaret R. Douglas, John F. Tooker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2776 PubMed 27957400

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 8, 2016

Identification of canine papillomavirus by PCR in Greyhound dogs

Eman A. Anis, Linda A. Frank, Raquel Francisco, Stephen A. Kania

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2744 PubMed 27957392

December 22, 2016

An integrative systematic revision and biogeography of Rhynchocalamus snakes (Reptilia, Colubridae) with a description of a new species from Israel

Karin Tamar, Jiří Šmíd, Bayram Göçmen, Shai Meiri, Salvador Carranza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2769 PubMed 28028461

December 21, 2016

Spatio-temporal monitoring of deep-sea communities using metabarcoding of sediment DNA and RNA

Magdalena Guardiola, Owen S. Wangensteen, Pierre Taberlet, Eric Coissac, María Jesús Uriz, Xavier Turon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2807 PubMed 28028473

December 22, 2016

Reappraisal of Europe’s most complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian: Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 from the “Wealden facies” of Germany

Sven Sachs, Jahn J. Hornung, Benjamin P. Kear

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2813 PubMed 28028478

December 22, 2016

An extensive comparison of species-abundance distribution models

Elita Baldridge, David J. Harris, Xiao Xiao, Ethan P. White

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2823 PubMed 28028483

December 13, 2016

Species interactions in an Andean bird–flowering plant network: phenology is more important than abundance or morphology

Oscar Gonzalez, Bette A. Loiselle

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2789 PubMed 27994982

December 13, 2016

Malagasy Conostigmus (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea) and the secret of scutes

István Mikó, Carolyn Trietsch, Emily L. Sandall, Matthew Jon Yoder, Heather Hines, Andrew Robert Deans

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2682 PubMed 27994960

December 21, 2016

Hairiness: the missing link between pollinators and pollination

Jamie R. Stavert, Gustavo Liñán-Cembrano, Jacqueline R. Beggs, Brad G. Howlett, David E. Pattemore, Ignasi Bartomeus

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2779 PubMed 28028464

December 22, 2016

Effects of wind energy generation and white-nose syndrome on the viability of the Indiana bat

Richard A. Erickson, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Jay E. Diffendorfer, Robin E. Russell, Jennifer A. Szymanski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2830 PubMed 28028486

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 15, 2016

RNA interference as a gene silencing tool to control Tuta absoluta in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

Roberto A. Camargo, Guilherme O. Barbosa, Isabella Presotto Possignolo, Lazaro E. P. Peres, Eric Lam, Joni E. Lima, Antonio Figueira, Henrique Marques-Souza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2673 PubMed 27994959

December 13, 2016

A large and unusually colored new snake species of the genus Tantilla (Squamata; Colubridae) from the Peruvian Andes

Claudia Koch, Pablo J. Venegas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2767 PubMed 27994975

December 20, 2016

Identifying stably expressed genes from multiple RNA-Seq data sets

Bin Zhuo, Sarah Emerson, Jeff H. Chang, Yanming Di

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2791 PubMed 28028467

December 21, 2016

Deciphering the preservation of fossil insects: a case study from the Crato Member, Early Cretaceous of Brazil

Gabriel Ladeira Osés, Setembrino Petri, Bruno Becker-Kerber, Guilherme Raffaeli Romero, Marcia de Almeida Rizzutto, Fabio Rodrigues, Douglas Galante, Tiago Fiorini da Silva, Jessica F. Curado, Elidiane Cipriano Rangel, Rafael Parra Ribeiro, Mírian Liza Alves Forancelli Pacheco

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2756 PubMed 28028459

December 21, 2016

Molecular phylogenetics, seed morphometrics, chromosome number evolution and systematics of European Elatine L. (Elatinaceae) species

Gábor Sramkó, Attila Molnár V., János Pál Tóth, Levente Laczkó, Anna Kalinka, Orsolya Horváth, Lidia Skuza, Balázs András Lukács, Agnieszka Popiela

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2800 PubMed 28028470

December 8, 2016

Shallow water sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from the northwestern coast of the Sea of Japan, north of Peter the Great Bay, Russia

Anton Chichvarkhin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2774 PubMed 27957399

December 22, 2016

Impacts of land-use management on ecosystem services and biodiversity: an agent-based modelling approach

Thomas J. Habib, Scott Heckbert, Jeffrey J. Wilson, Andrew J. K. Vandenbroeck, Jerome Cranston, Daniel R. Farr