December 2016

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December 22, 2016
Exploring the cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus) fecal microbiome, bacterial inhabitants of a worldwide pet
9 citations
456 downloads
2,695 views
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biodiversity
microbiology
veterinary-medicine
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2837 PubMed 28028487
December 22, 2016
Effects of wind energy generation and white-nose syndrome on the viability of the Indiana bat
10 citations
670 downloads
3,717 views
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biosphere-interactions
conservation-biology
ecology
environmental-sciences
zoology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2830 PubMed 28028486
December 22, 2016
Culturable bioaerosols along an urban waterfront are primarily associated with coarse particles
10 citations
421 downloads
1,938 views
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biosphere-interactions
ecology
ecosystem-science
environmental-sciences
microbiology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2827 PubMed 28028485
December 22, 2016
An extensive comparison of species-abundance distribution models
30 citations
1,154 downloads
3,434 views
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computational-biology
ecology
statistics
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2823 PubMed 28028483
December 22, 2016
Three new species of Bertolonia (Melastomataceae) from Espírito Santo, Brazil
9 citations
458 downloads
1,979 views
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biodiversity
plant-science
taxonomy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2822 PubMed 28028482
December 22, 2016
Brain transcriptomes of harbor seals demonstrate gene expression patterns of animals undergoing a metabolic disease and a viral infection
1 citation
356 downloads
1,822 views
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bioinformatics
marine-biology
microbiology
veterinary-medicine
virology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2819 PubMed 28028481
December 22, 2016
Changes in understory species occurrence of a secondary broadleaved forest after mass mortality of oak trees under deer foraging pressure
5 citations
267 downloads
1,444 views
biodiversity
ecology
plant-science
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2816 PubMed 28028480
December 22, 2016
Impacts of land-use management on ecosystem services and biodiversity: an agent-based modelling approach
4 citations
1,437 downloads
3,136 views
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biodiversity
ecology
ecosystem-science
mathematical-biology
natural-resource-management
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2814 PubMed 28028479
December 22, 2016
Reappraisal of Europe’s most complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian: Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 from the “Wealden facies” of Germany
22 citations
1,093 downloads
4,021 views
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evolutionary-studies
paleontology
taxonomy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2813 PubMed 28028478
December 22, 2016
Network-based analysis of differentially expressed genes in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood reveals new candidate genes for multiple sclerosis
25 citations
502 downloads
1,761 views
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bioinformatics
computational-biology
immunology
neurology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2775 PubMed 28028462
December 22, 2016
An integrative systematic revision and biogeography of Rhynchocalamus snakes (Reptilia, Colubridae) with a description of a new species from Israel
6 citations
1,016 downloads
5,128 views
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biodiversity
biogeography
evolutionary-studies
taxonomy
zoology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2769 PubMed 28028461
December 22, 2016
Life history and past demography maintain genetic structure, outcrossing rate, contemporary pollen gene flow of an understory herb in a highly fragmented rainforest
1 citation
550 downloads
1,752 views
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biodiversity
conservation-biology
evolutionary-studies
plant-science
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2764 PubMed 28028460
December 22, 2016
Simplified large African carnivore density estimators from track indices
7 citations
482 downloads
1,738 views
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biodiversity
biogeography
conservation-biology
ecology
statistics
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2662 PubMed 28028454
December 21, 2016
Emergent adaptive behaviour of GRN-controlled simulated robots in a changing environment
2 citations
332 downloads
1,640 views
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bioinformatics
computational-biology
evolutionary-studies
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2812 PubMed 28028477
December 21, 2016
Floral development and vascularization help to explain merism evolution in Paepalanthus (Eriocaulaceae, Poales)
4 citations
436 downloads
1,543 views
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plant-science
taxonomy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2811 PubMed 28028476
December 21, 2016
Cretaceous origin of dogwoods: an anatomically preserved Cornus (Cornaceae) fruit from the Campanian of Vancouver Island
11 citations
341 downloads
2,155 views
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paleontology
plant-science
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2808 PubMed 28028474
December 21, 2016
Spatio-temporal monitoring of deep-sea communities using metabarcoding of sediment DNA and RNA
26 citations
984 downloads
3,754 views
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biodiversity
ecology
genomics
marine-biology
zoology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2807 PubMed 28028473
December 21, 2016
Candidate pathogenicity islands in the genome of ‘Candidatus Rickettsiella isopodorum’, an intracellular bacterium infecting terrestrial isopod crustaceans
9 citations
237 downloads
1,317 views
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evolutionary-studies
genomics
microbiology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2806 PubMed 28028472
December 21, 2016
Molecular phylogenetics, seed morphometrics, chromosome number evolution and systematics of European Elatine L. (Elatinaceae) species
4 citations
348 downloads
1,810 views
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plant-science
taxonomy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2800 PubMed 28028470
December 21, 2016
Hairiness: the missing link between pollinators and pollination
19 citations
603 downloads
3,447 views
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biodiversity
ecology
ecosystem-science
entomology
zoology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2779 PubMed 28028464
December 21, 2016
A review and meta-analysis of the enemy release hypothesis in plant–herbivorous insect systems
9 citations
551 downloads
1,999 views
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ecology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2778 PubMed 28028463
December 21, 2016
Deciphering the preservation of fossil insects: a case study from the Crato Member, Early Cretaceous of Brazil
9 citations
690 downloads
2,894 views
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entomology
paleontology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2756 PubMed 28028459
December 21, 2016
Whole-genome single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker discovery and association analysis with the eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) content in Larimichthys crocea
11 citations
540 downloads
2,174 views
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aquaculture-fisheries-and-fish-science
biodiversity
genomics
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2664 PubMed 28028455
December 21, 2016
Burkholderia pseudomallei type III secreted protein BipC: role in actin modulation and translocation activities required for the bacterial intracellular lifecycle
4 citations
421 downloads
1,536 views
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bioinformatics
microbiology
infectious-diseases
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2532 PubMed 28028452
December 20, 2016
The tuberculocidal activity of polyaniline and functionalised polyanilines
3 citations
268 downloads
1,310 views
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microbiology
infectious-diseases
public-health
respiratory-medicine
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2795 PubMed 28028468

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