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December 2016

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

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 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 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 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 22, 2016

Three new species of Bertolonia (Melastomataceae) from Espírito Santo, Brazil

Lucas F. Bacci, André M. Amorim, Renato Goldenberg

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

Stephanie M. Rosales, Rebecca L. Vega Thurber

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

Hiroki Itô

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

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

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

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

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

Nahid Safari-Alighiarloo, Mostafa Rezaei-Tavirani, Mohammad Taghizadeh, Seyyed Mohammad Tabatabaei, Saeed Namaki

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

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

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

Pilar Suárez-Montes, Mariana Chávez-Pesqueira, Juan Núñez-Farfán

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2764 PubMed 28028460

December 22, 2016

Simplified large African carnivore density estimators from track indices

Christiaan W. Winterbach, Sam M. Ferreira, Paul J. Funston, Michael J. Somers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2662 PubMed 28028454

December 21, 2016

Emergent adaptive behaviour of GRN-controlled simulated robots in a changing environment

Yao Yao, Veronique Storme, Kathleen Marchal, Yves Van de Peer

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)

Arthur de Lima Silva, Marcelo Trovó, Alessandra Ike Coan

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

Brian A. Atkinson, Ruth A. Stockey, Gar W. Rothwell

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

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

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

YaDong Wang, Christopher Chandler

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

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 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 21, 2016

A review and meta-analysis of the enemy release hypothesis in plant–herbivorous insect systems

Kim Meijer, Menno Schilthuizen, Leo Beukeboom, Christian Smit

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

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

Whole-genome single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker discovery and association analysis with the eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) content in Larimichthys crocea

Shijun Xiao, Panpan Wang, Linsong Dong, Yaguang Zhang, Zhaofang Han, Qiurong Wang, Zhiyong Wang

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

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

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

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

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