Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Lybia leptochelis

January 31, 2017

How boxer crabs acquire their anemones

Researchers observed that Lybia boxer crabs engage in fights where they steal sea anemones from one another, after which each crab splits their sea anemone into two identical clones.

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February 9, 2017

Phylogenetic factorization of compositional data yields lineage-level associations in microbiome datasets

Alex D. Washburne, Justin D. Silverman, Jonathan W. Leff, Dominic J. Bennett, John L. Darcy, Sayan Mukherjee, Noah Fierer, Lawrence A. David

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2969 PubMed 28289558

February 14, 2017

Genomic data mining of the marine actinobacteria Streptomyces sp. H-KF8 unveils insights into multi-stress related genes and metabolic pathways involved in antimicrobial synthesis

Agustina Undabarrena, Juan A. Ugalde, Michael Seeger, Beatriz Cámara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2912 PubMed 28229018

February 7, 2017

Evolutionary and functional implications of hypervariable loci within the skin virome

Geoffrey D. Hannigan, Qi Zheng, Jacquelyn S. Meisel, Samuel S. Minot, Frederick D. Bushman, Elizabeth A. Grice

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2959 PubMed 28194314

February 28, 2017

Genomic analysis of ST88 community-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Ghana

Grace Kpeli, Andrew H. Buultjens, Stefano Giulieri, Evelyn Owusu-Mireku, Samuel Y. Aboagye, Sarah L. Baines, Torsten Seemann, Dieter Bulach, Anders Gonçalves da Silva, Ian R. Monk, Benjamin P. Howden, Gerd Pluschke, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Timothy Stinear

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3047 PubMed 28265515

February 2, 2017

Effects of rhodomyrtone on Gram-positive bacterial tubulin homologue FtsZ

Dennapa Saeloh, Michaela Wenzel, Thanyada Rungrotmongkol, Leendert Willem Hamoen, Varomyalin Tipmanee, Supayang Piyawan Voravuthikunchai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2962 PubMed 28168121

February 1, 2017

Successive DNA extractions improve characterization of soil microbial communities

Mauricio R. Dimitrov, Annelies J. Veraart, Mattias de Hollander, Hauke Smidt, Johannes A. van Veen, Eiko E. Kuramae

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2915 PubMed 28168105

February 16, 2017

Variant profiling of evolving prokaryotic populations

Markus Zojer, Lisa N. Schuster, Frederik Schulz, Alexander Pfundner, Matthias Horn, Thomas Rattei