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April 2017

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Variegated tropical landscapes conserve diverse dung beetle communities

Scarabaeus laticollis

April 4, 2017

Variegated tropical landscapes conserve diverse dung beetle communities

Researchers investigated the biodiversity of tropical landscapes by studying the range of dung beetles present in differing biomes.

April 18, 2017

Molecular assessment of the fecal microbiota in healthy cats and dogs before and during supplementation with fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) and inulin using high-throughput 454-pyrosequencing

23 citations

956 downloads

3,135 views

Jose F. Garcia-Mazcorro, Jose R. Barcenas-Walls, Jan S. Suchodolski, Jörg M. Steiner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3184 PubMed 28439463

April 5, 2017

Improving ancient DNA genome assembly

8 citations

860 downloads

3,843 views

Alexander Seitz, Kay Nieselt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3126 PubMed 28392981

April 4, 2017

Prioritisation of structural variant calls in cancer genomes

4 citations

801 downloads

3,253 views

Miika J. Ahdesmäki, Brad A. Chapman, Pablo Cingolani, Oliver Hofmann, Aleksandr Sidoruk, Zhongwu Lai, Gennadii Zakharov, Mikhail Rodichenko, Mikhail Alperovich, David Jenkins, T. Hedley Carr, Daniel Stetson, Brian Dougherty, J. Carl Barrett, Justin H. Johnson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3166 PubMed 28392986

April 19, 2017

The genomic sequence of Exiguobacterium chiriqhucha str. N139 reveals a species that thrives in cold waters and extreme environmental conditions

4 citations

648 downloads

2,981 views

Ana Gutiérrez-Preciado, Carlos Vargas-Chávez, Mariana Reyes-Prieto, Omar F. Ordoñez, Diego Santos-García, Tania Rosas-Pérez, Jorge Valdivia-Anistro, Eria A. Rebollar, Andrés Saralegui, Andrés Moya, Enrique Merino, María Eugenia Farías, Amparo Latorre, Valeria Souza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3162 PubMed 28439458

April 4, 2017

Conserved DNA motifs in the type II-A CRISPR leader region

2 citations

641 downloads

2,066 views

Mason J. Van Orden, Peter Klein, Kesavan Babu, Fares Z. Najar, Rakhi Rajan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3161 PubMed 28392985

April 12, 2017

gb4gv: a genome browser for geminivirus

1 citation

612 downloads

1,781 views

Eric S. Ho, Catherine M. Newsom-Stewart, Lysa Diarra, Caroline S. McCauley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3165 PubMed 28413726

April 19, 2017

Floral pathway integrator gene expression mediates gradual transmission of environmental and endogenous cues to flowering time

6 citations

591 downloads

2,161 views

Aalt D.J. van Dijk, Jaap Molenaar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3197 PubMed 28439467

April 27, 2017

A Profile Hidden Markov Model to investigate the distribution and frequency of LanB-encoding lantibiotic modification genes in the human oral and gut microbiome

9 citations

568 downloads

2,511 views

Calum J. Walsh, Caitriona M. Guinane, Paul W. O’ Toole, Paul D. Cotter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3254 PubMed 28462050

April 6, 2017

Evolutionary analysis of vision genes identifies potential drivers of visual differences between giraffe and okapi

3 citations

562 downloads

2,554 views

Edson Ishengoma, Morris Agaba, Douglas R. Cavener

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3145 PubMed 28396824

April 27, 2017

Analysis of the in planta transcriptome expressed by the corn pathogen Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii via RNA-Seq

5 citations

513 downloads

1,821 views

Holly Packard, Alison Kernell Burke, Roderick V. Jensen, Ann M. Stevens

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3237 PubMed 28462040

April 18, 2017

The evolution of logic circuits for the purpose of protein contact map prediction

4 citations

490 downloads

3,841 views

Samuel D. Chapman, Christoph Adami, Claus O. Wilke, Dukka B KC

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3139 PubMed 28439455

April 27, 2017

Prediction of post-translational modification sites using multiple kernel support vector machine

11 citations

485 downloads

2,114 views

BingHua Wang, Minghui Wang, Ao Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3261 PubMed 28462053

April 25, 2017

CRF: detection of CRISPR arrays using random forest

6 citations

468 downloads

2,720 views

Kai Wang, Chun Liang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3219 PubMed 28462029

April 5, 2017

Profiling transcriptomes of human SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells exposed to maleic acid

5 citations

448 downloads

2,053 views

Chia-Chi Wang, Yin-Chi Lin, Yin-Hua Cheng, Chun-Wei Tung

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3175 PubMed 28392987

April 27, 2017

Whole genome sequencing of group A Streptococcus: development and evaluation of an automated pipeline for emmgene typing

16 citations

441 downloads

2,285 views

Georgia Kapatai, Juliana Coelho, Steven Platt, Victoria J. Chalker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3226 PubMed 28462035

April 27, 2017

Exploring the binding properties and structural stability of an opsin in the chytrid Spizellomyces punctatus using comparative and molecular modeling

5 citations

440 downloads

2,040 views

Steven R. Ahrendt, Edgar Mauricio Medina, Chia-en A. Chang, Jason E. Stajich

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3206 PubMed 28462022

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