Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Ankush Prasad, Aditya Kumar, Ryo Matsuoka, Akemi Takahashi, Ryo Fujii, Yamato Sugiura, Hiroyuki Kikuchi, Shigeo Aoyagi, Tatsuo Aikawa, Takeshi Kondo, Makoto Yuasa, Pavel Pospíšil, Shigenobu Kasai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3050 PubMed 28761775

July 24, 2017

An exceptionally preserved 110 million years old praying mantis provides new insights into the predatory behaviour of early mantodeans

Marie K. Hörnig, Joachim T. Haug, Carolin Haug

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3605 PubMed 28761789

July 31, 2017

Sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica) hiding time depends on individual and state

Sarah Reed-Guy, Connor Gehris, Meng Shi, Daniel T. Blumstein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3598 PubMed 28785516

July 26, 2017

Antimicrobial activities of widely consumed herbal teas, alone or in combination with antibiotics: an in vitro study

Mayram Hacioglu, Sibel Dosler, Ayse Seher Birteksoz Tan, Gulten Otuk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3467 PubMed 28761777

July 25, 2017

DNA-barcoding of forensically important blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in the Caribbean Region

Sohath Z. Yusseff-Vanegas, Ingi Agnarsson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3516 PubMed 28761780

July 10, 2017

290 metagenome-assembled genomes from the Mediterranean Sea: a resource for marine microbiology

Benjamin J. Tully, Rohan Sachdeva, Elaina D. Graham, John F. Heidelberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3558 PubMed 28713657

July 11, 2017

The fossil Osmundales (Royal Ferns)—a phylogenetic network analysis, revised taxonomy, and evolutionary classification of anatomically preserved trunks and rhizomes

Benjamin Bomfleur, Guido W. Grimm, Stephen McLoughlin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3433 PubMed 28713650

July 31, 2017

Maxent-directed field surveys identify new populations of narrowly endemic habitat specialists

Cody M. Rhoden, William E. Peterman, Christopher A. Taylor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3632 PubMed 28785520

July 11, 2017

Methodological considerations in assessment of language lateralisation with fMRI: a systematic review

Abigail R. Bradshaw, Dorothy V.M. Bishop, Zoe V.J. Woodhead

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3557 PubMed 28713656

July 20, 2017

A longitudinal study of the diabetic skin and wound microbiome

Melissa Gardiner, Mauro Vicaretti, Jill Sparks, Sunaina Bansal, Stephen Bush, Michael Liu, Aaron Darling, Elizabeth Harry, Catherine M. Burke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3543 PubMed 28740749

July 18, 2017

Demographic inference through approximate-Bayesian-computation skyline plots

Miguel Navascués, Raphaël Leblois, Concetta Burgarella

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3530 PubMed 28729953

July 27, 2017

Two new species of the Brachycephalus pernix group (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from the state of Paraná, southern Brazil

Luiz F. Ribeiro, David C. Blackburn, Edward L. Stanley, Marcio R. Pie, Marcos R. Bornschein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3603 PubMed 28761788

July 25, 2017

Targeted NGS for species level phylogenomics: “made to measure” or “one size fits all”?

Malvina Kadlec, Dirk U. Bellstedt, Nicholas C. Le Maitre, Michael D. Pirie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3569 PubMed 28761782

July 20, 2017

The time-course of broiler intestinal microbiota development after administration of cecal contents to incubating eggs

Erin E. Donaldson, Dragana Stanley, Robert J. Hughes, Robert J. Moore

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3587 PubMed 28740754

July 25, 2017

Mortality, recovery, and community shifts of scleractinian corals in Puerto Rico one decade after the 2005 regional bleaching event

Jorge R. García-Sais, Stacey M. Williams, Ali Amirrezvani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3611 PubMed 28761791

July 25, 2017

Plantar pressure distribution of ostrich during locomotion on loose sand and solid ground

Rui Zhang, Dianlei Han, Songsong Ma, Gang Luo, Qiaoli Ji, Shuliang Xue, Mingming Yang, Jianqiao Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3613 PubMed 28761792

July 13, 2017

Phenotypic and microRNA transcriptomic profiling of the MDA-MB-231 spheroid-enriched CSCs with comparison of MCF-7 microRNA profiling dataset

Lily Boo, Wan Yong Ho, Norlaily Mohd Ali, Swee Keong Yeap, Huynh Ky, Kok Gan Chan, Wai Fong Yin, Dilan Amila Satharasinghe, Woan Charn Liew, Sheau Wei Tan, Soon Keng Cheong, Han Kiat Ong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3551 PubMed 28717596

July 27, 2017

A data set with kinematic and ground reaction forces of human balance

Damiana A. dos Santos, Claudiane A. Fukuchi, Reginaldo K. Fukuchi, Marcos Duarte

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3626 PubMed 28761798

July 12, 2017

Short reads from honey bee (Apis sp.) sequencing projects reflect microbial associate diversity

Michael Gerth, Gregory D.D. Hurst

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3529 PubMed 28717593

July 5, 2017

A new terrestrial snail species (Gastropoda: Bulimulidae) from the Región de Antofagasta, northern Chile

Juan Francisco Araya, Abraham S.H. Breure