August 2017

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Use of necrophagous insects as evidence of cadaver relocation: myth or reality?

Dermestid beetles and flies on a skeletonized human skull

August 1, 2017

Use of necrophagous insects as evidence of cadaver relocation: myth or reality?

Researchers conducted an extensive review to determine whether (and under which conditions) insects can be used as evidence to tell if a body has been moved.

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August 31, 2017
Tracing hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype B5 (formerly B6) evolutionary history in the circumpolar Arctic through phylogeographic modelling
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3757 PubMed 28875087
August 8, 2017
Taxonomic analysis of Paraguayan samples of Homonota fasciata Duméril & Bibron (1836) with the revalidation of Homonota horrida Burmeister (1861) (Reptilia: Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) and the description of a new species
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3523 PubMed 28828231
August 10, 2017
Vegetation responses to season of fire in an aseasonal, fire-prone fynbos shrubland
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3591 PubMed 28828239
August 23, 2017
Defensive behaviors of the Oriental armyworm Mythimna separata in response to different parasitoid species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3690 PubMed 28852593
August 18, 2017
Influence of CNTRENE® C100LM carbon nanotube material on the growth and regulation of Escherichia coli
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3721 PubMed 28828284
August 14, 2017
Presence of the tunicate Asterocarpa humilis on ship hulls and aquaculture facilities in the coast of the Biobío Region, south central Chile
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3672 PubMed 28828267
August 21, 2017
Implications of nutritional stress as nestling or fledgling on subsequent attractiveness and fecundity in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3628 PubMed 28852585
August 28, 2017
New insights into Mesozoic cycad evolution: an exploration of anatomically preserved Cycadaceae seeds from the Jurassic Oxford Clay biota
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3723 PubMed 28875075
August 17, 2017
RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) of lymph node, spleen, and thymus transcriptome from wild Peninsular Malaysian cynomolgus macaque (Macaca fascicularis)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3566 PubMed 28828235
August 17, 2017
Late Pleistocene songbirds of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia); the first fossil passerine fauna described from Wallacea
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3676 PubMed 28828271
August 15, 2017
Taxonomic and chemical assessment of exceptionally abundant rock mine biofilm
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3635 PubMed 28828247
August 14, 2017
GeNET: a web application to explore and share Gene Co-expression Network Analysis data
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3678 PubMed 28828272
August 28, 2017
Mutation detection and prenatal diagnosis of XLHED pedigree
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3691 PubMed 28875069
August 22, 2017
Structural dynamics in the host-parasitoid system of the pine needle gall midge (Thecodiplosis japonensis) during invasion
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3610 PubMed 28848688
August 11, 2017
Are extinction opinions extinct?
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3663 PubMed 28828259
August 16, 2017
RNA helicase domains of viral origin in proteins of insect retrotransposons: possible source for evolutionary advantages
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3673 PubMed 28828268
August 15, 2017
RNA expression and disease tolerance are associated with a “keystone mutation” in the ochre sea star Pisaster ochraceus
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3696 PubMed 28828278
August 25, 2017
Comparison of chemical compounds associated with sclerites from healthy and diseased sea fan corals (Gorgonia ventalina)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3677 PubMed 28852592
August 22, 2017
Acetylation of N-terminus and two internal amino acids is dispensable for degradation of a protein that aberrantly engages the endoplasmic reticulum translocon
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3728 PubMed 28848693
August 14, 2017
Characterisation of microsatellite and SNP markers from Miseq and genotyping-by-sequencing data among parapatric Urophora cardui (Tephritidae) populations
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3582 PubMed 28828237
August 15, 2017
Occasional hybridization between a native and invasive Senecio species in Australia is unlikely to contribute to invasive success
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3630 PubMed 28828245
August 24, 2017
Comparative molecular analyses of select pH- and osmoregulatory genes in three freshwater crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus, C. destructor and C. cainii
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3623 PubMed 28852583
August 21, 2017
A systematic review of differential rate of use of the word “evolve” across fields
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3639 PubMed 28852587
Use of necrophagous insects as evidence of cadaver relocation: myth or reality?

Dermestid beetles and flies on a skeletonized human skull

August 1, 2017

Use of necrophagous insects as evidence of cadaver relocation: myth or reality?

Researchers conducted an extensive review to determine whether (and under which conditions) insects can be used as evidence to tell if a body has been moved.

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