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August 2017

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

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 21, 2017

RNA-seq reveals more consistent reference genes for gene expression studies in human non-melanoma skin cancers

Van L.T. Hoang, Lisa N. Tom, Xiu-Cheng Quek, Jean-Marie Tan, Elizabeth J. Payne, Lynlee L. Lin, Sudipta Sinnya, Anthony P. Raphael, Duncan Lambie, Ian H. Frazer, Marcel E. Dinger, H. Peter Soyer, Tarl W. Prow

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3631 PubMed 28852586

August 17, 2017

RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) of lymph node, spleen, and thymus transcriptome from wild Peninsular Malaysian cynomolgus macaque (Macaca fascicularis)

Joey Ee Uli, Christina Seok Yien Yong, Swee Keong Yeap, Jeffrine J. Rovie-Ryan, Nurulfiza Mat Isa, Soon Guan Tan, Noorjahan Banu Alitheen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3566 PubMed 28828235

August 18, 2017

Genomic evidence of bitter taste in snakes and phylogenetic analysis of bitter taste receptor genes in reptiles

Huaming Zhong, Shuai Shang, Xiaoyang Wu, Jun Chen, Wanchao Zhu, Jiakuo Yan, Haotian Li, Honghai Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3708 PubMed 28828281

August 30, 2017

Atropos: specific, sensitive, and speedy trimming of sequencing reads

John P. Didion, Marcel Martin, Francis S. Collins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3720 PubMed 28875074

August 14, 2017

Genome-wide identification of CBL family and expression analysis of CBLs in response to potassium deficiency in cotton

Tingting Lu, Gaofeng Zhang, Lirong Sun, Ji Wang, Fushun Hao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3653 PubMed 28828254

August 3, 2017

Comparative mitogenomic analysis of mirid bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae) and evaluation of potential DNA barcoding markers

Juan Wang, Li Zhang, Qi-Lin Zhang, Min-Qiang Zhou, Xiao-Tong Wang, Xing-Zhuo Yang, Ming-Long Yuan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3661 PubMed 28791201

August 29, 2017

Validation and description of two new north-western Australian Rainbow skinks with multispecies coalescent methods and morphology

Ana C. Afonso Silva, Natali Santos, Huw A. Ogilvie, Craig Moritz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3724 PubMed 28875076

August 15, 2017

Aura-biomes are present in the water layer above coral reef benthic macro-organisms

Kevin Walsh, J. Matthew Haggerty, Michael P. Doane, John J. Hansen, Megan M. Morris, Ana Paula B. Moreira, Louisi de Oliveira, Luciana Leomil, Gizele D. Garcia, Fabiano Thompson, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3666 PubMed 28828261

August 28, 2017

PrePhyloPro: phylogenetic profile-based prediction of whole proteome linkages

Yulong Niu, Chengcheng Liu, Shayan Moghimyfiroozabad, Yi Yang, Kambiz N. Alavian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3712 PubMed 28875072

August 30, 2017

Genotyping-by-sequencing enables linkage mapping in three octoploid cultivated strawberry families

Kelly J. Vining, Natalia Salinas, Jacob A. Tennessen, Jason D. Zurn, Daniel James Sargent, James Hancock, Nahla V. Bassil

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3731 PubMed 28875078

August 21, 2017

Expression differences in Aphidius ervi (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) females reared on different aphid host species

Gabriel I. Ballesteros, Jürgen Gadau, Fabrice Legeai, Angelica Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Blas Lavandero, Jean-Christophe Simon, Christian C. Figueroa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3640 PubMed 28852588

August 25, 2017

Chloroplast genome expansion by intron multiplication in the basal psychrophilic euglenoid Eutreptiella pomquetensis

Nadja Dabbagh, Matthew S. Bennett, Richard E. Triemer, Angelika Preisfeld

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3725 PubMed 28852596

August 24, 2017

Comparative molecular analyses of select pH- and osmoregulatory genes in three freshwater crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus, C. destructor and C. cainii

Muhammad Y. Ali, Ana Pavasovic, Lalith K. Dammannagoda, Peter B. Mather, Peter J. Prentis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3623 PubMed 28852583

August 17, 2017

Genome-wide association study identifies novel type II diabetes risk loci in Jordan subpopulations

Rana Dajani, Jin Li, Zhi Wei, Michael E. March, Qianghua Xia, Yousef Khader, Nancy Hakooz, Raja Fatahallah, Mohammed El-Khateeb, Ala Arafat, Tareq Saleh, Abdel Rahman Dajani, Zaid Al-Abbadi, Mohamed Abdul Qader, Abdel Halim Shiyab, Anwar Bateiha, Kamel Ajlouni, Hakon Hakonarson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3618 PubMed 28828242

August 16, 2017

RNA helicase domains of viral origin in proteins of insect retrotransposons: possible source for evolutionary advantages

Sergey Y. Morozov, Ekaterina A. Lazareva, Andrey G. Solovyev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3673 PubMed 28828268

August 14, 2017

GeNET: a web application to explore and share Gene Co-expression Network Analysis data

Amit P. Desai, Mehdi Razeghin, Oscar Meruvia-Pastor, Lourdes Peña-Castillo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3678 PubMed 28828272

August 14, 2017

Characterisation of microsatellite and SNP markers from Miseq and genotyping-by-sequencing data among parapatric Urophora cardui (Tephritidae) populations

Jes Johannesen, Armin G. Fabritzek, Bettina Ebner, Sven-Ernö Bikar