Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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 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 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 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 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