Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

September 21, 2017

Benchmarking viromics: an in silico evaluation of metagenome-enabled estimates of viral community composition and diversity

Simon Roux, Joanne B. Emerson, Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh, Matthew B. Sullivan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3817 PubMed 28948103

September 11, 2017

Genomic and functional analysis of Romboutsia ilealis CRIB^T reveals adaptation to the small intestine

Jacoline Gerritsen, Bastian Hornung, Bernadette Renckens, Sacha A.F.T. van Hijum, Vitor A.P. Martins dos Santos, Ger T. Rijkers, Peter J. Schaap, Willem M. de Vos, Hauke Smidt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3698 PubMed 28924494

September 29, 2017

Effect of the environment on horizontal gene transfer between bacteria and archaea

Clara A. Fuchsman, Roy Eric Collins, Gabrielle Rocap, William J. Brazelton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3865 PubMed 28975058

September 11, 2017

The evolutionary history of plant T2/S-type ribonucleases

Karolis Ramanauskas, Boris Igić

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3790 PubMed 28924504

September 7, 2017

MetaCRAST: reference-guided extraction of CRISPR spacers from unassembled metagenomes

Abraham G. Moller, Chun Liang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3788 PubMed 28894651

September 11, 2017

Genome-wide identification of the MADS-box transcription factor family in pear (Pyrus bretschneideri) reveals evolution and functional divergence

Runze Wang, Meiling Ming, Jiaming Li, Dongqing Shi, Xin Qiao, Leiting Li, Shaoling Zhang, Jun Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3776 PubMed 28924499

September 19, 2017

Genome-wide identification and characterization of aquaporin gene family in Beta vulgaris

Weilong Kong, Shaozong Yang, Yulu Wang, Mohammed Bendahmane, Xiaopeng Fu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3747 PubMed 28948097

September 18, 2017

Candidate genes for shell colour polymorphism in Cepaea nemoralis

Jesse Kerkvliet, Tjalf de Boer, Menno Schilthuizen, Ken Kraaijeveld

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3715 PubMed 28948095

September 15, 2017

Genomic analysis of P elements in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Casey M. Bergman, Shunhua Han, Michael G. Nelson, Vladyslav Bondarenko, Iryna Kozeretska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3824 PubMed 28929030

September 29, 2017

Trichoplax adhaerens reveals a network of nuclear receptors sensitive to 9-cis-retinoic acid at the base of metazoan evolution

Jan Philipp Novotný, Ahmed Ali Chughtai, Markéta Kostrouchová, Veronika Kostrouchová, David Kostrouch, Filip Kaššák, Radek Kaňa, Bernd Schierwater, Marta Kostrouchová, Zdenek Kostrouch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3789 PubMed 28975052

September 28, 2017

Predicting stimulation-dependent enhancer-promoter interactions from ChIP-Seq time course data

Tomasz Dzida, Mudassar Iqbal, Iryna Charapitsa, George Reid, Henk Stunnenberg, Filomena Matarese, Korbinian Grote, Antti Honkela, Magnus Rattray

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3742 PubMed 28970965

September 13, 2017

Allele specific expression and methylation in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris

Zoë Lonsdale, Kate Lee, Maria Kiriakidu, Harindra Amarasinghe, Despina Nathanael, Catherine J. O’Connor, Eamonn B. Mallon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3798 PubMed 28929021

September 19, 2017

Evaluation of ddRADseq for reduced representation metagenome sequencing

Michael Y. Liu, Paul Worden, Leigh G. Monahan, Matthew Z. DeMaere, Catherine M. Burke, Steven P. Djordjevic, Ian G. Charles, Aaron E. Darling