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October 2017

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Machine learning to analyze colon glands

Malignant colorectal cancer

October 3, 2017

Machine learning to analyze colon glands

Due to the large variability of biological tissue, machine learning techniques have shown superior performance over conventional image processing methods. Here, researchers present a deep neural network-based approach for segmentation and classification of glands in tissue of benign and malignant colorectal cancer.

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October 20, 2017

Influence of current climate, historical climate stability and topography on species richness and endemism in Mesoamerican geophyte plants

Victoria Sosa, Israel Loera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3932 PubMed 29062605

October 27, 2017

Skin and fur bacterial diversity and community structure on American southwestern bats: effects of habitat, geography and bat traits

Ara S. Winter, Jennifer J.M. Hathaway, Jason C. Kimble, Debbie C. Buecher, Ernest W. Valdez, Andrea Porras-Alfaro, Jesse M. Young, Kaitlyn J.H. Read, Diana E. Northup

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3944 PubMed 29093998

October 3, 2017

A preliminary survey of zoantharian endosymbionts shows high genetic variation over small geographic scales on Okinawa-jima Island, Japan

Hatsuko Noda, John Everett Parkinson, Sung-Yin Yang, James Davis Reimer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3740 PubMed 29018596

October 2, 2017

Framework for community functioning: synthesis of stress gradient and resource partitioning concepts

Sophia I. Passy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3885 PubMed 29018618

October 12, 2017

Nests of red wood ants (Formica rufa-group) are positively associated with tectonic faults: a double-blind test

Israel Del Toro, Gabriele M. Berberich, Relena R. Ribbons, Martin B. Berberich, Nathan J. Sanders, Aaron M. Ellison