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Male sex pheromone components affect female choice

Figure 1: Heliconius melpomene wings showing androconial dimorphism.

November 7, 2017

Male sex pheromone components affect female choice

Researchers combined morphological, chemical & behavioural analyses of male pheromones in the Neotropical butterfly Heliconius Melpomene to investigate how they affect female mate choice.

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November 2, 2017

Genome-wide association study of pigmentary traits (skin and iris color) in individuals of East Asian ancestry

Lida Rawofi, Melissa Edwards, S Krithika, Phuong Le, David Cha, Zhaohui Yang, Yanyun Ma, Jiucun Wang, Bing Su, Li Jin, Heather L. Norton, Esteban J. Parra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3951 PubMed 29109912

November 23, 2017

Associations of IGF2 and DRD2 polymorphisms with laying traits in Muscovy duck

Qiao Ye, Jiguo Xu, Xinfeng Gao, Hongjia Ouyang, Wei Luo, Qinghua Nie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4083 PubMed 29181280

November 17, 2017

A 16-gene signature predicting prognosis of patients with oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma

Zeting Qiu, Wei Sun, Shaowei Gao, Huaqiang Zhou, Wulin Tan, Minghui Cao, Wenqi Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4062 PubMed 29158988

November 28, 2017

Evaluation of potential reference genes for real-time qPCR analysis in a biparental beetle, Lethrus apterus (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae)

Nikoletta A. Nagy, Zoltán Németh, Edit Juhász, Szilárd Póliska, Rita Rácz, András Kosztolányi, Zoltán Barta

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4047 PubMed 29201562

November 14, 2017

The sensitivity of the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to acetic acid is influenced by DOM34 and RPL36A

Bahram Samanfar, Kristina Shostak, Houman Moteshareie, Maryam Hajikarimlou, Sarah Shaikho, Katayoun Omidi, Mohsen Hooshyar, Daniel Burnside, Imelda Galván Márquez, Tom Kazmirchuk, Thet Naing, Paula Ludovico, Anna York-Lyon, Kama Szereszewski, Cindy Leung, Jennifer Yixin Jin, Rami Megarbane, Myron L. Smith, Mohan Babu, Martin Holcik, Ashkan Golshani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4037 PubMed 29158977

November 27, 2017

Impacts of diarrhea on the immune system, intestinal environment, and expression of PGRPs in New Zealand rabbits

Yang Chen, Bohao Zhao, Yuwei Wu, Shuaishuai Hu, Lin Mu, Cigen Zhu, Yulai Pan, Xinsheng Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4100 PubMed 29201570

November 24, 2017

The impact of self-incompatibility systems on the prevention of biparental inbreeding

Tara N. Furstenau, Reed A. Cartwright

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4085 PubMed 29188143