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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 7, 2017

A comparison of chloroplast genome sequences in Aconitum (Ranunculaceae): a traditional herbal medicinal genus

Hanghui Kong, Wanzhen Liu, Gang Yao, Wei Gong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4018 PubMed 29134154

November 8, 2017

HgtSIM: a simulator for horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in microbial communities

Weizhi Song, Kerrin Steensen, Torsten Thomas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4015 PubMed 29134153

November 21, 2017

Transcriptome sequencing reveals high isoform diversity in the ant Formica exsecta

Kishor Dhaygude, Kalevi Trontti, Jenni Paviala, Claire Morandin, Christopher Wheat, Liselotte Sundström, Heikki Helanterä