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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 6, 2017

Composition, diversity and function of intestinal microbiota in pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) at different culture stages

54 citations

1,291 downloads

4,018 views

Shenzheng Zeng, Zhijian Huang, Dongwei Hou, Jian Liu, Shaoping Weng, Jianguo He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3986 PubMed 29134144

November 21, 2017

Diversity of bacterial communities on the facial skin of different age-group Thai males

11 citations

953 downloads

3,077 views

Alisa Wilantho, Pamornya Deekaew, Chutika Srisuttiyakorn, Sissades Tongsima, Naraporn Somboonna

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4084 PubMed 29177119

November 14, 2017

Whole genome sequencing of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa isolated from the chewing stick (Distemonanthus benthamianus): insights into Rhodotorula phylogeny, mitogenome dynamics and carotenoid biosynthesis

12 citations

923 downloads

2,340 views

Han Ming Gan, Bolaji N. Thomas, Nicole T. Cavanaugh, Grace H. Morales, Ashley N. Mayers, Michael A. Savka, André O. Hudson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4030 PubMed 29158974

November 10, 2017

Foliar microbiome transplants confer disease resistance in a critically-endangered plant

16 citations

916 downloads

3,516 views

Geoffrey Zahn, Anthony S. Amend

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4020 PubMed 29134155

November 16, 2017

Gene and genome-centric analyses of koala and wombat fecal microbiomes point to metabolic specialization for Eucalyptus digestion

9 citations

735 downloads

7,634 views

Miriam E. Shiffman, Rochelle M. Soo, Paul G. Dennis, Mark Morrison, Gene W. Tyson, Philip Hugenholtz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4075 PubMed 29177117

November 17, 2017

Comparative analysis of prophages in Streptococcus mutans genomes

2 citations

720 downloads

1,518 views

Tiwei Fu, Xiangyu Fan, Quanxin Long, Wanyan Deng, Jinlin Song, Enyi Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4057 PubMed 29158986

November 9, 2017

The response of soil microbial communities to variation in annual precipitation depends on soil nutritional status in an oligotrophic desert

6 citations

571 downloads

2,688 views

Cristina Montiel-González, Yunuen Tapia-Torres, Valeria Souza, Felipe García-Oliva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4007 PubMed 29134149

November 17, 2017

Coral-associated viral communities show high levels of diversity and host auxiliary functions

12 citations

553 downloads

3,207 views

Karen D. Weynberg, Patrick W. Laffy, Elisha M. Wood-Charlson, Dmitrij Turaev, Thomas Rattei, Nicole S. Webster, Madeleine J.H. van Oppen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4054 PubMed 29158985

November 30, 2017

Kullback Leibler divergence in complete bacterial and phage genomes

553 downloads

2,275 views

Sajia Akhter, Ramy K. Aziz, Mona T. Kashef, Eslam S. Ibrahim, Barbara Bailey, Robert A. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4026 PubMed 29204318

November 30, 2017

BGDMdocker: a Docker workflow for data mining and visualization of bacterial pan-genomes and biosynthetic gene clusters

4 citations

473 downloads

3,871 views

Gong Cheng, Quan Lu, Ling Ma, Guocai Zhang, Liang Xu, Zongshan Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3948 PubMed 29204317

November 13, 2017

Microbial agents in macroscopically healthy mammary gland tissues of small ruminants

3 citations

434 downloads

1,895 views

Liliana Spuria, Elena Biasibetti, Donal Bisanzio, Ilaria Biasato, Daniele De Meneghi, Patrizia Nebbia, Patrizia Robino, Paolo Bianco, Michele Lamberti, Claudio Caruso, Alessia Di Blasio, Simone Peletto, Loretta Masoero, Alessandro Dondo, Maria Teresa Capucchio

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3994 PubMed 29152416

November 8, 2017

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

4 citations

420 downloads

2,446 views

Weizhi Song, Kerrin Steensen, Torsten Thomas

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

November 14, 2017

Short-term effects of CO₂ leakage on the soil bacterial community in a simulated gas leakage scenario

11 citations

410 downloads