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November 2017

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

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 30, 2017

A tyrannosauroid metatarsus from the Merchantville Formation of Delaware increases the diversity of non-tyrannosaurid tyrannosauroids on Appalachia

3 citations

519 downloads

3,505 views

Chase D. Brownstein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4123 PubMed 29204326

November 30, 2017

Diagnosis value of aberrantly expressed microRNA profiles in lung squamous cell carcinoma: a study based on the Cancer Genome Atlas

6 citations

320 downloads

1,581 views

Sheng Yang, Jing Sui, Geyu Liang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4101 PubMed 29204322

November 30, 2017

Ordinary kriging vs inverse distance weighting: spatial interpolation of the sessile community of Madagascar reef, Gulf of Mexico

4 citations

2,259 downloads

1,834 views

Salvador Zarco-Perello, Nuno Simões

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4078 PubMed 29204321

November 30, 2017

Hermit crab response to a visual threat is sensitive to looming cues

1 citation

253 downloads

1,169 views

Talya Shragai, Xiaoge Ping, Cameron Arakaki, Dennis Garlick, Daniel T. Blumstein, Aaron P. Blaisdell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4058 PubMed 29204320

November 30, 2017

Kullback Leibler divergence in complete bacterial and phage genomes

419 downloads

1,953 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

3 citations

353 downloads

3,548 views

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

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

November 29, 2017

On the relationship between tumour growth rate and survival in non-small cell lung cancer

1 citation

271 downloads

1,495 views

Hitesh B. Mistry

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4111 PubMed 29201573

November 29, 2017

Transcriptomic profiling of mTOR and ryanodine receptor signaling molecules in developing zebrafish in the absence and presence of PCB 95

1 citation

240 downloads

1,125 views

Daniel F. Frank, Galen W. Miller, Richard E. Connon, Juergen Geist, Pamela J. Lein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4106 PubMed 29201571

November 29, 2017

Age-based and reproductive biology of the Pacific Longnose Parrotfish Hipposcarus longiceps from Guam

1 citation

305 downloads

1,583 views

Brett M. Taylor, Eric Cruz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4079 PubMed 29201565

November 29, 2017

An exceptionally preserved armored dinosaur reveals the morphology and allometry of osteoderms and their horny epidermal coverings

5 citations

2,584 downloads

5,924 views

Caleb M. Brown

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4066 PubMed 29201564

November 29, 2017

Facilitative and competitive interaction components among New England salt marsh plants

1 citation

301 downloads

1,310 views

John F. Bruno, Tatyana A. Rand, Nancy C. Emery, Mark D. Bertness

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4049 PubMed 29201563

November 29, 2017

DNA barcoding reveals the mislabeling of fish in a popular tourist destination in Brazil

12 citations

461 downloads

2,252 views

Clisten Fátima Staffen, Mari Dalva Staffen, Mariana Londero Becker, Sara Emelie Löfgren, Yara Costa Netto Muniz, Renato Hajenius Aché de Freitas, Andrea Rita Marrero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4006 PubMed 29201560

November 29, 2017

Genomic characterization of a new endophytic Streptomyces kebangsaanensis identifies biosynthetic pathway gene clusters for novel phenazine antibiotic production

8 citations

488 downloads

1,935 views

Juwairiah Remali, Nurul ‘Izzah Mohd Sarmin, Chyan Leong Ng, John J.L. Tiong, Wan M. Aizat, Loke Kok Keong, Noraziah Mohamad Zin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3738 PubMed 29201559

November 28, 2017

Geological duration of ammonoids controlled their geographical range of fossil distribution

2 citations

369 downloads

1,740 views

Ryoji Wani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4108 PubMed 29201572

November 28, 2017

Denitrifying metabolism of the methylotrophic marine bacterium Methylophaga nitratireducenticrescens strain JAM1

7 citations

274 downloads

1,271 views

Florian Mauffrey, Alexandra Cucaita, Philippe Constant, Richard Villemur

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4098 PubMed 29201569

November 28, 2017

The presence of genes encoding enzymes that digest carbohydrates in coral genomes and analysis of their activities

346 downloads

1,213 views

Yuki Yoshioka, Toshiaki Tanabe, Akira Iguchi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4087 PubMed 29201566

November 28, 2017

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

4 citations

253 downloads

1,321 views

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 28, 2017

Phylogeographic and population insights of the Asian common toad (Bufo gargarizans) in Korea and China: population isolation and expansions as response to the ice ages

4 citations

473 downloads

1,776 views

Amaël Borzée, Joana L. Santos, Santiago Sánchez-RamÍrez, Yoonhyuk Bae, Kyongman Heo, Yikweon Jang, Michael Joseph Jowers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4044 PubMed 29201561

November 27, 2017

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

2 citations

333 downloads

1,492 views

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 27, 2017

The zebrafish as a model system for analyzing mammalian and native α-crystallin promoter function

3 citations

436 downloads

3,824 views

Mason Posner, Kelly L. Murray, Matthew S. McDonald, Hayden Eighinger, Brandon Andrew, Amy Drossman, Zachary Haley, Justin Nussbaum, Larry L. David, Kirsten J. Lampi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4093 PubMed 29201567

November 24, 2017

The relationship between egg size and helper number in cooperative breeders: a meta-analysis across species

4 citations

420 downloads

2,600 views

Tanmay Dixit, Sinead English, Dieter Lukas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4028 PubMed 29188141

November 24, 2017

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

285 downloads

1,255 views