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Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

The International Space Station

December 5, 2017

Census of microbial life on the International Space Station

Microbiologists have analyzed swabs taken by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and compared them with samples from homes on Earth as well as the Human Microbiome Project. They found that the microbial community in this unique habitat was very diverse and more closely resembled that of homes than of humans.

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December 6, 2017

Genome-wide identification of ABA receptor PYL family and expression analysis of PYLs in response to ABA and osmotic stress in Gossypium

Gaofeng Zhang, Tingting Lu, Wenwen Miao, Lirong Sun, Mi Tian, Ji Wang, Fushun Hao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4126 PubMed 29230363

December 8, 2017

Complete genome sequence and comparative genomics of the golden pompano (Trachinotus ovatus) pathogen, Vibrio harveyi strain QT520

Zhigang Tu, Hongyue Li, Xiang Zhang, Yun Sun, Yongcan Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4127 PubMed 29230364

December 15, 2017

Genome-wide characterization and expression profiling of NAC transcription factor genes under abiotic stresses in radish (Raphanus sativus L.)

Bernard Kinuthia Karanja, Liang Xu, Yan Wang, Everlyne M’mbone Muleke, Bashir Mohammed Jabir, Yang Xie, Xianwen Zhu, Wanwan Cheng, Liwang Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4172 PubMed 29259849

December 22, 2017

Transcriptomic analysis identifies genes and pathways related to myrmecophagy in the Malayan pangolin (Manis javanica)

Jing-E Ma, Lin-Miao Li, Hai-Ying Jiang, Xiu-Juan Zhang, Juan Li, Guan-Yu Li, Li-Hong Yuan, Jun Wu, Jin-Ping Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4140 PubMed 29302388

December 22, 2017

Phylogenic study of Lemnoideae (duckweeds) through complete chloroplast genomes for eight accessions

Yanqiang Ding, Yang Fang, Ling Guo, Zhidan Li, Kaize He, Yun Zhao, Hai Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4186 PubMed 29302399

December 4, 2017

Constructing a comprehensive gene co-expression based interactome in Bos taurus

Yan Chen, Yining Liu, Min Du, Wengang Zhang, Ling Xu, Xue Gao, Lupei Zhang, Huijiang Gao, Lingyang Xu, Junya Li, Min Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4107 PubMed 29226034

December 12, 2017

Substitutions into amino acids that are pathogenic in human mitochondrial proteins are more frequent in lineages closely related to human than in distant lineages

Galya V. Klink, Andrey V. Golovin, Georgii A. Bazykin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4143 PubMed 29250469

December 8, 2017

A novel approach for human whole transcriptome analysis based on absolute gene expression of microarray data

Shirley Bikel, Leonor Jacobo-Albavera, Fausto Sánchez-Muñoz, Fernanda Cornejo-Granados, Samuel Canizales-Quinteros, Xavier Soberón, Rogerio R. Sotelo-Mundo, Blanca E. del Río-Navarro, Alfredo Mendoza-Vargas, Filiberto Sánchez, Adrian Ochoa-Leyva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4133 PubMed 29230367

December 13, 2017

Characterization of a de novo assembled transcriptome of the Common Blackbird (Turdus merula)

Sven Koglin, Daronja Trense, Michael Wink, Hedwig Sauer-Gürth, Dieter Thomas Tietze

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4045 PubMed 29255646

December 5, 2017

Comparative analyses of putative toxin gene homologs from an Old World viper, Daboia russelii

Neeraja M. Krishnan, Binay Panda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4104 PubMed 29230357