Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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 1, 2017

PlantCV v2: Image analysis software for high-throughput plant phenotyping

Malia A. Gehan, Noah Fahlgren, Arash Abbasi, Jeffrey C. Berry, Steven T. Callen, Leonardo Chavez, Andrew N. Doust, Max J. Feldman, Kerrigan B. Gilbert, John G. Hodge, J. Steen Hoyer, Andy Lin, Suxing Liu, César Lizárraga, Argelia Lorence, Michael Miller, Eric Platon, Monica Tessman, Tony Sax

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4088 PubMed 29209576

December 19, 2017

Broad spectrum pesticide application alters natural enemy communities and may facilitate secondary pest outbreaks

Matthew P. Hill, Sarina Macfadyen, Michael A. Nash

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4179 PubMed 29302395

December 7, 2017

Population structure and phenotypic variation of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum from dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in the United States

Zhian N. Kamvar, B. Sajeewa Amaradasa, Rachana Jhala, Serena McCoy, James R. Steadman, Sydney E. Everhart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4152 PubMed 29230376

December 22, 2017

Spatial pattern of foot-and-mouth disease in animals in China, 2010–2016

Jun Ma, Jianhua Xiao, Xiang Gao, Boyang Liu, Hao Chen, Hongbin Wang