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 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 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

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