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 19, 2017

Profiling soil microbial communities with next-generation sequencing: the influence of DNA kit selection and technician technical expertise

5 citations

833 downloads

2,652 views

Taha Soliman, Sung-Yin Yang, Tomoko Yamazaki, Holger Jenke-Kodama

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4178 PubMed 29302394

December 7, 2017

Epigenetic considerations in aquaculture

15 citations

809 downloads

3,095 views

Mackenzie R. Gavery, Steven B. Roberts

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4147 PubMed 29230373

December 19, 2017

Simulations indicate that scores of lionfish (Pterois volitans) colonized the Atlantic Ocean

4 citations

647 downloads

7,044 views

Jason D. Selwyn, John E. Johnson, Alan M. Downey-Wall, Adam M. Bynum, Rebecca M. Hamner, J. Derek Hogan, Christopher E. Bird

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3996 PubMed 29302383

December 21, 2017

Evaluation and identification of stem rust resistance genes Sr2, Sr24, Sr25, Sr26, Sr31 and Sr38 in wheat lines from Gansu Province in China

3 citations

502 downloads

1,425 views

Xiao Feng Xu, Dan Dan Li, Yang Liu, Yue Gao, Zi Yuan Wang, Yu Chen Ma, Shuo Yang, Yuan Yin Cao, Yuan Hu Xuan, Tian Ya Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4146 PubMed 30038849

December 8, 2017

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

2 citations

460 downloads

2,075 views

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 6, 2017

Stem-loop structure preference for site-specific RNA editing by APOBEC3A and APOBEC3G

7 citations

410 downloads

1,389 views

Shraddha Sharma, Bora E. Baysal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4136 PubMed 29230368

December 13, 2017

Shift of symbiont communities in Acropora tenuis juveniles under heat stress

4 citations

394 downloads