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December 2017

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 5, 2017

A microbial survey of the International Space Station (ISS)

Jenna M. Lang, David A. Coil, Russell Y. Neches, Wendy E. Brown, Darlene Cavalier, Mark Severance, Jarrad T. Hampton-Marcell, Jack A. Gilbert, Jonathan A. Eisen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4029 PubMed 29492330

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 5, 2017

SDMtoolbox 2.0: the next generation Python-based GIS toolkit for landscape genetic, biogeographic and species distribution model analyses

Jason L. Brown, Joseph R. Bennett, Connor M. French

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4095 PubMed 29230356

December 7, 2017

Identification and characterization of a novel zebrafish (Danio rerio) pentraxin–carbonic anhydrase

Maarit S. Patrikainen, Martti E.E. Tolvanen, Ashok Aspatwar, Harlan R. Barker, Csaba Ortutay, Janne Jänis, Mikko Laitaoja, Vesa P. Hytönen, Latifeh Azizi, Prajwol Manandhar, Edit Jáger, Daniela Vullo, Sampo Kukkurainen, Mika Hilvo, Claudiu T. Supuran, Seppo Parkkila

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4128 PubMed 29230365

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 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 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