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April 2018

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Variation in Late Jurassic tridactyl dinosaur tracks

Fig 2 - Pictures and false-color depth maps of the tracks

April 2, 2018

Variation in Late Jurassic tridactyl dinosaur tracks

Minute to medium-sized tridactyl dinosaur footprints from the tracksites of Highway A16 in the Jura Mountains represent one of the largest samples from the Late Jurassic worldwide. Researchers conducted Integrated analyses of the quality of preservation, the maximum depth, the shape variation along the trackway, and the footprint proportions

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April 30, 2018

The effect of using games in teaching conservation

Cedric Kai Wei Tan, Jiin Woei Lee, Adeline Hii, Yen Yi Loo, Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, David W. Macdonald

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4509 PubMed 29736327

April 9, 2018

Coccolith arrangement follows Eulerian mathematics in the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi

Kai Xu, David Hutchins, Kunshan Gao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4608 PubMed 29666762

April 17, 2018

Voluntarily controlled but not merely observed visual feedback affects postural sway

Shu Imaizumi, Tomohisa Asai, Kentaro Hiromitsu, Hiroshi Imamizu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4643 PubMed 29682421

April 9, 2018

miRNAome expression profiles in the gonads of adult Melopsittacus undulatus

Lan Jiang, Qingqing Wang, Jue Yu, Vinita Gowda, Gabriel Johnson, Jianke Yang, Xianzhao Kan, Xiaojun Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4615 PubMed 29666766

April 9, 2018

Pathways of topological rank analysis (PoTRA): a novel method to detect pathways involved in hepatocellular carcinoma

Chaoxing Li, Li Liu, Valentin Dinu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4571 PubMed 29666752

April 9, 2018

Phosphoproteomic insights into processes influenced by the kinase-like protein DIA1/C3orf58

Agnieszka Hareza, Magda Bakun, Bianka Świderska, Małgorzata Dudkiewicz, Alicja Koscielny, Anna Bajur, Jacek Jaworski, Michał Dadlez, Krzysztof Pawłowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4599 PubMed 29666759

April 26, 2018

Haimormus shimojiensis, a new genus and species of Pseudozeuxidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from a submarine limestone cave in Northwestern Pacific

Keiichi Kakui, Yoshihisa Fujita

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4720 PubMed 29713569

April 17, 2018

Challenges of transferring models of fish abundance between coral reefs

Ana M.M. Sequeira, Camille Mellin, Hector M. Lozano-Montes, Jessica J. Meeuwig, Mathew A. Vanderklift, Michael D.E. Haywood, Russell C. Babcock, M. Julian Caley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4566 PubMed 29682410

April 11, 2018

Sheep skeletal muscle transcriptome analysis reveals muscle growth regulatory lncRNAs

Tianle Chao, Zhibin Ji, Lei Hou, Jin Wang, Chunlan Zhang, Guizhi Wang, Jianmin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4619 PubMed 29666768

April 23, 2018

RNAi-mediated knockdown of MTNR1B without disrupting the effects of melatonin on apoptosis and cell cycle in bovine granulose cells

Wenju Liu, Shujuan Wang, Jinxing Zhou, Xunsheng Pang, Like Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4463 PubMed 29707428

April 25, 2018

Increased chemical acetylation of peptides and proteins in rats after daily ingestion of diacetyl analyzed by Nano-LC-MS/MS

Leticia Dias Lima Jedlicka, Sheila Barreto Guterres, Aleksandro Martins Balbino, Giuseppe Bruno Neto, Richardt Gama Landgraf, Liliam Fernandes, Emanuel Carrilho, Etelvino José Henriques Bechara, Nilson A. Assuncao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4688 PubMed 29713565

April 17, 2018

Kill two birds with one stone: making multi-transgenic pre-diabetes mouse models through insulin resistance and pancreatic apoptosis pathogenesis

Siyuan Kong, Jinxue Ruan, Kaiyi Zhang, Bingjun Hu, Yuzhu Cheng, Yubo Zhang, Shulin Yang, Kui Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4542 PubMed 29682407

April 11, 2018

Evaluation of a therapy for Idiopathic Chronic Enterocolitis in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and linked microbial community correlates

Joshua M. Taylor, Erik L. Clarke, Kate Baker, Abigail Lauder, Dorothy Kim, Aubrey Bailey, Gary D. Wu, Ronald G. Collman, Lara Doyle-Meyers, Kasi Russell-Lodrigue, James Blanchard, Frederic D. Bushman, Rudolf Bohm

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4612 PubMed 29666764

April 20, 2018

Rare patterns of dorsal puncture in Pterostichus oblongopunctatus (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Axel Schwerk, Radomir Jaskuła

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4657 PubMed 29692953

April 3, 2018

Electrophysiological evidence for temporal dynamics associated with attentional processing in the zoom lens paradigm

Qing Zhang, Tengfei Liang, Jiafeng Zhang, Xueying Fu, Jianlin Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4538 PubMed 29632741

April 16, 2018

TAS3 miR390-dependent loci in non-vascular land plants: towards a comprehensive reconstruction of the gene evolutionary history

Sergey Y. Morozov, Irina A. Milyutina, Tatiana N. Erokhina, Liudmila V. Ozerova, Alexey V. Troitsky, Andrey G. Solovyev