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May 2018

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Blue whale migratory pathways along the Eastern South Pacific

Tracks of five wide-ranging blue whales tagged in Chilean Northern Patagonia.

April 30, 2018

Blue whale migratory pathways along the Eastern South Pacific

Researchers tracked 10 blue whales and documented their individual variations in departure time, northbound migratory routes and potential wintering grounds in the Eastern South Pacific.

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May 29, 2018

Exosomes in cancer: small vesicular transporters for cancer progression and metastasis, biomarkers in cancer therapeutics

20 citations

866 downloads

3,760 views

Atefe Abak, Alireza Abhari, Sevda Rahimzadeh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4763 PubMed 29868251

May 25, 2018

Rapid evolution of the Helicobacter pylori AlpA adhesin in a high gastric cancer risk region from Colombia

3 citations

434 downloads

1,420 views

Andrés Julián Gutiérrez-Escobar, Gina Méndez-Callejas, Orlando Acevedo, Maria Mercedes Bravo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4846 PubMed 29844987

May 24, 2018

Divergent and convergent evolution of housekeeping genes in human–pig lineage

5 citations

466 downloads

1,668 views

Kai Wei, Tingting Zhang, Lei Ma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4840 PubMed 29844985

May 23, 2018

The complete chloroplast genome of Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce: genome organization and comparison with related species

5 citations

576 downloads

2,044 views

Piotr Androsiuk, Jan Paweł Jastrzębski, Łukasz Paukszto, Adam Okorski, Agnieszka Pszczółkowska, Katarzyna Joanna Chwedorzewska, Justyna Koc, Ryszard Górecki, Irena Giełwanowska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4723 PubMed 29844954

May 21, 2018

On the efficiency of the genetic code after frameshift mutations

19 citations

369 downloads

1,921 views

Regine Geyer, Amir Madany Mamlouk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4825 PubMed 29844977

May 21, 2018

Understanding mitochondrial myopathies: a review

6 citations

1,458 downloads

1,855 views

Abhimanyu S. Ahuja

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4790 PubMed 29844960

May 16, 2018

Identification of potential crucial genes and pathways associated with vein graft restenosis based on gene expression analysis in experimental rabbits

399 downloads

1,448 views

Qiang Liu, Xiujie Yin, Mingzhu Li, Li Wan, Liqiao Liu, Xiang Zhong, Zhuoqi Liu, Qun Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4704 PubMed 29785339

May 14, 2018

Modulation of transcriptional activity in brain lower grade glioma by alternative splicing

3 citations

393 downloads

1,344 views

Jin Li, Yang Wang, Xianglian Meng, Hong Liang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4686 PubMed 29780667

May 11, 2018

Ten years of progress and promise of induced pluripotent stem cells: historical origins, characteristics, mechanisms, limitations, and potential applications

37 citations

6,832 downloads

6,873 views

Adekunle Ebenezer Omole, Adegbenro Omotuyi John Fakoya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4370 PubMed 29770269

May 9, 2018

The rice XA21 ectodomain fused to the Arabidopsis EFR cytoplasmic domain confers resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae

7 citations

562 downloads

2,007 views

Nicholas C. Thomas, Nir Oksenberg, Furong Liu, Daniel Caddell, Alina Nalyvayko, Yen Nguyen, Benjamin Schwessinger, Pamela C. Ronald

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4456 PubMed 29761034

May 4, 2018

The ΦBT1 large serine recombinase catalyzes DNA integration at pseudo-attB sites in the genus Nocardia

1 citation

487 downloads

1,714 views

Marion Herisse, Jessica L. Porter, Romain Guerillot, Takehiro Tomita, Anders Goncalves Da Silva, Torsten Seemann, Benjamin P. Howden, Timothy P. Stinear, Sacha J. Pidot

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4784 PubMed 29740520

May 4, 2018

Candidate genes in gastric cancer identified by constructing a weighted gene co-expression network

26 citations

770 downloads

2,402 views

Jian Chen, Xiuwen Wang, Bing Hu, Yifu He, Xiaojun Qian, Wei Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4692 PubMed 29740513

May 3, 2018

Patterns of genetic structuring at the northern limits of the Australian smelt (Retropinna semoni) cryptic species complex

2 citations

345 downloads