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June 2018

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Climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle

Adapted from Fig 1: Predicted habitat suitability for Emys trinacris

June 5, 2018

Climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle

The pond turtle Emys trinacris is an endangered endemic species of Sicily. In this study, researchers modelled the potential distribution of the species under current and future climatic conditions.

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June 5, 2018

Coupling GIS spatial analysis and Ensemble Niche Modelling to investigate climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle Emys trinacris, an endangered species from the Mediterranean

Mattia Iannella, Francesco Cerasoli, Paola D’Alessandro, Giulia Console, Maurizio Biondi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4969 PubMed 29888141

June 11, 2018

How well do force fields capture the strength of salt bridges in proteins?

Mustapha Carab Ahmed, Elena Papaleo, Kresten Lindorff-Larsen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4967 PubMed 29910983

June 20, 2018

Evaluation of the effect of chickenpox vaccination on shingles epidemiology using agent-based modeling

Ellen Rafferty, Wade McDonald, Weicheng Qian, Nathaniel D. Osgood, Alexander Doroshenko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5012 PubMed 29942688

June 20, 2018

GEsture: an online hand-drawing tool for gene expression pattern search

Chunyan Wang, Yiqing Xu, Xuelin Wang, Li Zhang, Suyun Wei, Qiaolin Ye, Youxiang Zhu, Hengfu Yin, Manoj Nainwal, Luis Tanon-Reyes, Feng Cheng, Tongming Yin, Ning Ye

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4927 PubMed 29942676

June 8, 2018

Scan, extract, wrap, compute—a 3D method to analyse morphological shape differences

Martin Horstmann, Alexander T. Topham, Petra Stamm, Sebastian Kruppert, John K. Colbourne, Ralph Tollrian, Linda C. Weiss

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4861 PubMed 29900069

June 14, 2018

Structural insights and characterization of human Npas4 protein

Ammad Fahim, Zaira Rehman, Muhammad Faraz Bhatti, Amjad Ali, Nasar Virk, Amir Rashid, Rehan Zafar Paracha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4978 PubMed 29915698

June 6, 2018

Modeling and analysis of the impacts of jet lag on circadian rhythm and its role in tumor growth

Azka Hassan, Jamil Ahmad, Hufsah Ashraf, Amjad Ali