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July 2018

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Investigating parental care behaviour in same-sex pairing of zoo greater flamingo

Greater flamingos at Kutch

July 18, 2018

Investigating parental care behaviour in same-sex pairing of zoo greater flamingo

Same-sex pair bonding is an understudied area of research interest. In an early, small sample study, researchers have observed similar behavior in female-female parenting as with heterosexual pairs in the zoo greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus). These early results could be illuminating with regard to the evolution of flamingo social behavior, same-sex pair bonds, and why pair bonds form in general. Image credit: Dhaval Vargiya, CC SA 4.0.

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July 31, 2018

Cytogenetic analyses in Trinomys (Echimyidae, Rodentia), with description of new karyotypes

Naiara Pereira Araújo, Cayo Augusto Rocha Dias, Rodolfo Stumpp, Marta Svartman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5316 PubMed 30083457

July 30, 2018

Genetic influences on creativity: an exploration of convergent and divergent thinking

Wei Han, Mi Zhang, Xue Feng, Guihua Gong, Kaiping Peng, Dan Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5403 PubMed 30083479

July 30, 2018

The divergence history of European blue mussel species reconstructed from Approximate Bayesian Computation: the effects of sequencing techniques and sampling strategies

Christelle Fraïsse, Camille Roux, Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire, Jonathan Romiguier, Nicolas Faivre, John J. Welch, Nicolas Bierne

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5198 PubMed 30083438

July 24, 2018

Absence of heterosis in hybrid crested newts

Jan W. Arntzen, Nazan Üzüm, Maja D. Ajduković, Ana Ivanović, Ben Wielstra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5317 PubMed 30065885

July 23, 2018

Mitochondrial genomes organization in alloplasmic lines of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) with various types of cytoplasmic male sterility

Maksim S. Makarenko, Igor V. Kornienko, Kirill V. Azarin, Alexander V. Usatov, Maria D. Logacheva, Nicolay V. Markin, Vera A. Gavrilova

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5266 PubMed 30057860

July 20, 2018

Combined accelerometer and genetic analysis to differentiate essential tremor from Parkinson’s disease

Bhuvan Molparia, Brian N. Schrader, Eli Cohen, Jennifer L. Wagner, Sandeep R. Gupta, Sherrie Gould, Nelson Hwynn, Emily G. Spencer, Ali Torkamani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5308 PubMed 30042899

July 20, 2018

Cross-species screening of microsatellite markers for individual identification of snow petrel Pagodroma nivea and Wilson's storm petrel Oceanites oceanicus in Antarctica

Anant Pande, Nidhi Rawat, Kuppusamy Sivakumar, Sambandam Sathyakumar, Vinod B. Mathur, Samrat Mondol

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5243 PubMed 30042893

July 19, 2018

Conspicuously concealed: revision of the arid clade of the Gehyra variegata (Gekkonidae) group in Western Australia using an integrative molecular and morphological approach, with the description of five cryptic species

Luke Kealley, Paul Doughty, Mitzy Pepper, J. Scott Keogh, Mia Hillyer, Joel Huey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5334 PubMed 30038877

July 18, 2018

Genetic analysis reveals candidate genes for activity QTL in the blind Mexican tetra, Astyanax mexicanus

Brian M. Carlson, Ian B. Klingler, Bradley J. Meyer, Joshua B. Gross

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5189 PubMed 30042884

July 13, 2018

Genetic diversity and population structure of the endangered basal angiosperm Brasenia schreberi (Cabombaceae) in China

Zhi-Zhong Li, Andrew W. Gichira, Qing-Feng Wang, Jin-Ming Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5296 PubMed 30013859

July 13, 2018

SECAPR—a bioinformatics pipeline for the rapid and user-friendly processing of targeted enriched Illumina sequences, from raw reads to alignments

Tobias Andermann, Ángela Cano, Alexander Zizka, Christine Bacon, Alexandre Antonelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5175 PubMed 30023140

July 10, 2018

Identification and expression analysis of EDR1-like genes in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) in response to Golovinomyces orontii

Lei Wu, Xiaoying Zhang, Bingxin Xu, Yueyue Li, Ling Jia, Rengang Wang, Xueliang Ren, Genhong Wang, Qingyou Xia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5244 PubMed 30018863

July 9, 2018

Experimental evolution of UV resistance in a phage

Eric F. Tom, Ian J. Molineux, Matthew L. Paff, James J. Bull

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5190 PubMed 30013847

July 6, 2018

Genetic analysis of water loss of excised leaves associated with drought tolerance in wheat

Ilona Mieczysława Czyczyło-Mysza, Izabela Marcińska, Edyta Skrzypek, Jan Bocianowski, Kinga Dziurka, Dragana Rančić, Radenko Radošević, Sofija Pekić-Quarrie, Dejan Dodig, Stephen Alexander Quarrie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5063 PubMed 30002956

July 4, 2018

Identification of SNPs potentially related to immune responses and growth performance in Litopenaeus vannamei by RNA-seq analyses

Camilla A. Santos, Sónia C.S. Andrade, Patrícia D. Freitas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5154 PubMed 30013834

July 3, 2018

AnnotationBustR: an R package to extract subsequences from GenBank annotations

Samuel R. Borstein, Brian C. O’Meara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5179 PubMed 30002984

July 3, 2018

Local and relaxed clocks: the best of both worlds

Mathieu Fourment, Aaron E. Darling