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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

1 citation

326 downloads

1,220 views

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

6 citations

802 downloads

2,398 views

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

15 citations

479 downloads

1,634 views

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

7 citations

586 downloads

1,411 views

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

9 citations

451 downloads

1,250 views

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

6 citations

420 downloads

1,361 views

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

1 citation

301 downloads

983 views

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

6 citations

1,025 downloads

2,151 views

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

4 citations

371 downloads

1,302 views

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

8 citations

2,146 downloads

1,733 views

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

17 citations

664 downloads

3,139 views

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

1 citation

442 downloads

1,576 views

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

8 citations

416 downloads

1,186 views

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

3 citations

486 downloads

2,720 views

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

4 citations

509 downloads

1,652 views

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

2 citations

367 downloads