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September 2018

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A short, robust brain activation control task optimised for pharmacological fMRI studies

Fig 2: Results from the working-memory variant of the task paradigm.

September 11, 2018

A short, robust brain activation control task optimised for pharmacological fMRI studies

To aid in pharmacological-fMRI studies, researchers developed and validated two variants of a novel fMRI control task. Their stimulus code is freely available online for re-use by the scientific community.

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September 11, 2018

Growth under cold conditions in a wide perennial ryegrass panel is under tight physiological control

Lena Förster, Jim Grant, Thibauld Michel, Carl Ng, Susanne Barth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5520 PubMed 30221088

September 26, 2018

Population history of deep-sea vent and seep Provanna snails (Mollusca: Abyssochrysoidea) in the northwestern Pacific

Tomomi Ogura, Hiromi Kayama Watanabe, Chong Chen, Takenori Sasaki, Shigeaki Kojima, Jun-ichiro Ishibashi, Katsunori Fujikura

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5673 PubMed 30280041

September 17, 2018

Dramatic decline and limited recovery of a green crab (Carcinus maenas) population in the Minas Basin, Canada after the summer of 2013

Brady K. Quinn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5566 PubMed 30245928

September 24, 2018

Variation of soil bacterial communities along a chronosequence of Eucalyptus plantation

Jiayu Li, Jiayi Lin, Chenyu Pei, Kaitao Lai, Thomas C. Jeffries, Guangda Tang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5648 PubMed 30280026

September 7, 2018

The palaeoenvironment of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia

Tamara L. Fletcher, Patrick T. Moss, Steven W. Salisbury

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5513 PubMed 30210941

September 25, 2018

Using bioinformatics tools for the discovery of Dengue RNA-dependent RNA polymerase inhibitors

Nomagugu B. Nncube, Pritika Ramharack, Mahmoud E.S. Soliman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5068 PubMed 30280009

September 21, 2018

Population genetics of the main population of brown bears in southwest Asia

Hüseyin Ambarlı, Deniz Mengüllüoğlu, Jörns Fickel, Daniel W. Förster

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5660 PubMed 30258734

September 27, 2018

Assessing the role of dispersed floral resources for managed bees in providing supporting ecosystem services for crop pollination

Annalie Melin, Mathieu Rouget, Jonathan F. Colville, Jeremy J. Midgley, John S. Donaldson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5654 PubMed 30280031

September 28, 2018

Finding wolf homesites: improving the efficacy of howl surveys to study wolves

Thomas D. Gable, Steve K. Windels, Joseph K. Bump

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5629 PubMed 30280021

September 24, 2018

Morphometric traits in the fine-leaved fescues depend on ploidy level: the case of Festuca amethystina L.

Agnieszka Rewicz, Przemysław Piotr Tomczyk, Marcin Kiedrzyński, Katarzyna Maria Zielińska, Iwona Jędrzejczyk, Monika Rewers, Edyta Kiedrzyńska, Tomasz Rewicz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5576 PubMed 30280016

September 28, 2018

Closing the gap: mixed stock analysis of three foraging populations of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) on the Great Barrier Reef

Karina Jones, Michael Jensen, Graham Burgess, Johanna Leonhardt, Lynne van Herwerden, Julia Hazel, Mark Hamann, Ian Bell, Ellen Ariel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5651 PubMed 30280029

September 27, 2018

Geopolitical species revisited: genomic and morphological data indicate that the roundtail chub Gila robusta species complex (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) is a single species

Joshua M. Copus, W. L. Montgomery, Zac H. Forsman, Brian W. Bowen, Robert J. Toonen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5605 PubMed 30294509

September 27, 2018

Analysis of relative abundances with zeros on environmental gradients: a multinomial regression model

Fiona Chong, Matthew Spencer