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October 2018

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A new tyrannosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation

Fig 1: Frontals of UMNH VP 28348 in rostral view

October 9, 2018

A new tyrannosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation

Researchers report a new tyrannosaurid represented by an associated skeleton from the lower Campanian Allison Member of the Menefee Formation of New Mexico. The specimen is the holotype of the new genus and species Dynamoterror dynastes.

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October 5, 2018

Assessment of genomic changes in a CRISPR/Cas9 Phaeodactylum tricornutum mutant through whole genome resequencing

Monia Teresa Russo, Riccardo Aiese Cigliano, Walter Sanseverino, Maria Immacolata Ferrante

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5507 PubMed 30310734

October 29, 2018

Ensemble learning for detecting gene-gene interactions in colorectal cancer

Faramarz Dorani, Ting Hu, Michael O. Woods, Guangju Zhai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5854 PubMed 30397551

October 25, 2018

Molecular assessment of Pocillopora verrucosa (Scleractinia; Pocilloporidae) distribution along a depth gradient in Ludao, Taiwan

Stéphane De Palmas, Derek Soto, Vianney Denis, Ming-Jay Ho, Chaolun Allen Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5797 PubMed 30386700

October 18, 2018

Effective population sizes and adaptive genetic variation in a captive bird population

Giridhar Athrey, Nikolas Faust, Anne-Sophie Charlotte Hieke, I. Lehr Brisbin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5803 PubMed 30356989

October 24, 2018

Meta-analysis of microarray datasets identify several chromosome segregation-related cancer/testis genes potentially contributing to anaplastic thyroid carcinoma

Mu Liu, Yu-lu Qiu, Tong Jin, Yin Zhou, Zhi-yuan Mao, Yong-jie Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5822 PubMed 30386706

October 31, 2018

Uncovering hidden specific diversity of Andean glassfrogs of the Centrolene buckleyi species complex (Anura: Centrolenidae)

Luis Amador, Andrés Parada, Guillermo D’Elía, Juan M. Guayasamin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5856 PubMed 30402351

October 11, 2018

Sequence variant analysis of RNA sequences in severe equine asthma

Laurence Tessier, Olivier Côté, Dorothee Bienzle

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5759 PubMed 30324028

October 11, 2018

Sex-biased expression between guppies varying in the presence of ornamental coloration

Cynthia Dick, David N. Reznick, Cheryl Y. Hayashi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5782 PubMed 30324034

October 26, 2018

Three, two, one! Revision of the long-bodied sphaerodorids (Sphaerodoridae, Annelida) and synonymization of Ephesiella, Ephesiopsis and Sphaerodorum

María Capa, Torkild Bakken, Karin Meißner, Arne Nygren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5783 PubMed 30386698

October 9, 2018

Population structure in the Andaman keelback, Xenochrophis tytleri: geographical distance and oceanic barriers to dispersal influence genetic divergence on the Andaman archipelago

Ashwini Venkatanarayana Mohan, Priyanka Swamy, Kartik Shanker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5752 PubMed 30324026

October 4, 2018

Association of CYBA gene (-930 A/G and 242 C/T) polymorphisms with oxidative stress in breast cancer: a case-control study

Mohini A. Tupurani, Chiranjeevi Padala, Kaushik Puranam, Rajesh K. Galimudi, Keerthi Kupsal, Nivas Shyamala, Srilatha Gantala, Ramanjaneyulu Kummari, Sanjeeva K. Chinta, Surekha R. Hanumanth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5509 PubMed 30310735

October 9, 2018

Phylogenetic analysis of the cytochrome P450 (CYP450) nucleotide sequences of the horse and predicted CYP450s of the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) and other mammalian species

Marion Leiberich, Hendrik Johannes Marais, Vinny Naidoo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5718 PubMed 30324017

October 23, 2018

Molecular characterization of the giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) beta-actin gene promoter

Junjun Yan, Qiang Gao, Zongbin Cui, Guoliang Yang, Yong Long

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5701 PubMed 30386688