Javascript is disabled in your browser. Please enable Javascript to view PeerJ.

November 2018

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

Reconstruction of a living Mirarce eatoni

November 13, 2018

The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

A 75 million year old bird skeleton from a threatened national monument in Utah represents the most complete skeleton ever found in North America for a long extinct group of birds called enantiornithines. This large, fossilized bird provides important new insight into the evolution of flight. It has several advanced adaptations for flying, which show that the Enantiornithes evolved these features separately from living birds.

- read article

November 7, 2018

Novel findings on the impact of chytridiomycosis on the cardiac function of anurans: sensitive vs. tolerant species

Raquel F. Salla, Gisele M. Rizzi-Possignolo, Cristiane R. Oliveira, Carolina Lambertini, Lilian Franco-Belussi, Domingos S. Leite, Elaine Cristina M. Silva-Zacarin, Fábio C. Abdalla, Thomas S. Jenkinson, Luís Felipe Toledo, Monica Jones-Costa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5891 PubMed 30425891

November 6, 2018

Genetic population structure of the pelagic mollusk Limacina helicina in the Kara Sea

Galina Anatolievna Abyzova, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Nikitin, Olga Vladimirovna Popova, Anna Fedorovna Pasternak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5709 PubMed 30416878

November 9, 2018

Model-based in silico analysis of the PI3K/Akt pathway: the elucidation of cross-talk between diabetes and breast cancer

Sammia Rehman, Ayesha Obaid, Anam Naz, Amjad Ali, Shahzina Kanwal, Jamil Ahmad

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5917 PubMed 30515357

November 9, 2018

Comparison of incisional complications between skin closures using a simple continuous or intradermal pattern: a pilot study in horses undergoing ventral median celiotomy

Doreen Scharner, Claudia Gittel, Karsten Winter, Dominique Blaue, Carola Schedlbauer, Ingrid Vervuert, Walter Brehm

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5772 PubMed 30430040

November 7, 2018

Along urbanization sprawl, exotic plants distort native bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) assemblages in high elevation Andes ecosystem

Patricia Henríquez-Piskulich, Alejandro Vera, Gino Sandoval, Cristian Villagra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5916 PubMed 30425897

November 29, 2018

Nitrogen input by bamboos in neotropical forest: a new perspective

Maíra C.G. Padgurschi, Simone A. Vieira, Edson J.F. Stefani, Gabriela B. Nardoto, Carlos A. Joly

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6024 PubMed 30519513

November 12, 2018

CMTCN: a web tool for investigating cancer-specific microRNA and transcription factor co-regulatory networks

Ruijiang Li, Hebing Chen, Shuai Jiang, Wanying Li, Hao Li, Zhuo Zhang, Hao Hong, Xin Huang, Chenghui Zhao, Yiming Lu, Xiaochen Bo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5951 PubMed 30473937

November 12, 2018

First evidence of asexual recruitment of Pocillopora acuta in Okinawa Island using genotypic identification

Yuichi Nakajima, Po-Shun Chuang, Nobuo Ueda, Satoshi Mitarai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5915 PubMed 30473933

November 22, 2018

A new species of karst-dwelling freshwater crab of the genus Chinapotamon Dai & Naiyanetr, 1994 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae), from Guizhou, southwest China

Jie-xin Zou, Jun Bai, Xian-min Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5947 PubMed 30498635

November 16, 2018

Soil moisture dynamics under two rainfall frequency treatments drive early spring CO₂ gas exchange of lichen-dominated biocrusts in central Spain

Selina Baldauf, Mónica Ladrón de Guevara, Fernando T. Maestre, Britta Tietjen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5904 PubMed 30479893

November 5, 2018

Optimization of the cytogenetic protocol for Pangasianodon hypophthalmus (Sauvage, 1878) and Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822)

Victor T. Okomoda, Ivan C.C. Koh, Anuar Hassan, Thumronk Amornsakun, Julia H.Z. Moh, Sheriff Md Shahreza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5712 PubMed 30416879

November 23, 2018

Formation of sclerotia in Sclerotinia ginseng and composition of the sclerotial exudate

Dan Wang, Junfan Fu, Rujun Zhou, Zibo Li, Yujiao Xie, Xinran Liu, Yueling Han

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6009 PubMed 30505638

November 20, 2018

De novo annotation of the transcriptome of the Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)

Roberto Carlos Frias-Soler, Lilian Villarín Pildaín, Agnes Hotz-Wagenblatt, Jonas Kolibius, Franz Bairlein, Michael Wink

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5860 PubMed 30498627

November 21, 2018

Identification of AaAtg8 as a marker of autophagy and a functional autophagy-related protein in Aedes albopictus

Jialu Qiao, Dandan Zhang, Yu Wang, Xiaomei Li, Shengya Wang, Qingzhen Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5988 PubMed 30498644

November 20, 2018

Specific and reliable detection of Myosin 1C isoform A by RTqPCR in prostate cancer cells

Aleena A. Saidova, Daria M. Potashnikova, Anna V. Tvorogova, Ivan V. Maly, Wilma A. Hofmann, Ivan A. Vorobjev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5970 PubMed 30498638

November 21, 2018

Hemodynamic effects of sex and handedness on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test: the contradiction between neuroimaging and behavioural results

Sigita Cinciute, Algis Daktariunas, Osvaldas Ruksenas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5890 PubMed 30498629

November 15, 2018

A taxonomic reassessment of Piramys auffenbergi, a neglected turtle from the late Miocene of Piram Island, Gujarat, India

Gabriel S. Ferreira, Saswati Bandyopadhyay, Walter G. Joyce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5938 PubMed 30479901

November 8, 2018

Analytical CPG model driven by limb velocity input generates accurate temporal locomotor dynamics

Sergiy Yakovenko, Anton Sobinov, Valeriya Gritsenko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5849 PubMed 30425886

November 6, 2018

Trait-based predation suitability offers insight into effects of changing prey communities

Benjamin Weigel, Erik Bonsdorff

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5899 PubMed 30416889

November 6, 2018

Unimodal head-width distribution of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) from the Zeeschelde does not support disruptive selection

Pieterjan Verhelst, Jens De Meyer, Jan Reubens, Johan Coeck, Peter Goethals, Tom Moens, Ans Mouton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5773 PubMed 30416881

November 9, 2018

Nutrition of marine mesograzers: integrating feeding behavior, nutrient intake and performance of an herbivorous amphipod

Glauco B.O. Machado, Fosca P.P. Leite, Erik E. Sotka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5929 PubMed 30430042

November 7, 2018

Diurnal and seasonal variation of particle and dissolved organic matter release by the coral Acropora tenuis

Haruko Kurihara, Nao Ikeda, Yu Umezawa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5728 PubMed 30425883

November 21, 2018

Appetitive reversal learning differences of two honey bee subspecies with different foraging behaviors

Eddie Pérez Claudio, Yoselyn Rodriguez-Cruz, Okan Can Arslan, Tugrul Giray, José Luis Agosto Rivera, Meral Kence, Harrington Wells, Charles I. Abramson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5918 PubMed 30498631

November 20, 2018

Reassessing public opinion of captive cetacean attractions with a photo elicitation survey

Sophia N. Wassermann, Edward J. Hind-Ozan, Julia Seaman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5953 PubMed 30498636

November 30, 2018

First occurrence of the enigmatic peccaries Mylohyus elmorei and Prosthennops serus from the Appalachians: latest Hemphillian to Early Blancan of Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee

Evan M. Doughty, Steven C. Wallace, Blaine W. Schubert, Lauren M. Lyon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5926 PubMed 30533292