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December 2018

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

External and genital structures as diagnostic characters of three Apolygus species

December 4, 2018

COI barcoding of plant bugs

Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of COI barcoding in identifying 123 species of plant bugs in seven subfamilies of Miridae.

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December 19, 2018

Transposons and pathogenicity in Xanthomonas: acquisition of murein lytic transglycosylases by TnXax1 enhances Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri 306 virulence and fitness

Amanda C.P. Oliveira, Rafael M. Ferreira, Maria Inês T. Ferro, Jesus A. Ferro, Mick Chandler, Alessandro M. Varani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6111 PubMed 30588403

December 13, 2018

Characterization of five complete Cyrtodactylus mitogenome structures reveals low structural diversity and conservation of repeated sequences in the lineage

Prapatsorn Areesirisuk, Narongrit Muangmai, Kirati Kunya, Worapong Singchat, Siwapech Sillapaprayoon, Sorravis Lapbenjakul, Watcharaporn Thapana, Attachai Kantachumpoo, Sudarath Baicharoen, Budsaba Rerkamnuaychoke, Surin Peyachoknagul, Kyudong Han, Kornsorn Srikulnath

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6121 PubMed 30581685

December 5, 2018

Aberrant repair initiated by the adenine-DNA glycosylase does not play a role in UV-induced mutagenesis in Escherichia coli

Caroline Zutterling, Aibek Mursalimov, Ibtissam Talhaoui, Zhanat Koshenov, Zhiger Akishev, Amangeldy K. Bissenbaev, Gerard Mazon, Nicolas E. Geacintov, Didier Gasparutto, Regina Groisman, Dmitry O. Zharkov, Bakhyt T. Matkarimov, Murat Saparbaev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6029 PubMed 30568855

December 14, 2018

The Plasmodium knowlesi Pk41 surface protein diversity, natural selection, sub population and geographical clustering: a 6-cysteine protein family member

Md Atique Ahmed, Ki-Back Chu, Fu-Shi Quan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6141 PubMed 30581686

December 14, 2018

Detection of bacterial endosymbionts in freshwater crustaceans: the applicability of non-degenerate primers to amplify the bacterial 16S rRNA gene

Monika Mioduchowska, Michał Jan Czyż, Bartłomiej Gołdyn, Adrianna Kilikowska, Tadeusz Namiotko, Tom Pinceel, Małgorzata Łaciak, Jerzy Sell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6039 PubMed 30581663

December 11, 2018

Founder effects drive the genetic structure of passively dispersed aquatic invertebrates

Javier Montero-Pau, Africa Gómez, Manuel Serra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6094 PubMed 30581680

December 18, 2018

Local persistence of Mann’s soft-haired mouse Abrothrix manni (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) during Quaternary glaciations in southern Chile

Lourdes Valdez, Guilermo D’Elía

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6130 PubMed 30588409

December 3, 2018

NCR3 polymorphism, haematological parameters, and severe malaria in Senegalese patients

Alassane Thiam, Sabrina Baaklini, Babacar Mbengue, Samia Nisar, Maryam Diarra, Sandrine Marquet, Mouhamadou Mansour Fall, Michel Sanka, Fatou Thiam, Rokhaya Ndiaye Diallo, Magali Torres, Alioune Dieye, Pascal Rihet

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6048 PubMed 30533319

December 5, 2018

Simultaneous preservation of the DNA quality, the community composition and the density of freshwater oligochaetes for the development of genetically based biological indices

Régis Vivien, Inge Werner, Benoit J.D. Ferrari

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6050 PubMed 30568859