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

January 2019

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Descriptive anatomy of the largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis

Three-dimensional skull of BMT 1955.G35.1, Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis.

January 8, 2019

Descriptive anatomy of the largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis

Representing one of the first times that medical imaging and three-dimensional reconstruction methods have been applied to a large skull of a marine reptile, researchers describe the partial skeleton of a large ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Warwickshire, England. The unusual three-dimensional preservation of the specimen permitted computed tomography (CT) scanning of individual braincase elements as well as the entire reassembled skull.

- read article

January 24, 2019

Prioritizing bona fide bacterial small RNAs with machine learning classifiers

Erik J.J. Eppenhof, Lourdes Peña-Castillo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6304 PubMed 30697489

January 30, 2019

Expression of matrix metalloproteinases to induce the expression of genes associated with apoptosis during corpus luteum development in bovine

Sang Hwan Kim, Ji Hye Lee, Jong Taek Yoon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6344 PubMed 30729068

January 18, 2019

A large cockroach from the mesosaur-bearing Konservat-Lagerstätte (Mangrullo Formation), Late Paleozoic of Uruguay

Viviana Calisto, Graciela Piñeiro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6289 PubMed 30687590

January 9, 2019

Didymin improves UV irradiation resistance in C. elegans

Lin Zhou, Lu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Jiahe Li, Shuju Bai, Junfeng Ma, Xueqi Fu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6218 PubMed 30643686

January 4, 2019

Secreted Frizzled-related protein 4 inhibits the regeneration of hair follicles

Haiying Guo, Yizhan Xing, Fang Deng, Ke Yang, Yuhong Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6153 PubMed 30631645

January 11, 2019

Differential expression of the glucose transporter gene glcH in response to glucose and light in marine picocyanobacteria

José Ángel Moreno-Cabezuelo, Antonio López-Lozano, Jesús Díez, José Manuel García-Fernández

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6248 PubMed 30648008

January 24, 2019

A turiasaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Wealden Supergroup of the United Kingdom

Philip D. Mannion

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6348 PubMed 30697494

January 16, 2019

Inverse modelling for predicting both water and nitrate movement in a structured-clay soil (Red Ferrosol)

James M. Kirkham, Christopher J. Smith, Richard B. Doyle, Philip H. Brown

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6002 PubMed 30671285

January 18, 2019

Review of the ant genus Meranoplus Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Arabian Peninsula with description of a new species M. mosalahi sp. n. from Oman

Mostafa R. Sharaf, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6287 PubMed 30687589

January 16, 2019

Screening of reference genes in real-time PCR for Radopholus similis

Jun-Yi Li, Wan-Zhu Chen, Si-Hua Yang, Chun-Ling Xu, Xin Huang, Chun Chen, Hui Xie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6253 PubMed 30671304

January 16, 2019

Growth estimation of the larger foraminifer Heterostegina depressa by means of population dynamics

Wolfgang Eder, Julia Woeger, Shunichi Kinoshita, Johann Hohenegger, Antonino Briguglio

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6096 PubMed 30671286

January 16, 2019

Foraging habitat choice of White-tailed Tropicbirds revealed by fine-scale GPS tracking and remote sensing

Carlos D. Santos, Leila F.A.S. Campos, Márcio A. Efe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6261 PubMed 30671305

January 4, 2019

Temperature-mediated feeding between spring-associated and riverine-associated congeners, with implications for community segregation

Cody A. Craig, Jeremy D. Maikoetter, Timothy H. Bonner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6144 PubMed 30631643

January 31, 2019

GRID-independent molecular descriptor analysis and molecular docking studies to mimic the binding hypothesis of γ-aminobutyric acid transporter 1 (GAT1) inhibitors

Sadia Zafar, Ishrat Jabeen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6283 PubMed 30723616

January 7, 2019

Inhibition of MEK1/2 and GSK3 (2i system) affects blastocyst quality and early differentiation of porcine parthenotes

Jeongwoo Kwon, Ying-Hua Li, Yu-Jin Jo, YoungJin Oh, Suk Namgoong, Nam-Hyung Kim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5840 PubMed 30643672

January 31, 2019

Empirical analysis and modeling of Argos Doppler location errors in Romania

Laurentiu Rozylowicz, Florian P. Bodescu, Cristiana M. Ciocanea, Athanasios A. Gavrilidis, Steluta Manolache, Marius L. Matache, Iulia V. Miu, Ionut C. Moale, Andreea Nita, Viorel D. Popescu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6362 PubMed 30723631

January 8, 2019

Simultaneous rapid detection of Hantaan virus and Seoul virus using RT-LAMP in rats

Xin Sui, Xu Zhang, Dongliang Fei, Zhen Zhang, Mingxiao Ma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6068 PubMed 30643674

January 17, 2019

Extremely low levels of chloroplast genome sequence variability in Astelia pumila (Asteliaceae, Asparagales)

Simon Pfanzelt, Dirk C. Albach, K. Bernhard von Hagen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6244 PubMed 30671303

January 8, 2019

Another choice for measuring tree photosynthesis in vitro

Changjun Meng, Xiao Liu, Yongfu Chai, Jinshi Xu, Ming Yue