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January 2019

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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.

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January 4, 2019

Role of the larval feeding morphology and digestive enzyme activity in the early development of the polychaete Boccardia wellingtonensis

Daniel Doherty-Weason, Fernanda X. Oyarzun, Luciano Vera, Miguel Bascur, Fabián Guzmán, Francisco Silva, Ángel Urzúa, Antonio Brante

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6151 PubMed 30631649

January 28, 2019

Optimizing influenza vaccine policies for controlling 2009-like pandemics and regular outbreaks

Sheng-I Chen, Chia-Yuan Wu, Yu-Hsuan Wu, Min-Wei Hsieh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6340 PubMed 30713821

January 10, 2019

MicroRNA-705 regulates the differentiation of mouse mandible bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells

Xiao Hong Yang, Kun Yang, Yu Lin An, Li Bo Wang, Guo Luo, Xiao Hua Hu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6279 PubMed 30648022

January 11, 2019

Grazing by large savanna herbivores indirectly alters ant diversity and promotes resource monopolisation

Jean Purdon, Catherine L. Parr, Michael J. Somers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6226 PubMed 30648021

January 9, 2019

First record of Phyllorhiza sp. (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) in a Chinese coastal aquaculture pond

Zhijun Dong, André C. Morandini, Agustin Schiariti, Lei Wang, Tingting Sun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6191 PubMed 30643699

January 15, 2019

Serverless OpenHealth at data commons scale—traversing the 20 million patient records of New York’s SPARCS dataset in real-time

Jonas S. Almeida, Janos Hajagos, Joel Saltz, Mary Saltz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6230 PubMed 30671301

January 25, 2019

The dynamics of grooming interactions: maintenance of partner choice and the consequences of demographic variation for female mandrills

André S. Pereira, Inês D. Rebelo, Catarina Casanova, Phyllis C. Lee, Vasilis Louca

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6332 PubMed 30701140

January 21, 2019

Molecular mechanism of point mutation-induced Monopolar spindle 1 (Mps1/TTK) inhibitor resistance revealed by a comprehensive molecular modeling study

Yan Han, Yungang Wu, Yi Xu, Wentao Guo, Na Zhang, Xiaoyi Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6299 PubMed 30693152

January 16, 2019

Targeted inactivation of Salmonella Agona metabolic genes by group II introns and in vivo assessment of pathogenicity and anti-tumour activity in mouse model

Chin Piaw Gwee, Chai Hoon Khoo, Swee Keong Yeap, Geok Chin Tan, Yoke Kqueen Cheah

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5989 PubMed 30671294

January 24, 2019

Association of TIMP4 gene variants with steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head in the population of northern China

Jiaqi Wang, Feimeng An, Yuju Cao, Hongyan Gao, Mingqi Sun, Chao Ma, Hao Wu, Baoxin Zhang, Wanlin Liu, Jianzhong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6270 PubMed 30697482

January 16, 2019

Individual and flock immunity responses of naïve ducks on smallholder farms after vaccination with H5N1 Avian Influenza vaccine: a study in a province of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Hoa Thi Thanh Huynh, Liem Tan Truong, Tongkorn Meeyam, Hien Thanh Le, Veerasak Punyapornwithaya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6268 PubMed 30671307

January 10, 2019

Native bluegill influence the foraging and aggressive behavior of invasive mosquitofish

Jennifer H. Clemmer, Jessica E. Rettig

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6203 PubMed 30648019

January 3, 2019

Analysis of the complete genome sequence of a marine-derived strain Streptomyces sp. S063 CGMCC 14582 reveals its biosynthetic potential to produce novel anti-complement agents and peptides

Liang-Yu Chen, Hao-Tian Cui, Chun Su, Feng-Wu Bai, Xin-Qing Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6122 PubMed 30627488

January 3, 2019

Fully automated sequence alignment methods are comparable to, and much faster than, traditional methods in large data sets: an example with hepatitis B virus

Therese A. Catanach, Andrew D. Sweet, Nam-phuong D. Nguyen, Rhiannon M. Peery, Andrew H. Debevec, Andrea K. Thomer, Amanda C. Owings, Bret M. Boyd, Aron D. Katz, Felipe N. Soto-Adames, Julie M. Allen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6142 PubMed 30627489

January 31, 2019

A new species of Escallonia (Escalloniaceae) from the inter-Andean tropical dry forests of Bolivia

Felipe Zapata, Daniel Villarroel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6328 PubMed 30723621

January 10, 2019

cRegions—a tool for detecting conserved cis-elements in multiple sequence alignment of diverged coding sequences

Mikk Puustusmaa, Aare Abroi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6176 PubMed 30647994

January 16, 2019

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated deletion of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome locus causes actin cytoskeleton disorganization in murine erythroleukemia cells

Vanessa Fernández-Calleja, María-José Fernández-Nestosa, Pablo Hernández, Jorge B. Schvartzman, Dora B. Krimer