Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 9, 2019

The gut microbiome correlates with conspecific aggression in a small population of rescued dogs (Canis familiaris)

2 citations

1,099 downloads

9,596 views

Nicole S. Kirchoff, Monique A.R. Udell, Thomas J. Sharpton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6103 PubMed 30643689

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

583 downloads

5,206 views

Mostafa R. Sharaf, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood

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

January 28, 2019

Breast cancer detection using deep convolutional neural networks and support vector machines

3 citations

1,893 downloads

4,726 views

Dina A. Ragab, Maha Sharkas, Stephen Marshall, Jinchang Ren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6201 PubMed 30713814

January 8, 2019

Descriptive anatomy of the largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) including computed tomography and digital reconstruction of a three-dimensional skull

2 citations

1,574 downloads

4,250 views

Dean R. Lomax, Laura B. Porro, Nigel R. Larkin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6112 PubMed 30643690

January 4, 2019

Identifying accurate metagenome and amplicon software via a meta-analysis of sequence to taxonomy benchmarking studies

4 citations

803 downloads

3,119 views

Paul P. Gardner, Renee J. Watson, Xochitl C. Morgan, Jenny L. Draper, Robert D. Finn, Sergio E. Morales, Matthew B. Stott

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6160 PubMed 30631651

January 4, 2019

Phylogeny of Paleozoic limbed vertebrates reassessed through revision and expansion of the largest published relevant data matrix

10 citations

1,162 downloads

3,027 views

David Marjanović, Michel Laurin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5565 PubMed 30631641

January 3, 2019

The role of Central American barriers in shaping the evolutionary history of the northernmost glassfrog, Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni (Anura: Centrolenidae)

604 downloads

2,828 views

Angela M. Mendoza, Wilmar Bolívar-García, Ella Vázquez-Domínguez, Roberto Ibáñez, Gabriela Parra Olea

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6115 PubMed 30627486

January 22, 2019

Shifting faunal baselines through the Quaternary revealed by cave fossils of eastern Australia

1 citation

453 downloads

2,293 views

Gilbert J. Price, Julien Louys, Garry K. Smith, Jonathan Cramb

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6099 PubMed 30697475

January 24, 2019

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

732 downloads

1,971 views

Philip D. Mannion

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

January 14, 2019

Method for the quantitative evaluation of ecosystem services in coastal regions

900 downloads

1,944 views

Tomonari Okada, Yugo Mito, Erina Iseri, Toshiyuki Takahashi, Takanori Sugano, Yoshihiro B. Akiyama, Kenta Watanabe, Toko Tanaya, Hiroaki Sugino, Kanae Tokunaga, Takahiro Kubo, Tomohiro Kuwae

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6234 PubMed 30671289

January 25, 2019

Food-burying behavior in red imported fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

1 citation

393 downloads

1,859 views

Wenquan Qin, Xuan Chen, Linda M. Hooper-Bùi, Jiacheng Cai, Lei Wang, Zhaohui Sun, Xiujun Wen, Cai Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6349 PubMed 30701141

January 28, 2019

Designing online species identification tools for biological recording: the impact on data quality and citizen science learning

3 citations

723 downloads

1,734 views

Nirwan Sharma, Laura Colucci-Gray, Advaith Siddharthan, Richard Comont, René van der Wal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5965 PubMed 30713813

January 3, 2019

A Tournaisian (earliest Carboniferous) conglomerate-preserved non-marine faunal assemblage and its environmental and sedimentological context

3 citations

711 downloads

1,723 views

Jennifer A. Clack, Carys E. Bennett, Sarah J. Davies, Andrew C. Scott, Janet E. Sherwin, Timothy R. Smithson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5972 PubMed 30627480

January 30, 2019

Urban plums and toads: do fleshy fruits affect the post-metamorphic growth of amphibians?

248 downloads

1,723 views

Mikołaj Kaczmarski, Piotr Tryjanowski, Anna Maria Kubicka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6337 PubMed 30723623

January 25, 2019

Isolation of wheat bran-colonizing and metabolizing species from the human fecal microbiota

2 citations

466 downloads

1,697 views

Kim De Paepe, Joran Verspreet, Mohammad Naser Rezaei, Silvia Hidalgo Martinez, Filip Meysman, Davy Van de Walle, Koen Dewettinck, Jeroen Raes, Christophe Courtin, Tom Van de Wiele

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6293 PubMed 30701133

January 25, 2019

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

1 citation

283 downloads

1,690 views

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

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

January 25, 2019

New material of the ‘microsaur’ Llistrofus from the cave deposits of Richards Spur, Oklahoma and the paleoecology of the Hapsidopareiidae

2 citations

538 downloads

1,673 views

Bryan M. Gee, Joseph J. Bevitt, Ulf Garbe, Robert R. Reisz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6327 PubMed 30701139

January 4, 2019

Using the wax moth larva Galleria mellonella infection model to detect emerging bacterial pathogens

3 citations

493 downloads

1,658 views

Rafael J. Hernandez, Elze Hesse, Andrea J. Dowling, Nicola M. Coyle, Edward J. Feil, Will H. Gaze, Michiel Vos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6150 PubMed 30631644

January 22, 2019

Antimicrobial susceptibility and virulence genes of clinical and environmental isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

5 citations

451 downloads

1,636 views

Siew Mun Liew, Ganeswrei Rajasekaram, SD Ampalam Puthucheary, Kek Heng Chua

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6217 PubMed 30697478

January 25, 2019

A scalable discrete-time survival model for neural networks

475 downloads

1,614 views

Michael F. Gensheimer, Balasubramanian Narasimhan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6257 PubMed 30701130

January 8, 2019

The origin of exotic pet sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) kept in the United States of America

1 citation

842 downloads

1,586 views

Catriona D. Campbell, Jill Pecon-Slattery, Rebecca Pollak, Leo Joseph, Clare E. Holleley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6180 PubMed 30643698

January 14, 2019

Comparative genomics of 16 Microbacterium spp. that tolerate multiple heavy metals and antibiotics

2 citations

398 downloads

1,508 views

Deric R. Learman, Zahra Ahmad, Allison Brookshier, Michael W. Henson, Victoria Hewitt, Amanda Lis, Cody Morrison, Autumn Robinson, Emily Todaro, Ethan Wologo, Sydney Wynne, Elizabeth W. Alm, Peter S. Kourtev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6258 PubMed 30671291

January 10, 2019

Checklist to the Elatostema (Urticaceae) of Vietnam including 19 new records, ten new combinations, two new names and four new synonyms

3 citations

503 downloads

1,497 views

Long-Fei Fu, Alex Monro, Truong Van Do, Maxim S. Nuraliev, Leonid V. Averyanov, Fang Wen, Zi-Bing Xin, Tatiana V. Maisak, Andrey N. Kuznetsov, Svetlana P. Kuznetsova, Khang Sinh Nguyen, Yi-Gang Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6188 PubMed 30648016

January 15, 2019

The sinemydid turtle Ordosemys from the Lower Cretaceous Mengyin Formation of Shandong, China and its implication for the age of the Luohandong Formation of the Ordos Basin

1 citation

484 downloads

1,484 views

Da-Qing Li, Chang-Fu Zhou, Lan Li, Jing-Tao Yang, Longfeng Li, Márton Rabi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6229 PubMed 30671300

January 11, 2019

Diverse and variable virus communities in wild plant populations revealed by metagenomic tools

3 citations

345 downloads