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A new ancient lineage of frog endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

Live images of Astrobatrachus kurichiyana

March 12, 2019

A new ancient lineage of frog endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

Researchers describe a new species, Astrobatrachus kurichiyana sp. nov. The discovery of this species adds to the list of deeply divergent and monotypic or depauperate lineages with narrow geographic ranges in the southern massifs of the Western Ghats

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March 1, 2019

An interpretable machine learning model for diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

Diptesh Das, Junichi Ito, Tadashi Kadowaki, Koji Tsuda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6543 PubMed 30842909

March 13, 2019

The choice of tree prior and molecular clock does not substantially affect phylogenetic inferences of diversification rates

Brice A.J. Sarver, Matthew W. Pennell, Joseph W. Brown, Sara Keeble, Kayla M. Hardwick, Jack Sullivan, Luke J. Harmon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6334 PubMed 30886768

March 26, 2019

Robust and automatic definition of microbiome states

Beatriz García-Jiménez, Mark D. Wilkinson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6657 PubMed 30941274

March 29, 2019

IOCBIO Sparks detection and analysis software

Martin Laasmaa, Niina Karro, Rikke Birkedal, Marko Vendelin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6652 PubMed 30956900

March 7, 2019

Lightweight data management with dtool

Tjelvar S.G. Olsson, Matthew Hartley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6562 PubMed 30867992

March 4, 2019

Employing toxin-antitoxin genome markers for identification of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus strains in human metagenomes

Ksenia M. Klimina, Artem S. Kasianov, Elena U. Poluektova, Kirill V. Emelyanov, Viktoriya N. Voroshilova, Natalia V. Zakharevich, Anna V. Kudryavtseva, Vsevolod J. Makeev, Valery N. Danilenko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6554 PubMed 30863681

March 1, 2019

Functional genomics screen with pooled shRNA library and gene expression profiling with extracts of Azadirachta indica identify potential pathways for therapeutic targets in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Neeraja M. Krishnan, Hiroto Katoh, Vinayak Palve, Manisha Pareek, Reiko Sato, Shumpei Ishikawa, Binay Panda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6464 PubMed 30842898

March 27, 2019

Pixel: a content management platform for quantitative omics data

Thomas Denecker, William Durand, Julien Maupetit, Charles Hébert, Jean-Michel Camadro, Pierre Poulain, Gaëlle Lelandais

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6623 PubMed 30944779

March 8, 2019

cRegulome: an R package for accessing microRNA and transcription factor-gene expression correlations in cancer

Mahmoud Ahmed, Deok Ryong Kim