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March 2019

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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 14, 2019

Identification of four hub genes associated with adrenocortical carcinoma progression by WGCNA

16 citations

890 downloads

3,469 views

Wang-Xiao Xia, Qin Yu, Gong-Hua Li, Yao-Wen Liu, Fu-Hui Xiao, Li-Qin Yang, Zia Ur Rahman, Hao-Tian Wang, Qing-Peng Kong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6555 PubMed 30886771

March 22, 2019

Evidence of cryptic lineages within a small South American crocodilian: the Schneider’s dwarf caiman Paleosuchus trigonatus (Alligatoridae: Caimaninae)

12 citations

613 downloads

2,014 views

Pedro Senna Bittencourt, Zilca Campos, Fábio de Lima Muniz, Boris Marioni, Bruno Campos Souza, Ronis Da Silveira, Benoit de Thoisy, Tomas Hrbek, Izeni Pires Farias

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6580 PubMed 30931177

March 29, 2019

A set of novel SNP loci for differentiating continental populations and three Chinese populations

3 citations

553 downloads

1,034 views

Xiao-Ye Jin, Yuan-Yuan Wei, Qiong Lan, Wei Cui, Chong Chen, Yu-Xin Guo, Ya-Ting Fang, Bo-Feng Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6508 PubMed 30956897

March 4, 2019

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

3 citations

365 downloads

1,031 views

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 26, 2019

Isolation of cancer stem cells by selection for miR-302 expressing cells

3 citations

264 downloads

957 views

Karim Rahimi, Annette C. Füchtbauer, Fardin Fathi, Seyed J. Mowla, Ernst-Martin Füchtbauer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6635 PubMed 30941272

March 27, 2019

Old wild wolves: ancient DNA survey unveils population dynamics in Late Pleistocene and Holocene Italian remains

2 citations

613 downloads

3,240 views

Marta Maria Ciucani, Davide Palumbo, Marco Galaverni, Patrizia Serventi, Elena Fabbri, Gloria Ravegnini, Sabrina Angelini, Elena Maini, Davide Persico, Romolo Caniglia, Elisabetta Cilli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6424 PubMed 30944772

March 7, 2019

Climate change and conservation in a warm North American desert: effect in shrubby plants

2 citations

531 downloads

1,352 views

Victoria Sosa, Israel Loera, Diego F. Angulo, Marilyn Vásquez-Cruz, Etelvina Gándara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6572 PubMed 30867993

March 29, 2019

Music-performance regulates microRNAs in professional musicians

2 citations

392 downloads

2,019 views

Preethy Sasidharan Nair, Tuire Kuusi, Minna Ahvenainen, Anju K. Philips, Irma Järvelä

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6660 PubMed 30956902

March 11, 2019

A systematic comparison of eight new plastome sequences from Ipomoea L

1 citation

527 downloads

1,334 views

Jianying Sun, Xiaofeng Dong, Qinghe Cao, Tao Xu, Mingku Zhu, Jian Sun, Tingting Dong, Daifu Ma, Yonghua Han, Zongyun Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6563 PubMed 30881765

March 26, 2019

Proteomics alterations in chicken jejunum caused by 24 h fasting

1 citation

419 downloads

1,212 views

Ádám Simon, Gabriella Gulyás, Zoltán Mészár, Mangesh Bhide, János Oláh, Péter Bai, Éva Csősz, András Jávor, István Komlósi, Judit Remenyik, Levente Czeglédi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6588 PubMed 30941268

March 14, 2019

Recognizing two new Hippolyte species (Decapoda, Caridea, Hippolytidae) from the South China Sea based on integrative taxonomy

1 citation

410 downloads

901 views

Zhi-Bin Gan, Xin-Zheng Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6605 PubMed 30886782

March 26, 2019

Comparative genomic analysis of the IDD genes in five Rosaceae species and expression analysis in Chinese white pear (Pyrus bretschneideri)

614 downloads

1,493 views