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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 29, 2019

Green potential of Pleurotus spp. in biotechnology

Alona S. Sekan, Olena S. Myronycheva, Olov Karlsson, Andrii P. Gryganskyi, Yaroslav Blume

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6664 PubMed 30967974

March 5, 2019

DNA metabarcoding allows non-invasive identification of arthropod prey provisioned to nestling Rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus)

Alison J. Moran, Sean W.J. Prosser, Jonathan A. Moran

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6596 PubMed 30863689

March 26, 2019

Comparative analysis of the complete mitochondrial genomes of five Achilidae species (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) and other Fulgoroidea reveals conserved mitochondrial genome organization

Shi-Yan Xu, Jian-Kun Long, Xiang-Sheng Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6659 PubMed 30941275

March 28, 2019

Comparison of the fecal microbiota of two free-ranging Chinese subspecies of the leopard (Panthera pardus) using high-throughput sequencing

Siyu Han, Yu Guan, Hailong Dou, Haitao Yang, Meng Yao, Jianping Ge, Limin Feng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6684 PubMed 30944781

March 22, 2019

The transcriptomic response to a short day to long day shift in leaves of the reference legume Medicago truncatula

Geoffrey Thomson, James Taylor, Joanna Putterill

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6626 PubMed 30923654

March 18, 2019

Integrated bioinformatics analysis of As, Au, Cd, Pb and Cu heavy metal responsive marker genes through Arabidopsis thaliana GEO datasets

Chao Niu, Min Jiang, Na Li, Jianguo Cao, Meifang Hou, Di-an Ni, Zhaoqing Chu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6495 PubMed 30918749

March 26, 2019

Development of polymorphic EST-SSR markers and characterization of the autotetraploid genome of sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia)

Shuheng Shen, Xutian Chai, Qiang Zhou, Dong Luo, Yanrong Wang, Zhipeng Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6542 PubMed 30941267

March 7, 2019

Three odorant-binding proteins are involved in the behavioral response of Sogatella furcifera to rice plant volatiles

Kui Hu, Sheng Liu, Lin Qiu, Youzhi Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6576 PubMed 30867994

March 5, 2019

The Malacca Strait separates distinct faunas of poorly-flying Cautires net-winged beetles

Alice Jiruskova, Michal Motyka, Matej Bocek, Ladislav Bocak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6511 PubMed 30863675

March 26, 2019

Proteomics alterations in chicken jejunum caused by 24 h fasting

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

HOXC6 promotes migration, invasion and proliferation of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cells via modulating expression of genes involved in malignant phenotypes