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Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

DNA analysis to determine the identity of plant material from the digestive tracts of katydids

Four species of Phaneropterine katydids from Barro Colorado Island

May 3, 2019

DNA analysis to determine the identity of plant material from the digestive tracts of katydids

Researchers adapted a laboratory protocol for extracting and sequencing plant material from gut contents and applied it to Neotropical forest katydids (bush crickets).

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May 16, 2019

Metabarcoding reveals a high diversity of woody host-associated Phytophthora spp. in soils at public gardens and amenity woodlands in Britain

Carolyn E. Riddell, Debbie Frederickson-Matika, April C. Armstrong, Matt Elliot, Jack Forster, Pete E. Hedley, Jenny Morris, Peter Thorpe, David EL Cooke, Leighton Pritchard, Paul M. Sharp, Sarah Green

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6931 PubMed 31143546

May 29, 2019

Virus-induced gene silencing in the perennial woody Paeonia ostii

Lihang Xie, Qingyu Zhang, Daoyang Sun, Weizong Yang, Jiayuan Hu, Lixin Niu, Yanlong Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7001 PubMed 31179188

May 14, 2019

PEST sequences from a cactus dehydrin regulate its proteolytic degradation

Adriana L. Salazar-Retana, Israel Maruri-López, Itzell E. Hernández-Sánchez, Alicia Becerra-Flora, María de la Luz Guerrero-González, Juan Francisco Jiménez-Bremont

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6810 PubMed 31143531

May 3, 2019

Transcriptome analysis of Chelidonium majus elaiosomes and seeds provide insights into fatty acid biosynthesis

Jiayue Wu, Linlin Peng, Shubin Dong, Xiaofei Xia, Liangcheng Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6871 PubMed 31110927

May 9, 2019

Hybrid identification in Nothofagus subgenus using high resolution melting with ITS and trnL approach

Jaime Solano, Leonardo Anabalón, Francisco Encina, Carlos Esse, Diego Penneckamp

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6779 PubMed 31119070