by Peter Binfield | Feb 7, 2017 | Interviews
Today we published “Off the scale: a new species of fish-scale gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Geckolepis) with exceptionally large scales” by Mark D. Scherz, Juan D. Daza, Jörn Köhler, Miguel Vences, and Frank Glaw. This article describes a gecko with the...
by Peter Binfield | Jan 31, 2017 | Interviews, Press
Today we published “Boxer crabs induce asexual reproduction of their associated sea anemones by splitting and intraspecific theft” by Yisrael Schnytzer, Yavin Giman, Ilan Karplus and Yair Achituv. This is a fascinating and elegant study which shows that...
by Peter Binfield | Mar 8, 2016 | Interviews, Preprints, Press
Last month, PeerJ Preprints published “Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men”. That preprint was quickly picked up, and went on to receive a huge amount of feedback in venues as diverse as twitter, Reddit, Slashdot,...
by Peter Binfield | Feb 17, 2016 | Preprints
This week ASAPbio is happening in Washington DC. This is an important meeting, being held with the support of HHMI and the NIH, devoted to exploring and encouraging the use of preprints in biology. Therefore, we thought it would be timely to explain how PeerJ...
by Peter Binfield | Jan 7, 2016 | Article Spotlight
2015 was a great year for publications in PeerJ and some of our articles made their way into various ‘highlights’ lists for the year. Here are a few that we spotted: In June we published “Seven new microendemic species of Brachycephalus (Anura:...
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