This week we published Energetics and evasion dynamics of large predators and prey: pumas vs. hounds by Caleb M. Bryce, Christopher C. Wilmers, and Terrie M. Williams. The study used accelerometer-GPS collars to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of these...
This week we published the study RNA expression and disease tolerance are associated with a “keystone mutation” in the ochre sea star Pisaster ochraceus by V. Katelyn Chandler and John P. Wares. Using RNA sequencing methods, the researchers identified a number of...
Last week we published Two new species of the Brachycephalus pernix group (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from the state of Paraná, southern Brazil, which describes two new toadlet species. Author Marcio Pie discusses the findings and their implications for conservation...
As part of our interview series with our Academic Editors, we caught up with paleobiologist Kenneth De Baets. We asked him about his research, his thoughts on academic publishing and open access, and how he balances his editorial duties alongside other competing...
What can a 4D view of bone structure tell us about the range of mechanisms that occur under axial loading in a typical vertebrate long bone? PeerJ recently published A study of the progression of damage in an axially loaded Branta leucopsis femur using X-ray computed...
Last week we published Glial and stem cell expression of murine Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1 in the embryonic and perinatal nervous system by Jantzen Collette, Lisha Choubey, and Karen Müller Smith. Fibroblast Growth Factor signaling has been shown to play a...
A few months ago, we announced that PeerJ is now formally accepting a few new article types. You can choose from the following article types when starting your submission: We are thrilled to report that last week we published our first Literature Review article...
Today we published Revision of “Balaena” belgica reveals a new right whale species, the possible ancestry of the northern right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, and the ages of divergence for the living right whale species by Michelangelo Bisconti, Olivier Lambert, and...
Changes to bio-oceanographic conditions can trigger devastating mortality events for marine mammals. In March 2015, by far the largest reported mass mortality of baleen whales took place in a gulf in Southern Chile. In a recent research study published in PeerJ,...
Last week PeerJ published "Experience-based human perception of facial expressions in Barbary macaques (Macaca silvanus)" by Laetitia Marechal, Xandria Levy, Kerstin Meints and Bonaventura Majolo. This study sought to investigate the evolutionary relationship of...
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