Last week, we published ‘Ape duos and trios: spontaneous cooperation with free partner choice in chimpanzees’, a fascinating study showing that chimpanzees housed in a socially complex setting spontaneously cooperate with multiple partners of their...
Today’s Interview is with Lily Lewis, doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut and corresponding author on ‘First evidence of bryophyte diaspores in the plumage of transequatorial migrant birds’, an article that we featured on our...
At PeerJ, our mission is to not only drive the costs of academic publishing down, but to also create an environment where authors know that if they publish with us then they will receive timely and helpful feedback. This is a symbiotic relationship central to the...
Last week, we published ‘Strain- and plasmid-level deconvolution of a synthetic metagenome by sequencing proximity ligation products’, a very interesting study in which Hi-C—a technology originally designed for the study of 3D genome structure in eukaryotes—is used to...
Today’s Interview with an Author is with Dr Dave Lunt, evolutionary geneticist at the University of Hull, UK. His lab uses phylogenetic and bioinformatic approaches to better understand genomes, evolutionary processes, and biodiversity. He recently published his...
Today’s Interview with an Author is with Nathan Lemoine, PhD candidate in Biology at Florida International University and corresponding author on “Variable effects of temperature on insect herbivory”, an article that we published last week. We were...
A few months ago, we published “On the reproducibility of science: unique identification of research resources in the biomedical literature”, an important article which received good attention from the community. As you can see, this article has already...
‘Living fossils’ are defined as species with limited recent diversification and high morphological stasis over long periods of evolutionary time. Charles Darwin first coined the term in his On the Origin of Species. In a well-received PeerJ study...
Earlier this month, we published ‘The spectacular human nose: an amplifier of individual quality? '. In this article, a group of Norwegian researchers show that small decentralizations of the nose tip on facial images have a large impact on attractiveness...
Most publishers don't talk about the details of the institutional deals they sign with Universities. In fact some publishers even include gagging clauses in their contracts which explicitly prevent their library customers from talking about how much they are paying,...
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