PeerJ Preprints - Table of Contents

July 31, 2017 - Version: 1

Sicegar: R package for sigmoidal and double-sigmoidal curve fitting

M. Umut Caglar, Ashley I. Teufel, Claus O Wilke

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3116v1

July 6, 2017 - Version: 1

Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research

Alexandre Antonelli, María Ariza, James Albert, Tobias Andermann, Josué Azevedo, Christine Bacon, Søren Faurby, Thais Guedes, Carina Hoorn, Lucia Lohmann, Pavel Matos-Maraví, Camila Ritter, Isabel Sanmartín, Daniele Silvestro, Marcelo Tejedor, Hans ter Steege, Hanna Tuomisto, Fernanda Werneck, Alexander Zizka, Scott Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3074v1

July 12, 2017 - Version: 4

Atropos: specific, sensitive, and speedy trimming of sequencing reads

John P Didion, Marcel Martin, Francis S Collins

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2452v4

July 24, 2017 - Version: 1

Theropod specimens from the Navesink Formation and their implications for the Diversity and Biogeography of Ornithomimosaurs and Tyrannosauroids on Appalachia

Chase D Brownstein

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3105v1

July 5, 2017 - Version: 1

Profiling soil microbial communities with next-generation sequencing: the influence of DNA kit selection and technician technical expertise

Taha Soliman, Sung-Yin Yang, Tomoko Yamazaki, Holger Jenke-Kodama

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3073v1

July 20, 2017 - Version: 3

A Tyrannosauroid Metatarsus from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey increases the diversity of non-Tyrannosaurid Tyrannosauroids on Appalachia

Chase D Brownstein

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3097v3

July 14, 2017 - Version: 1

Preventive effects of salvia officinalis leaf extract on insulin resistance and inflammation, in high fat diet-induced-obesity mice model

Mohamed Raafet Ben Khedher, Mohamed Hammami, Jonathan Robert Arch, David Christopher Hislop, Dominic Anthony Eze, Edward Taynton Wargent, Małgorzata Anna Kępczyńska, Mohamed Sghaier Zaibi

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3086v1

July 25, 2017 - Version: 1

Experimental moose reduction lowers wolf density and stops decline of endangered caribou

Robert Serrouya, Bruce N McLellan, Harry van Oort, Garth Mowat, Stan Boutin

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3108v1

July 1, 2017 - Version: 1

The importance of sponges and mangroves in supporting fish communities in degraded coral reefs in Caribbean Panama

Janina Seemann, Alexandra Yingst, Rick D Stuart-Smith, Graham J Edgar, Andrew H Altieri

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3062v1

July 18, 2017 - Version: 1

Predicting context specific enhancer-promoter interactions from ChIP-Seq time course data

Tomasz Dzida, Mudassar Iqbal, Iryna Charapitsa, George Reid, Henk Stunnenberg, Filomena Matarese, Antti Honkela, Magnus Rattray

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3093v1

July 10, 2017 - Version: 1

Composition and predictive functional analysis of bacterial communities in the surface seawater of the Changjiang Estuary

Dong-Mei Wu, Jian-Xin Wang, Xiao-Hui Liu, Ying-Ping Fan, Ran Jiang, Ming-Hua Liu, Shuai-Bing Wang, Xue-Zhu Liu

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3079v1

July 4, 2017 - Version: 2

Human evolution: Gradual or Punctuated? Accelerated integration of mtDNA pseudogenes into the nuclear genome coincides with speciation of the human genus. A Hypothesis.

Konstantin Gunbin, Konstantin Popadin, Leonid Peshkin, Sofia Annis, Rebecca Ackermann, Konstantin Khrapko

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3067v2

July 31, 2017 - Version: 1

LuxS quorum sensing system, its protein modeling and active-binding sites and phylogenetic analysis from Aeromonas hydrophila

Farman Ali, Zujie Yao, Wanxin Li, Sun Lina, Wenxiong Lin, Xiangmin Lin

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3109v1

July 1, 2017 - Version: 1

Osmotic pressure characterization of glycosaminoglycans using full-atomistic molecular models

Alejandro Pando, Federica Rigoldi, Simone Vesentini

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3063v1

July 12, 2017 - Version: 1

DNA barcoding revealing the mislabeling of fish in a highly tourist capital in Brazil

Clisten Fátima Staffen, Mari Dalva Staffen, Mariana Londero Becker, Sara Emelie Löfgren, Yara Costa Netto Muniz, Renato Hajenius Aché Freitas, Andrea Rita Marrero

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3085v1

July 9, 2017 - Version: 2

Research Articles in Simplified HTML: a Web-first format for HTML-based scholarly articles

Silvio Peroni, Francesco Osborne, Angelo Di Iorio, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Francesco Poggi, Fabio Vitali, Enrico Motta

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2513v2

July 1, 2017 - Version: 1

Immunohistochemical characterization of spinal cord dorsal horn microglia and astrocytes in horses

Constanza Stefania Meneses, Heine Yacob Müller, Daniel Eduardo Herzberg, Benjamín Uberti, Hedie Almagro Bustamante, Marianne Patricia Werner

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3066v1

July 17, 2017 - Version: 1

Genetic analysis of the Hungarian draft horse population using partial mitochondrial DNA D-loop sequencing

Nikolett Csizmár, Sándor Mihók, András Jávor, Szilvia Kusza

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3087v1

July 14, 2017 - Version: 2

Advances in studying brain morphology: The benefits of open-access data

Christopher R Madan

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3010v2

July 24, 2017 - Version: 2

Diversity, abundance, and host relationships of avian malaria and related haemosporidians in New Mexico pine forests

Rosario A. Marroquin-Flores, Jessie L. Williamson, Andrea N. Chavez, Selina M. Bauernfeind, Matthew J. Baumann, Chauncey R. Gadek, Andrew B. Johnson, Jenna M. McCullough, Christopher C. Witt, Lisa N. Barrow

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2997v2

July 27, 2017 - Version: 1

PIsCO: A Performance indicators framework for collection of bioinformatics resource metrics

Haydee Artaza, John M. Hancock, Rafael C. Jimenez, Manuel Corpas

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3112v1

July 8, 2017 - Version: 1

Land snails of Leptopoma Pfeiffer, 1847 in Sabah, Northern Borneo (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae): an analysis of molecular phylogeny and variations in shell form due to geography

Chee-Chean Phung, Pooi-San Heng, Thor-Seng Liew

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3078v1

July 18, 2017 - Version: 1

The draft genome of Ruditapes philippinarum (the Manila clam), a promising model system for mitochondrial biology

Fabrizio Ghiselli, Aleksey Komissarov, Liliana Milani, Joseph P Dunham, Sophie Breton, Sergey V Nuzhdin, Marco Passamonti