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January 2019

Table of Contents - PeerJ Preprints

January 5, 2019 - Version: 2

Layered patterns in nature, medicine and materials: quantification of anisotropic structures and cyclisity

Igor Smolyar, Timothy Bromage, Martin Wikelski

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27451v2

January 10, 2019 - Version: 1

An automatic fascicle tracking algorithm quantifying gastrocnemius architecture during maximal effort contractions

John F Drazan, Todd J Hullfish, Josh R Baxter

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27475v1

January 30, 2019 - Version: 1

Detection of environmental DNA of the invasive red-eared slider in ponds for evaluating their distribution with comparison to water quality

Aozora Kakuda, Hideyuki Doi, Rio Souma, Mariko Nagano, Toshifumi Minamoto, Izumi Katano

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27505v1

January 15, 2019 - Version: 1

The role of transposable elements and DNA damage repair mechanisms in gene amplification and protein domain shuffling in plant genomes

Ksenia V Krasileva

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27486v1

January 14, 2019 - Version: 1

Complete mitochondrial genomes of five raptors and implications for the phylogenetic relationships between owls and nightjars

Gang Liu, Lizhi Zhou, Guanghong Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27478v1

January 10, 2019 - Version: 2

Habitat restoration opportunities, climatic niche contraction, and conservation biogeography in California's San Joaquin Desert

Joseph AE Stewart, H Scott Butterfield, Jonathan Q Richmond, David J Germano, Michael F Westphal, Erin N Tennant, Barry Sinervo

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26758v2

January 16, 2019 - Version: 1

Polyp expansion of passive suspension feeders: a red coral case study

Sergio Rossi, Lucia Rizzo, Jean-Claude Duchêne

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27490v1

January 15, 2019 - Version: 1

Cetacean morbillivirus, a journey from land to sea and vice versa

Giovanni Di Guardo, Sandro Mazzariol

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27487v1

January 10, 2019 - Version: 1

The complete chloroplast genome of Fagus crenata (subgenus Fagus) and comparison with F. engleriana (subgenus Engleriana)

James Worth, Luxian Liu, Nobuhiro Tomaru

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27473v1

January 6, 2019 - Version: 1

Evolutionarily conserved roles of Caenorhabditis elegans perilipin in lipolysis

Filip Kaššák, Ahmed A Chughtai, Marta Kostrouchová

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27467v1

January 25, 2019 - Version: 1

Roles of pyroptosis in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury diseases

Shupeng Shi, Haoran Zhang, Wenzhe Gao, Moussa Ide Nasser, Jie Shen, Minghua Yang, Feng Guo, Linyong Xu, Mingyi Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27502v1

January 7, 2019 - Version: 1

Decision analysis to support wastewater management in coral reef priority area

Megan D Barnes, Whitney Goodell, Robert Whittier, Kim A Falinski, Tova Callender, Hla Htun, Cecilia LeViol, Hudson Slay, Kirsten L L Oleson

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27470v1

January 2, 2019 - Version: 2

Open educational resources for validation of global high-resolution land cover maps

Candan E Kilsedar, Gorica Bratic, Monia E Molinari, Marco Minghini, Maria A Brovelli

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27214v2

January 14, 2019 - Version: 1

RobOMP: Robust variants of Orthogonal Matching Pursuit for sparse representations

Carlos A Loza

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27482v1

January 11, 2019 - Version: 1

GIZAChain: e-Government Interoperability Zone Alignment, based on blockchain technology

Mohamed A El-dosuky, Gamal H El-adl

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27477v1

January 12, 2019 - Version: 1

Variation in the nitrous oxide reductase gene (nosZ)-denitrifying bacterial community in different primary succession stages in the Hailuogou Glacier retreat area, China

Yan Bai, Xiying Huang, Xiangrui Zhou, Quanju Xiang, Ke Zhao, Xiumei Yu, Qiang Chen, Hao Jiang, Nyima Tashi, Xue Gao, Yunfu Gu

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27481v1

January 11, 2019 - Version: 2

High-speed video analysis of jumping in Locusta migratoria

Xiaojuan Mo, Wenjie Ge, Donato Romano, Elisa Donati, Cesare Stefanini, Paolo Dario, Giovanni Benelli

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2877v2

January 30, 2019 - Version: 1

The capability of the red seaweed Gracilaria vermiculophylla in producing prostaglandins

Muhammad Ikbal Illijas, Andriani Nasir, Dahlia Dahlia, Nur Rahmawaty Arma, Yutaka Itabashi

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27508v1

January 3, 2019 - Version: 1

Chromatin streaming from giant polyploid nuclei in Ishikawa endometrial hollow spheroids results in the amitotic proliferation of nuclei that fill the spheroid envelope

Honoree Fleming

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27463v1

January 17, 2019 - Version: 1

Important metabolites in maintaining folic acid, homocysteine and polyamine metabolism associated with ranibizumab treatment in cultured Human Tenon’s Fibroblast

Siti Munirah Md Noh, Siti Hamimah Sheikh Abdul Kadir, Sushil Kumar Vasudevan

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27492v1

January 22, 2019 - Version: 1

TOXIFY: a deep learning approach to classify animal venom proteins

T Jeffrey Cole, Michael S Brewer

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27498v1

January 7, 2019 - Version: 1

Speciation rates of subviral pathogens of angiosperms abruptly decreased at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary

Piotr Bajdek

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27469v1

January 6, 2019 - Version: 1

Translating the hemodynamic response: why focused interdisciplinary integration should matter for the future of the functional neuroimaging

Sigita Cinciute

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27468v1

January 19, 2019 - Version: 1

MicroRNA-331-3p affects preadipocytes’ proliferation and differentiation and fatty acid accumulation in Laiwu pigs

Tao Chen, Lixia Ma, Jihong Geng, Yongqing Zeng, Wei Chen, Jingxiang Cui

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27494v1

January 18, 2019 - Version: 1

Distribution and status of living colonies of Acropora spp. in the reef crests of a protected marine area of the Caribbean (Jardines de la Reina National Park, Cuba)

Leslie Hernández-Fernández, Roberto González de Zayas, Yunier M. Olivera, Fabián Pina Amargós, Claudia Bustamante López, Lisadys B. Dulce Sotolongo, Fernando Bretos, Tamara Figueredo Martín, Dayli Lladó Cabrera, Francisco Salmón Moret

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27493v1