PeerJ Preprints - Table of Contents

July 15, 2019 - Version: 1

STROBE-MR: Guidelines for strengthening the reporting of Mendelian randomization studies

George Davey Smith, Neil M Davies, Niki Dimou, Matthias Egger, Valentina Gallo, Robert Golub, Julian PT Higgins, Claudia Langenberg, Elizabeth W Loder, J Brent Richards, Rebecca C Richmond, Veronika W Skrivankova, Sonja A Swanson, Nicholas J Timpson, Anne Tybjaerg-Hansen, Tyler J VanderWeele, Benjamin AR Woolf, James Yarmolinsky

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27857v1

July 11, 2019 - Version: 1

Analysis of genetic diversity in the coastal and island endangered plant Elaeagnus macrophylla by conserved DNA-derived polymorphism markers

Wang Yi, Yan Ma, Bingyu Jia, Qichao Wu, Dekui Zang, Xiaoyan Yu

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27850v1

July 15, 2019 - Version: 2

Validation of COI metabarcoding primers for terrestrial arthropods

Vasco Elbrecht, Thomas WA Braukmann, Natalia V Ivanova, Sean WJ Prosser, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Michael Wright, Evgeny V Zakharov, Paul DN Hebert, Dirk Steinke

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27801v2

July 24, 2019 - Version: 1

SpeciesPrimer: A bioinformatics pipeline dedicated to the design of qPCR primers for the quantification of bacterial species

Matthias Dreier, Hélène Berthoud, Noam Shani, Daniel Wechsler, Pilar Junier

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27870v1

July 11, 2019 - Version: 2

Plan S in Latin America: A precautionary note

Humberto Debat, Dominique Babini

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27834v2

July 11, 2019 - Version: 2

Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line

Lars G Willighagen

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27466v2

July 17, 2019 - Version: 4

Threatened plants species of Guinea-Conakry: A preliminary checklist

Charlotte Couch, Sekou Magassouba, Saba Rokni, Emma Williams, Catia Canteiro, Martin Cheek

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3451v4

July 15, 2019 - Version: 1

Digitization and the future of natural history collections

Brandon Hedrick, Mason Heberling, Emily Meineke, Kathryn Turner, Christopher Grassa, Daniel Park, Jonathan Kennedy, Julia Clarke, Joseph Cook, David Blackburn, Scott Edwards, Charles Davis

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27859v1

July 9, 2019 - Version: 2

Effect of dietary concentrate to forage ratio on growth performance, rumen fermentation and bacterial diversity of Tibetan sheep under barn feeding on Qinghai-Tibetan plateau

Hongjin Liu, Tianwei xu, Shixiao Xu, Li Ma, Xueping Han, Xungang Wang, Xiaoling Zhang, Linyong Hu, Na Zhao, Yongwei Chen, Li Pi, Xinquan Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27807v2

July 16, 2019 - Version: 2

Failure to respond to a coral disease outbreak: Potential costs and consequences

William F Precht

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27860v2

July 19, 2019 - Version: 1

Presumptive spontaneous brain microhemorrhages in geriatric dogs: a comparative retrospective MRI study of dogs with and without evidence of canine cognitive dysfunction

Curtis W Dewey, Mark Rishniw, Philippa J Johnson, Emma S Davies, Joseph J Sackman, Marissa O'Donnell

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27868v1

July 31, 2019 - Version: 2

Twisted tale of the tiger: the case of inappropriate data and deficient science

Qamar Qureshi, Rajesh Gopal, Yadvendradev V Jhala

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27349v2

July 12, 2019 - Version: 1

A new primer for metabarcoding of spider gut contents

Denis Lafage, Vasco Elbrecht, Jordan Cuff, Dirk Steinke, Peter Hambäck, Ann Erlandsson

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27854v1

July 23, 2019 - Version: 1

Meta-SourceTracker: Application of Bayesian source tracking to shotgun metagenomics

Jordan J McGhee, Nick Rawson, Barbara A Bailey, Antonio Fernandez-Guerra, Scott T Kelley

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27869v1

July 11, 2019 - Version: 1

Microbiome analysis of healthy and diseased sponges Lubomirskia baicalensis by using cell cultures of primmorphs

Lubov Chernogor, Elizabet Klimenko, Igor Khanaev, Sergei Belikov

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27851v1

July 18, 2019 - Version: 1

Melatonin combination with perindopril alleviated doxorubicin cardiac toxicity in L-NAME hypertensive rats: comparative study with perindopril

Takwa Mohammed Abdul Salam, Amany Helmy Hasanin, Wesam El-Bakly, Mona Hussein Raafat, Nesreen Omar, Ahmed El Sayed Badawy

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27863v1

July 15, 2019 - Version: 2

The effect of reverse transcription enzymes and conditions on high throughput amplicon sequencing of the 16S rRNA

Adam Šťovíček, Smadar Cohen-Chalamish, Osnat Gillor

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27780v2

July 3, 2019 - Version: 2

Integrating the extracellular, intracellular, and intercellular metabolic processes of Escherichia coli through glucose saturation, inhibition of the acetyl-CoA carboxylase subunit accA with asRNA, and through quantifying cell to cell quorum-sensing

Tatiana Hillman, Cory Tobin

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27459v2

July 16, 2019 - Version: 2

MATLAB software for extracting protein name and sequence information from FASTA formatted proteome file

Wenfa Ng

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27856v2

July 25, 2019 - Version: 1

Allometry unleashed: an adaptationist approach of brain scaling in mammalian evolution

Romain Willemet

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27872v1

July 10, 2019 - Version: 1

Ground data confirm warming and drying are at a critical level for forest survival in western equatorial Africa

Emma R Bush, Kathryn Jeffery, Nils Bunnefeld, Caroline Tutin, Ruth Musgrave, Ghislain Moussavou, Vianet Mihindou, Yadvinder Malhi, David Lehmann, Josué Edzang Ndong, Loïc Makaga, Katharine A Abernethy

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27848v1

July 1, 2019 - Version: 1

Spectrometric and computational studies of the binding of HIV-1 integrase inhibitors to viral DNA extremities

Lea El Khoury, Krystel El Hage, Jean-Philip Piquemal, Serge Fermandjian, Richard Maroun, Nohad Gresh, Zeina Hobaika

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27833v1

July 13, 2019 - Version: 1

Role of nuclear actin filaments in DNA repair dynamics

Christopher P Caridi, Matthias Plessner, Robert Grosse, Irene Chiolo

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27855v1

July 3, 2019 - Version: 1

T1000: A reduced toxicogenomics gene set for improved decision making

Othman Soufan, Jessica Ewald, Charles Viau, Doug Crump, Markus Hecker, Niladri Basu, Jianguo Xia