PeerJ Preprints published in June 2016

• Microbial diversity of extreme habitats in human homes (updated)

  Published

  Jun 30, 2016 (v2), Mar 17, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Savage, Amy M.
  2. Hills, Justin
  3. Driscoll, Katherine
  4. Fergus, Daniel J
  5. Grunden, Amy M
  6. Dunn, Robert R

• Optimizing the use of a sensor resource for opponent polarization coding

  Published

  Jun 30, 2016

  Authors

  1. Heras, Francisco J. H.
  2. Laughlin, Simon B

• A qualitative view of the HIV epidemic in coastal Ecuador

  Published

  Jun 30, 2016

  Authors

  1. Beckman, Adam L
  2. Wilson, Magdelana M
  3. Prabhu, Vishaal
  4. Soekoe, Nicola
  5. Mata, Humberto
  6. Grau, Lauretta E

• HiPPO and PANDA: two bioinformatics tools to support analysis of high-dimensional mass cytometry data

  Published

  Jun 30, 2016

  Authors

  1. Pirrò, Stefano
  2. Cerquone Perpetuini, Andrea
  3. Marinkovic, Milica
  4. Perfetto, Livia
  5. Petrilli, Lucia Lisa
  6. Rosina, Marco
  7. Spada, Filomena
  8. Castagnoli, Luisa
  9. Cesareni, Gianni

• Big Data for disease prevention and precision medicine

  Published

  Jun 29, 2016

  Authors

  1. Moscatelli, Marco
  2. Gnocchi, Matteo
  3. Manconi, Andrea
  4. Milanesi, Luciano

• A computational study to identify potential inhibitors for human chymase from natural and/or biogenic sources

  Published

  Jun 29, 2016

  Authors

  1. Dubey, Amit
  2. Marabotti, Anna
  3. Ramteke, Pramod W
  4. Facchiano, Angelo

• Structural states of a RNA aptamer, molecular dynamics simulation study

  Published

  Jun 29, 2016

  Authors

  1. Autiero, Ida
  2. Vitagliano, Luigi
  3. Improta, Roberto
  4. Ruvo, Menotti -

• The mass, metabolism and length explanation can simultaneously calculate an animal’s mass and metabolic rate from its characteristic length

  Published

  Jun 29, 2016

  Authors

  1. Frasier, Charles C

• Birds of La Plata Island, Machalilla National Park, Ecuador

  Published

  Jun 29, 2016

  Authors

  1. Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F

• Taxonomy, distribution and conservation of the Glassfrogs (Amphibia, Anura, Centrolenidae) of Ecuador

  Published

  Jun 29, 2016

  Authors

  1. Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F
  2. McDiarmid, Roy W.

• Differential proteomics analysis of oligodendrogliomas and astrocytomas using iTRAQ quantification

  Published

  Jun 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Lin, Shide
  2. Li, Jingzhe
  3. Wang, Peng
  4. Zang, Yujie
  5. Feng, Fan
  6. Zhao, TingBao

• A review of population-based management of Southern mountain caribou in BC

  Published

  Jun 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Boutin, Stan
  2. Merrill, Evelyn

• Effect of body condition on follicle transcriptome in estrous goats

  Published

  Jun 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Wang, Zi-Yu
  2. Meng, Chun-Hua
  3. Ding, Xiao-Lin
  4. Zhang, Guo-Min
  5. Wang, Feng

• Algorithms for the compression of genomic big data

  Published

  Jun 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Prezza, Nicola
  2. Policriti, Alberto

• A GPU-based high performance computing infrastructure for specialized NGS analyses

  Published

  Jun 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Manconi, Andrea
  2. Moscatelli, Marco
  3. Gnocchi, Matteo
  4. Armano, Giuliano
  5. Milanesi, Luciano

• Towards an integrated interactive database for the search of stratification biomarkers in Alkaptonuria

  Published

  Jun 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Cicaloni, Vittoria
  2. Zugarini, Andrea
  3. Rossi, Alberto
  4. Zazzeri, Matteo
  5. Santucci, Annalisa
  6. Bernini, Andrea
  7. Spiga, Ottavia

• Response of fish species to river restoration – the role of species traits

  Published

  Jun 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Höckendorff, Stefanie
  2. Tonkin, Jonathan D
  3. Haase, Peter
  4. Bunzel-Drüke, Margret
  5. Zimball, Olaf
  6. Scharf, Matthias
  7. Stoll, Stefan

• Did an Ebola outbreak influence the 2014 U.S. federal elections? (Hint: Only if you ignore autocorrelation) (updated)

  Published

  Jun 28, 2016 (v2), Jun 27, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Tiokhin, Leonid
  2. Hruschka, Daniel

• Data Fusion for cleavage target prediction

  Published

  Jun 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Marini, Simone
  2. Demartini, Andrea
  3. Vitali, Francesca
  4. Bellazzi, Riccardo
  5. Akutsu, Tatsuya

• Diversity and natural history of birds in green urban areas of the city of Quito, Ecuador (America)

  Published

  Jun 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F
  2. Montenegro, Eliana

• Examining the context of health promoting schools: a translational approach to characterization and measurement of school ethos to support health and wellbeing

  Published

  Jun 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Penney, Tarra L
  2. McIsaac, Jessie-Lee D
  3. Storey, Kate E
  4. Kontak, Julia C
  5. Ata, Nicole
  6. Kuhle, Stefan
  7. Kirk, Sara FL

• ExMarine: An experimental field mesocosm system to study multiple-stressor impacts on rock pool biodiversity (updated)

  Published

  Jun 27, 2016 (v2), Jun 24, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Macher, Jan Niklas

• Genome-wide identification and characterization of WRKY gene family in Salix suchowensis

  Published

  Jun 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Bi, Changwei
  2. Xu, Yiqing
  3. Ye, Qiaolin
  4. Yin, Tongming
  5. Ye, Ning

• Sex ratio elasticity influences the selection of sex ratio strategy

  Published

  Jun 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Wang, Yaqiang
  2. Wang, Ruiwu
  3. Li, Yaotang
  4. Ma, Zhanshan (Sam)

• Ecuadorian Glass Frogs: Current state of knowledge, new research trends and conservation

  Published

  Jun 25, 2016

  Authors

  1. Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F
  2. McDiarmid, Roy W.

• Notes on some Glass Frogs (Anura: Centrolenidae) from Western Ecuador: Taxonomy, natural history and conservation status, with the description of a new species (updated)

  Published

  Jun 25, 2016 (v2), Jun 24, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F
  2. McDiarmid, Roy W.

• A public data set of human balance evaluations

  Published

  Jun 24, 2016

  Authors

  1. Santos, Damiana A
  2. Duarte, Marcos

• A template-based approach to the modification of binding properties of globular proteins I: Background and motivations.

  Published

  Jun 24, 2016

  Authors

  1. Jeff-Eke, Imadol V

• Assessing plant pathogen infection rates in natural soils using R

  Published

  Jun 24, 2016

  Authors

  1. Rall, Björn C
  2. Latz, Ellen

• Trophic analysis of the fish community in the Ciénega Churince, Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila

  Published

  Jun 24, 2016

  Authors

  1. Hernández, Ariana
  2. Espinosa-Pérez, Hector S
  3. Souza, Valeria

• Visual analogies in anatomic and clinical pathology (updated)

  Published

  Jun 24, 2016 (v2), Jun 22, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Kipersztok, Lisa
  2. Masukume, Gwinyai
  3. Lakhtakia, Ritu
  4. Cohen, Michael B

• Corallimorpharians are not “naked corals”: insights into relationships between Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia from phylogenomic analyses

  Published

  Jun 24, 2016

  Authors

  1. Lin, Mei Fang
  2. Chou, Wen Hwa
  3. Kitahara, Marcelo V
  4. Chen, Chao Lun Allen
  5. Miller, David John
  6. Foret, Sylvain

• The effect of pleasant touch on nose skin temperature, heart rate and heart rate variability: preliminary results in a male laboratory rhesus monkey

  Published

  Jun 24, 2016

  Authors

  1. Grandi, Laura Clara
  2. Heinzl, Eugenio L

• Assessment of water pollution in the Brazilian Pampa biome by means of stress biomarkers in tadpoles of the leaf frog Phyllomedusa iheringii (Anura: Hylidae) (updated)

  Published

  Jun 23, 2016 (v2), Jan 6, 2015 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Santos, Tiago G
  2. Melo, Roberto
  3. Costa e Silva, Dennis
  4. Nunes, Mauro
  5. Franco, Jeferson Franco, JL

• Structural models of the human iron exporter ferroportin in the inward- and outward- open states

  Published

  Jun 22, 2016

  Authors

  1. Tortosa, Valentina
  2. Polticelli, Fabio

• Structure prediction of ordered domains of Huntingtin

  Published

  Jun 22, 2016

  Authors

  1. Brandi, Valentina
  2. Polticelli, Fabio

• Detecting sedimentation impacts to coral reefs resulting from dredging the Port of Miami, Florida USA

  Published

  Jun 21, 2016

  Authors

  1. Miller, Margaret W
  2. Karazsia, Jocelyn
  3. Groves, Carolyn E
  4. Griffin, Sean
  5. Moore, Tom
  6. Wilber, Pace
  7. Gregg, Kurtis

• Refining the reaction mechanism of O₂ towards its substrate in cofactor-free dioxygenases

  Published

  Jun 21, 2016

  Authors

  1. Silva, Pedro J

• Minimum soil nutrient guidelines for turfgrass developed from Mehlich 3 soil test results

  Published

  Jun 20, 2016

  Authors

  1. Woods, Micah S
  2. Stowell, Larry J
  3. Gelernter, Wendy D

• Biofeedback based on mobile accelerometry to improve running in space – ideas and first results

  Published

  Jun 18, 2016

  Authors

  1. Daumer, Martin
  2. Müller, Karl
  3. Mercader, Alexandra
  4. Lederer, Christian

• Who’s your mama? Riverine hybridisation of threatened freshwater Trout Cod and Murray Cod

  Published

  Jun 18, 2016

  Authors

  1. Couch, Alan J
  2. Unmack, Peter J
  3. Dyer, Fiona J
  4. Lintermans, Mark

• Directional and balancing selection on proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 6 (PCSK6)

  Published

  Jun 18, 2016

  Authors

  1. Kuderer, Sonja
  2. Fieder, Martin
  3. Kirchengast, Sylvia

• Effect of wetland management: Are lentic wetlands refuges of plant-species diversity in the Andean-Orinoco Piedmont of Colombia?

  Published

  Jun 17, 2016

  Authors

  1. Murillo-Pacheco, Johanna I.
  2. Rös, Matthias
  3. Escobar, Federico
  4. Castro-Lima, Francisco
  5. Verdú, José R
  6. López-Iborra, Germán M

• Integrating a thermistor flowmeter and time lapse imagery to monitor sponge (Porifera) behaviour

  Published

  Jun 16, 2016

  Authors

  1. Strehlow, Brian W
  2. Jorgensen, Damien
  3. Webster, Nicole S
  4. Pineda, Mari-Carmen
  5. Duckworth, Alan

• Contribution of prosthetic treatment considerations for dental extractions of permanent teeth

  Published

  Jun 16, 2016

  Authors

  1. Fernández-Barrera, Miguel Ángel
  2. Medina-Solís, Carlo Eduardo
  3. Casanova-Rosado, Juan Fernando
  4. Mendoza-Rodríguez, Martha
  5. Escoffié-Ramírez, Mauricio
  6. Casanova-Rosado, Alejandro José
  7. Navarrete-Hernández, José de Jesús
  8. Maupomé, Gerardo

• Bioavailability of D-methionine relative to L-methionine for nursery pigs using the slope-ratio assay

  Published

  Jun 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Kong, Changsu
  2. Ahn, Jong Young
  3. Kim, Beob G

• Meter scale variation in shrub dominance and soil moisture structure Arctic arthropod communities

  Published

  Jun 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Hansen, Rikke Reisner
  2. Hansen, Oskar Liset Pryds
  3. Bowden, Joseph J
  4. Treier, Urs A
  5. Normand, Signe
  6. Høye, Toke

• Hierarchical multistate models from population data: An application to parity statuses

  Published

  Jun 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Schoen, Robert

• Trace elements during primordial plexiform network formation in human cerebral organoids

  Published

  Jun 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Sartore, Rafaela C
  2. Cardoso, Simone C
  3. Lages, Yuri V
  4. Paraguassu, Julia M
  5. Madeiro da Costa, Rodrigo F
  6. Guimarães, Marilia ZP
  7. Pérez, Carlos A
  8. Rehen, Stevens K

• Gene expression studies in different genotypes of an ectomycorrhizal fungus require a high number of reliable reference genes

  Published

  Jun 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Ruytinx, Joske
  2. Remans, Tony
  3. Colpaert, Jan V

• A simple, sufficient, and consistent method to score the status of threats and demography of imperiled species (updated)

  Published

  Jun 15, 2016 (v2), Mar 15, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Malcom, Jacob W
  2. Webber, Whitney M
  3. Li, Ya-Wei

• Thermal treatment and leaching biochar alleviates plant growth inhibition from mobile organic compounds

  Published

  Jun 14, 2016

  Authors

  1. Gale, Nigel V
  2. Sackett, Tara E
  3. Thomas, Sean C

• Defining ecologically-relevant scales for spatial protection using long-term data on an endangered seabird and local prey availability

  Published

  Jun 14, 2016

  Authors

  1. Sherley, Richard B
  2. Botha, Philna
  3. Underhill, Les G
  4. Ryan, Peter G
  5. van Zyl, Danie
  6. Cockcroft, Andrew C
  7. Crawford, Robert JM
  8. Dyer, Bruce M
  9. Cook, Timothée R

• Construction and use of a Cupriavidus necator H16 soluble hydrogenase promoter (P _SH ) fusion to gfp (green fluorescent protein)

  Published

  Jun 12, 2016

  Authors

  1. Jugder, Bat-Erdene
  2. Welch, Jeffrey
  3. Braidy, Nady
  4. Marquis, Christopher P

• Characterization of lactic acid bacterium Pediococcus pentosaceus 4I1 from fresh water fish Zacco koreanus and its antibacterial mode of action

  Published

  Jun 12, 2016

  Authors

  1. Bajpai, Vivek K.
  2. Han, Jeong-Ho
  3. Rather, Irfan A.
  4. Majumder, Rajib
  5. Nam, Gyeong-Jun
  6. ChanSeo, Park
  7. Lim, Jeongheui
  8. Paek, Woon Kee
  9. Park, Yong-Ha

• Walking on the Moon

  Published

  Jun 11, 2016

  Authors

  1. Schlacht, Irene Lia
  2. Rittweger, Jörn
  3. Foing, Bernard H.
  4. Daumer, Martin
  5. Masali, Melchiorre

• Fishing degrades size structure of coral reef fish communities

  Published

  Jun 10, 2016

  Authors

  1. Robinson, James PW
  2. Williams, Ivor D
  3. Edwards, Andrew M
  4. McPherson, Jana
  5. Yeager, Lauren
  6. Vigliola, Laurent
  7. Brainard, Russell E
  8. Baum, Julia K

• Historical reconstruction of the community response, and related epidemiology, of a suspected biological weapon attack in Ningpo, Manchuria (1940)

  Published

  Jun 9, 2016

  Authors

  1. Wilson, James M
  2. Daniel, Mari

• Whole-genome single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker discovery and association analysis with the eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) content by Genotyping-By-Sequencing (GBS) in teleost Larimichthys crocea

  Published

  Jun 9, 2016

  Authors

  1. Xiao, Shijun
  2. Wang, Panpan
  3. Dong, Linsong
  4. Zhang, Yaguang
  5. Han, Zhaofang
  6. Wang, Qiurong
  7. Wang, Zhiyong

• Modeling potential distribution of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in the Beibu Gulf, China (updated)

  Published

  Jun 9, 2016 (v2), Jun 4, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Chen, Mei
  2. Song, Yuqin
  3. Qin, Dagong

• A heritability-based comparison of methods used to cluster 16S rRNA gene sequences into operational taxonomic units

  Published

  Jun 8, 2016

  Authors

  1. Jackson, Matthew A
  2. Bell, Jordana T
  3. Spector, Tim D
  4. Steves, Claire J

• Gynocentric communication among nuclear kin in the USA and Spain (updated)

  Published

  Jun 8, 2016 (v2), Nov 29, 2014 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Brewer, Devon D

• An exploration of the influence of diagonal dissociation and moderate changes in speed on locomotor parameters in trotting horses

  Published

  Jun 8, 2016

  Authors

  1. Hobbs, Sarah Jane
  2. Bertram, John E A
  3. Clayton, Hilary M

• Human feeding biomechanics: performance, variation, and functional constraints

  Published

  Jun 8, 2016

  Authors

  1. Ledogar, Justin A.
  2. Dechow, Paul C.
  3. Wang, Qian
  4. Gharpure, Poorva H
  5. Gordon, Adam D.
  6. Baab, Karen L.
  7. Smith, Amanda L.
  8. Weber, Gerhard W.
  9. Grosse, Ian R.
  10. Ross, Callum F.
  11. Richmond, Brian G.
  12. Wright, Barth W.
  13. Byron, Craig
  14. Wroe, Stephen
  15. Strait, David S.

• Talk the talk and walk the walk. Evaluation of autonomy in aging and Alzheimer Disease by simulating instrumental activities of daily living: The S-IADL

  Published

  Jun 8, 2016

  Authors

  1. Quaglino, Véronique
  2. Gounden, Yannick
  3. Lacot, Emilie
  4. Couvillers, Frédérique
  5. Lions, Amandine
  6. Hainselin, Mathieu

• Shades of yellow: interactive effects of visual and odour cues in a pest beetle

  Published

  Jun 7, 2016

  Authors

  1. Arnold, Sarah EJ
  2. Stevenson, Philip C
  3. Belmain, Steven R

• Characterisation of genomic alterations in proximal and distal colorectal cancer patients

  Published

  Jun 7, 2016

  Authors

  1. Mohd Yunos, Ryia-Illani
  2. Ab Mutalib, Nurul-Syakima
  3. Khor, Sheau Sean
  4. Saidin, Sazuita
  5. Mahamad Nadzir, Norshahidah
  6. Abd. Razak, Zuraini
  7. Md. Rose, Isa
  8. Sagap, Ismail
  9. Mazlan, Luqman
  10. Mokhtar, Norfilza M
  11. Jamal, Rahman

• Emergent properties of a computational model of tumour growth (updated)

  Published

  Jun 7, 2016 (v4), Apr 22, 2016 (v3), Mar 13, 2016 (v2), Dec 3, 2015 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Pantziarka, Pan

• The potential of bacteriocin AS-48 in the control of Propionibacterium acnes

  Published

  Jun 7, 2016

  Authors

  1. Cebrián, Rubén
  2. Arévalo, Sergio
  3. Ananou, Samir
  4. Arias-Santiago, Salvador
  5. Riazzo, Cristina
  6. Rojo, Maria Dolores
  7. Bermudez-Ruiz, Maria Pilar
  8. Valdivia, Eva
  9. Martinez-Bueno, Manuel
  10. Maqueda, Mercedes

• Dynamics of total proteins during stress alleviation in tomato infected with cucumber mosaic virus

  Published

  Jun 7, 2016

  Authors

  1. Tariq, Rana Muhammad Sabir M
  2. Sarwar, Nighat
  3. Haq, Imran Ul
  4. Sahi, Shahbaz Talib
  5. Gogi, Muhammad Dildar

• Development of a bacterial culture medium from avocado seed waste

  Published

  Jun 4, 2016

  Authors

  1. Tzintzun-Camacho, Olivia
  2. Sánchez-Segura, Lino
  3. Minchaca-Acosta, Alexis Z
  4. Rosales-Colunga, Luis M
  5. Hernández-Orihuela, Ana L
  6. Martínez-Antonio, Agustino

• The biomechanical, chemical, and physiological adaptations of the eggs of two Australian megapodes to their nesting strategies and their implications for extinct titanosaur dinosaurs

  Published

  Jun 3, 2016

  Authors

  1. Grellet-Tinner, Gerald
  2. Lindsay, Suzanne
  3. Thompson, Mike

• Plant spatial patterns and functional traits interaction along a chronosequence of primary succession: evidence from a central Alpine glacier foreland

  Published

  Jun 3, 2016

  Authors

  1. Sitzia, Tommaso
  2. Dainese, Matteo
  3. Krüsi, Bertil O.
  4. McCollin, Duncan

• Impact of agricultural management on bacterial laccase-encoding genes with possible implications for soil carbon storage in semi-arid Mediterranean olive farming

  Published

  Jun 3, 2016

  Authors

  1. Moreno, Beatriz
  2. Benitez, Emilio

• The HOSPITAL score as a predictor of 30 day readmission in a university affiliated community hospital

  Published

  Jun 1, 2016

  Authors

  1. Robinson, Robert

• Considerations of context and scale when using fecal glucocorticoids to indicate stress in large mammals: a study of wild American plains bison

  Published

  Jun 1, 2016

  Authors

  1. Ranglack, Dustin H
  2. Neuman-Lee, Lorin A
  3. French, Susannah S
  4. du Toit, Johan T

• Morphological evidence for introgressive hybridization between Feirana quadranus and Feirana taihangnica in Qinling Mountains, China (updated)

  Published

  Jun 1, 2016 (v2), May 20, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Song, Yang
  2. Sui, Xin
  3. Bian, Yuhong
  4. Zhang, Junfang
  5. Zheng, Junqiang
  6. Li, Pipeng

• Saccharomyces cerevisiae found in the crop of a Neotropical Drosophila species fly collected in a natural forest remnant – comments on Hoang, Kopp & Chandler (2015)

  Published

  Jun 1, 2016

  Authors

  1. Batista, Marcos R. D.
  2. Santos, Ana R. O.
  3. Chaves, Rafael D.
  4. Rosa, Carlos A.
  5. Klaczko, Louis B.