PeerJ Preprints published in September 2016

• Development and characterization of 29 polymorphic microsatellite loci of Megalobrama pellegrini by next-generation sequencing technology and cross-species amplification in related species

  Published

  Sep 30, 2016

  Authors

  1. Song, Wen
  2. Zhu, Dongmei
  3. Lv, Yefeng
  4. Wang, Weimin

• Genetic analysis of behavior in Drosophila

  Published

  Sep 30, 2016

  Authors

  1. Brembs, Björn

• Tet(C) gene transfer between Chlamydia suis strains occurs by homologous recombination after co-infection: Implications for spread of tetracycline-resistance among Chlamydiaceae

  Published

  Sep 30, 2016

  Authors

  1. Marti, Hanna
  2. Kim, Hoyon
  3. Joseph, Sandeep
  4. Dojiri, Stacey S
  5. Read, Timothy
  6. Dean, Deborah

• The outcomes of most aggressive interactions among closely related bird species are asymmetric

  Published

  Sep 30, 2016

  Authors

  1. Martin, Paul R
  2. Freshwater, Cameron
  3. Ghalambor, Cameron K

• First visual record of rare purple dogwhelks (Nucella lapillus) on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada

  Published

  Sep 30, 2016

  Authors

  1. Ehlers, Sonja M.
  2. Ellrich, Julius A.

• Sedation levels in dogs: a validation study

  Published

  Sep 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Wagner, Marika C
  2. Hecker, Kent G
  3. Pang, Daniel

• Animal movement analysis through residence in space and time

  Published

  Sep 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Torres, Leigh G
  2. Orben, Rachael A.
  3. Tolkova, Irina
  4. Thompson, David R

• Being in the zone: Using behavioral and EEG recordings for the indirect assessment of flow

  Published

  Sep 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Nuñez Castellar, Elena Patricia
  2. Antons, Jan-Niklas
  3. Marinazzo, Daniele
  4. van Looy, Jan

• On the intrinsic sterility of 3D printing (updated)

  Published

  Sep 28, 2016 (v2), Oct 15, 2014 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Neches, Russell Y
  2. Flynn, Kaitlin J.
  3. Zaman, Luis
  4. Tung, Emily
  5. Pudlo, Nicholas

• A scaled-down workflow for Illumina shotgun sequencing library preparation: lower input and improved performance at small fraction of the cost

  Published

  Sep 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Tan, Jo Ann
  2. Mikheyev, Alexander S

• Macroecology for microbiology

  Published

  Sep 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Lennon, Jay T
  2. Locey, Kenneth J

• BioMine-DB: A database for metazoan biomineralization proteins (updated)

  Published

  Sep 27, 2016 (v2), Apr 21, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Kamel, Bishoy S
  2. Voolstra, Christian R
  3. Medina, Mónica

• Protein structure refinement using a quantum mechanics-based chemical shielding predictor

  Published

  Sep 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Bratholm, Lars A.
  2. Jensen, Jan H.

• Proteogenomic analyses indicate bacterial methylotrophy and archaeal heterotrophy are prevalent below the grass root zone

  Published

  Sep 23, 2016

  Authors

  1. Butterfield, Cristina N
  2. Li, Zhou
  3. Andeer, Peter F
  4. Spaulding, Susan
  5. Thomas, Brian C
  6. Singh, Andrea
  7. Hettich, Robert L
  8. Suttle, Kenwyn B
  9. Probst, Alexander J
  10. Tringe, Susannah G
  11. Northen, Trent
  12. Pan, Chongle
  13. Banfield, Jillian F

• Community assembly and functional leaf traits mediate precipitation use efficiency of alpine grasslands along environmental gradients on the Tibetan Plateau

  Published

  Sep 23, 2016

  Authors

  1. Li, Shaowei
  2. Wu, Jianshuang

• A reconstruction of the palaeoecology and environmental dynamics of the Bahariya Formation of Egypt

  Published

  Sep 22, 2016

  Authors

  1. Ijouiher, Jamale

• The effects of autotomy and regeneration on the locomotion and behavior or brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) of Moorea, French Polynesia

  Published

  Sep 22, 2016

  Authors

  1. Shaeffer, Chandler M

• The wild tomato species Solanum chilense shows local variation in pathogen resistance between geographically distinct populations

  Published

  Sep 22, 2016

  Authors

  1. Stam, Remco
  2. Scheikl, Daniela
  3. Tellier, Aurélien

• How to raise H.illucens in captivity: a protocol

  Published

  Sep 22, 2016

  Authors

  1. Marzouk, Sammer

• Standardizing unique molecular identifiers in SAM flags would benefit more than RNA-Seq

  Published

  Sep 20, 2016

  Authors

  1. Roberson, Elisha D

• Opportunities drive the global distribution of protected areas

  Published

  Sep 20, 2016

  Authors

  1. Baldi, Germán
  2. Texeira, Marcos
  3. Martin, Osvaldo A
  4. Grau, H. Ricardo
  5. Jobbágy, Esteban G

• Indomethacin reproducibly induces metamorphosis in Cassiopea xamachana scyphistomae

  Published

  Sep 20, 2016

  Authors

  1. Cabrales-Arellano, Patricia
  2. Islas-Flores, Tania
  3. Thomé, Patricia E.
  4. Villanueva, Marco A.

• The psychometric properties of a Scale for Achievement Motive in Rehabilitation, and the effects of achievement motive on self-efficacy, hopelessness, and economic poverty for community-dwelling elderly people using rehabilitation services

  Published

  Sep 20, 2016

  Authors

  1. Sano, Nobuyuki
  2. Kyougoku, Makoto

• Identification of suitable reference genes for real-time quantitative PCR analysis of hydrogen peroxide-treated human umbilical vein endothelial cells

  Published

  Sep 20, 2016

  Authors

  1. Li, Tianyi
  2. Diao, Hongying
  3. Zhao, Lei
  4. Xing, Yue
  5. Zhang, Jichang
  6. Liu, Ning
  7. Yan, Youyou
  8. Tian, Xin
  9. Sun, Wei
  10. Liu, Bin

• Foliar fungal communities strongly differ between habitat patches in a landscape mosaic

  Published

  Sep 20, 2016

  Authors

  1. Fort, Thomas
  2. Robin, Cécile
  3. Capdevielle, Xavier
  4. Delière, Laurent
  5. Vacher, Corinne

• Brain transcriptomes of harbor seals demonstrate gene expression patterns of animals undergoing a metabolic disease and a viral infection

  Published

  Sep 20, 2016

  Authors

  1. Rosales, Stephanie M
  2. Vega Thurber, Rebecca L

• 10 simple rules for developing the best experimental design in biology

  Published

  Sep 18, 2016

  Authors

  1. Joseph, Angela

• 10 simple rules for experimental design in ecology

  Published

  Sep 17, 2016

  Authors

  1. Saini, Neha

• Microbial communities mediating algal detritus turnover under anaerobic conditions

  Published

  Sep 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Morrison, Jessica M
  2. Murphy, Chelsea L
  3. Baker, Kristina
  4. Zamor, Richard
  5. Nikolai, Steve J
  6. Wilder, Shawn
  7. Elshahed, Mostafa S
  8. Youssef, Noha H

• Moving to 3D: relationships between coral planar area, surface area and volume (updated)

  Published

  Sep 15, 2016 (v2), Sep 13, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. House, Jenny E
  2. Bidaut, Luc M
  3. Christie, Alec P
  4. Pizarro, Oscar
  5. Dornelas, Maria

• Host plant affects morphometric variation of Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae)

  Published

  Sep 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Paris, Thomson M.
  2. Allan, Sandra A.
  3. Hall, David G.
  4. Hentz, Matthew G.
  5. Hetesy, Gabriella
  6. Stansly, Philip A.

• Genotyping of evolving prokaryotic populations

  Published

  Sep 14, 2016

  Authors

  1. Zojer, Markus
  2. Schuster, Lisa N
  3. Schulz, Frederik
  4. Pfundner, Alexander
  5. Horn, Matthias
  6. Rattei, Thomas

• Microbes and cancer: Coming a full circle

  Published

  Sep 14, 2016

  Authors

  1. Srihari, Sriganesh
  2. Srihari, Sulakshana

• The neck of Barosaurus: longer, wider and weirder than those of Diplodocus and other diplodocines (updated)

  Published

  Sep 13, 2016 (v2), Sep 23, 2013 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Taylor, Michael P
  2. Wedel, Mathew J

• Evolutionary analysis of vision genes identifies potential drivers of visual differences between giraffe and okapi

  Published

  Sep 13, 2016

  Authors

  1. Ishengoma, Edson
  2. Agaba, Morris
  3. Cavener, Douglas R

• Intraspecific variation in the diet of the Mexican garter snake Thamnophis eques

  Published

  Sep 13, 2016

  Authors

  1. Manjarrez, Javier
  2. Pacheco-Tinoco, Martha
  3. Venegas-Barrera, Crystian S

• 10 simple rules for designing and analyzing field experiments in ecology

  Published

  Sep 13, 2016

  Authors

  1. Nazal, Basma

• Sensitivity of biogeographic reconstructions to the use of differential extinction rates

  Published

  Sep 12, 2016

  Authors

  1. Pinzón, Jose Luis

• Identifying microbes from environment water samples in a discovery-based learning module (updated)

  Published

  Sep 12, 2016 (v3), Jun 5, 2016 (v2), May 29, 2014 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Ng, Wenfa

• Large-scale gene flow in the barnacle Jehlius cirratus and contrasts with other broadly-distributed taxa along the Chilean coast (updated)

  Published

  Sep 12, 2016 (v4), May 23, 2016 (v3), Nov 24, 2014 (v2), Nov 7, 2014 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Guo, Baoying
  2. Wares, John P

• Reanalyzing Head et al. (2015): Investigating the robustness of widespread p-hacking

  Published

  Sep 12, 2016

  Authors

  1. Hartgerink, Chris H

• Comparative genomics of Pseudomonas syringae pathovar tomato reveals novel chemotaxis pathways associated with motility and plant pathogenicity

  Published

  Sep 12, 2016

  Authors

  1. Clarke, Christopher
  2. Hayes, Byron W
  3. Runde, Brendan J
  4. Markel, Eric
  5. Swingle, Bryan M
  6. Vinatzer, Boris A

• Physical features of eight different species with shells

  Published

  Sep 11, 2016

  Authors

  1. Marzouk, Sammer

• Physiological, ethological and ecological features of Hermetia illucen

  Published

  Sep 11, 2016

  Authors

  1. Marzouk, Sammer

• An open source device for operant licking in rats

  Published

  Sep 11, 2016

  Authors

  1. Longley, Matthew
  2. Willis, Ethan L
  3. Tay, Cindy X
  4. Chen, Hao

• YUCCA auxin biosynthetic genes are required for Arabidopsis shade avoidance (updated)

  Published

  Sep 11, 2016 (v2), Jul 2, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Müller-Moulé, Patricia
  2. Nozue, Kazunari
  3. Pytlak, Melissa L
  4. Palmer, Christine M
  5. Covington, Michael F
  6. Wallace, Andreah D
  7. Harmer, Stacey L
  8. Maloof, Julin N

• Hairiness: the missing link between pollinators and pollination

  Published

  Sep 9, 2016

  Authors

  1. Stavert, Jamie R
  2. Liñán-Cembrano, Gustavo
  3. Beggs, Jacqueline R
  4. Howlett, Brad G
  5. Pattemore, David E
  6. Bartomeus, Ignasi

• The genetic and morphological evolution of fish through Cytochrome C Oxidase Subunit 1 (COX1)

  Published

  Sep 8, 2016

  Authors

  1. Marzouk, Sammer

• Randomised Badger Culling Trial: Impact, based on more extensive data (updated)

  Published

  Sep 8, 2016 (v6), Sep 1, 2016 (v5), Aug 29, 2016 (v4), Aug 24, 2016 (v3), Aug 15, 2016 (v2), Aug 4, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Hendy, David

• Complexity in a facilitative behavior web of piscivores and associated species at Isla del Coco National Park (Eastern Tropical Pacific)

  Published

  Sep 8, 2016

  Authors

  1. Auster, Peter J
  2. Cortés, Jorge

• Events recovery under different methods

  Published

  Sep 7, 2016

  Authors

  1. Méndez, Karen
  2. Miranda-Esquivel, Daniel

• 10 simple rules for best experimental design in ecology

  Published

  Sep 7, 2016

  Authors

  1. Sajadi, Farwa

• A simple photographic classification of protruding ears

  Published

  Sep 6, 2016

  Authors

  1. Lopes-Santos, JA

• A statistical model for epigenetic control of miRNAs

  Published

  Sep 6, 2016

  Authors

  1. Barros de Andrade e Sousa, Lisa
  2. Marsico, Annalisa

• Actin-dependence of the chloroplast cold positioning response in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha L

  Published

  Sep 6, 2016

  Authors

  1. Kimura, Shun
  2. Kodama, Yutaka

• Collecting systematic, introspective reports of pharmacological effects and side-effects

  Published

  Sep 6, 2016

  Authors

  1. Sarma, Gopal P

• Evaluation of reference genes for gene expression in red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura) liver, lung, small intestine and spleen

  Published

  Sep 6, 2016

  Authors

  1. Ong, Oselyne TW
  2. Young, Lauren J
  3. Old, Julie M

• Distribution and characteristic of nitrite-dependent anaerobic methane oxidation bacteria in wastewater treatment plants and agriculture fields of northern China

  Published

  Sep 6, 2016

  Authors

  1. Hu, Zhen
  2. Ma, Ru

• tmod: an R package for general and multivariate enrichment analysis

  Published

  Sep 4, 2016

  Authors

  1. Weiner 3rd, January
  2. Domaszewska, Teresa

• FUCHS - Towards full circular RNA characterization using RNAseq

  Published

  Sep 4, 2016

  Authors

  1. Metge, Franziska
  2. Czaja-Hasse, Lisa F
  3. Reinhardt, Richard
  4. Dieterich, Chistoph

• New records of predation on eggs of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) by Chrysopodes (Chrysopodes) lineafrons (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) in Northwestern Argentina

  Published

  Sep 4, 2016

  Authors

  1. Ortega, Eugenia S.
  2. Veggiani, Cecilia A.
  3. Avila, Ana L.
  4. Reguilon, Carmen

• Drift net performance for larval fish sampling in rivers

  Published

  Sep 4, 2016

  Authors

  1. Couch, Alan J
  2. Dyer, Fiona
  3. Lintermans, Mark
  4. Ross-Magee, Pat

• Deer herbivory reduces web-building spider abundance by simplifying forest vegetation structure (updated)

  Published

  Sep 3, 2016 (v2), Jun 24, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Roberson, Elizabeth J
  2. Chips, Michael J
  3. Carson, Walter P
  4. Rooney, Thomas P

• The Ecology of Stress: linking life-history traits with physiological control mechanisms in free-living guanacos (updated)

  Published

  Sep 3, 2016 (v2), Jun 7, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Ovejero Aguilar, Ramiro J.A.
  2. Jahn, Graciela A
  3. Soto-Gamboa, Mauricio
  4. Novaro, Andrés
  5. Carmanchahi, Pablo

• GRIND-FREE: Gaming-resistant index for research evaluation

  Published

  Sep 2, 2016

  Authors

  1. Belikov, Aleksey V

• Differential gene expression in blastocysts following pronuclear transfer

  Published

  Sep 2, 2016

  Authors

  1. Morrow, Edward H
  2. Ingleby, Fiona C

• Positive effect of dietary lutein and cholesterol on the undirected song activity of an opportunistic breeder

  Published

  Sep 1, 2016

  Authors

  1. Casagrande, Stefania
  2. Pinxten, Rianne
  3. Zaid, Erika
  4. Eens, Marcel

• Detecting communicative intent in a computerised test of joint attention

  Published

  Sep 1, 2016

  Authors

  1. Caruana, Nathan
  2. McArthur, Genevieve
  3. Woolgar, Alexandra
  4. Brock, Jon

• VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

  Published

  Sep 1, 2016

  Authors

  1. Rognes, Torbjørn
  2. Flouri, Tomáš
  3. Nichols, Ben
  4. Quince, Christopher
  5. Mahé, Frédéric

• Sometimes noise is beneficial: stream noise informs vocal communication in the little torrent frog

  Published

  Sep 1, 2016

  Authors

  1. Zhao, Longhui
  2. Wang, Jichao
  3. E. Brauth, Steven
  4. Tang, Yezhong
  5. Cui, Jianguo

• Predicting enhancers using a small subset of high confidence examples and co-training

  Published

  Sep 1, 2016

  Authors

  1. Huska, Matthew R
  2. Ramisch, Anna
  3. Vingron, Martin
  4. Marsico, Annalisa

• RNA interference as a gene silencing tool to control Tuta absoluta in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

  Published

  Sep 1, 2016

  Authors

  1. Camargo, Roberto A
  2. Barbosa, Guilherme O
  3. Possignolo, Isabella Presotto
  4. Peres, Lazaro E. P.
  5. Lam, Eric
  6. Lima, Joni E
  7. Figueira, Antonio V. O.
  8. Marques-Souza, Henrique

• High unexpected genetic diversity of a narrow endemic terrestrial mollusc

  Published

  Sep 1, 2016

  Authors

  1. Madeira, Pedro M
  2. Chefaoui, Rosa M.
  3. Cunha, Regina L
  4. Moreira, Francisco
  5. Dias, Susana
  6. Calado, Gonçalo
  7. Castilho, Rita

• Nonlinear temperature effects on multifractal complexity of metabolic rate of mice

  Published

  Sep 1, 2016

  Authors

  1. Labra, Fabio A
  2. Bogdanovich, Jose M
  3. Bozinovic, Francisco