PeerJ Preprints published in June 2017

• North Atlantic Oscillation drives the annual occurrence of an isolated, peripheral population of the brown seaweed Fucus guiryi in the Western Mediterranean Sea

  Published

  Jun 30, 2017

  Authors

  1. Melero, Ignacio
  2. Salvo, A. Enrique
  3. Báez, José Carlos
  4. Bañares-España, Elena
  5. Reul, Andreas
  6. Flores-Moya, Antonio

• Taxonomy is not beholden to its dependencies: a rebuttal to Garnett and Christidis (2017)

  Published

  Jun 30, 2017

  Authors

  1. Jackson, Morgan D.
  2. Scherz, Mark D.
  3. Zona, Scott

• Examining publication bias – A simulation-based evaluation of statistical tests on publication bias

  Published

  Jun 29, 2017

  Authors

  1. Schneck, Andreas

• Single phase computed tomography is equivalent to dual phase method for localizing hyperfunctioning parathyroid glands in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism: A retrospective review

  Published

  Jun 29, 2017

  Authors

  1. Moron, Fanny
  2. Delumpa, Alfred
  3. Chetta, Justin
  4. Guffey, Danielle
  5. Dunaway, David

• Arsenophonus and Sodalis replacements shape evolution of symbiosis in louse flies

  Published

  Jun 29, 2017

  Authors

  1. Šochová, Eva
  2. Husník, Filip
  3. Nováková, Eva
  4. Halajian, Ali
  5. Hypša, Václav

• An updated understanding of Texas bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) species presence and potential distributions in Texas, USA (updated)

  Published

  Jun 28, 2017 (v2), Apr 19, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Beckham, Jessica L
  2. Atkinson, Samuel

• Meiotic Error-Correction: How sexual reproduction may facilitate a trans-generational repair mechanism that can bias meiotic gene conversion against new mutations and in favor of ancestral alleles (updated)

  Published

  Jun 28, 2017 (v2), Jun 27, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Reese, Virgil

• De novo gene evolution: How do we transition from non-coding to coding? (updated)

  Published

  Jun 28, 2017 (v2), Jun 20, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Ruiz-Orera, Jorge
  2. Villanueva-Cañas, José Luis
  3. Blevins, William
  4. Albà, M.Mar

• A Study on Immunological and Molecular Genetic Test Methods of Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Diseases Reagents

  Published

  Jun 28, 2017

  Authors

  1. Kim, Geun Soo
  2. Kim, San
  3. Han, Hye Youn
  4. Kwon, Eunji

• Ontogeny of long-range vocalizations in a Neotropical fossorial rodent: the Anillaco Tuco-Tuco (Ctenomys sp.)

  Published

  Jun 27, 2017

  Authors

  1. Amaya, Juan Pablo
  2. Areta, Juan Ignacio

• Benchmarking viromics: An in silico evaluation of metagenome-enabled estimates of viral community composition and diversity

  Published

  Jun 26, 2017

  Authors

  1. Roux, Simon
  2. Emerson, Joanne B
  3. Eloe-Fadrosh, Emiley A
  4. Sullivan, Matthew B

• Cancer spatial evolution in a changing microenvironment

  Published

  Jun 25, 2017

  Authors

  1. Jiang, Xiaowei
  2. Tomlinson, Ian PM

• Steep declines in sightings of manta rays and devilrays (Mobulidae) in southern Mozambique

  Published

  Jun 24, 2017

  Authors

  1. Rohner, Christoph A.
  2. Flam, Anna L
  3. Pierce, Simon J
  4. Marshall, Andrea D

• Tissue material properties and computational modelling of the human knee: A critical review

  Published

  Jun 24, 2017

  Authors

  1. Peters, Abby E
  2. Akhtar, Riaz
  3. Comerford, Eithne J
  4. Bates, Karl T

• Fungi found in Mediterranean and North Sea sponges: How specific are they?

  Published

  Jun 24, 2017

  Authors

  1. Naim, Mohd Azrul
  2. Smidt, Hauke
  3. Sipkema, Detmer

• Seasonal and year-round use of the Ramsar-listed Kushiro Wetland by sika deer (Cervus nippon yesoensis)

  Published

  Jun 24, 2017

  Authors

  1. Takafumi, Hino
  2. Kamii, Tatsuya
  3. Murai, Takunari
  4. Yoshida, Ryoto
  5. Sato, Atsuki
  6. Tachiki, Yasuyuki
  7. Akamatsu, Rika
  8. Yoshida, Tsuyoshi

• Phenotypic plasticity promotes recombination and gene clustering in periodic environments

  Published

  Jun 24, 2017

  Authors

  1. Gulisija, Davorka
  2. Plotkin, Joshua B.

• A very recent whole genome duplication in Potamopyrgus antipodarum predates multiple origins of asexuality & associated polyploidy

  Published

  Jun 24, 2017

  Authors

  1. Logsdon, John
  2. Neiman, Maurine
  3. Boore, Jeffrey
  4. Sharbrough, Joel
  5. Bankers, Laura
  6. McElroy, Kyle
  7. Jalinsky, Joe
  8. Fields, Peter
  9. Wilton, Peter

• Genetic diversity and population structure in an invasive pantropical earthworm along an altitudinal gradient

  Published

  Jun 23, 2017

  Authors

  1. Ortíz-Gamino, Diana
  2. Cunha, Luis
  3. Martínez-Romero, Esperanza
  4. Flores-Estévez, Norma
  5. Ortíz-Ceballos, Ángel I

• The evolution of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in chromerids

  Published

  Jun 23, 2017

  Authors

  1. Sharaf, Abdoallah
  2. Jiroutová, Kateřina
  3. Obornik, Miroslav

• Cellobiohydrolase B of Aspergillus niger over-expressed in Pichia pastoris stimulates hydrolysis of oil palm empty fruit bunches

  Published

  Jun 23, 2017

  Authors

  1. Woon, James Sy-Keen
  2. Mackeen, Mukram M
  3. Illias, Rosli M
  4. Mahadi, Nor M
  5. Broughton, William J
  6. Abdul Murad, Abdul Munir
  7. Abu Bakar, Farah Diba

• The role of self-incompatibility systems in the prevention of bi-parental inbreeding

  Published

  Jun 22, 2017

  Authors

  1. Furstenau, Tara N
  2. Cartwright, Reed A

• Genome-wide survey of single-nucleotide polymorphisms reveals fine-scale population structure and signs of selection in the threatened Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata

  Published

  Jun 22, 2017

  Authors

  1. Durante, Meghann D
  2. Baums, Iliana B

• Skin temperature and reproductive condition in wild female chimpanzees

  Published

  Jun 22, 2017

  Authors

  1. Dezecache, Guillaume
  2. Wilke, Claudia
  3. Richi, Nathalie
  4. Neumann, Christof
  5. Zuberbühler, Klaus

• BGDMdocker: a Docker workflow for data mining and visualization of bacterial pan-genomes and biosynthetic gene clusters

  Published

  Jun 22, 2017

  Authors

  1. Cheng, Gong
  2. Lu, Quan
  3. Ma, Ling
  4. Zhang, Guocai
  5. Xu, Liang
  6. Zhou, Zongshan

• The Missing landscape of human genomic diversity in the Arabian Peninsula

  Published

  Jun 21, 2017

  Authors

  1. Bakhsh, Njlaa
  2. Jackson, Fatimah
  3. Jackson, Latifa
  4. cross, Christopher

• Diversity of cultivated aerobic poly-hydrolytic bacteria in saline alkaline soils

  Published

  Jun 21, 2017

  Authors

  1. Sorokin, Dmitry Y.
  2. Kolganova, Tatiana V.
  3. Khijniak, Tatiana V.
  4. Jones, Brian E.
  5. Kublanov, Ilya V.

• A Virtual Environment-based Training System for the Blind Wheelchair User through use of 3D Audio Supported by EEG

  Published

  Jun 20, 2017

  Authors

  1. de Souza, Everton S
  2. Lamounier, Edgard EL
  3. Cardoso, Alexandre AC

• Lectins: an effective tool for screening of potential cancer biomarkers

  Published

  Jun 20, 2017

  Authors

  1. Hashim, Onn Haji
  2. Jayapalan, Jaime Jacqueline
  3. Lee, Cheng-Siang

• Estimating the number of lionfish (Pterois volitans) that colonized the Atlantic Ocean

  Published

  Jun 20, 2017

  Authors

  1. Selwyn, Jason D
  2. Johnson, John E
  3. Downey-Wall, Alan M
  4. Bynum, Adam M
  5. Hamner, Rebecca M
  6. Hogan, J Derek
  7. Bird, Christopher E

• Quercivorol as a lure for the polyphagous and Kuroshio shot hole borers, Euwallacea spp. nr. fornicatus (Coleoptera: Scolytinae), vectors of Fusarium dieback

  Published

  Jun 20, 2017

  Authors

  1. Dodge, Christine
  2. Coolidge, Jessica
  3. Cooperband, Miriam
  4. Cossé, Allard
  5. Carrillo, Daniel
  6. Stouthamer, Richard

• Comparative transcriptomics and ribo-seq: Looking at de novo gene emergence in Saccharomycotina

  Published

  Jun 20, 2017

  Authors

  1. Blevins, William
  2. Albà, Mar
  3. Carey, Lucas

• Spider World Records: a resource for using organismal biology as a hook for science learning

  Published

  Jun 15, 2017

  Authors

  1. Mammola, Stefano
  2. Michalik, Peter
  3. Hebets, Eileen A
  4. Isaia, Marco

• MiR-92b-3p is induced by advanced glycation end products and involved in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy

  Published

  Jun 14, 2017

  Authors

  1. Liping, Wang
  2. Nan, Geng Jia
  3. Bo, Sun
  4. Chengbo, Sun
  5. Siyuan, Wang
  6. Yan, Shi
  7. Xiayan, Yu

• Statistical infarction: A postmortem of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab pizza publications

  Published

  Jun 14, 2017

  Authors

  1. Anaya, Jordan
  2. van der Zee, Tim
  3. Brown, Nick

• The earth is flat (p>0.05): Significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research (updated)

  Published

  Jun 14, 2017 (v2), Apr 12, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Amrhein, Valentin
  2. Korner-Nievergelt, Fränzi
  3. Roth, Tobias

• Assessing vision in young children: Communication skills

  Published

  Jun 14, 2017

  Authors

  1. Paudel, Nabin

• Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases

  Published

  Jun 13, 2017

  Authors

  1. Vino, Thiripura
  2. Singh, Gurmeet R
  3. Davison, Belinda
  4. Campbell, Patricia T
  5. Lydeamore, Michael
  6. Robinson, Andrew
  7. McVernon, Jodie
  8. Tong, Steven YC
  9. Geard, Nicholas

• Fish Ontology framework for taxonomy-based fish recognition

  Published

  Jun 13, 2017

  Authors

  1. Ali, Najib M.
  2. Khan, Haris A.
  3. Then, Amy Y-Hui
  4. Ving Ching, Chong
  5. Dhillon, Sarinder Kaur

• 3D-Analysis of a non-planispiral ammonoid from the Hunsrück Slate: natural or pathological variation? (updated)

  Published

  Jun 13, 2017 (v2), Sep 28, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Stilkerich, Julia
  2. Smrecak, Trisha A
  3. De Baets, Kenneth

• Transitioning “Open Data” from a NOUN to a VERB

  Published

  Jun 13, 2017

  Authors

  1. varma D, Aadinarayana
  2. Sharma, Sheevendra

• Life histories predict genetic diversity and population structure within three species of Octopus targeted by small-scale fisheries in Northwest Mexico (updated)

  Published

  Jun 13, 2017 (v2), Jun 10, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Domínguez-Contreras, José F
  2. Munguia-Vega, Adrian
  3. Ceballos-Vázquez, Bertha P
  4. Arellano-Martínez, Marcial
  5. García-Rodríguez, Francisco J
  6. Culver, Melanie
  7. Reyes-Bonilla, Héctor

• Tropical ash (Fraxinus udhei) invading Andean forest remnants in Northern South America

  Published

  Jun 13, 2017

  Authors

  1. Saavedra-Ramírez, Kelly A
  2. Etter, Andrés
  3. Ramírez, Alberto

• Human agency beliefs influence behaviour during virtual social interactions

  Published

  Jun 11, 2017

  Authors

  1. Caruana, Nathan
  2. Spirou, Dean
  3. Brock, Jon

• Fighting fungi with fungi: the mycobiome contribution to emerging disease in amphibians

  Published

  Jun 11, 2017

  Authors

  1. Kearns, Patrick
  2. Fischer, Sarah
  3. Fernández-Beaskoetxea, Saioa
  4. Gabor, Caitlin
  5. Bosch, Jaime
  6. Bowen, Jennifer L
  7. Tlusty, Michael F
  8. Woodhams, Douglas

• Comparative study of Cd uptake and tolerance of two Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) cultivars (updated)

  Published

  Jun 9, 2017 (v2), Mar 20, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Fang, Zhigang
  2. Lou, Laiqing
  3. Tai, Zhenglan
  4. Wang, Yufeng
  5. Yang, Lei
  6. Hu, Zhubing
  7. Cai, Qingsheng

• DNA-barcoding of forensically important blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in the Caribbean Region

  Published

  Jun 9, 2017

  Authors

  1. Yusseff-Vanegas, Sohath Z
  2. Agnarsson, Ingi

• Ginsenoside Rk1 bioactivity: A systematic review

  Published

  Jun 9, 2017

  Authors

  1. Elshafay, Abdelrahman
  2. Tinh, Ngo Xuan
  3. Salman, Samar
  4. Shaheen, Yara Saber
  5. Othman, Eman Bashir
  6. Elhady, Mohamed Tamer
  7. Kansakar, Aswin Ratna
  8. Tran, Linh
  9. Van, Le
  10. Hirayama, Kenji
  11. Huy, Nguyen Tien

• Direct dilution of cell aliquot for high temporal resolution bacterial cell surface charge measurement (updated)

  Published

  Jun 9, 2017 (v5), Jul 27, 2016 (v4), May 17, 2016 (v3), Sep 17, 2015 (v2), Nov 3, 2013 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Ng, Wenfa

• Pesticide mixtures in the Swedish streams: environmental risks, contributions of individual compounds and consequences of single-substance oriented risk mitigation (updated)

  Published

  Jun 8, 2017 (v2), Feb 5, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Gustavsson, Mikael B
  2. Kreuger, Jenny
  3. Bundschuh, Mirco
  4. Backhaus, Thomas

• Influence of sea cucumbers on chromophoric of dissolved organic matter in multitrophic aquaculture tanks

  Published

  Jun 8, 2017

  Authors

  1. Sadeghi-Nassaj, Seyed Mohammad
  2. Catalá, Teresa S.
  3. Álvarez, Pedro A.
  4. Reche, Isabel

• Development of a semi-defined medium for high cell density cultivation of Escherichia coli in shake flasks: Part 2 (updated)

  Published

  Jun 7, 2017 (v5), Aug 8, 2016 (v4), May 15, 2016 (v3), Sep 17, 2015 (v2), Nov 25, 2013 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Ng, Wenfa

• Selection on translation rate impacts genic base composition

  Published

  Jun 7, 2017

  Authors

  1. Quandt, Erik M
  2. Traverse, Charles
  3. Ochman, Howard

• A possible linear filtering model to explain White’s illusion at different grating widths

  Published

  Jun 6, 2017

  Authors

  1. Mitra, Soma
  2. Mazumdar, Deabasis
  3. Ghosh, Kuntal
  4. Bhaumik, Kamales

• Evaluation of the maxillary anterior teeth color distribution according to age and gender with Spectrophotometer

  Published

  Jun 6, 2017

  Authors

  1. Karaman, Tahir
  2. Altintas, Eyyüp
  3. Eser, Bekir
  4. Talo Yildirim, Tuba
  5. Oztekin, Faruk
  6. Bozoglan, Alihan

• Sylvatic host associations of Triatominae and implications for Chagas disease reservoirs: a comprehensive review and new host records based on archival specimens

  Published

  Jun 5, 2017

  Authors

  1. Georgieva, Anna Y
  2. Gordon, Eric R L
  3. Weirauch, Christiane

• Development of a semi-defined medium for high cell density cultivation of Escherichia coli in shake flasks: Part 1 (updated)

  Published

  Jun 5, 2017 (v6), Aug 8, 2016 (v5), May 15, 2016 (v4), Sep 17, 2015 (v3), Nov 28, 2013 (v2), Nov 24, 2013 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Ng, Wenfa

• Multivariate ordination identifies vegetation types associated with spider conservation in brassica crops

  Published

  Jun 2, 2017

  Authors

  1. Saqib, Hafiz Sohaib
  2. You, Minsheng
  3. Gurr, Geoff M

• Theory of measurement for site-specific evolutionary rates in amino-acid sequences

  Published

  Jun 2, 2017

  Authors

  1. Sydykova, Dariya K
  2. Wilke, Claus O

• Investigating viral attenuation by promoter knockout: a systems approach

  Published

  Jun 2, 2017

  Authors

  1. Paff, Matthew L
  2. Jack, Benjamin R.
  3. Boutz, Daniel R
  4. Smith, Bartram L
  5. Wilke, Claus O
  6. Bull, James J

• Targeted NGS for species level phylogenomics: “made to measure” or “one size fits all”? (updated)

  Published

  Jun 2, 2017 (v3), Feb 18, 2017 (v2), Jan 31, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Kadlec, Malvina
  2. Bellstedt, Dirk U
  3. Le Maitre, Nicholas C
  4. Pirie, Michael D

• How do waterbirds respond to climate change? A study at a key wintering site in Europe (updated)

  Published

  Jun 2, 2017 (v3), Mar 4, 2017 (v2), Dec 21, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Marchowski, Dominik
  2. Jankowiak, Łukasz
  3. Wysocki, Dariusz
  4. Ławicki, Łukasz
  5. Girjatowicz, Józef

• Influenza A virus avian-derived PB1 gene has evolved to match its codon usage to interferon-altered human tRNA pools

  Published

  Jun 1, 2017

  Authors

  1. Smith, Bartram L
  2. Chen, Guifang
  3. Wilke, Claus O
  4. Krug, Robert M

• Differential effect of Platelet Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 (PECAM-1) on leukocyte infiltration during contact hypersensitivity responses (updated)

  Published

  Jun 1, 2017 (v2), Apr 25, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Early, Merideth
  2. Schroeder, William G
  3. Unnithan, Ranajana
  4. Gilchrist, John M
  5. Muller, William A
  6. Schenkel, Alan

• Detection of waterholes by Vegetation Index in the habitat of bighorn sheep (Ovis Canadensis) in Baja California

  Published

  Jun 1, 2017

  Authors

  1. Escobar-Flores, Jonathan Gabriel
  2. Torres, Jorge
  3. Valdez, Raúl
  4. Álvarez Cárdenas, Sergio
  5. Galina Tessaro, Patricia
  6. Sandoval, Sarahi