PeerJ Preprints published in August 2017

• Sex differences in the use of social information emerge under conditions of risk

  Published

  Aug 31, 2017

  Authors

  1. Brand, Charlotte Olivia
  2. Brown, Gillian R
  3. Cross, Catharine P

• Kinematic parameters of goats walking on different slopes and biomimetic walking mechanisms

  Published

  Aug 31, 2017

  Authors

  1. Zhang, Fu
  2. Wang, Yafei
  3. Wang, Wei

• A comprehensive simulation study on classification of RNA-Seq data (updated)

  Published

  Aug 31, 2017 (v2), Jan 31, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Zararsiz, Gokmen
  2. Göksülük, Dinçer
  3. Korkmaz, Selçuk
  4. Eldem, Vahap
  5. Ertürk Zararsız, Gözde
  6. Duru, İzzet Parug
  7. Ozturk, Ahmet
  8. Öztürk, Ahmet

• Opinionated analysis development

  Published

  Aug 31, 2017

  Authors

  1. Parker, Hilary

• Genetic and genomic monitoring with minimally invasive sampling methods

  Published

  Aug 30, 2017

  Authors

  1. Carroll, Emma L
  2. Bruford, Michael
  3. DeWoody, J. Andrew
  4. Leroy, Gregoire
  5. Strand, Allan
  6. Waits, Lisette
  7. Wang, Jinliang

• Prevalence and temporal trends of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in Jilin, Northeast China, 2011-2015

  Published

  Aug 30, 2017

  Authors

  1. Li, Yan
  2. Li, Zhijun
  3. Sun, Qing
  4. Wang, Mengying
  5. Jiang, Meng
  6. Zhou, Yutong
  7. Wu, Guanyu
  8. Qi, Yali

• A world of opportunities with nanopore sequencing (updated)

  Published

  Aug 30, 2017 (v2), Jul 17, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Leggett, Richard M
  2. Clark, Matthew D

• Effects of accelerated ageing and cryopreservation on seeds and embryonic axes of Phaseolus vulgaris L and Arachis hypogaea L. Germination and seedlings vigor

  Published

  Aug 29, 2017

  Authors

  1. Tacán, Marcelo
  2. Tapia, César
  3. Pérez, César

• Biological facilitation of the giant tree fern Angiopteris evecta in the germination of the invasive velvet tree Miconia calvescens (updated)

  Published

  Aug 29, 2017 (v2), Dec 17, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Lee, Jaemin

• Bored bones from the terrestrial middle Cretaceous Kem-Kem beds of southeast Morocco (updated)

  Published

  Aug 29, 2017 (v2), Aug 28, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Shears-Ozeki, Christina

• Decussation as an axial twist: A Comment on Kinsbourne (2013) (updated)

  Published

  Aug 28, 2017 (v3), Oct 20, 2014 (v2), Jul 7, 2014 (v1)

  Authors

  1. de Lussanet, Marc HE
  2. Osse, Jan W.M.

• Self-efficacy, relationship satisfaction, and social support: The quality of life of maternal caregivers of children with type 1 diabetes

  Published

  Aug 28, 2017

  Authors

  1. Thorsteinsson, Einar B
  2. Loi, Natasha M
  3. Rayner, Kylie

• Disparities in availability of essential medicines to treat non-communicable diseases in Uganda: a Poisson analysis using the Service Availability and Readiness Assessment

  Published

  Aug 28, 2017

  Authors

  1. Armstrong-Hough, Mari
  2. Kishore, Sandeep
  3. Byakika, Sarah
  4. Mutungi, Gerald
  5. Nunez-Smith, Marcella
  6. Schwartz, Jeremy

• Exploring knowledge and attitudes toward non-communicable diseases among Village Health Teams in Eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional mixed methods study

  Published

  Aug 28, 2017

  Authors

  1. Ojo, Temitope
  2. Hawley, Nicola
  3. Desai, Mayur
  4. Akiteng, Ann
  5. Guwatudde, David
  6. Schwartz, Jeremy I

• The democratization of data science education

  Published

  Aug 27, 2017

  Authors

  1. Kross, Sean
  2. Peng, Roger D
  3. Caffo, Brian S
  4. Gooding, Ira
  5. Leek, Jeffrey T

• Single cell transcriptomics view of cell lineage, cell fate and cellular differentiation

  Published

  Aug 26, 2017

  Authors

  1. Ng, Wenfa

• Code-free bioinformatics pipeline for building biological databases used to construct cardiovascular-SNPDB: an online database for SNPs associated with cardiovascular metabolites

  Published

  Aug 25, 2017

  Authors

  1. Tarek, Mohammad M

• rentrez: An R package for the NCBI eUtils API (updated)

  Published

  Aug 25, 2017 (v2), Aug 23, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Winter, David J

• Phytochemicals in Daucus carota and their importance in nutrition – Review article

  Published

  Aug 25, 2017

  Authors

  1. Ahmad, Tanveer
  2. Cawood, Maria
  3. Batool, Asmat
  4. Tariq, Rana Muhammad Sabir
  5. Ghani, Muhammad Awais
  6. Azam, Muhammad

• Parameters tuning boosts hyperSMURF predictions of rare deleterious non-coding genetic variants

  Published

  Aug 24, 2017

  Authors

  1. Petrini, Alessandro
  2. Schubach, Max
  3. Re, Matteo
  4. Frasca, Marco
  5. Mesiti, Marco
  6. Grossi, Giuliano
  7. Castrignanò, Tiziana
  8. Robinson, Peter N
  9. Valentini, Giorgio

• An improved method for utilizing high-throughput amplicon sequencing to determine the diets of insectivorous animals

  Published

  Aug 24, 2017

  Authors

  1. Jusino, Michelle A
  2. Banik, Mark T
  3. Palmer, Jonathan M
  4. Wray, Amy K
  5. Xiao, Lei
  6. Pelton, Emma
  7. Barber, Jesse R
  8. Kawahara, Akito Y
  9. Gratton, Claudio
  10. Peery, M. Zachariah
  11. Lindner, Daniel L

• Three-dimensional range shifts in biodiversity driven by recent global warming (updated)

  Published

  Aug 24, 2017 (v2), May 4, 2015 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Haase, Peter
  2. Li, Fengqing
  3. Sundermann, Andrea
  4. Lorenz, Armin
  5. Tonkin, Jonathan
  6. Stoll, Stefan

• Construction the first gene co-expression-based interactome in cattle

  Published

  Aug 22, 2017

  Authors

  1. Chen, Yan
  2. Liu, Yining
  3. Du, Min
  4. Zhang, Wengang
  5. Gao, Xue
  6. Zhang, Lupei
  7. Gao, Huijiang
  8. Xu, Lingyang
  9. Li, Junya
  10. Zhao, Min

• Development of an RNA interference (RNAi) gene knockdown protocol in the anaerobic gut fungus Pecoramyces ruminantium strain C1A

  Published

  Aug 22, 2017

  Authors

  1. Calkins, Shelby S
  2. Elledge, Nicole C
  3. Marek, Stephen M.
  4. Couger, M B.
  5. Elshahed, Mostafa S
  6. Youssef, Noha H

• Comparative skull biomechanics in Varanus and Salvator ‘Tupinambis’

  Published

  Aug 22, 2017

  Authors

  1. Dutel, Hugo
  2. Sharp, Alana C
  3. Jones, Marc E H
  4. Evans, Susan E
  5. Fagan, Micheal J
  6. Gröning, Flora

• Pheromones of three ambrosia beetles in the Euwallacea fornicatus species complex: ratios and preferences

  Published

  Aug 22, 2017

  Authors

  1. Cooperband, Miriam F
  2. Cossé, Allard A
  3. Jones, Tappey H
  4. Carrillo, Daniel
  5. Cleary, Kaitlin
  6. Canlas, Isaiah
  7. Stouthamer, Richard

• Zeta potential of bacterial cells: Effect of wash buffers (updated)

  Published

  Aug 22, 2017 (v7), Jun 12, 2017 (v6), Aug 15, 2016 (v5), May 25, 2016 (v4), Sep 30, 2015 (v3), Sep 17, 2015 (v2), Nov 22, 2013 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Ng, Wenfa
  2. Ting, Yen-Peng

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

  Published

  Aug 22, 2017 (v6), Jun 13, 2017 (v5), Aug 9, 2016 (v4), May 11, 2016 (v3), May 9, 2016 (v2), Sep 30, 2015 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Ng, Wenfa
  2. Ting, Yen-Peng

• The prehistory of biology preprints: a forgotten experiment from the 1960s

  Published

  Aug 22, 2017

  Authors

  1. Cobb, Matthew

• Phylogenetic relationships and genetic diversity of the Polypedates leucomystax complex in Thailand

  Published

  Aug 21, 2017

  Authors

  1. Buddhachat, Kittisak
  2. Suwannapoom, Chatmongkon

• Comprehensive phylogenomic analyses resolve cnidarian relationships and the origins of key organismal traits

  Published

  Aug 21, 2017

  Authors

  1. Kayal, Ehsan
  2. Bastian, Bentlage
  3. Pankey, M Sabrina
  4. Ohdera, Aki
  5. Medina, Monica
  6. Plachetzki, David C
  7. Collins, Allen
  8. Ryan, Joseph F

• The evolutionary history of plant T2/S-type ribonucleases

  Published

  Aug 21, 2017

  Authors

  1. Ramanauskas, Karolis
  2. Igić, Boris

• Hips, tips and sweet sweptback rays: Looking beyond traditional cranial characters in Pachycormiformes

  Published

  Aug 20, 2017

  Authors

  1. Liston, Jeff
  2. Maltese, Anthony E

• Response to “An exceptionally preserved 110 million years old praying mantis provides new insights into the predatory behaviour of early mantodeans”

  Published

  Aug 20, 2017

  Authors

  1. Brannoch, Sydney K.
  2. Svenson, Gavin J.

• MetaCRAST: Reference-guided extraction of CRISPR spacers from unassembled metagenomes (updated)

  Published

  Aug 19, 2017 (v4), Aug 19, 2017 (v3), Jul 13, 2016 (v2), Jul 11, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Moller, Abraham G
  2. Liang, Chun

• Using a fast clustering method for viral segment lineage determination, applied to the H9 influenza hemagglutinin.

  Published

  Aug 18, 2017

  Authors

  1. Dalby, Andrew
  2. Tinworth, Lorna
  3. Sealy, Joshua
  4. Iqbal, Munir

• Particle bombardment and subcellular protein localization analysis in the aquatic plant Egeria densa

  Published

  Aug 18, 2017

  Authors

  1. Osaki, Yasuhide
  2. Kodama, Yutaka

• Impact of litter quantity on the soil bacteria community during the decomposition of Quercus wutaishanica litter

  Published

  Aug 17, 2017

  Authors

  1. Zeng, Quanchao
  2. Liu, Yang
  3. An, Shaoshan

• Taxonomically-linked growth phenotypes during arsenic stress among arsenic resistant bacteria isolated from soils overlying the Centralia coal seam fire (updated)

  Published

  Aug 17, 2017 (v2), Sep 15, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Dunivin, Taylor K
  2. Miller, Justine
  3. Shade, Ashley

• The many forms of beta diversity: a comment on McGill et al. and some notational suggestions

  Published

  Aug 16, 2017

  Authors

  1. Jeppsson, Tobias

• Identification and analysis of CYP450 genes from transcriptome of Lonicera japonica and expression analysis of chlorogenic acid biosynthesis related CYP450s

  Published

  Aug 16, 2017

  Authors

  1. Qi, Xiwu
  2. Yu, Xu
  3. Xu, Daohua
  4. Fang, Hailing
  5. Dong, Ke
  6. Li, Weilin
  7. Liang, Chengyuan

• Cryptic biodiversity and phylogeographic patterns of Seychellois Ligia isopods

  Published

  Aug 16, 2017

  Authors

  1. Santamaria, Carlos A
  2. Bluemel, Joanna K
  3. Bunbury, Nancy
  4. Curran, Melinda

• Preprints as medium for communicating new ideas, hypotheses, data, analysis and beyond

  Published

  Aug 16, 2017

  Authors

  1. Ng, Wenfa

• The landscape of fear conceptual framework: definition and review of current applications and misuses (updated)

  Published

  Aug 15, 2017 (v4), Aug 14, 2017 (v3), May 27, 2017 (v2), Mar 2, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Bleicher, Sonny S

• Upper Karoo vertebrate assemblages (Late Triassic/Early Jurassic) of the Lake Kariba region, Zimbabwe (updated)

  Published

  Aug 15, 2017 (v2), Aug 11, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Barrett, Paul M
  2. Broderick, Tim
  3. Chapelle, Kimberley
  4. Choiniere, Jonah
  5. Edwards, Steve
  6. Munyikwa, Darlington
  7. Viglietti, Pia
  8. Zondo, Michel

• Virulence test using nematodes to prescreen Nocardia species capable of inducing neurodegeneration and behavioral disorders

  Published

  Aug 14, 2017

  Authors

  1. Claire, Bernardin-Souibgui
  2. Anthony, Zoropogui
  3. Jeremy, Voisin
  4. Sebastien, Ribun
  5. Valentin, Vasselon
  6. Petar, Pujic
  7. Veronica, Rodriguez-Nava
  8. Patrick, Belly
  9. Benoit, Cournoyer
  10. Blaha, Didier

• Feasibility of nuclear ribosomal region ITS1 over ITS2 in barcoding taxonomically challenging genera of subtribe Cassiinae (Fabaceae) (updated)

  Published

  Aug 14, 2017 (v2), Sep 9, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Mishra, Priyanka
  2. Kumar, Amit
  3. Rodrigues, Vereena
  4. Shukla, Ashutosh K
  5. Sundaesan, Velusamy

• Involving undergraduates in genomics research to narrow the education-research gap

  Published

  Aug 12, 2017

  Authors

  1. Mangul, Serghei
  2. Martin, Lana
  3. Eskin, Eleazar

• Unraveling a resilient reef: structure and composition of Varadero, an imperiled coral reef in the Colombian Caribbean

  Published

  Aug 12, 2017

  Authors

  1. Pizarro, Valeria
  2. Rodríguez, Sara C
  3. López-Victoria, Mateo
  4. Zapata, Fernando A
  5. Zea, Sven
  6. Galindo-Martínez, Claudia T
  7. Iglesias-Prieto, Roberto
  8. Pollock, Joseph
  9. Medina, Monica

• Increasing cyclic electron flow mediated by NDH is related to heat tolerance under low light in grape leaves

  Published

  Aug 11, 2017

  Authors

  1. Sun, Yongjiang
  2. Hao, Guimei
  3. Gao, Yulu
  4. Du, Yuanpeng
  5. Yang, Xinhong
  6. Zhai, Heng

• CITED1 is a novel binding partner of MITF that influences the MITF-directed transcriptional profile in melanoma

  Published

  Aug 11, 2017

  Authors

  1. Lettiero, Barbara
  2. Lauss, Martin
  3. Borg, Ake
  4. Gruvberger-Saal, Sofia
  5. Jönsson, Goran B
  6. Howlin, Jillian

• The complicated and surprisingly early origin of the pterodactyloid bauplan

  Published

  Aug 11, 2017

  Authors

  1. Unwin, David M.

• Reviewing the vertebrate fossil record

  Published

  Aug 11, 2017

  Authors

  1. Naish, Darren

• Genetic evaluation and core collection construction of crape myrtle accessions using newly developed EST-SSR markers

  Published

  Aug 11, 2017

  Authors

  1. Ye, Yuanjun
  2. Feng, Lu
  3. Ju, Yiqian
  4. Cai, Ming
  5. Cheng, Tangren
  6. Wang, Jia
  7. Zhang, Qixiang
  8. Pan, Huitang

• Short-term effect of reduction in forced vital capacity after diving exposure (updated)

  Published

  Aug 11, 2017 (v2), Jun 15, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Cheng, Hua

• A unique exceptionally well-preserved pterosaur skull from the Crato Formation of Brazil

  Published

  Aug 10, 2017

  Authors

  1. Campos, Hebert Bruno Nascimento
  2. Cincotta, Aude
  3. Frey, Eberhard
  4. Godefroit, Pascoal
  5. Yans, Johan

• The science behind Smarter Lunchrooms

  Published

  Aug 10, 2017

  Authors

  1. Robinson, Eric

• Habitat suitability – density relationship in an endangered woodland species: the case of the Blue Chaffinch (Fringilla polatzeki)

  Published

  Aug 10, 2017

  Authors

  1. Carrascal, Luis M.
  2. Moreno, Angel C.
  3. Delgado, Alejandro
  4. Suárez, Víctor
  5. Trujillo, Domingo

• Short COI markers for freshwater macroinvertebrate metabarcoding (updated)

  Published

  Aug 9, 2017 (v2), Jun 23, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Vamos, Ecaterina Edith
  2. Elbrecht, Vasco
  3. Leese, Florian

• Why respiratory viruses or bacteria have the highest probability to be deposited in the respiratory tract in flu seasons (updated)

  Published

  Aug 9, 2017 (v5), Mar 9, 2017 (v4), Nov 16, 2016 (v3), Oct 6, 2016 (v2), Jul 4, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Ishmatov, Aleksandr N

• On the connection between supersaturation in the upper airways and «humid-rainy» and «cold-dry» seasonal patterns of influenza (updated)

  Published

  Aug 9, 2017 (v2), Mar 9, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Ishmatov, Aleksandr N

• Combining NCBI and BOLD databases for OTU assignment in metabarcoding and metagenomic data: The BOLD_NCBI _Merger

  Published

  Aug 9, 2017

  Authors

  1. Macher, Jan-Niklas
  2. Macher, Till-Hendrik
  3. Leese, Florian

• Evolution of body size in Crocodylomorpha in a multi-regime evolutionary landscape

  Published

  Aug 9, 2017

  Authors

  1. Godoy, Pedro L
  2. Benson, Roger B J
  3. Bronzati, Mario
  4. Butler, Richard J

• Positive association of supersaturation effects in the human airways with influenza activity in subtropical climate: influenza seasons in Okinawa (2007-2012) – New method for analyzing and forecasting (first preliminary results)

  Published

  Aug 9, 2017

  Authors

  1. Ishmatov, Aleksandr N

• The role of the submentalis muscle in the feeding biomechanics of the marine toad, Rhinella marina

  Published

  Aug 9, 2017

  Authors

  1. Puljan, Dan
  2. Anderson, Curt

• The remedial conservation and support jacketing of the neotype specimen of the dinosaur Massospondylus carinatus

  Published

  Aug 9, 2017

  Authors

  1. Graham, Mark R

• Facilitative and competitive interaction components among New England salt marsh plants

  Published

  Aug 8, 2017

  Authors

  1. Bruno, John F
  2. Rand, Tatyana A
  3. Emery, Nancy C
  4. Bertness, Mark D

• Geraniales Phylogeny Poster (GPP)

  Published

  Aug 7, 2017

  Authors

  1. Jeiter, Julius
  2. Cole, Theodor C H
  3. Hilger, Hartmut H

• Project Airless: addressing the problem of pyrite oxidation in a large fossil collection

  Published

  Aug 4, 2017

  Authors

  1. Miles, Kieran

• Effects of perceptual similarity but not semantic association on false recognition in aging

  Published

  Aug 4, 2017

  Authors

  1. Burnside, Kayleigh
  2. Hope, Caroline
  3. Gill, Emma
  4. Morcom, Alexa M

• Seasonality of cellulitis: evidence from Google Trends

  Published

  Aug 3, 2017

  Authors

  1. Zhang, Xin
  2. Dang, Shuangsuo
  3. Ji, Fanpu
  4. Bao, Xiongxiong
  5. Wang, Wenjun

• The inheritance of viable mitochondria

  Published

  Aug 3, 2017

  Authors

  1. Milani, Liliana
  2. Ghiselli, Fabrizio

• De novo species delimitation in metabarcoding datasets using ecology and phylogeny

  Published

  Aug 3, 2017

  Authors

  1. Potter, Caitlin
  2. Tang, Cuong Q
  3. Fonseca, Vera
  4. Lallias, Delphine
  5. Gaspar, John M
  6. Thomas, Kelley
  7. Creer, Simon

• Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) and the barred owl (Strix varia; Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae) confirm the presence of a duplicated control region

  Published

  Aug 2, 2017

  Authors

  1. Hanna, Zachary R
  2. Henderson, James B
  3. Sellas, Anna B
  4. Fuchs, Jérôme
  5. Bowie, Rauri C. K.
  6. Dumbacher, John P

• The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles

  Published

  Aug 2, 2017

  Authors

  1. Piwowar, Heather
  2. Priem, Jason
  3. Larivière, Vincent
  4. Alperin, Juan Pablo
  5. Matthias, Lisa
  6. Norlander, Bree
  7. Farley, Ashley
  8. West, Jevin
  9. Haustein, Stefanie

• A novel animal model for neuroinflammation and white matter degeneration

  Published

  Aug 1, 2017

  Authors

  1. Ji, Baohu
  2. Higa, Kerin
  3. Soontornniyomkij, Virawudh
  4. Miyanohara, Atsushi
  5. Zhou, Xianjin

• Finding biologically significant biclusters: a new function for co-expression evaluation (updated)

  Published

  Aug 1, 2017 (v2), Jul 26, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Luna-Taylor, Jorge E.
  2. Brizuela, Carlos A.
  3. Alvarado, Ivan N.