PeerJ Preprints published in November 2018

• Reusing microarray clinical data from a complex disease with bioinformatics tool

  Published

  Nov 30, 2018

  Authors

  1. Del Prete, Eugenio
  2. Facchiano, Angelo
  3. Liò, Pietro

• Habitat suitability and connectivity inform a co-managed policy of protected areas networks for Asian elephants in China

  Published

  Nov 30, 2018

  Authors

  1. Huang, Cheng
  2. Li, Xueyou
  3. Khanal, Laxman
  4. Jiang, Xuelong

• Ten Simple Rules for Scientific Fraud & Misconduct

  Published

  Nov 29, 2018

  Authors

  1. Rougier, Nicolas P
  2. Timmer, John

• Determinants and consequences of dispersal in vertebrates with complex life cycles: a review of pond-breeding amphibians

  Published

  Nov 29, 2018

  Authors

  1. Cayuela, Hugo
  2. Valenzuela-Sanchez, Andrés
  3. Teulier, Loïc
  4. Martínez-Solano, Íñigo
  5. Léna, Jean-Paul
  6. Merilä, Juha
  7. Muths, Erin
  8. Shine, Rick
  9. Quay, Ludivine
  10. Denoël, Mathieu
  11. Clobert, Jean
  12. Schmidt, Benedikt

• Phytobiomes are compositionally nested from the ground up

  Published

  Nov 28, 2018

  Authors

  1. Amend, Anthony S
  2. Cobian, Gerald M
  3. Laruson, Aki J
  4. Remple, Kristina
  5. Tucker, Sarah J
  6. Poff, Kirsten E
  7. Antaky, Carmen
  8. Boraks, Andre
  9. Jones, Casey A
  10. Kuehu, Donna
  11. Lensing, Becca R
  12. Pejhanmehr, Mersedeh
  13. Richardson, Daniel T
  14. Riley, Paul P

• Potential use of clinical polygenic risk scores in psychiatry – ethical implications and communicating high polygenic risk

  Published

  Nov 28, 2018

  Authors

  1. Palk, Andrea C
  2. Dalvie, Shareefa
  3. De Vries, Jantina
  4. Martin, Alicia R
  5. Stein, Dan J

• Do the regular annual extreme water level changes affect the seasonal appearance of Anabaena in Poyang Lake?

  Published

  Nov 28, 2018

  Authors

  1. Qian, Kuimei
  2. Dokulil, Martin
  3. Chen, Yuwei

• Evaluation of a toxoid fusion protein vaccine produced in plants to protect poultry against necrotic enteritis

  Published

  Nov 28, 2018

  Authors

  1. Hunter, Joseph G
  2. Wilde, Shyra
  3. Tafoya, Amanda M
  4. Horsman, Jamie
  5. Yousif, Miranda
  6. Diamos, Andrew G
  7. Roland, Kenneth L
  8. Mason, Hugh S

• Repeatedly adopting power postures does not affect hormonal correlates of dominance and affiliative behavior

  Published

  Nov 28, 2018

  Authors

  1. Metzler, Hannah
  2. Grèzes, Julie

• Microbiome of two predominant seagrass species of the Kenyan coast, Enhalus acoroides and Thalassodendron ciliatum

  Published

  Nov 28, 2018

  Authors

  1. Kaimenyi, Davies Kiambi
  2. De Villiers, Etienne P
  3. Ngoi, Joyce
  4. Ndiso, James B
  5. De Villiers, Santie M

• The mid-domain effect of species diversity of mountainous plants is determined by community life form and family flora in a temperate semi-arid region of China

  Published

  Nov 28, 2018

  Authors

  1. Manhou, Xu
  2. Jing, Wen

• Subsurface biogeochemistry is a missing link between ecology and hydrology in dam-impacted river corridors (updated)

  Published

  Nov 27, 2018 (v2), Aug 27, 2018 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Graham, Emily B
  2. Stegen, James C
  3. Huang, Maoyi
  4. Chen, Xingyuan
  5. Scheibe, Timothy

• Time arrow in published clinical studies/trials indexed in MEDLINE: a systematic analysis of Retrospective vs Prospective study design, from 1960 to 2017.

  Published

  Nov 27, 2018

  Authors

  1. Ciulla, Michele M
  2. Vivona, Patrizia

• The comparative population genetics of Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae

  Published

  Nov 27, 2018

  Authors

  1. Vigue, Lucile
  2. Eyre-Walker, Adam

• Mycorrhizal response in crop versus wild plants

  Published

  Nov 27, 2018

  Authors

  1. Kokkoris, Vasilis
  2. Hamel, Chantal
  3. Hart, Miranda

• Food web rewiring in a changing world (updated)

  Published

  Nov 26, 2018 (v2), Sep 11, 2018 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Bartley, Timothy J
  2. McCann, Kevin S
  3. Bieg, Carling
  4. Cazelles, Kévin
  5. Granados, Monica
  6. Guzzo, Matthew M
  7. MacDougall, Andrew S
  8. Tunney, Tyler D
  9. McMeans, Bailey C

• Phylogenetic diversity and the north Andean Block conservation

  Published

  Nov 26, 2018

  Authors

  1. León-Alvarado, Omar D.
  2. Miranda-Esquivel, Daniel

• RNA sequencing data: hitchhiker's guide to expression analysis (updated)

  Published

  Nov 24, 2018 (v2), Oct 17, 2018 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Van Den Berge, Koen
  2. Hembach, Katharina
  3. Soneson, Charlotte
  4. Tiberi, Simone
  5. Clement, Lieven
  6. Love, Michael I
  7. Patro, Rob
  8. Robinson, Mark

• Modeling the spatial structure of the endemic mara (Dolichotis patagonum) across modified landscapes

  Published

  Nov 24, 2018

  Authors

  1. Antun, Milagros
  2. Baldi, Ricardo

• Towards predictive biophysical and mechanistic models for disease-causing protein variants

  Published

  Nov 24, 2018

  Authors

  1. Stein, Amelie
  2. Fowler, Douglas M
  3. Hartmann-Petersen, Rasmus
  4. Lindorff-Larsen, Kresten

• Kelpie: generating full-length ‘amplicons’ from whole-metagenome datasets

  Published

  Nov 23, 2018

  Authors

  1. Greenfield, Paul
  2. Tran-Dinh, Nai
  3. Midgley, David

• What are the determinants of subjective well-being of healthy adults in rural communities in and around forests?

  Published

  Nov 21, 2018

  Authors

  1. Aggraeni, Ike
  2. Adnin, Saidatul
  3. Astria, Yuli
  4. Firmansyah, Muhammad
  5. Canigia, Yessika
  6. Nur, Muhammad H
  7. Yen, Lebin
  8. Rahman, Saipul
  9. Rajagukguk, Stanley
  10. Khornaylius, Ervin
  11. Hartanto, Herlina
  12. Wolff, Nicholas H
  13. Game, Edward T
  14. Masuda, Yuta

• A genome-wide analysis of the cellulose synthase-like (Csl) gene family in maize (Zea mays)

  Published

  Nov 21, 2018

  Authors

  1. Li, Yongkai
  2. Cheng, Xiaojie
  3. Fu, Yaqin
  4. Wu, Qinqin
  5. Guo, Yuli
  6. Peng, Jiayu
  7. Zhang, Wei
  8. He, Bin

• Differences in the use of surface water resources by desert birds are revealed using isotopic tracers (updated)

  Published

  Nov 21, 2018 (v3), Sep 7, 2018 (v2), Aug 18, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Smit, Ben
  2. Woodborne, Stephan
  3. Wolf, Blair O
  4. McKechnie, Andrew E

• Molecular interplay between organisms by phylogenetic profiling

  Published

  Nov 21, 2018

  Authors

  1. Sferra, Gabriella
  2. Ponzi, Marta
  3. Pizzi, Elisabetta

• Effectiveness of the national pollutant release inventory as a policy tool to curb atmospheric industrial emissions in Canada

  Published

  Nov 21, 2018

  Authors

  1. Walker, Tony R

• The unfolding of iRFP713 in a crowded milieu

  Published

  Nov 20, 2018

  Authors

  1. Stepanenko, Olesya V.
  2. Stepanenko, Olga V
  3. Kuznetsova, Irina M.
  4. Turoverov, Konstantin K

• Identification and characterization of miRNA169 family members in banana (Musa acuminata L.) that respond to fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense infection in banana cultivars

  Published

  Nov 20, 2018

  Authors

  1. Song, Shun
  2. Xu, Yi
  3. Huang, Dongmei
  4. Ashraf, Muhammad Aleem
  5. Li, Jingyang
  6. Hu, Wei
  7. Jin, Zhiqiang
  8. Zeng, Changying
  9. Tang, Fenling
  10. Xu, Biyu
  11. Zeng, Huicai
  12. Li, Yujia
  13. Xie, Jianghui

• Hibernation, puberty and chronic kidney disease in troglodytes from Spain half a million years ago

  Published

  Nov 20, 2018

  Authors

  1. Bartsiokas, Antonis
  2. Arsuaga, Juan Luis

• Will innovation solve the global plastic contamination: how much innovation is needed for that?

  Published

  Nov 20, 2018

  Authors

  1. Cordier, Mateo
  2. Uehara, Takuro

• Pelagic longline fishery for albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) and bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) in the high seas of eastern Pacific ocean.

  Published

  Nov 20, 2018

  Authors

  1. Nyatchouba Nsangue, Bruno Thierry
  2. Cheng, Zhou
  3. Xu, Liuxiong
  4. Kindong, Richard

• Foot pressure distribution in white rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum) during walking

  Published

  Nov 20, 2018

  Authors

  1. Panagiotopoulou, Olga
  2. Pataky, Todd C
  3. Hutchinson, John R

• The transcriptomic response to a short day to long day shift in leaves of the reference legume Medicago truncatula

  Published

  Nov 20, 2018

  Authors

  1. Thomson, Geoffrey
  2. Taylor, James
  3. Putterill, Joanna

• Influence of seawater salinity on the survival, growth, development, and neonate production of Scapholeberis mucronata (O. F. Müler) (Crustacea: Cladocera)

  Published

  Nov 20, 2018

  Authors

  1. Wang, Lei
  2. Zhao, Wen
  3. Huo, Yuanzi
  4. Yin, Xuwang
  5. Wei, Jie
  6. Wang, Shan

• Should agility training for novice badminton players be physically or perceptually challenging?

  Published

  Nov 19, 2018

  Authors

  1. Dong, Minkai
  2. Lyu, Jidong
  3. Hart, Thomas
  4. Zhu, Qin

• Spatial variation in allometric growth of invasive lionfish has management implications

  Published

  Nov 19, 2018

  Authors

  1. Villaseñor-Derbez, Juan Carlos
  2. Fitzgerald, Sean

• Bioinformatics software for genomic: a systematic review on GitHub (updated)

  Published

  Nov 19, 2018 (v3), Nov 19, 2018 (v2), Nov 15, 2018 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Hidalgo Suarez, Carlos Giovanny
  2. Guevara Burbano, Miguel Eduardo
  3. Bucheli Guerrero, Victor Andres
  4. Moreno Tovar, Pedro Antonio

• A theory and methodology to quantify knowledge (updated)

  Published

  Nov 19, 2018 (v5), Jun 25, 2018 (v4), Jun 22, 2017 (v3), Apr 28, 2016 (v2), Apr 19, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Fanelli, Daniele

• Differential Enriched Scan 2 (DEScan2): a fast pipeline for broad peak analysis

  Published

  Nov 19, 2018

  Authors

  1. Righelli, Dario
  2. Koberstein, John
  3. Zhang, Nancy
  4. Angelini, Claudia
  5. Peixoto, Lucia
  6. Risso, Davide

• Normal spermatogenesis in Fank1 (fibronectin type 3 and ankyrin repeat domains 1) mutant mice

  Published

  Nov 18, 2018

  Authors

  1. Zhang, Jintao
  2. Zhang, Xin
  3. Zhang, Yue
  4. Zeng, Wentao
  5. Zhao, Shuqin
  6. Liu, Mingxi

• Mathematical and computational modeling of host-pathogen interaction in the lung lesion development due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in humans

  Published

  Nov 15, 2018

  Authors

  1. Lavrova, Anastasia
  2. Esmedlyaeva, Diljara
  3. Belik, Vitaly
  4. Postnikov, Eugene

• Evaluation of criteria for meaningful Aboriginal consultation in Canada during environmental assessment

  Published

  Nov 15, 2018

  Authors

  1. Walker, Tony R

• The joint economic impact level (jEIL): a decision metric for integrated pest and pollinator management

  Published

  Nov 13, 2018

  Authors

  1. Flöhr, Adam
  2. Stenberg, Johan A.
  3. Egan, Paul A.

• Simulation of cancer cell line pharmacogenomics data to optimise experimental design and analysis strategy

  Published

  Nov 13, 2018

  Authors

  1. Mistry, Hitesh
  2. Chapman, Phil

• A learning mechanism completed in milliseconds capable of transitioning to stabilizable forms can generate working, short and long-term memories - A verifiable mechanism

  Published

  Nov 12, 2018

  Authors

  1. Vadakkan, Kunjumon I

• No budget mitogenomics: Assembling 14 new mitogenomes for the ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae from public data

  Published

  Nov 12, 2018

  Authors

  1. Vieira, Gabriel A
  2. Prosdocimi, Francisco

• Spiders did not repeatedly gain, but repeatedly lost, foraging webs

  Published

  Nov 12, 2018

  Authors

  1. Coddington, Jonathan A
  2. Agnarsson, Ingi
  3. Hamilton, Chris
  4. Bond, Jason E

• Automatic landslide mapping from satellite imagery with a topography-driven thresholding algorithm (updated)

  Published

  Nov 12, 2018 (v2), Jul 30, 2018 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Alvioli, Massimiliano
  2. Mondini, Alessandro C
  3. Fiorucci, Federica
  4. Cardinali, Mauro
  5. Marchesini, Ivan

• Passenger mutations as a target for the personalized therapy of cancer

  Published

  Nov 11, 2018

  Authors

  1. Monticelli, Maria
  2. Viscovo, Marcello
  3. Riccio, Guglielmo
  4. Andreotti, Giuseppina
  5. Hay-Mele, Bruno
  6. Cubellis, Maria Vittoria

• The spatial variability of qualitative and quantitative structure of planktonic protist communities in the North Atlantic Current (the Nordic Seas)

  Published

  Nov 11, 2018

  Authors

  1. Kubiszyn, Anna M
  2. Wiktor, Józef
  3. Merchel, Małgorzata
  4. Wiktor, Józef

• E-learning for marine biotechnology: an example with a metagenomic approach

  Published

  Nov 9, 2018

  Authors

  1. Liguori, Ludovica
  2. Citro, Valentina
  3. Hay-Mele, Bruno
  4. Andreotti, Giuseppina
  5. Cubellis, Maria Vittoria

• Integration of proteomics and metabolomics data in a novel cellular knock out model of methylmalonic acidemia

  Published

  Nov 9, 2018

  Authors

  1. Costanzo, Michele
  2. Caterino, Marianna
  3. Cevenini, Armando
  4. Jung, Vincent
  5. Guerrera, Ida C
  6. Ruoppolo, Margherita

• Invasion of an inconspicuous ambrosia beetle and fungus may alter wood decay in Southeastern North America

  Published

  Nov 9, 2018

  Authors

  1. Hulcr, Jiri
  2. Skelton, James
  3. Johnson, Andrew J
  4. Li, You
  5. Jusino, Michelle A

• Comparison of genome sequences via projection extractor upon virtual mixer

  Published

  Nov 8, 2018

  Authors

  1. Yu, Hongjie
  2. Zhang, Yuan-Ting
  3. Fang, Wei

• New approaches for assembly of short-read metagenomic data

  Published

  Nov 8, 2018

  Authors

  1. Ayling, Martin
  2. Clark, Matthew D
  3. Leggett, Richard M

• Crowdsourcing in medical research: theory and practice

  Published

  Nov 8, 2018

  Authors

  1. Tucker, Joseph
  2. Day, Suzanne
  3. Tang, Weiming
  4. Bayus, Barry

• Phylogenetic and phylogeographic patterns of Didymosphenia geminata on invaded sites in Chile

  Published

  Nov 8, 2018

  Authors

  1. Cayupe, Bernardita
  2. Ehrenfeld, Nicole
  3. Moreno, Rodrigo
  4. Labra, Fabio A.
  5. Díaz, Carolina

• Multi-gene phylogeny and divergence estimations for Evaniidae (Hymenoptera)

  Published

  Nov 8, 2018

  Authors

  1. Sharanowski, Barbara J
  2. Peixoto, Leanne
  3. Dal Molin, Anamaria
  4. Deans, Andrew R

• Accuracy of a neural net classification of closely-related species of microfossils from a sparse dataset of unedited images

  Published

  Nov 8, 2018

  Authors

  1. Renaudie, Johan
  2. Gray, Ryan
  3. Lazarus, David B

• How to improve the modelling of proteins mutations? A preliminary assessment

  Published

  Nov 7, 2018

  Authors

  1. Napoli, Carolina
  2. Marabotti, Anna

• Departmental-level approaches to gender equity in biology

  Published

  Nov 6, 2018

  Authors

  1. McDonald-Spicer, Christiana J
  2. Schwessinger, Benjamin
  3. Howitt, Susan

• HOXC6 promotes migration, invasion and proliferation of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cells via modulating expression of genes involved in malignant phenotypes

  Published

  Nov 6, 2018

  Authors

  1. Tang, Li
  2. Cao, Yong
  3. Song, Xueqin
  4. Wang, Xiaoyan
  5. Li, Yan
  6. Yu, Minglan
  7. Li, Mingying
  8. Liu, Xu
  9. Huang, Fang
  10. Chen, Feng
  11. Wan, Haisu

• Genetic effect of Type 2 diabetes to the progression of neurological diseases

  Published

  Nov 6, 2018

  Authors

  1. Rahman, Md Habibur
  2. Peng, Silong
  3. Chen, Chen
  4. Lio’, Pietro
  5. Moni, Mohammad Ali

• Dwarfing and the underlying morphological changes of Poa alpigena plants in response to overgrazing conditions

  Published

  Nov 6, 2018

  Authors

  1. hongxiao, Shi
  2. xiangyang, Hou
  3. xinghong, Wu
  4. haiqun, Song
  5. tingting, Yang

• Flower visitation by hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) in a temperate plant-pollinator network (updated)

  Published

  Nov 5, 2018 (v2), Feb 13, 2018 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Klecka, Jan
  2. Hadrava, Jiří
  3. Biella, Paolo
  4. Akter, Asma

• Hierarchical generalized additive models: an introduction with mgcv

  Published

  Nov 5, 2018

  Authors

  1. Pedersen, Eric J
  2. Miller, David L.
  3. Simpson, Gavin L.
  4. Ross, Noam

• Prediction of the stability of proteins by computational approaches: a case report

  Published

  Nov 5, 2018

  Authors

  1. Scafuri, Bernardina
  2. Facchiano, Angelo
  3. Marabotti, Anna

• Computational studies on eukaryotic transmembrane β-barrel proteins

  Published

  Nov 5, 2018

  Authors

  1. Roumia, Ahmed F.
  2. Theodoropoulou, Margarita C.
  3. Tsirigos, Konstantinos D.
  4. Bagos, Pantelis G.

• Simple principles for engineering reproducible solutions to environmental management challenges.

  Published

  Nov 3, 2018

  Authors

  1. Lortie, Christopher J
  2. Owen, Malory