PeerJ Preprints published in September 2019

• Integrated modeling of phylogenies, species traits, and environmental gradients to better predict biogeographic distributions

  Published

  Sep 30, 2019

  Authors

  1. Humphreys, John M
  2. Elsner, James B
  3. Jagger, Thomas H
  4. Steppan, Scott J

• Biogeographic patterns of belemnite body size responses to episodes of environmental crisis

  Published

  Sep 30, 2019

  Authors

  1. Rita, Patrícia
  2. García-Ramos, José C.
  3. Neige, Pascal
  4. Piñuela, Laura
  5. Weis, Robert
  6. Duarte, Luís V.
  7. Übelacker, Christof
  8. De Baets, Kenneth

• Biostratigraphic constraints of the Early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event: new data from calcareous nannofossil investigations of Boreal and Tethyan sections

  Published

  Sep 30, 2019

  Authors

  1. Visentin, Stefano
  2. Erba, Elisabetta
  3. Mutterlose, Joerg

• What do we mean by the directions “cranial” and “caudal” on a vertebra? (updated)

  Published

  Sep 30, 2019 (v2), Dec 19, 2018 (v1)

  Authors

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

• Leveraging eDNA to detect and monitor hybrid zones

  Published

  Sep 30, 2019

  Authors

  1. Stewart, Kathryn
  2. Taylor, Scott A.

• Bacillus induced to biosynthesize VOCs & nitriles may benefit agriculture. (updated)

  Published

  Sep 30, 2019 (v2), Nov 30, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Perry, Guenevere
  2. Perry, Diane

• Mapping ecological trends by keywords in the last 20 years

  Published

  Sep 30, 2019

  Authors

  1. Shi, Lei

• Wave propagation in the biosonar organ of sperm whales using a finite difference time domain method

  Published

  Sep 30, 2019

  Authors

  1. Ferrari, Maxence
  2. Marxer, Ricard
  3. Asch, Mark
  4. Glotin, Hervé

• Integrated sediment transport and provenance in Mesozoic environments: evidence from the Lower Jurassic, UK

  Published

  Sep 30, 2019

  Authors

  1. Jiang, Mengjie
  2. Hesselbo, Stephen
  3. Ullmann, Clemens

• Critical multi-stranded approach for determining the ecological values of diatoms in unique aquatic ecosystems of anthropogenic origin (updated)

  Published

  Sep 27, 2019 (v3), Sep 6, 2019 (v2), May 17, 2019 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Olszyński, Rafał M.
  2. Szczepocka, Ewelina
  3. Żelazna-Wieczorek, Joanna

• Using environmental DNA to monitor the reintroduction success of the Rhine sculpin (Cottus rhenanus) in a restored stream (updated)

  Published

  Sep 27, 2019 (v2), Mar 8, 2019 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Hempel, Christopher A
  2. Peinert, Bianca
  3. Beermann, Arne J
  4. Elbrecht, Vasco
  5. Macher, Jan-Niklas
  6. Macher, Till-Hendrik
  7. Jacobs, Gunnar
  8. Leese, Florian

• Milankovitch forcing of Early Jurassic wildfires

  Published

  Sep 27, 2019

  Authors

  1. Hollaar, Teuntje Parnassia
  2. Baker, Sarah Jane
  3. Deconinck, Jean-Francois
  4. Mander, Luke
  5. Ruhl, Micha
  6. Hesselbo, Stephen P
  7. Belcher, Claire M

• Ethylene induced nitrile and VOC synthesis by soil microbes; Improved root elongation & reduced risk of fungal infection in plants. (updated)

  Published

  Sep 27, 2019 (v2), Oct 16, 2014 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Perry, Guenevere
  2. Perry, Diane

• Multifaceted role of tensins in cancer

  Published

  Sep 27, 2019

  Authors

  1. Alfahed, Abdulaziz
  2. Raposo, Teresa P
  3. Ilyas, Mohammad

• Functional characterization of a new maize heat shock transcription factor gene ZmHsf01 playing important roles in thermotolerance

  Published

  Sep 26, 2019

  Authors

  1. Zhang, Huaning
  2. Li, Guoliang
  3. Zhang, Yuanyuan
  4. Zhang, Yujie
  5. Shao, Hongbo
  6. Hu, Dong
  7. Guo, Xiulin

• Inbreeding depression in one of the last DFTD-free wild populations of Tasmanian devils

  Published

  Sep 26, 2019

  Authors

  1. Gooley, Rebecca M
  2. Hogg, Carolyn J
  3. Fox, Samantha
  4. Pemberton, David
  5. Belov, Katherine
  6. Grueber, Catherine E

• Ethylene induced soil delays ripening in organic bananas. (updated)

  Published

  Sep 25, 2019 (v2), Sep 21, 2014 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Perry, Guenevere
  2. Williams, Diane

• The effects of single versus multiple training sessions on the motor learning of two Krav Maga strike techniques, in women

  Published

  Sep 25, 2019

  Authors

  1. Di Bacco, Vincenzo E.
  2. Taherzadeh, Mehran
  3. Birot, Olivier
  4. Gage, William H.

• Pollutant release registers are key tools to help curb air pollution

  Published

  Sep 25, 2019

  Authors

  1. Walker, Tony R

• All change for climate change

  Published

  Sep 24, 2019

  Authors

  1. Walker, Tony R

• Vocal interactivity in crowds, flocks and swarms: implications for voice user interfaces

  Published

  Sep 24, 2019

  Authors

  1. Moore, Roger K

• Large-scale unsupervised clustering of Orca vocalizations: a model for describing orca communication systems

  Published

  Sep 24, 2019

  Authors

  1. Poupard, Marion
  2. Best, Paul
  3. Schlüter, Jan
  4. Symonds, Helena
  5. Spong, Paul
  6. Glotin, Hervé

• How to make new discoveries in (human) anatomy

  Published

  Sep 24, 2019

  Authors

  1. Wedel, Mathew John

• A small shift in VSH-gene frequency instead of rapid parallel evolution in bees. A comment on Oddie et al. 2018 (updated)

  Published

  Sep 24, 2019 (v2), Sep 5, 2019 (v1)

  Authors

  1. van Alphen, Jacques J M
  2. Fernhout, BartJan

• Organic facies variability and paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Early Toarcian of the Pyrenean Basin: the Bizanet and the Pont de Suert sections

  Published

  Sep 24, 2019

  Authors

  1. Fonseca, Carolina
  2. Mendonça Filho, João Graciano
  3. Lézin, Carine
  4. Duarte, Luís Vítor
  5. Fauré, Philippe

• The organic record of Oceanic Anoxic Events: Toarcian vs Cenomanian-Turonian

  Published

  Sep 24, 2019

  Authors

  1. Fonseca, Carolina
  2. Mendonça Filho, João Graciano
  3. Lézin, Carine
  4. Duarte, Luís Vítor

• Antimicrobial resistance and genetic relationship among enterococci from siblings and non-siblings Heliconius erato phyllis caterpillars

  Published

  Sep 23, 2019

  Authors

  1. Huff, Rosana
  2. Inhoque Pereira, Rebeca
  3. Pissetti, Caroline
  4. Mellender de Araújo, Aldo
  5. Alves d’Azevedo, Pedro
  6. Frazzon, Jeverson
  7. Guedes Frazzon, Ana Paula

• On the diversity of Early Jurassic cartilaginous fishes across the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event

  Published

  Sep 22, 2019

  Authors

  1. Stumpf, Sebastian
  2. López-Romero, Faviel A.
  3. Kriwet, Jürgen

• Initial embedding of TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA 1 in the Arabidopsis thaliana flowering time regulatory pathway

  Published

  Sep 20, 2019

  Authors

  1. Paffendorf, Barbara A M
  2. Qassrawi, Rawan
  3. Meys, Andrea M
  4. Trimborn, Laura
  5. Schrader, Andrea

• The effect of external lateral stabilization on the use of foot placement to control mediolateral stability in walking and running (updated)

  Published

  Sep 20, 2019 (v5), Aug 5, 2019 (v4), Aug 3, 2019 (v3), May 6, 2019 (v2), Oct 1, 2018 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Mahaki, Mohammadreza
  2. Bruijn, Sjoerd M
  3. H. van Dieën, Jaap

• Identifying the spatial frequency specific orientation aftereffect in the visual system

  Published

  Sep 20, 2019

  Authors

  1. Perera-W.A., Hiran

• Cell lineage trees: the central structure plus key dynamics of biological aging and formulating the limiting problem of comprehensive organismal rejuvenation (updated)

  Published

  Sep 19, 2019 (v7), Jul 11, 2019 (v6), Jul 8, 2019 (v5), Jul 5, 2019 (v4), Jul 3, 2019 (v3), Jul 1, 2019 (v2), Jun 24, 2019 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Csordas, Attila

• New approaches to peer review in the age of online, open-access publishing

  Published

  Sep 19, 2019

  Authors

  1. Hopkins, Melanie J

• Using the Paleobiology Database and MorphoBank to facilitate collaborative research and data archival

  Published

  Sep 19, 2019

  Authors

  1. Hopkins, Melanie J

• The past, present and future of Jensen's “Big Three” sauropods

  Published

  Sep 19, 2019

  Authors

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

• Proximate composition and quantitative analysis of benzoyl peroxide and benzoic acid in the wheat flour samples: wheat flour quality

  Published

  Sep 18, 2019

  Authors

  1. Nisar, Numrah
  2. Mustafa, Faiza
  3. Tahira, Arifa
  4. Qadri, Rashad Waseem Khan
  5. Yang, Yaodong
  6. Khan, Muhammad Imran

• A guide to carrying out a phylogenomic target sequence capture project

  Published

  Sep 18, 2019

  Authors

  1. Andermann, Tobias
  2. Torres Jimenez, Maria Fernanda
  3. Matos-Maraví, Pável
  4. Batista, Romina
  5. Blanco-Pastor, José L
  6. Gustafsson, A. Lovisa S
  7. Kistler, Logan
  8. Liberal, Isabel M
  9. Oxelman, Bengt
  10. Bacon, Christine D
  11. Antonelli, Alexandre

• Neural canal ridges: A novel osteological correlate of post-cranial neurology in dinosaurs

  Published

  Sep 17, 2019

  Authors

  1. Atterholt, Jessie
  2. Wedel, Mathew J

• Barnacle recruit density and size increase from high to middle intertidal elevations in wave-exposed habitats on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia

  Published

  Sep 17, 2019

  Authors

  1. Scrosati, Ricardo A

• Inventory statistics meet big data: Complications for estimating numbers of species

  Published

  Sep 17, 2019

  Authors

  1. Khalighifar, Ali
  2. Jiménez, Laura
  3. Nuñez-Penichet, Claudia
  4. Freeman, Benedictus
  5. Ingenloff, Kate
  6. Jiménez-García, Daniel
  7. Peterson, A. Townsend

• Development and characterization of novel cross-species tetranucleotide microsatellite markers for sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus) from Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis)

  Published

  Sep 17, 2019

  Authors

  1. Hu, Yacheng
  2. Yang, Jing
  3. Liu, Xueqing
  4. Xiao, Kan
  5. Wang, Binzhong
  6. Du, Hejun

• Rhodococcus sp. may convert ethylene to acetaldehyde to slow ripening in climacteric fruit. (updated)

  Published

  Sep 17, 2019 (v2), Nov 9, 2017 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Perry, Guenevere

• Noncommunicable diseases prevention in low- and middle-income countries: an overview of Health in All Policies (HiAP) (updated)

  Published

  Sep 16, 2019 (v2), Sep 15, 2019 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Ebele, Ndubuisi

• Aflatoxins in Uganda: an encyclopedic review of the etiology, epidemiology, detection, quantification, exposure assessment, reduction and control

  Published

  Sep 16, 2019

  Authors

  1. Omara, Timothy
  2. Nassazi, Winfred
  3. Omute, Tom
  4. Awath, Aburu
  5. Laker, Fortunate
  6. Kalukusu, Raymond
  7. Musau, Bashir
  8. Nakabuye, Brenda V
  9. Kagoya, Sarah
  10. Otim, George
  11. Adupa, Eddie

• Not all grooming is equal: differential effects of political vs affiliative grooming on cytokines and glucocorticoids in rhesus macaques

  Published

  Sep 15, 2019

  Authors

  1. Wooddell, Lauren J
  2. Vandeleest, Jessica J
  3. Nathman, Amy C
  4. Beisner, Brianne A
  5. McCowan, Brenda

• Antibiosis effects of rice carrying Bph14 and Bph15 on the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens

  Published

  Sep 14, 2019

  Authors

  1. Qiu, Liangmiao
  2. Wang, Wuqi
  3. Shi, Longqing
  4. Liu, Qiquan
  5. Zhan, Zhixiong

• An analysis of the mechanism of aging: endogenous viral stimulus and the deleterious effect of chronic inflammation (updated)

  Published

  Sep 13, 2019 (v3), Mar 13, 2019 (v2), Dec 21, 2018 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Ochirov, Chingis

• Phylogeny of Libellulidae: are there relationships between molecular phylogenetics and morphological analysis of wing shape of dragonflies?

  Published

  Sep 12, 2019

  Authors

  1. Huang, Shu T
  2. Wang, Hai R
  3. Yang, Wan Q
  4. Si, Ya C
  5. Wang, Yu T
  6. Sun, Meng L
  7. Qi, Xin
  8. Bai, Yi

• Facies analysis of the Lower-Middle Toarcian in the External Subbetic (provinces of Murcia and Granada, Southern Spain): palaeoenvironmental conditions

  Published

  Sep 11, 2019

  Authors

  1. Molina, José Miguel
  2. Nieto, Luis M

• Variation of kerogen assemblages and δ¹³C_Kerogen in Lower Toarcian successions of the southern Tethyan margin (updated)

  Published

  Sep 11, 2019 (v2), Sep 9, 2019 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Rodrigues, Bruno
  2. Silva, Ricardo
  3. Mendonça Filho, João Graciano
  4. Duarte, Luís Vítor
  5. Reolid, Matías
  6. Sadki, Driss

• Epiphytic fungi induced pathogen resistance of invasive plant Ipomoea cairica against Colletotrichum gloeosporioides

  Published

  Sep 11, 2019

  Authors

  1. Xu, Hua
  2. Zhu, Minjie
  3. Li, Shaoshan
  4. Ruan, Weibin
  5. Xie, Can

• Bovine tuberculosis breakdown duration in cattle herds: an investigation of herd, host, pathogen and wildlife risk factors

  Published

  Sep 11, 2019

  Authors

  1. Milne, Georgina
  2. Allen, Adrian
  3. Graham, Jordon
  4. Lahuerta-Marin, Angela
  5. McCormick, Carl
  6. Presho, Eleanor
  7. Reid, Neil
  8. Skuce, Robin
  9. Byrne, Andrew W

• Rereading of the genetic origins of cancer: the puzzle of all eras

  Published

  Sep 10, 2019

  Authors

  1. Abumsimir, Berjas
  2. Kasmi, Yassine
  3. Ennaji, Moulay Mustapha

• The impact of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE) on the radiation of Early Jurassic dinoflagellate cysts in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal

  Published

  Sep 10, 2019

  Authors

  1. Fraguito Correia, Vânia
  2. Riding, James B.
  3. Duarte, Luís V.
  4. Fernandes, Paulo
  5. Pereira, Zélia

• Technical and social issues influencing the adoption of preprints in the life sciences

  Published

  Sep 10, 2019

  Authors

  1. Penfold, Naomi C
  2. Polka, Jessica K

• The occurrence of pharmaceutical waste in different parts of the world: A scoping review

  Published

  Sep 10, 2019

  Authors

  1. Jin, Kim Yun
  2. Aslam, Muhammad Shahzad

• Broad similarities in shoulder muscle architecture and organization across two amniotes: Implications for reconstructing non-mammalian synapsids

  Published

  Sep 10, 2019

  Authors

  1. Fahn-Lai, Philip
  2. Biewener, Andrew A
  3. Pierce, Stephanie E

• Late Toarcian marine gastropods from the Cleveland Basin, UK: systematics, palaeobiogeography and contribution to biotic recovery from the early Toarcian extinction event

  Published

  Sep 9, 2019

  Authors

  1. Ferrari, Mariel
  2. Little, Crispin TS
  3. Atkinson, Jed W

• Long duration of ecological recovery from the early Toarcian extinction event in the Cleveland Basin, North Yorkshire, UK

  Published

  Sep 9, 2019

  Authors

  1. Atkinson, Jed W
  2. Little, Crispin TS
  3. Dunhill, Alexander M

• Belemnite geochemistry from Albstadt-Pfeffingen (Middle Jurassic, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

  Published

  Sep 9, 2019

  Authors

  1. Wilkin, Jack T R
  2. Hesselbo, Stephen P
  3. Ullmann, Clemens V
  4. Korte, Christoph

• The early Toarcian extinction event and associated Pliensbachian-Toarcian palaeoenvironmental perturbations in Bulgaria

  Published

  Sep 9, 2019

  Authors

  1. Pugh, Autumn
  2. Little, Crispin TS
  3. Savov, Ivan P
  4. Metodiev, Lubomir
  5. Wignall, Paul B
  6. Newton, Robert J
  7. Riding, James

• Call overlapping signals sexual status in Darwin’s frogs

  Published

  Sep 7, 2019

  Authors

  1. Serrano, Jose M
  2. Guzmán, Noé
  3. Penna, Mario
  4. Méndez, Marco A
  5. Soto-Azat, Claudio

• Ooctonus vulgatus (Hymenoptera, Mymaridae), a potential biocontrol agent to reduce populations of Philaenus spumarius (Hemiptera, Aphrophoridae) the main vector of Xylella fastidiosa in Europe

  Published

  Sep 7, 2019

  Authors

  1. Mesmin, Xavier
  2. Chartois, Marguerite
  3. Genson, Guenaelle
  4. Rossi, Jean-Pierre
  5. Cruaud, Astrid
  6. Rasplus, Jean-Yves

• A preliminary bird list from Río Luis, Veraguas provides further insight into an avian suture zone in Caribbean Panama

  Published

  Sep 5, 2019

  Authors

  1. McLaughlin, Jessica F
  2. Garzon, Jorge Luis
  3. Lopez Ch., Oscar G
  4. Miller, Matthew J

• Gene/environment interaction and autoimmune disease

  Published

  Sep 5, 2019

  Authors

  1. Harris, Tamia A
  2. Bel, Shai

• Immunocytological analysis of chromosomes in meiotic prophase I of the paleotetraploid frog Xenopus laevis

  Published

  Sep 5, 2019

  Authors

  1. Matveevsky, Sergey
  2. Stolyarov, Sergey
  3. Kolomiets, Oxana

• Revegetation pattern affecting accumulation of organic carbon and total nitrogen in reclaimed mine soils

  Published

  Sep 5, 2019

  Authors

  1. Zhang, Ping P
  2. Zhang, Yan L
  3. Jia, Jun C
  4. Cui, Yong X
  5. Wang, Xia
  6. Zhang, Xing C
  7. Wang, Yun Q

• The interplay between movement, dispersal and morphology in Tetrahymena ciliates (updated)

  Published

  Sep 3, 2019 (v2), Feb 19, 2018 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Pennekamp, Frank
  2. Clobert, Jean
  3. Schtickzelle, Nicolas

• Vocal expression of emotional valence in pigs across multiple call types and contexts

  Published

  Sep 3, 2019

  Authors

  1. Briefer, Elodie
  2. Linhart, Pavel
  3. Policht, Richard
  4. Špinka, Marek
  5. Leliveld, Lisette M C
  6. Düpjan, Sandra
  7. Puppe, Birger
  8. Padilla de la Torre, Mónica
  9. Janczak, Andrew M
  10. Bourguet, Cécile
  11. Deiss, Véronique
  12. Boissy, Alain
  13. Guérin, Carole
  14. Read, Eva
  15. Coulon, Marjorie
  16. Hillmann, Edna
  17. Tallet, Céline

• MATLAB software for automated calculation of concentration of different compounds using extracted peak area from HPLC data file in pdf format (updated)

  Published

  Sep 3, 2019 (v2), Jul 30, 2019 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Ng, Wenfa

• Public priorities on locally-driven sea level rise planning on the East Coast of the United States

  Published

  Sep 2, 2019

  Authors

  1. Carpenter, Adam T