PeerJ Preprints published in August 2016

• Reconstructing evolutionary timescales using phylogenomics

  Published

  Aug 31, 2016

  Authors

  1. Tong, K. Jun
  2. Lo, Nathan
  3. Ho, Simon Y W

• The seasonal reproduction number of dengue fever impacts of climate on transmission (updated)

  Published

  Aug 31, 2016 (v5), Aug 29, 2016 (v4), Jul 28, 2016 (v3), Mar 25, 2015 (v2), Dec 22, 2014 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Polwiang, Sittisede

• Targeted manipulation of neuronal activity in behaving adult flies (updated)

  Published

  Aug 31, 2016 (v2), Aug 15, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Hampel, Stefanie
  2. Seeds, Andrew Michael

• The GRIMMER test: A method for testing the validity of reported measures of variability

  Published

  Aug 29, 2016

  Authors

  1. Anaya, Jordan

• A computer simulation model for Strongyloides infection

  Published

  Aug 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Levenhagen, Marcelo A
  2. Ferreira, Gustavo A
  3. Pereira, Getúlio M
  4. Santos, Anderson R

• The effects of cooling conditions on EDTA whole canine blood samples

  Published

  Aug 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Tobias, Karen M
  2. Serrano, Leslie
  3. Sun, Xiaocun
  4. Flatland, Bente

• The pollination potential of Apis cerana Feb., Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera; Apidae) on yield of apricot (Prunus armeniaca)

  Published

  Aug 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Gurmani, Hafiz Tahir Waqas
  2. Jaleel, Waqar
  3. Saeed, Shafqat
  4. Gurmani, Aisha Riaz
  5. Saeed, Qamar
  6. Naqqash, Muhammad Nadir
  7. Ghouri, Fozia
  8. Munawar, Muhammad Siddique
  9. Sial, Muhammad Umair
  10. Rahman, Saqib
  11. Aine, Qurat Ul

• Estimation of bovine pelvic limb inertial properties using an elliptical model

  Published

  Aug 28, 2016

  Authors

  1. Paolucci, Leopoldo Augusto
  2. Gomides, Luciana de Melo M
  3. Las Casas, Estevam B.
  4. Faleiros, Rafael Resende
  5. de Andrade, André Gustavo Pereira
  6. Paz, Cahuê Francisco Rosa
  7. Fedotova, Veronika
  8. Menzel, Hans

• Pests, diseases and crop protection practices in the smallholder sweetpotato production system of the highlands of Papua New Guinea

  Published

  Aug 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Gurr, Geoff M
  2. Liu, Jian
  3. Johnson, Anne C
  4. Woruba, Deane N
  5. Kirchhof, Gunnar
  6. Fujinuma, Ryosuke
  7. Sirabis, William
  8. Jeffery, Yapo
  9. Akkinapally, Ramakrishna

• MARCARviz: Interactive web-platform for exploratory analysis of toxicogenomics data for nongenotoxic hepatocarcinogenesis

  Published

  Aug 27, 2016

  Authors

  1. Römer, Michael
  2. Ellinger-Ziegelbauer, Heidrun
  3. Grasl-Kraupp, Bettina
  4. Schwarz, Michael
  5. Zell, Andreas

• In-silico prediction and modeling of the Entamoeba histolytica proteins: Serine-rich Entamoeba histolytica protein and peroxiredoxin

  Published

  Aug 25, 2016

  Authors

  1. Manochitra, Kumar
  2. Parija, Subhash Chandra

• Getting off the impact factor: an antidote

  Published

  Aug 25, 2016

  Authors

  1. Belikov, Aleksey V

• Prediction of amyloidogenicity based on the n-gram analysis

  Published

  Aug 24, 2016

  Authors

  1. Burdukiewicz, Michał Jan
  2. Sobczyk, Piotr
  3. Rödiger, Stefan
  4. Duda-Madej, Anna
  5. Mackiewicz, Paweł
  6. Kotulska, Małgorzata

• Analyzing and characterization of the chloroplast genome of Salix suchowensis

  Published

  Aug 24, 2016

  Authors

  1. Sun, Congrui
  2. Li, Jie
  3. Dai, Xiaogang
  4. Chen, Yingnan

• Randomised Badger Culling Trial: How big was the perturbation effect? (updated)

  Published

  Aug 24, 2016 (v2), Aug 19, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Hendy, David

• Reef fish communities of Praia do Tofo, Mozambique, and the need for best practice management

  Published

  Aug 24, 2016

  Authors

  1. Fordyce, Alexander John

• Songbird perception and production in anthropogenic noise

  Published

  Aug 23, 2016

  Authors

  1. Proppe, Darren S

• Time-variant species pools shape competitive dynamics and diversity-ecosystem function relationships (updated)

  Published

  Aug 23, 2016 (v2), Mar 25, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Armitage, Dave W

• Evidence for high inter-generational individual quality in yellow-eyed penguins

  Published

  Aug 23, 2016

  Authors

  1. Stein, Aviva M
  2. Young, Melanie J.
  3. Darby, John
  4. Seddon, Philip John
  5. van Heezik, Yolanda

• An integrative computational framework for personalized detection of tumor epitopes in melanoma immunotherapy

  Published

  Aug 22, 2016

  Authors

  1. Jaitly, Tanushree
  2. Schaft, Niels
  3. Doerrie, Jan
  4. Gross, Stefanie
  5. Schuler-Thurner, Beatrice
  6. Wolkenhauer, Olaf
  7. Schuler, Gerold
  8. Taher, Leila
  9. Gupta, Shailendra
  10. Vera, Julio

• Improving ancient DNA genome assembly

  Published

  Aug 22, 2016

  Authors

  1. Seitz, Alexander
  2. Nieselt, Kay

• RGFA: powerful and convenient handling of assembly graphs

  Published

  Aug 22, 2016

  Authors

  1. Gonnella, Giorgio
  2. Kurtz, Stefan

• Bioinformatics support for the Tubiom community gut microbiome project

  Published

  Aug 22, 2016

  Authors

  1. Beier, Sina
  2. Gorska, Anna
  3. Grupp, Patrick
  4. Harbig, Theresa Anisja
  5. Flade, Isabell
  6. Huson, Daniel H

• From computer operating systems to biodiversity: co-emergence of ecological and evolutionary patterns (updated)

  Published

  Aug 22, 2016 (v2), Aug 17, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Keil, Petr
  2. Bennett, Joanne M
  3. Burgeois, Bérenger
  4. García-Peña, Gabriel E
  5. MacDonald, Andrew M
  6. Meyer, Carsten
  7. Ramirez, Kelly S
  8. Yguel, Benjamin

• PaPrBaG: A random forest approach for the detection of novel pathogens from NGS data

  Published

  Aug 19, 2016

  Authors

  1. Deneke, Carlus
  2. Rentzsch, Robert
  3. Renard, Bernhard Y

• SLIMM: Species level identification of microorganisms from metagenomes

  Published

  Aug 19, 2016

  Authors

  1. Dadi, Temesgen Hailemariam
  2. Renard, Bernhard
  3. Wieler, Lothar H.
  4. Semmler, Torsten
  5. Reinert, Knut

• White discoloration on leaves and flower-like outgrowth on stem: A new species or hormonal disequilibrium?

  Published

  Aug 19, 2016

  Authors

  1. Ng, Wenfa

• How barriers shape freshwater fish distributions: a species distribution model approach (updated)

  Published

  Aug 18, 2016 (v2), Jun 8, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Kuemmerlen, Mathias
  2. Stoll, Stefan
  3. Haase, Peter

• Transcriptomic response of maize primary roots to low temperatures at seedling emergence

  Published

  Aug 18, 2016

  Authors

  1. Di Fenza, Mauro
  2. Hogg, Bridget
  3. Grant, Jim
  4. Barth, Susanne

• Quantitative analysis of rat adipose tissue cell recovery, and non-fat cell volume, in primary cell cultures

  Published

  Aug 18, 2016

  Authors

  1. Rotondo, Floriana
  2. Romero, María del Mar
  3. Ho-Palma, Ana Cecilia
  4. Remesar, Xavier
  5. Fernández-López, José Antonio
  6. Alemany, Marià

• Regional drivers of clutch loss reveal important trade-offs for beach-nesting birds

  Published

  Aug 18, 2016

  Authors

  1. Maslo, Brooke
  2. Schlacher, Thomas A
  3. Weston, Mike A.
  4. Huijbers, Chantal M
  5. Anderson, Chris
  6. Gilby, Ben L
  7. Olds, Andrew D
  8. Connolly, Rod M
  9. Schoeman, David S

• Ontogenetic foraging activity and feeding selectivity of the Brazilian endemic parrotfish Scarus zelindae

  Published

  Aug 18, 2016

  Authors

  1. Pereira, Pedro H
  2. Santos, Marcus
  3. Lippi, Daniel L
  4. Silva, Pedro

• Size matters: relationships between body size, dry weight and ash-free dry weight of common coastal, aquatic invertebrates in the Baltic Sea

  Published

  Aug 17, 2016

  Authors

  1. Eklöf, Johan
  2. Austin, Åsa
  3. Bergström, Ulf
  4. Donadi, Serena
  5. Eriksson, Britas D H K
  6. Hansen, Joakim
  7. Sundblad, Göran

• Exploration of immunoglobulin transcriptomes from mice immunized with three-finger toxins and phospholipases A₂ from the Central American coral snake, Micrurus nigrocinctus

  Published

  Aug 17, 2016

  Authors

  1. Laustsen, Andreas H
  2. Engmark, Mikael
  3. Clouser, Christopher
  4. Timberlake, Sonia
  5. Vigneault, Francois
  6. Gutiérrez, José María
  7. Lomonte, Bruno

• What drives computation chemistry forward: theory or computing power? (updated)

  Published

  Aug 17, 2016 (v5), Jun 1, 2016 (v4), Oct 8, 2015 (v3), Sep 18, 2015 (v2), Oct 22, 2014 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Ng, Wenfa

• Age, growth and population structure of invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles) in northeast Florida using a length-based, age-structured population model

  Published

  Aug 17, 2016

  Authors

  1. Johnson, Eric G
  2. Swenarton, Mary Katherine

• Neogene amphibians and reptiles (Caudata, Anura, Gekotta, Lacertilia, Testudines) from south of Western Siberia, Russia and Northeastern Kazakhstan

  Published

  Aug 17, 2016

  Authors

  1. Vasilyan, Davit
  2. Zazhigin, Vladimir
  3. Böhme, Madelaine

• Hypergravity hinders axonal development of motor neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans

  Published

  Aug 17, 2016

  Authors

  1. Kalichamy, Saraswathi Subbammal
  2. Lee, Tong Young
  3. Yoon, Kyoung-hye
  4. Lee, Jin Il

• Supply-side barriers to maternal health care utilization at health sub-centres in India

  Published

  Aug 16, 2016

  Authors

  1. Singh, Aditya

• Angling for data: Recreational anglers’ records of conger eel (Conger conger) landings from the English Channel between 1990-1991

  Published

  Aug 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Johnson, Magnus L
  2. Wheeler, Philip

• Determination of histamine levels in long-tail tuna (Thunnus tonggol) stored at different temperature

  Published

  Aug 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Mahusain, Nurul Aina Syuhada
  2. Bayoi, Fernandes
  3. Karim, Nurul Ulfah
  4. Zainol, Mohd Khairi
  5. Danish-Daniel, Muhd

• Determination of the optimal bacteriophage dose to control Pseudomonas aeruginosa using evolutionary programming and stochastic kinetics

  Published

  Aug 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Ardila, Diana C
  2. Castro, Juan D
  3. Holguín, Angela V
  4. Clavijo, Viviana
  5. Prada, Catalina
  6. Vives, Martha J
  7. Gonzalez Barrios, Andres F Andres

• Effects of grazing intensity and the use of veterinary medical products on dung beetle biodiversity in the sub-mountainous landscape of Central Italy

  Published

  Aug 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Tonelli, Mattia
  2. Verdú, José R.
  3. Zunino, Mario E.

• The underestimation of global microbial diversity

  Published

  Aug 15, 2016

  Authors

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

• Unit testing, model validation, and biological simulation (updated)

  Published

  Aug 15, 2016 (v2), Aug 19, 2015 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Sarma, Gopal
  2. Jacobs, Travis W
  3. Watts, Mark D
  4. Ghayoomie, S. Vahid
  5. Larson, Stephen D
  6. Gerkin, Richard C

• PrimerMiner: an R package for development and in silico validation of DNA metabarcoding primers

  Published

  Aug 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Elbrecht, Vasco
  2. Leese, Florian

• Genetic signatures of ecological diversity along an urbanization gradient

  Published

  Aug 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Kelly, Ryan P.
  2. O'Donnell, James L
  3. Lowell, Natalie C.
  4. Shelton, Andrew O.
  5. Samhouri, Jameal F.
  6. Hennessey, Shannon M.
  7. Feist, Blake E.
  8. Williams, Gregory D.

• Intertidal barnacle recruitment in Nova Scotia (Canada) between 2005–2016: relationships with sea surface temperature and phytoplankton abundance

  Published

  Aug 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Scrosati, Ricardo A
  2. Ellrich, Julius A

• Fear of predators as an ecosystem service

  Published

  Aug 15, 2016

  Authors

  1. Zanette, Liana Y
  2. Clinchy, Michael

• The evidence of porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus induced nonsuppurative encephalitis as the cause of death in piglets

  Published

  Aug 12, 2016

  Authors

  1. Li, Zi
  2. He, Wenqi
  3. Lan, Yungang
  4. Zhao, Kui
  5. Lv, Xiaoling
  6. Lu, Huijun
  7. Ding, Ning
  8. Zhang, Jing
  9. Shi, Junchao
  10. Shan, Changjian
  11. Gao, Feng

• A clinical audit cycle of post-operative hypothermia in dogs

  Published

  Aug 11, 2016

  Authors

  1. Rose, Nicole
  2. Kwong, Grace PS
  3. Pang, Daniel SJ

• Lowland tapir distribution and habitat loss in South America (updated)

  Published

  Aug 11, 2016 (v2), Dec 10, 2015 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Cordeiro, Jose Luis Passos
  2. Fragoso, José MV
  3. Crawshaw, Danielle
  4. Oliveira, Luiz Flamarion B

• Lactobacillus plantarum immobilized onto soymilk residue (Okara) for the enhancement of soymilk fermentation and cell survival under simulated gastrointestinal conditions

  Published

  Aug 11, 2016

  Authors

  1. Xiudong, Xia
  2. Ying, Wang
  3. Xiaoli, Liu
  4. Ying, Li
  5. Jianzhong, Zhou

• Cytokine regulation of stem cells

  Published

  Aug 9, 2016

  Authors

  1. Singh, Gyanesh
  2. Korkaya, Hasan

• Sexual reproduction in the Caribbean coral genus Isophyllia (Scleractinia: Mussidae) in Puerto Rico

  Published

  Aug 9, 2016

  Authors

  1. Soto, Derek
  2. Weil, Ernesto

• Parameter estimation in tree graph metabolic networks (updated)

  Published

  Aug 8, 2016 (v2), May 26, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Astola, Laura
  2. Stigter, Hans
  3. Gomez Roldan, Maria Victoria
  4. van Eeuwijk, Fred
  5. Hall, Robert D
  6. Groenenboom, Marian
  7. Molenaar, Jaap J.

• The acceptability of TV-based game platforms as an instrument to support cognitive evaluation of senior adults at home (updated)

  Published

  Aug 8, 2016 (v2), Dec 19, 2015 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Rivas Costa, Carlos
  2. Fernández Iglesias, Manuel José
  3. Anido Rifón, Luis Eulogio
  4. Gómez Carballa, Miguel
  5. Valladares Rodríguez, Sonia

• Predator management and species at risk in Alberta

  Published

  Aug 8, 2016

  Authors

  1. Hervieux, Dave

• Redescription of Arundel formation Ornithomimosaur material and a reinterpretation of Nedcolbertia justinhofmanni as an “Ostrich Dinosaur”: Biogeographic implications (updated)

  Published

  Aug 8, 2016 (v2), Jul 21, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Brownstein, Chase Doran

• Quantitative assessment of Fgfr1 expression in neurons and glia

  Published

  Aug 8, 2016

  Authors

  1. Choubey, Lisha
  2. Collette, Jantzen C
  3. Smith, Karen Muller

• Meiotic shugoshins differ from mitotic ones by arginine-reach C-terminal motif in yeast, plant, animals, and human

  Published

  Aug 6, 2016

  Authors

  1. Grishaeva, Tatiana M
  2. Kulichenko, Darya
  3. Bogdanov, Yuri F

• The skin microbiome of cow-nose rays (Rhinoptera bonasus) in an aquarium touch-tank exhibit

  Published

  Aug 5, 2016

  Authors

  1. Kearns, Patrick J
  2. Bowen, Jennifer L
  3. Tlusty, Michael F

• How does paw pad of Canine attenuate ground impacts: a micromechanical finite element study

  Published

  Aug 4, 2016

  Authors

  1. Miao, Huaibin
  2. Fu, Jun
  3. Qian, Zhihui
  4. Ren, Luquan
  5. Ren, Lei

• Landsat Satellite Observations and Crowd-Sourced Data Provide Near Real-Time Monitoring of Chimpanzee Habitat

  Published

  Aug 4, 2016

  Authors

  1. Pintea, Lilian
  2. Jantz, Samuel Martin
  3. Nackoney, Janet Ruth
  4. Hansen, Matthew C

• Worldwide exploration of the microbiome harbored by the cnidarian model, Exaiptasia pallida indicates a lack of bacterial association specificity at a lower taxonomic rank

  Published

  Aug 4, 2016

  Authors

  1. Brown, Tanya
  2. Otero, Christopher
  3. Grajales, Alejandro
  4. Rodriguez, Estefania
  5. Rodriguez-Lanetty, Mauricio

• A non-destructive technique for chemical mapping of insect inclusions in amber

  Published

  Aug 4, 2016

  Authors

  1. Popovski Kolaceke, Anezka
  2. McKellar, Ryan C
  3. Barbi, Mauricio

• Empirical assessment of transgene flow from transgenic poplar plantation

  Published

  Aug 3, 2016

  Authors

  1. Hu, Jianjun
  2. Zhang, Jin
  3. Chen, Xingling
  4. Lv, Jinhui
  5. Jia, Huixia
  6. Zhao, Shutang
  7. Lu, Mengzhu

• A new specimen-dependent method of estimating felid body mass (updated)

  Published

  Aug 3, 2016 (v2), Aug 1, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. Sherani, Shaheer

• Augmenting caregiver in-home safety practices via mHealth: A randomized controlled trial (updated)

  Published

  Aug 3, 2016 (v2), Aug 2, 2016 (v1)

  Authors

  1. L. Wilson, Michael
  2. Kigwangalla, Hamisi A.

• Common metabolic constraints on dive duration in endothermic and ectothermic vertebrates

  Published

  Aug 3, 2016

  Authors

  1. Hayward, April
  2. Pajuelo, Mariela
  3. Haase, Catherine G.
  4. Anderson, David M.
  5. Gillooly, James F.

• Testing the link between genome size and growth rate in maize

  Published

  Aug 2, 2016

  Authors

  1. Tenaillon, Maud I
  2. Manicacci, Domenica
  3. Nicolas, Stéphane D
  4. Tardieu, Francois
  5. Welcker, Claude

• 1H Nuclear magnetic resonance-based metabolomic study for Cabernet Sauvignon wines in different vintages

  Published

  Aug 2, 2016

  Authors

  1. Hu, Boran
  2. Zhao, Qi
  3. Yue, Yaqing
  4. Zhu, Jiangyu
  5. Lu, Guangnian
  6. Li, Hua
  7. Zhang, Fengmin
  8. Hardie, W. J.

• RNA-seq reveals more consistent reference genes for gene expression studies in human non-melanoma skin cancers

  Published

  Aug 2, 2016

  Authors

  1. Hoang, Van LT
  2. Tom, Lisa N
  3. Quek, Xiu-Cheng
  4. Tan, Jean-Marie
  5. Payne, Elizabeth J
  6. Lin, Lynlee L
  7. Sinnya, Sudipta
  8. Raphael, Anthony P
  9. Lambie, Duncan
  10. Frazer, Ian H
  11. Dinger, Marcel E
  12. Soyer, H. Peter
  13. Prow, Tarl W

• Developmental toxicity from exposure to various forms of mercury compounds in medaka fish (Oryzias latipes) embryos

  Published

  Aug 1, 2016

  Authors

  1. Dong, Wu
  2. Liu, Jie
  3. Wei, Lixin
  4. Jingfeng, Yang
  5. Chernick, Melissa
  6. Hinton, David E.

• Promotion of surface energy closure by monitoring tree biomass heat storage

  Published

  Aug 1, 2016

  Authors

  1. Yu, Minghan
  2. Ding, Guodong
  3. Gao, Guanglei
  4. Zhao, Yuanyuan
  5. Sai, Ke
  6. Li, Xu
  7. Wang, Yue
  8. Liu, Yundong

• Ten simple rules for Lightning and PechaKucha presentations.

  Published

  Aug 1, 2016

  Authors

  1. Lortie, Christopher J