Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

October 4, 2018

Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research

Alexandre Antonelli, María Ariza, James Albert, Tobias Andermann, Josué Azevedo, Christine Bacon, Søren Faurby, Thais Guedes, Carina Hoorn, Lúcia G. Lohmann, Pável Matos-Maraví, Camila D. Ritter, Isabel Sanmartín, Daniele Silvestro, Marcelo Tejedor, Hans ter Steege, Hanna Tuomisto, Fernanda P. Werneck, Alexander Zizka, Scott V. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5644 PubMed 30310740

October 30, 2018

Microbiome analysis of Pacific white shrimp gut and rearing water from Malaysia and Vietnam: implications for aquaculture research and management

Muhammad Zarul Hanifah Md Zoqratt, Wilhelm Wei Han Eng, Binh Thanh Thai, Christopher M. Austin, Han Ming Gan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5826 PubMed 30397546

October 30, 2018

Effect of operational parameters, characterization and antibacterial studies of green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using Tithonia diversifolia

Adewumi O. Dada, Adejumoke A. Inyinbor, Ebiega I. Idu, Oluwasesan M. Bello, Abimbola P. Oluyori, Tabitha A. Adelani-Akande, Abiodun A. Okunola, Olarewaju Dada

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5865 PubMed 30397553

October 12, 2018

Agrichemicals and antibiotics in combination increase antibiotic resistance evolution

Brigitta Kurenbach, Amy M. Hill, William Godsoe, Sophie van Hamelsveld, Jack A. Heinemann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5801 PubMed 30345180

October 26, 2018

Impact of organic and inorganic fertilizers on the yield and quality of silage corn intercropped with soybean

Ali Baghdadi, Ridzwan A. Halim, Ali Ghasemzadeh, Mohd Fauzi Ramlan, Siti Zaharah Sakimin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5280 PubMed 30386686

October 16, 2018

The anti-biofilm effect of silver-nanoparticle-decorated quercetin nanoparticles on a multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli strain isolated from a dairy cow with mastitis

Lumin Yu, Fei Shang, Xiaolin Chen, Jingtian Ni, Li Yu, Ming Zhang, Dongdong Sun, Ting Xue

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5711 PubMed 30356998

October 11, 2018

Virus discovery in all three major lineages of terrestrial arthropods highlights the diversity of single-stranded DNA viruses associated with invertebrates

Karyna Rosario, Kaitlin A. Mettel, Bayleigh E. Benner, Ryan Johnson, Catherine Scott, Sohath Z. Yusseff-Vanegas, Christopher C.M. Baker, Deby L. Cassill, Caroline Storer, Arvind Varsani, Mya Breitbart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5761 PubMed 30324030

October 17, 2018

C9orf72, a protein associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a guanine nucleotide exchange factor

Shalini Iyer, Vasanta Subramanian, K. Ravi Acharya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5815 PubMed 30356970

October 23, 2018

Epidemiological and genetic characteristics of swine pseudorabies virus in mainland China between 2012 and 2017

Ying Sun, Wan Liang, Qingyun Liu, Tingting Zhao, Hechao Zhu, Lin Hua, Zhong Peng, Xibiao Tang, Charles W. Stratton, Danna Zhou, Yongxiang Tian, Huanchun Chen, Bin Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5785 PubMed 30386699

October 10, 2018

Production of exopolysaccharide by strains of Lactobacillus plantarum YO175 and OF101 isolated from traditional fermented cereal beverage

Adekemi Titilayo Adesulu-Dahunsi, Kumaraswamy Jeyaram, Abiodun Isiaka Sanni, Kolawole Banwo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5326 PubMed 30324007

October 17, 2018

Comparative systematics and phylogeography of Quercus Section Cerris in western Eurasia: inferences from plastid and nuclear DNA variation

Marco Cosimo Simeone, Simone Cardoni, Roberta Piredda, Francesca Imperatori, Michael Avishai, Guido W. Grimm, Thomas Denk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5793 PubMed 30356975

October 3, 2018

In search of an optimum sampling algorithm for prediction of soil properties from infrared spectra

Wartini Ng, Budiman Minasny, Brendan Malone, Patrick Filippi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5722 PubMed 30310751

October 23, 2018

The effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services at delivering improvements in water quality: lessons for experiments at the landscape scale

Edwin L. Pynegar, Julia P.G. Jones, James M. Gibbons, Nigel M. Asquith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5753 PubMed 30386694

October 31, 2018

Cancellous bone and theropod dinosaur locomotion. Part I—an examination of cancellous bone architecture in the hindlimb bones of theropods

Peter J. Bishop, Scott A. Hocknull, Christofer J. Clemente, John R. Hutchinson, Andrew A. Farke, Belinda R. Beck, Rod S. Barrett, David G. Lloyd

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5778 PubMed 30402347

October 31, 2018

Cancellous bone and theropod dinosaur locomotion. Part III—Inferring posture and locomotor biomechanics in extinct theropods, and its evolution on the line to birds

Peter J. Bishop, Scott A. Hocknull, Christofer J. Clemente, John R. Hutchinson, Andrew A. Farke, Rod S. Barrett, David G. Lloyd

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5777 PubMed 30402346

October 12, 2018

Dissociating predictability, plausibility and possibility of sentence continuations in reading: evidence from late-positivity ERPs

Laura Quante, Jens Bölte, Pienie Zwitserlood

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5717 PubMed 30345170

October 9, 2018

Artificial light at night alters life history in a nocturnal orb-web spider

Nikolas J. Willmott, Jessica Henneken, Caitlin J. Selleck, Therésa M. Jones

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5599 PubMed 30324009

October 5, 2018

Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) illuminate the population genomics of a recent, high-latitude avian speciation event

Kevin Winker, Travis C. Glenn, Brant C. Faircloth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5735 PubMed 30310754

October 4, 2018

An automated, high-throughput method for standardizing image color profiles to improve image-based plant phenotyping

Jeffrey C. Berry, Noah Fahlgren, Alexandria A. Pokorny, Rebecca S. Bart, Kira M. Veley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5727 PubMed 30310752

October 29, 2018

Effects of agricultural management on phyllosphere fungal diversity in vineyards and the association with adjacent native forests

Luis E. Castañeda, Toshiko Miura, Roland Sánchez, Olga Barbosa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5715 PubMed 30397540

October 26, 2018

Inhibitory effect of microalgae and cyanobacteria extracts on influenza virus replication and neuraminidase activity

Thauane Silva, Paulo S. Salomon, Lidilhone Hamerski, Juline Walter, Rafael B. Menezes, José Edson Siqueira, Aline Santos, Jéssica Aparecida Morais Santos, Natália Ferme, Thaise Guimarães, Giovana O. Fistarol, Paulo I. Hargreaves, Cristiane Thompson, Fabiano Thompson, Thiago Moreno Souza, Marilda Siqueira, Milene Miranda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5716 PubMed 30386690

October 19, 2018

Continental-scale suppression of an invasive pest by a host-specific parasitoid underlines both environmental and economic benefits of arthropod biological control

Kris A.G. Wyckhuys, Prapit Wongtiem, Aunu Rauf, Anchana Thancharoen, George E. Heimpel, Nhung T.T. Le, Muhammad Zainal Fanani, Geoff M. Gurr, Jonathan G. Lundgren, Dharani D. Burra, Leo K. Palao, Glenn Hyman, Ignazio Graziosi, Vi X. Le, Matthew J.W. Cock, Teja Tscharntke, Steve D. Wratten, Liem V. Nguyen, Minsheng You, Yanhui Lu, Johannes W. Ketelaar, Georg Goergen, Peter Neuenschwander

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5796 PubMed 30364550

October 17, 2018

Morphological characterization of virus-like particles in coral reef sponges

Cecília Pascelli, Patrick W. Laffy, Marija Kupresanin, Timothy Ravasi, Nicole S. Webster

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5625 PubMed 30356950

October 17, 2018

Genome-wide identification and analysis of the CNGC gene family in maize

Lidong Hao, Xiuli Qiao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5816 PubMed 30356996

October 4, 2018

A new species of the odorous frog genus Odorrana (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae) from southwestern China

Shize Li, Ning Xu, Jingcai Lv, Jianping Jiang, Gang Wei, Bin Wang