Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 11, 2019

Genome-wide analysis of maize OSCA family members and their involvement in drought stress

Shuangcheng Ding, Xin Feng, Hewei Du, Hongwei Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6765 PubMed 30997296

April 23, 2019

Identification of a putative competitive endogenous RNA network for lung adenocarcinoma using TCGA datasets

Yuanyong Wang, Tong Lu, Yang Wo, Xiao Sun, Shicheng Li, Shuncheng Miao, Yanting Dong, Xiaoliang Leng, Wenjie Jiao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6809 PubMed 31065463

April 22, 2019

Next-generation sequencing of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes for rapid detection of germline mutations in hereditary breast/ovarian cancer

Arianna Nicolussi, Francesca Belardinilli, Yasaman Mahdavian, Valeria Colicchia, Sonia D’Inzeo, Marialaura Petroni, Massimo Zani, Sergio Ferraro, Virginia Valentini, Laura Ottini, Giuseppe Giannini, Carlo Capalbo, Anna Coppa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6661 PubMed 31065452

April 2, 2019

Mapping-by-sequencing using NGS-based 3′-MACE-Seq reveals a new mutant allele of the essential nodulation gene Sym33 (IPD3) in pea (Pisum sativum L.)

Aleksandr I. Zhernakov, Oksana Y. Shtark, Olga A. Kulaeva, Jaroslava V. Fedorina, Alexey M. Afonin, Anna B. Kitaeva, Viktor E. Tsyganov, Fabian Afonso-Grunz, Klaus Hoffmeier, Björn Rotter, Peter Winter, Igor A. Tikhonovich, Vladimir A. Zhukov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6662 PubMed 30972251

April 10, 2019

The stimulating role of syringic acid, a plant secondary metabolite, in the microbial degradation of structurally-related herbicide, MCPA

Magdalena Urbaniak, Elżbieta Mierzejewska, Maciej Tankiewicz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6745 PubMed 30993052

April 30, 2019

Development of enhancer-trapping and -detection vectors mediated by the Tol2 transposon in zebrafish

Shuheng Chan, Dan Shen, Yatong Sang, Saisai Wang, Yali Wang, Cai Chen, Bo Gao, Chengyi Song

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6862 PubMed 31106068

April 17, 2019

Boto (Inia geoffrensis—Cetacea: Iniidae) aggregations in two provisioning sites in the lower Negro River—Amazonas, Brazil: are they related?

Waleska Gravena, Tomas Hrbek, Vera Maria Ferreira da Silva, Izeni Pires Farias

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6692 PubMed 31024759

April 9, 2019

Transcriptional profiling in the livers of rats after hypobaric hypoxia exposure

Zhenguo Xu, Zhilong Jia, Jinlong Shi, Zeyu Zhang, Xiaojian Gao, Qian Jia, Bohan Liu, Jixuan Liu, Chunlei Liu, Xiaojing Zhao, Kunlun He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6499 PubMed 30993032

April 12, 2019

Identification and differential expression of piRNAs in the gonads of Amur sturgeon (Acipenser schrenckii)

Lihong Yuan, Linmiao Li, Xiujuan Zhang, Haiying Jiang, Jinping Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6709 PubMed 31106045

April 12, 2019

Upstream sequence-dependent suppression and AtxA-dependent activation of protective antigens in Bacillus anthracis

Kochi Toyomane, Yoshikazu Furuta, Daisuke Fujikura, Hideaki Higashi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6718 PubMed 30997291

April 2, 2019

Environmental modulation of the proteomic profiles from closely phylogenetically related populations of the red seaweed Plocamium brasiliense

Gabriela Calegario, Lucas Freitas, Eidy Santos, Bruno Silva, Louisi Oliveira, Gizele Garcia, Cláudia Omachi, Renato Pereira, Cristiane Thompson, Fabiano Thompson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6469 PubMed 30972241

April 25, 2019

Forensic characteristics and population genetics of Chinese Kazakh ethnic minority with an efficient STR panel

Chong Chen, Yuxin Guo, Xiaoye Jin, Wei Cui, Yuanyuan Wei, Yating Fang, Qiong Lan, Tingting Kong, Tong Xie, Bofeng Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6802 PubMed 31086740

April 19, 2019

Rapid ecological specialization despite constant population sizes

Andrinajoro R. Rakotoarivelo, Paul O’Donoghue, Michael W. Bruford, Yoshan Moodley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6476 PubMed 31041147