Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 29, 2020

Alternative splicing in tea plants was extensively triggered by drought, heat and their combined stresses

Yiqian Ding, Yu Wang, Chen Qiu, Wenjun Qian, Hui Xie, Zhaotang Ding

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8258 PubMed 32030318

January 6, 2020

Cas9/gRNA-mediated genome editing of yeast mitochondria and Chlamydomonas chloroplasts

Byung-Chun Yoo, Narendra S. Yadav, Emil M. Orozco, Hajime Sakai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8362 PubMed 31934513

January 14, 2020

Genome-wide investigation and transcriptional analysis of cytosine-5 DNA methyltransferase and DNA demethylase gene families in tea plant (Camellia sinensis) under abiotic stress and withering processing

Chen Zhu, Shuting Zhang, Chengzhe Zhou, Lan Chen, Haifeng Fu, Xiaozhen Li, Yuling Lin, Zhongxiong Lai, Yuqiong Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8432 PubMed 31976183

January 6, 2020

The Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) degradation activities and genome analysis of a novel strain Stenotrophomonas sp. Pemsol isolated from Mexico

Temidayo O. Elufisan, Isabel C. Rodríguez-Luna, Omotayo Opemipo Oyedara, Alejandro Sánchez-Varela, Armando Hernández-Mendoza, Edgar Dantán Gonzalez, Alma D. Paz-González, Kashif Muhammad, Gildardo Rivera, Miguel Angel Villalobos-Lopez, Xianwu Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8102 PubMed 31934497

January 28, 2020

Light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein-coding genes in jatropha and the comparison with castor, cassava and arabidopsis

Yongguo Zhao, Hua Kong, Yunling Guo, Zhi Zou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8465 PubMed 32025382

January 3, 2020

The inflated mitochondrial genomes of siphonous green algae reflect processes driving expansion of noncoding DNA and proliferation of introns

Sonja I. Repetti, Christopher J. Jackson, Louise M. Judd, Ryan R. Wick, Kathryn E. Holt, Heroen Verbruggen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8273 PubMed 31915577

January 6, 2020

sv-callers: a highly portable parallel workflow for structural variant detection in whole-genome sequence data

Arnold Kuzniar, Jason Maassen, Stefan Verhoeven, Luca Santuari, Carl Shneider, Wigard P. Kloosterman, Jeroen de Ridder

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8214 PubMed 31934500

January 16, 2020

Comparative transcriptome analysis revealed genes involved in the fruiting body development of Ophiocordyceps sinensis

Xinxin Tong, Han Zhang, Fang Wang, Zhengyao Xue, Jing Cao, Cheng Peng, Jinlin Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8379 PubMed 31988806

January 28, 2020

LINC00844 promotes proliferation and migration of hepatocellular carcinoma by regulating NDRG1 expression

Wei Zhou, Kang Huang, Qiuyan Zhang, Shaojun Ye, Zibiao Zhong, Cheng Zeng, Guizhu Peng, Ling Li, Qifa Ye

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8394 PubMed 32025371

January 6, 2020

Changes in long non-coding RNA transcriptomic profiles after ischemia-reperfusion injury in rat spinal cord

Zhibin Zhou, Bin Han, Hai Jin, Aimin Chen, Lei Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8293 PubMed 31934506

January 17, 2020

Isolation, sequencing, and expression analysis of 30 AP2/ERF transcription factors in apple

Huifeng Li, Qinglong Dong, Qiang Zhao, Song Shi, Kun Ran

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8391 PubMed 31988809

January 28, 2020

Loss of Schlafen3 influences the expression levels of Schlafen family members in ileum, thymus, and spleen tissue

Emilie E. Vomhof-DeKrey, Josey Umthun, Marc D. Basson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8461 PubMed 32025381

January 7, 2020

DNA methylation profiling in recurrent miscarriage

Li Pi, Zhaofeng Zhang, Yan Gu, Xinyue Wang, Jianmei Wang, Jianhua Xu, Junwei Liu, Xuan Zhang, Jing Du

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8196 PubMed 31938574

January 9, 2020

A multiomics comparison between endometrial cancer and serous ovarian cancer

Hui Zhong, Huiyu Chen, Huahong Qiu, Chen Huang, Zhihui Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8347 PubMed 31942259

January 15, 2020

Genetic architecture study of rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Jun Jia, Junyi Li, Xueming Yao, YuHang Zhang, Xiaohao Yang, Ping Wang, Qianghua Xia, Hakon Hakonarson, Jin Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8234 PubMed 31988799

January 9, 2020

Analysis of the RNA virome of basal hexapods

Sabina Ott Rutar, Dusan Kordis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8336 PubMed 31942257

January 3, 2020

A transcriptomic study of probenecid on injured spinal cords in mice

Yu-Xin Zhang, Sai-Nan Wang, Jing Chen, Jian-Guo Hu, He-Zuo Lü

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8367 PubMed 31921518

January 9, 2020

Genetic structure of Australian glass shrimp, Paratya australiensis, in relation to altitude

Sharmeen Rahman, Daniel Schmidt, Jane M. Hughes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8139 PubMed 31942250

January 28, 2020

Complete plastid genome sequences of two species of the Neotropical genus Brunellia (Brunelliaceae)

Janice Valencia-D, José Murillo-A, Clara Inés Orozco, Carlos Parra-O, Kurt M. Neubig

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8392 PubMed 32025370

January 3, 2020

Identification of a genome-specific repetitive element in the Gossypium D genome

Hejun Lu, Xinglei Cui, Yanyan Zhao, Richard Odongo Magwanga, Pengcheng Li, Xiaoyan Cai, Zhongli Zhou, Xingxing Wang, Yuling Liu, Yanchao Xu, Yuqing Hou, Renhai Peng, Kunbo Wang, Fang Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8344 PubMed 31915591

January 27, 2020

The complete genome of Banana streak GF virus Yunnan isolate infecting Cavendish Musa AAA group in China

Wei-li Li, Nai-tong Yu, Jian-hua Wang, Jun-cheng Li, Zhi-xin Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8459 PubMed 32025380

January 30, 2020

Multiple genome pattern analysis and signature gene identification for the Caucasian lung adenocarcinoma patients with different tobacco exposure patterns

Yan-mei Dong, Li-da Qin, Yi-fan Tong, Qi-en He, Ling Wang, Kai Song

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8349 PubMed 32030321