Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 17, 2020

CoproID predicts the source of coprolites and paleofeces using microbiome composition and host DNA content

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431 downloads

5,021 views

Maxime Borry, Bryan Cordova, Angela Perri, Marsha Wibowo, Tanvi Prasad Honap, Jada Ko, Jie Yu, Kate Britton, Linus Girdland-Flink, Robert C. Power, Ingelise Stuijts, Domingo C. Salazar-García, Courtney Hofman, Richard Hagan, Thérèse Samdapawindé Kagoné, Nicolas Meda, Helene Carabin, David Jacobson, Karl Reinhard, Cecil Lewis, Aleksandar Kostic, Choongwon Jeong, Alexander Herbig, Alexander Hübner, Christina Warinner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9001 PubMed 32337106

April 13, 2020

Response of organic carbon mineralization and bacterial communities to soft rock additions in sandy soils

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133 downloads

394 views

Zhen Guo, Jichang Han, Juan Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8948 PubMed 32322443

April 7, 2020

ECuADOR—Easy Curation of Angiosperm Duplicated Organellar Regions, a tool for cleaning and curating plastomes assembled from next generation sequencing pipelines

1 citation

125 downloads

626 views

Angelo D. Armijos Carrion, Damien D. Hinsinger, Joeri S. Strijk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8699 PubMed 32292644

April 29, 2020

Reassessing the observational evidence for nitrogen deposition impacts in acid grassland: spatial Bayesian linear models indicate small and ambiguous effects on species richness

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62 downloads

398 views

Oliver L. Pescott, Mark Jitlal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9070 PubMed 32391206

April 13, 2020

Estimating the evolutionary rates in mosasauroids and plesiosaurs: discussion of niche occupation in Late Cretaceous seas

468 downloads

5,575 views

Daniel Madzia, Andrea Cau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8941 PubMed 32322442

April 1, 2020

New anatomical information on Dsungaripterus weii Young, 1964 with focus on the palatal region

317 downloads

1,831 views

He Chen, Shunxing Jiang, Alexander W.A. Kellner, Xin Cheng, Xinjun Zhang, Rui Qiu, Yang Li, Xiaolin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8741 PubMed 32274262

April 14, 2020

Clinical applicability of the Feline Grimace Scale: real-time versus image scoring and the influence of sedation and surgery

294 downloads

2,492 views

Marina C. Evangelista, Javier Benito, Beatriz P. Monteiro, Ryota Watanabe, Graeme M. Doodnaught, Daniel S.J. Pang, Paulo V. Steagall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8967 PubMed 32322445

April 7, 2020

Rock sponges (lithistid Demospongiae) of the Northeast Atlantic seamounts, with description of ten new species

272 downloads

895 views

Francisca C. Carvalho, Paco Cárdenas, Pilar Ríos, Javier Cristobo, Hans Tore Rapp, Joana R. Xavier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8703 PubMed 32292645

April 7, 2020

Diffusion tubes: a method for the mass culture of ctenophores and other pelagic marine invertebrates

261 downloads

2,271 views

Wyatt L. Patry, MacKenzie Bubel, Cypress Hansen, Thomas Knowles

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8938 PubMed 32292660

April 2, 2020

Nitrogen eutrophication particularly promotes turf algae in coral reefs of the central Red Sea

236 downloads

1,185 views

Denis B. Karcher, Florian Roth, Susana Carvalho, Yusuf C. El-Khaled, Arjen Tilstra, Benjamin Kürten, Ulrich Struck, Burton H. Jones, Christian Wild

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8737 PubMed 32274261

April 9, 2020

Reduced fish diversity despite increased fish biomass in a Gulf of California Marine Protected Area

219 downloads

1,244 views

Georgina Ramírez-Ortiz, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla, Eduardo F. Balart, Damien Olivier, Leonardo Huato-Soberanis, Fiorenza Micheli, Graham J. Edgar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8885 PubMed 32296607

April 3, 2020

An unusual 100-million-year old holometabolan larva with a piercing mouth cone

217 downloads

2,444 views

Joachim T. Haug, Mario Schädel, Viktor A. Baranov, Carolin Haug

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8661 PubMed 32280565

April 8, 2020

Transcriptome analysis revealed key prognostic genes and microRNAs in hepatocellular carcinoma

202 downloads

604 views

Xi Ma, Lin Zhou, Shusen Zheng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8930 PubMed 32296612

April 1, 2020

Prediction of antiviral drugs against African swine fever viruses based on protein–protein interaction analysis

201 downloads

701 views

Zhaozhong Zhu, Yunshi Fan, Yang Liu, Taijiao Jiang, Yang Cao, Yousong Peng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8855 PubMed 32274268

April 3, 2020

Shared ecological traits influence shape of the skeleton in flatfishes (Pleuronectiformes)

187 downloads

1,044 views

Corinthia R. Black, Peter B. Berendzen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8919 PubMed 32280569

April 7, 2020

A real-time PCR assay to accurately quantify polar bear DNA in fecal extracts

182 downloads

734 views

Kristen M. Hayward, Michelle P. Harwood, Stephen C. Lougheed, Zhengxin Sun, Peter Van Coeverden de Groot, Evelyn L. Jensen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8884 PubMed 32292653

April 9, 2020

Genome-wide identification of the PEBP genes in pears and the putative role of PbFT in flower bud differentiation

180 downloads

373 views

Shuliang Zhao, Yarui Wei, Hongguang Pang, Jianfeng Xu, Yingli Li, Haixia Zhang, Jianguang Zhang, Yuxing Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8928 PubMed 32296611

April 6, 2020

First de novo whole genome sequencing and assembly of the bar-headed goose

171 downloads

730 views

Wen Wang, Fang Wang, Rongkai Hao, Aizhen Wang, Kirill Sharshov, Alexey Druzyaka, Zhuoma Lancuo, Yuetong Shi, Shuo Feng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8914 PubMed 32292659

April 3, 2020

Weighted gene correlation network analysis reveals novel biomarkers associated with mesenchymal stromal cell differentiation in early phase

171 downloads

487 views

Bin Xiao, Guozhu Wang, Weiwei Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8907 PubMed 32280568

April 15, 2020

Isolation and identification of flavonoid-producing endophytic fungi from medicinal plant Conyza blinii H.Lév that exhibit higher antioxidant and antibacterial activities

165 downloads

383 views

Zizhong Tang, Yinsheng Wang, Jingyu Yang, Yirong Xiao, Yi Cai, Yujun Wan, Hui Chen, Huipeng Yao, Zhi Shan, Chenglei Li, Gang Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8978 PubMed 32328352

April 16, 2020

Distinct gene expression and secondary metabolite profiles in suppressor of prosystemin-mediated responses2 (spr2) tomato mutants having impaired mycorrhizal colonization

161 downloads

737 views

Kena Casarrubias-Castillo, Josaphat M. Montero-Vargas, Nicole Dabdoub-González, Robert Winkler, Norma A. Martinez-Gallardo, Julia Zañudo-Hernández, Hamlet Avilés-Arnaut, John P. Délano-Frier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8888 PubMed 32337100

April 10, 2020

A rapid and accurate method for the detection of four aminoglycoside modifying enzyme drug resistance gene in clinical strains of Escherichia coli by a multiplex polymerase chain reaction

151 downloads

427 views

Yaoqiang Shi, Chao Li, Guangying Yang, Xueshan Xia, Xiaoqin Mao, Yue Fang, A-Mei Zhang, Yuzhu Song

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8944 PubMed 32309051

April 9, 2020

150 downloads

449 views

Kati Sundström, Pashupati P. Mishra, Mikko J. Pyysalo, Terho Lehtimäki, Pekka J. Karhunen, Tanja Pessi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8799 PubMed 32296599