Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 27, 2017

Microbial communities in sediment from Zostera marina patches, but not the Z. marina leaf or root microbiomes, vary in relation to distance from patch edge

Cassandra L. Ettinger, Sofie E. Voerman, Jenna M. Lang, John J. Stachowicz, Jonathan A. Eisen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3246 PubMed 28462046

April 11, 2017

A transdisciplinary approach to the initial validation of a single cell protein as an alternative protein source for use in aquafeeds

Michael Tlusty, Andrew Rhyne, Joseph T. Szczebak, Bradford Bourque, Jennifer L. Bowen, Gary Burr, Christopher J. Marx, Lawrence Feinberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3170 PubMed 28413727

April 18, 2017

Molecular assessment of the fecal microbiota in healthy cats and dogs before and during supplementation with fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) and inulin using high-throughput 454-pyrosequencing

Jose F. Garcia-Mazcorro, Jose R. Barcenas-Walls, Jan S. Suchodolski, Jörg M. Steiner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3184 PubMed 28439463

April 13, 2017

Endosymbiont interference and microbial diversity of the Pacific coast tick, Dermacentor occidentalis, in San Diego County, California

Nikos Gurfield, Saran Grewal, Lynnie S. Cua, Pedro J. Torres, Scott T. Kelley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3202 PubMed 28503372

April 6, 2017

Genomic comparisons of a bacterial lineage that inhabits both marine and terrestrial deep subsurface systems

Sean P. Jungbluth, Tijana Glavina del Rio, Susannah G. Tringe, Ramunas Stepanauskas, Michael S. Rappé

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3134 PubMed 28396823

April 26, 2017

Mode of action of the 2-phenylquinoline efflux inhibitor PQQ4R against Escherichia coli

Diana Machado, Laura Fernandes, Sofia S. Costa, Rolando Cannalire, Giuseppe Manfroni, Oriana Tabarrini, Isabel Couto, Stefano Sabatini, Miguel Viveiros

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3168 PubMed 28516003

April 27, 2017

Pitfalls associated with evaluating enzymatic quorum quenching activity: the case of MomL and its effect on Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii biofilms

Yunhui Zhang, Gilles Brackman, Tom Coenye

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3251 PubMed 28462048

April 25, 2017

Accumulation and expression of horizontally acquired genes in Arcobacter cryaerophilus that thrives in sewage

Jess A. Millar, Rahul Raghavan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3269 PubMed 28462059

April 27, 2017

Whole genome sequencing of group A Streptococcus: development and evaluation of an automated pipeline for emmgene typing

Georgia Kapatai, Juliana Coelho, Steven Platt, Victoria J. Chalker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3226 PubMed 28462035

April 27, 2017

On the entry of an emerging arbovirus into host cells: Mayaro virus takes the highway to the cytoplasm through fusion with early endosomes and caveolae-derived vesicles

Carlos A.M. Carvalho, Jerson L. Silva, Andréa C. Oliveira, Andre M.O. Gomes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3245 PubMed 28462045

April 26, 2017

The emerging contribution of social wasps to grape rot disease ecology

Anne A. Madden, Sean D. Boyden, Jonathan-Andrew N. Soriano, Tyler B. Corey, Jonathan W. Leff, Noah Fierer, Philip T. Starks

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3223 PubMed 28462032

April 27, 2017

A Profile Hidden Markov Model to investigate the distribution and frequency of LanB-encoding lantibiotic modification genes in the human oral and gut microbiome

Calum J. Walsh, Caitriona M. Guinane, Paul W. O’ Toole, Paul D. Cotter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3254 PubMed 28462050

April 19, 2017

The genomic sequence of Exiguobacterium chiriqhucha str. N139 reveals a species that thrives in cold waters and extreme environmental conditions

Ana Gutiérrez-Preciado, Carlos Vargas-Chávez, Mariana Reyes-Prieto, Omar F. Ordoñez, Diego Santos-García, Tania Rosas-Pérez, Jorge Valdivia-Anistro, Eria A. Rebollar, Andrés Saralegui, Andrés Moya, Enrique Merino, María Eugenia Farías, Amparo Latorre, Valeria Souza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3162 PubMed 28439458

April 27, 2017

Octahedral ruthenium (II) polypyridyl complexes as antimicrobial agents against mycobacterium

Guojian Liao, Zhengyuan Ye, Yunlu Liu, Bin Fu, Chen Fu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3252 PubMed 28462049

April 27, 2017

Analysis of the in planta transcriptome expressed by the corn pathogen Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii via RNA-Seq

Holly Packard, Alison Kernell Burke, Roderick V. Jensen, Ann M. Stevens

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3237 PubMed 28462040

April 4, 2017

Conserved DNA motifs in the type II-A CRISPR leader region

Mason J. Van Orden, Peter Klein, Kesavan Babu, Fares Z. Najar, Rakhi Rajan