Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

March 19, 2018

The effect of tides on nearshore environmental DNA

Ryan P. Kelly, Ramón Gallego, Emily Jacobs-Palmer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4521 PubMed 29576982

March 16, 2018

Characterization of the salivary microbiome in people with obesity

Yujia Wu, Xiaopei Chi, Qian Zhang, Feng Chen, Xuliang Deng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4458 PubMed 29576948

March 16, 2018

pcr: an R package for quality assessment, analysis and testing of qPCR data

Mahmoud Ahmed, Deok Ryong Kim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4473 PubMed 29576953

March 14, 2018

The impact of different agroecological conditions on the nutritional composition of quinoa seeds

María Reguera, Carlos Manuel Conesa, Alejandro Gil-Gómez, Claudia Mónika Haros, Miguel Ángel Pérez-Casas, Vilbett Briones-Labarca, Luis Bolaños, Ildefonso Bonilla, Rodrigo Álvarez, Katherine Pinto, Ángel Mujica, Luisa Bascuñán-Godoy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4442 PubMed 29576944

March 19, 2018

Half-lives of PAHs and temporal microbiota changes in commonly used urban landscaping materials

Marja I. Roslund, Mira Grönroos, Anna-Lea Rantalainen, Ari Jumpponen, Martin Romantschuk, Anirudra Parajuli, Heikki Hyöty, Olli Laitinen, Aki Sinkkonen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4508 PubMed 29576975

March 5, 2018

Use of seaweed Ulva lactuca for water bioremediation and as feed additive for white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei

Regina Elizondo-González, Eduardo Quiroz-Guzmán, Cristina Escobedo-Fregoso, Paola Magallón-Servín, Alberto Peña-Rodríguez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4459 PubMed 29527414

March 20, 2018

Squeezing water from a stone: high-throughput sequencing from a 145-year old holotype resolves (barely) a cryptic species problem in flying lizards

Jimmy A. McGuire, Darko D. Cotoras, Brendan O’Connell, Shobi Z.S. Lawalata, Cynthia Y. Wang-Claypool, Alexander Stubbs, Xiaoting Huang, Guinevere O.U. Wogan, Sarah M. Hykin, Sean B. Reilly, Ke Bi, Awal Riyanto, Evy Arida, Lydia L. Smith, Heather Milne, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Djoko T. Iskandar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4470 PubMed 29576952

March 22, 2018

Dynamics of Zika virus outbreaks: an overview of mathematical modeling approaches

Anuwat Wiratsudakul, Parinya Suparit, Charin Modchang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4526 PubMed 29593941

March 27, 2018

Detection of PCV2e strains in Southeast China

Jiankui Liu, Chunhua Wei, Ailing Dai, Zhifeng Lin, Kewei Fan, Jianlin Fan, Jiayue Liu, Manlin Luo, Xiaoyan Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4476 PubMed 29607253

March 9, 2018

Current state of knowledge on Wolbachia infection among Coleoptera: a systematic review

Łukasz Kajtoch, Nela Kotásková

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4471 PubMed 29568706

March 16, 2018

Identification of circularRNAs and their targets in Gossypium under Verticillium wilt stress based on RNA-seq

Liuxin Xiang, Chaowei Cai, Jieru Cheng, Lu Wang, Chaofeng Wu, Yuzhen Shi, Jingzhi Luo, Lin He, Yushan Deng, Xiao Zhang, Youlu Yuan, Yingfan Cai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4500 PubMed 29576969

March 5, 2018

Effects of xylo-oligosaccharide and flavomycin on the immune function of broiler chickens

Lin Yuan, Wanli Li, Qianqian Huo, Chenhong Du, Zhixiang Wang, Baodi Yi, Mingfa Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4435 PubMed 29527412

March 19, 2018

Assessing the disturbance potential of small unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) on gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) at breeding colonies in Nova Scotia, Canada

Lauren Arona, Julian Dale, Susan G. Heaslip, Michael O. Hammill, David W. Johnston

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4467 PubMed 29576950

March 29, 2018

The value of citizen science for ecological monitoring of mammals

Arielle Waldstein Parsons, Christine Goforth, Robert Costello, Roland Kays

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4536 PubMed 29610706

March 13, 2018

An overview on the interplay between nutraceuticals and gut microbiota

Adrian Catinean, Maria Adriana Neag, Dana Maria Muntean, Ioana Corina Bocsan, Anca Dana Buzoianu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4465 PubMed 29576949

March 26, 2018

Postcranial skeletal anatomy of the holotype and referred specimens of Buitreraptor gonzalezorum Makovicky, Apesteguía and Agnolín 2005 (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae), from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia

Federico A. Gianechini, Peter J. Makovicky, Sebastián Apesteguía, Ignacio Cerda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4558 PubMed 29607264

March 14, 2018

Characterization of the basic helix–loop–helix gene family and its tissue-differential expression in response to salt stress in poplar

Kai Zhao, Shuxuan Li, Wenjing Yao, Boru Zhou, Renhua Li, Tingbo Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4502 PubMed 29576971

March 19, 2018

Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using Caesalpinia ferrea (Tul.) Martius extract: physicochemical characterization, antifungal activity and cytotoxicity

Mônica R. P. S. Soares, Rafael O. Corrêa, Pedro Henrique F. Stroppa, Flávia C. Marques, Gustavo F. S. Andrade, Charlane C. Corrêa, Marcos Antônio F. Brandão, Nádia R. B. Raposo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4361 PubMed 29576936

March 12, 2018

Characterization of shifts of koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) intestinal microbial communities associated with antibiotic treatment

Katherine E. Dahlhausen, Ladan Doroud, Alana J. Firl, Adam Polkinghorne, Jonathan A. Eisen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4452 PubMed 29576947

March 19, 2018

Cenozoic aridization in Central Eurasia shaped diversification of toad-headed agamas (Phrynocephalus; Agamidae, Reptilia)

Evgeniya N. Solovyeva, Vladimir S. Lebedev, Evgeniy A. Dunayev, Roman A. Nazarov, Anna A. Bannikova, Jing Che, Robert W. Murphy, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4543 PubMed 29576991

March 30, 2018

Comparative genome analysis of 24 bovine-associated Staphylococcus isolates with special focus on the putative virulence genes

Silja Åvall-Jääskeläinen, Suvi Taponen, Ravi Kant, Lars Paulin, Jochen Blom, Airi Palva, Joanna Koort