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December 2018

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

External and genital structures as diagnostic characters of three Apolygus species

December 4, 2018

COI barcoding of plant bugs

Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of COI barcoding in identifying 123 species of plant bugs in seven subfamilies of Miridae.

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December 21, 2018

Identification and characterization of miRNA169 family members in banana (Musa acuminata L.) that respond to fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense infection in banana cultivars

Shun Song, Yi Xu, Dongmei Huang, Muhammad Aleem Ashraf, Jingyang Li, Wei Hu, Zhiqiang Jin, Changying Zeng, Fenling Tang, Biyu Xu, Huicai Zeng, Yujia Li, Jianghui Xie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6209 PubMed 30595993

December 18, 2018

ScanFold: an approach for genome-wide discovery of local RNA structural elements—applications to Zika virus and HIV

Ryan J. Andrews, Julien Roche, Walter N. Moss

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6136 PubMed 30627482

December 18, 2018

Nanocontainer designed from an infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHHNV) has excellent physical stability and ability to deliver shrimp tissues

Pauline Kiatmetha, Charoonroj Chotwiwatthanakun, Pitchanee Jariyapong, Wanida Santimanawong, Puey Ounjai, Wattana Weerachatyanukul

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6079 PubMed 30588400

December 18, 2018

Effects of dietary supplementation with Lactobacillus acidophilus on the performance, intestinal physical barrier function, and the expression of NOD-like receptors in weaned piglets

Shiqiong Wang, Haihua Li, Chenhong Du, Qian Liu, Dongji Yang, Longbin Chen, Qi Zhu, Zhixiang Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6060 PubMed 30588399

December 11, 2018

Four tyrosine residues of the rice immune receptor XA21 are not required for interaction with the co-receptor OsSERK2 or resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae

Daniel F. Caddell, Tong Wei, Sweta Sharma, Man-Ho Oh, Chang-Jin Park, Patrick Canlas, Steven C. Huber, Pamela C. Ronald

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6074 PubMed 30581670

December 11, 2018

A tuber mustard AP2/ERF transcription factor gene, BjABR1, functioning in abscisic acid and abiotic stress responses, and evolutionary trajectory of the ABR1 homologous genes in Brassica species

Liuxin Xiang, Chao Liu, Jingzhi Luo, Lin He, Yushan Deng, Jie Yuan, Chaofeng Wu, Yingfan Cai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6071 PubMed 30581669

December 11, 2018

Plant-derived chimeric antibodies inhibit the invasion of human fibroblasts by Toxoplasma gondii

Sherene Swee Yin Lim, Kek Heng Chua, Greta Nölke, Holger Spiegel, Wai Leong Goh, Sek Chuen Chow, Boon Pin Kee, Rainer Fischer, Stefan Schillberg, Rofina Yasmin Othman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5780 PubMed 30581655

December 6, 2018

Development and internal validation of a nine-lncRNA prognostic signature for prediction of overall survival in colorectal cancer patients

Zhiqiao Zhang, Qingbo Liu, Peng Wang, Jing Li, Tingshan He, Yanling Ouyang, Yiyan Huang, Weidong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6061 PubMed 30564521

December 5, 2018

Aberrant repair initiated by the adenine-DNA glycosylase does not play a role in UV-induced mutagenesis in Escherichia coli

Caroline Zutterling, Aibek Mursalimov, Ibtissam Talhaoui, Zhanat Koshenov, Zhiger Akishev, Amangeldy K. Bissenbaev, Gerard Mazon, Nicolas E. Geacintov, Didier Gasparutto, Regina Groisman, Dmitry O. Zharkov, Bakhyt T. Matkarimov, Murat Saparbaev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6029 PubMed 30568855

December 4, 2018

COI barcoding of plant bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae)

Junggon Kim, Sunghoon Jung

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6070 PubMed 30533322

December 4, 2018

Complete chloroplast genome sequences of Dioscorea: Characterization, genomic resources, and phylogenetic analyses

Zhenyu Zhao, Xin Wang, Yi Yu, Subo Yuan, Dan Jiang, Yujun Zhang, Teng Zhang, Wenhao Zhong, Qingjun Yuan, Luqi Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6032 PubMed 30533315

December 4, 2018

Molecular evolution and expression divergence of three key Met biosynthetic genes in plants: CGS, HMT and MMT

Man Zhao, Wenyi Wang, Lei Wei, Peng Chen, Fengjie Yuan, Zhao Wang, Xiangxian Ying