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January 2019

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Descriptive anatomy of the largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis

Three-dimensional skull of BMT 1955.G35.1, Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis.

January 8, 2019

Descriptive anatomy of the largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis

Representing one of the first times that medical imaging and three-dimensional reconstruction methods have been applied to a large skull of a marine reptile, researchers describe the partial skeleton of a large ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Warwickshire, England. The unusual three-dimensional preservation of the specimen permitted computed tomography (CT) scanning of individual braincase elements as well as the entire reassembled skull.

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January 25, 2019

Isolation of wheat bran-colonizing and metabolizing species from the human fecal microbiota

Kim De Paepe, Joran Verspreet, Mohammad Naser Rezaei, Silvia Hidalgo Martinez, Filip Meysman, Davy Van de Walle, Koen Dewettinck, Jeroen Raes, Christophe Courtin, Tom Van de Wiele

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6293 PubMed 30701133

January 14, 2019

Identification and characterization of capsule depolymerase Dpo48 from Acinetobacter baumannii phage IME200

Yannan Liu, Zhiqiang Mi, Liyuan Mi, Yong Huang, Puyuan Li, Huiying Liu, Xin Yuan, Wenkai Niu, Ning Jiang, Changqing Bai, Zhancheng Gao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6173 PubMed 30656071

January 24, 2019

Genome-wide characterization and expression analyses of the MYB superfamily genes during developmental stages in Chinese jujube

Ji Qing, Wang Dawei, Zhou Jun, Xu Yulan, Shen Bingqi, Zhou Fan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6353 PubMed 30697496

January 31, 2019

Validation of reference genes for gene expression studies in post-harvest leaves of tea plant (Camellia sinensis)

Zi-wei Zhou, Hui-li Deng, Qing-yang Wu, Bin-bin Liu, Chuan Yue, Ting-ting Deng, Zhong-xiong Lai, Yun Sun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6385 PubMed 30723635

January 9, 2019

Efficient generation of human primordial germ cell-like cells from pluripotent stem cells in a methylcellulose-based 3D system at large scale

Xiaoman Wang, Tingting Liao, Cong Wan, Xiaoyu Yang, Jiexiang Zhao, Rui Fu, Zhaokai Yao, Yaping Huang, Yujia Shi, Gang Chang, Yi Zheng, Fang Luo, Zhaoting Liu, Yu Wang, Xinliang Mao, Xiao-Yang Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6143 PubMed 30643676

January 15, 2019

Duplicated flavonoid 3’-hydroxylase and flavonoid 3’, 5’-hydroxylase genes in barley genome

Alexander V. Vikhorev, Ksenia V. Strygina, Elena K. Khlestkina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6266 PubMed 30671306

January 11, 2019

Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the MYB transcription factor in moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis)

Kebin Yang, Ying Li, Sining Wang, Xiurong Xu, Huayu Sun, Hansheng Zhao, Xueping Li, Zhimin Gao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6242 PubMed 30648007

January 14, 2019

Global genomic similarity and core genome sequence diversity of the Streptococcus genus as a toolkit to identify closely related bacterial species in complex environments

Hugo R. Barajas, Miguel F. Romero, Shamayim Martínez-Sánchez, Luis D. Alcaraz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6233 PubMed 30656069

January 8, 2019

hdac4 mediates perichondral ossification and pharyngeal skeleton development in the zebrafish

April DeLaurier, Cynthia Lizzet Alvarez, Kali J Wiggins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6167 PubMed 30643696

January 29, 2019

Design, optimization and validation of genes commonly used in expression studies on DMH/AOM rat colon carcinogenesis model

David Bars-Cortina, Antoni Riera-Escamilla, Gemma Gou, Carme Piñol-Felis, María-José Motilva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6372 PubMed 30713822

January 31, 2019

Identification, expression, and phylogenetic analyses of terpenoid biosynthesis-related genes in secondary xylem of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) based on transcriptome analyses

Jipeng Mao, Zidi He, Jing Hao, Tianyi Liu, Jiehu Chen, Shaowei Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6124 PubMed 30723613

January 16, 2019

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated deletion of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome locus causes actin cytoskeleton disorganization in murine erythroleukemia cells

Vanessa Fernández-Calleja, María-José Fernández-Nestosa, Pablo Hernández, Jorge B. Schvartzman, Dora B. Krimer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6284 PubMed 30671311

January 22, 2019

Genome-wide analysis of circular RNAs in goat skin fibroblast cells in response to Orf virus infection

Feng Pang, Mengmeng Zhang, Xiaojian Yang, Guohua Li, Shu Zhu, Xin Nie, Ruiyong Cao, Xiaohong Yang, Zhenxing Zhang, Haifeng Huang, Baobao Li, Chengqiang Wang, Li Du, Fengyang Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6267 PubMed 30697481

January 3, 2019

Isolation and identification of marine strains of Stenotrophomona maltophilia with high chitinolytic activity

Roger Salas-Ovilla, Didiana Gálvez-López, Alfredo Vázquez-Ovando, Miguel Salvador-Figueroa, Raymundo Rosas-Quijano

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6102 PubMed 30627485

January 9, 2019

Didymin improves UV irradiation resistance in C. elegans

Lin Zhou, Lu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Jiahe Li, Shuju Bai, Junfeng Ma, Xueqi Fu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6218 PubMed 30643686

January 16, 2019

Targeted inactivation of Salmonella Agona metabolic genes by group II introns and in vivo assessment of pathogenicity and anti-tumour activity in mouse model

Chin Piaw Gwee, Chai Hoon Khoo, Swee Keong Yeap, Geok Chin Tan, Yoke Kqueen Cheah