Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

February 28, 2019

Salvianolic acid B plays an anti-obesity role in high fat diet-induced obese mice by regulating the expression of mRNA, circRNA, and lncRNA

429 downloads

989 views

Tian An, Jing Zhang, Bohan Lv, Yufei Liu, Jiangpinghao Huang, Juan Lian, Yanxiang Wu, Sihua Gao, Guangjian Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6506 PubMed 30842902

February 28, 2019

Remote sensing pipeline for tree segmentation and classification in a mixed softwood and hardwood system

208 downloads

664 views

Conor A. McMahon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5837 PubMed 30842891

February 28, 2019

A data science challenge for converting airborne remote sensing data into ecological information

2 citations

543 downloads

2,313 views

Sergio Marconi, Sarah J. Graves, Dihong Gong, Morteza Shahriari Nia, Marion Le Bras, Bonnie J. Dorr, Peter Fontana, Justin Gearhart, Craig Greenberg, Dave J. Harris, Sugumar Arvind Kumar, Agarwal Nishant, Joshi Prarabdh, Sundeep U. Rege, Stephanie Ann Bohlman, Ethan P. White, Daisy Zhe Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5843 PubMed 30842892

February 28, 2019

Remote sensing tree classification with a multilayer perceptron

1 citation

368 downloads

925 views

G Rex Sumsion, Michael S. Bradshaw, Kimball T. Hill, Lucas D.G. Pinto, Stephen R. Piccolo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6101 PubMed 30842894

February 28, 2019

Hyperspectral tree crown classification using the multiple instance adaptive cosine estimator

377 downloads

867 views

Sheng Zou, Paul Gader, Alina Zare

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6405 PubMed 30842896

February 28, 2019

Active management is required to turn the tide for depleted Ostrea edulis stocks from the effects of overfishing, disease and invasive species

2 citations

464 downloads

1,832 views

Luke Helmer, Paul Farrell, Ian Hendy, Simon Harding, Morven Robertson, Joanne Preston

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6431 PubMed 30842897

February 28, 2019

Quantitative heterodonty in Crocodylia: assessing size and shape across modern and extinct taxa

6 citations

859 downloads

2,832 views

Domenic C. D’Amore, Megan Harmon, Stephanie K. Drumheller, Jason J. Testin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6485 PubMed 30842900

February 28, 2019

Effects of root phenotypic changes on the deep rooting of Populus euphratica seedlings under drought stresses

307 downloads

786 views

Zi-qi Ye, Jian-ming Wang, Wen-juan Wang, Tian-han Zhang, Jing-wen Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6513 PubMed 30842904

February 28, 2019

TarSynFlow, a workflow for bacterial genome comparisons that revealed genes putatively involved in the probiotic character of Shewanella putrefaciens strain Pdp11

323 downloads

1,101 views

Pedro Seoane, Silvana T. Tapia-Paniagua, Rocío Bautista, Elena Alcaide, Consuelo Esteve, Eduardo Martínez-Manzanares, M. Carmen Balebona, M. Gonzalo Claros, Miguel A. Moriñigo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6526 PubMed 30842906

February 28, 2019

Winter temperature predicts prolonged diapause in pine processionary moth species across their geographic range

1 citation

221 downloads

645 views

Md H.R. Salman, Carmelo P. Bonsignore, Ahmed El Alaoui El Fels, Folco Giomi, José A. Hodar, Mathieu Laparie, Lorenzo Marini, Cécile Merel, Myron P. Zalucki, Mohamed Zamoum, Andrea Battisti

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6530 PubMed 30842907

February 28, 2019

Recruitment of cognitive control regions during effortful self-control is associated with altered brain activity in control and reward systems in dieters during subsequent exposure to food commercials

3 citations

239 downloads

847 views

Richard B. Lopez, Andrea L. Courtney, Dylan D. Wagner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6550 PubMed 30842910

February 28, 2019

Repeated ethanol exposure increases anxiety-like behaviour in zebrafish during withdrawal

2 citations

230 downloads

687 views

Jeffrey T. Krook, Erika Duperreault, Dustin Newton, Matthew S. Ross, Trevor J. Hamilton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6551 PubMed 30842911

February 28, 2019

A novel and enigmatic two-holed shell aperture in a new species of suspension-feeding worm-snail (Vermetidae)

220 downloads

737 views

Rüdiger Bieler, Timothy M. Collins, Rosemary Golding, Timothy A. Rawlings

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6569

February 27, 2019

Chemical composition, antioxidant and hepatoprotective activities of methanol extracts from leaves of Terminalia bellirica and Terminalia sericea (Combretaceae)

3 citations

729 downloads

951 views

Mansour Sobeh, Mona F. Mahmoud, Rehab A. Hasan, Mohamed A.O. Abdelfattah, Samir Osman, Harun-or Rashid, Assem M. El-Shazly, Michael Wink

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6322 PubMed 30834179

February 27, 2019

The nectar report: quantitative review of nectar sugar concentrations offered by bee visited flowers in agricultural and non-agricultural landscapes

2 citations

663 downloads

1,570 views

Tobias Pamminger, Roland Becker, Sophie Himmelreich, Christof W. Schneider, Matthias Bergtold

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6329 PubMed 30834180

February 27, 2019

Identification of a novel potassium channel (GiK) as a potential drug target in Giardia lamblia: Computational descriptions of binding sites

476 downloads

877 views

Lissethe Palomo-Ligas, Filiberto Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, Verónica Yadira Ochoa-Maganda, Rafael Cortés-Zárate, Claudia Lisette Charles-Niño, Araceli Castillo-Romero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6430 PubMed 30834181

February 27, 2019

Trends in fragmentation and connectivity of Paspalum quadrifarium grasslands in the Buenos Aires province, Argentina

326 downloads

596 views

Marcelo L. Gandini, Bruno D. Lara, Laura B. Moreno, Maria A. Cañibano, Patricia A. Gandini

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6450 PubMed 30834182

February 27, 2019

Considerations for studying transmission of antimicrobial resistant enteric bacteria between wild birds and the environment on intensive dairy and beef cattle operations

416 downloads

863 views

Kristin Tormoehlen, Yvette J. Johnson-Walker, Emily W. Lankau, Maung San Myint, John A. Herrmann