Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

March 5, 2019

Improved taxonomic assignment of rumen bacterial 16S rRNA sequences using a revised SILVA taxonomic framework

Gemma Henderson, Pelin Yilmaz, Sandeep Kumar, Robert J. Forster, William J. Kelly, Sinead C. Leahy, Le Luo Guan, Peter H. Janssen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6496 PubMed 30863673

March 14, 2019

Staphylococcus spp. associated with subclinical bovine mastitis in central and northeast provinces of Thailand

Natapol Pumipuntu, Witawat Tunyong, Narisara Chantratita, Pornphan Diraphat, Pornpan Pumirat, Nitat Sookrung, Wanpen Chaicumpa, Nitaya Indrawattana

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6587 PubMed 30886776

March 18, 2019

Phytobiomes are compositionally nested from the ground up

Anthony S. Amend, Gerald M. Cobian, Aki J. Laruson, Kristina Remple, Sarah J. Tucker, Kirsten E. Poff, Carmen Antaky, Andre Boraks, Casey A. Jones, Donna Kuehu, Becca R. Lensing, Mersedeh Pejhanmehr, Daniel T. Richardson, Paul P. Riley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6609 PubMed 30918757

March 14, 2019

Circadian disruption and divergent microbiota acquisition under extended photoperiod regimens in chicken

Anne-Sophie Charlotte Hieke, Shawna Marie Hubert, Giridhar Athrey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6592 PubMed 30886778

March 13, 2019

Assessing alignment-based taxonomic classification of ancient microbial DNA

Raphael Eisenhofer, Laura Susan Weyrich

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6594 PubMed 30886779

March 29, 2019

Comparative analysis and characterization of the gut microbiota of four farmed snakes from southern China

Bing Zhang, Jing Ren, Daode Yang, Shuoran Liu, Xinguo Gong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6658 PubMed 30956901

March 28, 2019

Comparison of the fecal microbiota of two free-ranging Chinese subspecies of the leopard (Panthera pardus) using high-throughput sequencing

Siyu Han, Yu Guan, Hailong Dou, Haitao Yang, Meng Yao, Jianping Ge, Limin Feng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6684 PubMed 30944781

March 6, 2019

Agrobacterium rhizogenes—mediated transformation of Pisum sativum L. roots as a tool for studying the mycorrhizal and root nodule symbioses

Irina V. Leppyanen, Anna N. Kirienko, Elena A. Dolgikh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6552 PubMed 30863680

March 28, 2019

Evaluation of a toxoid fusion protein vaccine produced in plants to protect poultry against necrotic enteritis

Joseph G.L. Hunter, Shyra Wilde, Amanda M. Tafoya, Jamie Horsman, Miranda Yousif, Andrew G. Diamos, Kenneth L. Roland, Hugh S. Mason

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6600 PubMed 30944775

March 8, 2019

Environmental inactivation and irrigation-mediated regrowth of Escherichia coli O157:H7 on romaine lettuce when inoculated in a fecal slurry matrix

Jennifer A. Chase, Melissa L. Partyka, Ronald F. Bond, Edward R. Atwill

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6591 PubMed 30867998

March 21, 2019

Association between herd management practices and antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella spp. from cull dairy cattle in Central California

Richard Pereira, Deniece R. Williams, Paul Rossitto, John Adaska, Emmanuel Okello, John Champagne, Terry W. Lehenbauer, Xunde Li, Jennifer Chase, Tran Nguyen, Alda F. A. Pires, Edward R. Atwill, Sharif S. Aly

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6546 PubMed 30923650

March 21, 2019

Dose-dependent and strain-dependent anti-obesity effects of Lactobacillus sakei in a diet induced obese murine model

Yosep Ji, Young Mee Chung, Soyoung Park, Dahye Jeong, Bongjoon Kim, Wilhelm Heinrich Holzapfel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6651 PubMed 30923658

March 20, 2019

Minimum inhibitory concentration of nano-silver bactericides for beneficial microbes and its effect on Ralstonia solanacearum and seed germination of Japanese Cucumber (Cucumis sativus)

Poopak Sotoodehnia, Norida Mazlan, Halimi Mohd Saud, Wahid A. Samsuri, Sheikh Hasna Habib, Amin Soltangheisi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6418 PubMed 30918747

March 21, 2019

Human gut resistome can be country-specific

Yao Xia, Yanshan Zhu, Qier Li, Jiahai Lu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6389 PubMed 30923648

March 26, 2019

Robust and automatic definition of microbiome states

Beatriz García-Jiménez, Mark D. Wilkinson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6657 PubMed 30941274

March 1, 2019

Use of Next Generation Sequencing to study two cowpox virus outbreaks

Markus H. Antwerpen, Enrico Georgi, Alexandra Nikolic, Gudrun Zoeller, Peter Wohlsein, Wolfgang Baumgärtner, Christophe Peyrefitte, Remi Charrel, Hermann Meyer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6561 PubMed 30847261

March 26, 2019

Biodegradation of thiocyanate by a native groundwater microbial consortium

Liam P. Spurr, Mathew P. Watts, Han M. Gan, John W. Moreau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6498 PubMed 30941266

March 11, 2019

The effect of sewage sludge and BAF inoculant on plant condition and yield as well as biochemical and microbial activity of soil in willow (Salix viminalis L.) culture as an energy crop

Katarzyna Panasiewicz, Alicja Niewiadomska, Hanna Sulewska, Agnieszka Wolna-Maruwka, Klaudia Borowiak, Anna Budka, Karolina Ratajczak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6434 PubMed 30881760

March 13, 2019

Identification of Austwickia chelonae as cause of cutaneous granuloma in endangered crocodile lizards using metataxonomics

Haiying Jiang, Xiujuan Zhang, Linmiao Li, Jinge Ma, Nan He, Haiyang Liu, Richou Han, Huiming Li, Zhengjun Wu, Jinping Chen