Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

March 14, 2019

Identification of four hub genes associated with adrenocortical carcinoma progression by WGCNA

Wang-Xiao Xia, Qin Yu, Gong-Hua Li, Yao-Wen Liu, Fu-Hui Xiao, Li-Qin Yang, Zia Ur Rahman, Hao-Tian Wang, Qing-Peng Kong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6555 PubMed 30886771

March 22, 2019

Evidence of cryptic lineages within a small South American crocodilian: the Schneider’s dwarf caiman Paleosuchus trigonatus (Alligatoridae: Caimaninae)

Pedro Senna Bittencourt, Zilca Campos, Fábio de Lima Muniz, Boris Marioni, Bruno Campos Souza, Ronis Da Silveira, Benoit de Thoisy, Tomas Hrbek, Izeni Pires Farias

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6580 PubMed 30931177

March 29, 2019

Music-performance regulates microRNAs in professional musicians

Preethy Sasidharan Nair, Tuire Kuusi, Minna Ahvenainen, Anju K. Philips, Irma Järvelä

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6660 PubMed 30956902

March 27, 2019

Old wild wolves: ancient DNA survey unveils population dynamics in Late Pleistocene and Holocene Italian remains

Marta Maria Ciucani, Davide Palumbo, Marco Galaverni, Patrizia Serventi, Elena Fabbri, Gloria Ravegnini, Sabrina Angelini, Elena Maini, Davide Persico, Romolo Caniglia, Elisabetta Cilli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6424 PubMed 30944772

March 26, 2019

Proteomics alterations in chicken jejunum caused by 24 h fasting

Ádám Simon, Gabriella Gulyás, Zoltán Mészár, Mangesh Bhide, János Oláh, Péter Bai, Éva Csősz, András Jávor, István Komlósi, Judit Remenyik, Levente Czeglédi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6588 PubMed 30941268

March 11, 2019

A systematic comparison of eight new plastome sequences from Ipomoea L

Jianying Sun, Xiaofeng Dong, Qinghe Cao, Tao Xu, Mingku Zhu, Jian Sun, Tingting Dong, Daifu Ma, Yonghua Han, Zongyun Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6563 PubMed 30881765

March 26, 2019

Comparative genomic analysis of the IDD genes in five Rosaceae species and expression analysis in Chinese white pear (Pyrus bretschneideri)

Xueqiang Su, Tiankai Meng, Yu Zhao, Guohui Li, Xi Cheng, Muhammad Abdullah, Xu Sun, Yongping Cai, Yi Lin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6628 PubMed 30941270

March 29, 2019

A set of novel SNP loci for differentiating continental populations and three Chinese populations

Xiao-Ye Jin, Yuan-Yuan Wei, Qiong Lan, Wei Cui, Chong Chen, Yu-Xin Guo, Ya-Ting Fang, Bo-Feng Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6508 PubMed 30956897

March 26, 2019

Isolation of cancer stem cells by selection for miR-302 expressing cells

Karim Rahimi, Annette C. Füchtbauer, Fardin Fathi, Seyed J. Mowla, Ernst-Martin Füchtbauer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6635 PubMed 30941272

March 20, 2019

Low genetic diversity in captive populations of the critically endangered Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Garrulax courtoisi) revealed by a panel of novel microsatellites

Guoling Chen, Chenqing Zheng, Nelson Wan, Daoqiang Liu, Vivian Wing Kan Fu, Xu Yang, Yat-tung Yu, Yang Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6643 PubMed 30918762

March 4, 2019

Employing toxin-antitoxin genome markers for identification of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus strains in human metagenomes

Ksenia M. Klimina, Artem S. Kasianov, Elena U. Poluektova, Kirill V. Emelyanov, Viktoriya N. Voroshilova, Natalia V. Zakharevich, Anna V. Kudryavtseva, Vsevolod J. Makeev, Valery N. Danilenko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6554 PubMed 30863681

March 14, 2019

Recognizing two new Hippolyte species (Decapoda, Caridea, Hippolytidae) from the South China Sea based on integrative taxonomy

Zhi-Bin Gan, Xin-Zheng Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6605 PubMed 30886782

March 7, 2019

Climate change and conservation in a warm North American desert: effect in shrubby plants

Victoria Sosa, Israel Loera, Diego F. Angulo, Marilyn Vásquez-Cruz, Etelvina Gándara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6572 PubMed 30867993

March 18, 2019

Genome-wide characterization of endogenous retroviruses in snub-nosed monkeys

Xiao Wang, Boshi Wang, Zhijin Liu, Paul A. Garber, Huijuan Pan