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May 2019

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

DNA analysis to determine the identity of plant material from the digestive tracts of katydids

Four species of Phaneropterine katydids from Barro Colorado Island

May 3, 2019

DNA analysis to determine the identity of plant material from the digestive tracts of katydids

Researchers adapted a laboratory protocol for extracting and sequencing plant material from gut contents and applied it to Neotropical forest katydids (bush crickets).

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May 7, 2019

Promotion of growth and metal accumulation of alfalfa by coinoculation with Sinorhizobium and Agrobacterium under copper and zinc stress

1 citation

568 downloads

577 views

Liru Jian, Xiaoli Bai, Hui Zhang, Xiuyong Song, Zhefei Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6875 PubMed 31119081

May 3, 2019

Physiological and biochemical responses of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L) to ultraviolet-B radiation

1 citation

394 downloads

750 views

Parisa Rahimzadeh Karvansara, Seyed Mehdi Razavi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6790 PubMed 31110917

May 23, 2019

Identification and characterization of mRNAs and lncRNAs in the uterus of polytocous and monotocous Small Tail Han sheep (Ovis aries)

2 citations

388 downloads

775 views

Yongfu La, Jishun Tang, Xiaoyun He, Ran Di, Xiangyu Wang, Qiuyue Liu, Liping Zhang, Xiaosheng Zhang, Jinlong Zhang, Wenping Hu, Mingxing Chu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6938 PubMed 31198626

May 14, 2019

Functional analysis of the GbDWARF14 gene associated with branching development in cotton

1 citation

384 downloads

842 views

Ping Wang, Sai Zhang, Jing Qiao, Quan Sun, Qian Shi, Chaowei Cai, Jianchuan Mo, Zongyan Chu, Youlu Yuan, Xiongming Du, Yuchen Miao, Xiao Zhang, Yingfan Cai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6901 PubMed 31143538

May 23, 2019

Gene expression in Tribolium castaneum life stages: Identifying a species-specific target for pest control applications

1 citation

364 downloads

524 views

Lindsey C. Perkin, Brenda Oppert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6946 PubMed 31198628

May 1, 2019

Manganese affects the growth and metabolism of Ganoderma lucidum based on LC-MS analysis

344 downloads

655 views

Bo Zhang, Jie Zhou, Qiang Li, Bingcheng Gan, Weihong Peng, Xiaoping Zhang, Wei Tan, Lin Jiang, Xiaolin Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6846 PubMed 31106063

May 29, 2019

Soil bacterial and fungal communities of six bahiagrass cultivars

1 citation

328 downloads

991 views

Lukas Beule, Ko-Hsuan Chen, Chih-Ming Hsu, Cheryl Mackowiak, Jose C.B. Dubeux Jr., Ann Blount, Hui-Ling Liao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7014 PubMed 31179193

May 1, 2019

The response of cucumber plants (Cucumis sativus L.) to the application of PCB-contaminated sewage sludge and urban sediment

2 citations

323 downloads

880 views

Anna Wyrwicka, Magdalena Urbaniak, Mirosław Przybylski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6743 PubMed 31106050

May 9, 2019

Water permeability/impermeability in seeds of 15 species of Caragana (Fabaceae)

318 downloads

679 views

Dali Chen, Rui Zhang, Carol C. Baskin, Xiaowen Hu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6870 PubMed 31119080

May 22, 2019

Evaluation of in-vitro methods to select effective streptomycetes against toxigenic fusaria

2 citations

308 downloads

555 views

Elena Maria Colombo, Cristina Pizzatti, Andrea Kunova, Claudio Gardana, Marco Saracchi, Paolo Cortesi, Matias Pasquali

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6905 PubMed 31198624

May 3, 2019

Genome-wide identification and expression profile analysis of the Hsp20 gene family in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)

1 citation

305 downloads

871 views

Jie Li, Xinhao Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6832 PubMed 31110921

May 8, 2019

Comparison of microbial community structures in soils with woody organic amendments and soils with traditional local organic amendments in Ningxia of Northern China

282 downloads

774 views

Zhigang Li, Kaiyang Qiu, Rebecca L. Schneider, Stephen J. Morreale, Yingzhong Xie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6854 PubMed 31119077

May 3, 2019

Characterization of introgression from the teosinte Zea mays ssp. mexicana to Mexican highland maize

275 downloads

1,004 views

Eric Gonzalez-Segovia, Sergio Pérez-Limon, G. Carolina Cíntora-Martínez, Alejandro Guerrero-Zavala, Garrett M. Janzen, Matthew B. Hufford, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Ruairidh J. H. Sawers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6815 PubMed 31110920

May 10, 2019

Use of aerial thermography to reduce mortality of roe deer fawns before harvest

252 downloads

904 views

Jan Cukor, Jan Bartoška, Jan Rohla, Jan Sova, Antonín Machálek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6923 PubMed 31123640

May 31, 2019

Recommendations for dietary level of micro-minerals and vitamin D₃ to Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) parr and post-smolt when fed low fish meal diets

231 downloads

726 views

P. Antony Jesu Prabhu, Erik-Jan Lock, Gro-Ingunn Hemre, Kristin Hamre, Marit Espe, Pål A. Olsvik, Joana Silva, Ann-Cecilie Hansen, Johan Johansen, Nini H. Sissener, Rune Waagbø

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6996 PubMed 31183254

May 10, 2019

A multi-generational risk assessment of Cry1F on the non-target soil organism Folsomia candida (Collembola) based on whole transcriptome profiling

231 downloads

543 views

Cheng-Wang Huang, Wan-Jun Chen, Xin Ke, Yunhe Li, Yun-Xia Luan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6924 PubMed 31123641

May 14, 2019

PEST sequences from a cactus dehydrin regulate its proteolytic degradation

212 downloads

682 views

Adriana L. Salazar-Retana, Israel Maruri-López, Itzell E. Hernández-Sánchez, Alicia Becerra-Flora, María de la Luz Guerrero-González, Juan Francisco Jiménez-Bremont

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6810 PubMed 31143531

May 3, 2019

Effects of species-dominated patches on soil organic carbon and total nitrogen storage in a degraded grassland in China

205 downloads

591 views

Yujuan Zhang, Shiming Tang, Shu Xie, Kesi Liu, Jinsheng Li, Qian Chen, Ding Huang, Kun Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6897 PubMed 31110928

May 16, 2019

Dissection of three quantitative trait loci for grain size on the long arm of chromosome 10 in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

1 citation

204 downloads

734 views