Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

July 26, 2019

MetaBAT 2: an adaptive binning algorithm for robust and efficient genome reconstruction from metagenome assemblies

Dongwan D. Kang, Feng Li, Edward Kirton, Ashleigh Thomas, Rob Egan, Hong An, Zhong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7359 PubMed 31388474

July 23, 2019

Bacillus spp.: potent microfactories of bacterial IAA

Shabana Wagi, Ambreen Ahmed

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7258 PubMed 31372316

July 4, 2019

Towards optimized viral metagenomes for double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses from challenging soils

Gareth Trubl, Simon Roux, Natalie Solonenko, Yueh-Fen Li, Benjamin Bolduc, Josué Rodríguez-Ramos, Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh, Virginia I. Rich, Matthew B. Sullivan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7265 PubMed 31309007

July 8, 2019

A proposed update for the classification and description of bacterial lipolytic enzymes

Thomas C.A. Hitch, Thomas Clavel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7249 PubMed 31328034

July 12, 2019

Functional properties of bacterial communities in water and sediment of the eutrophic river-lake system of Poyang Lake, China

Ze Ren, Xiaodong Qu, Wenqi Peng, Yang Yu, Min Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7318 PubMed 31338262

July 22, 2019

Patterned progression of gut microbiota associated with necrotizing enterocolitis and late onset sepsis in preterm infants: a prospective study in a Chinese neonatal intensive care unit

Jiayi Liu, Yuqing Li, Yi Feng, Liya Pan, Zhoulonglong Xie, Zhilong Yan, Li Zhang, Mingkun Li, Jianhua Zhao, Jianhua Sun, Li Hong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7310 PubMed 31367483

July 16, 2019

Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus: advances in diagnosis and vaccine development

Chean Yeah Yong, Hui Kian Ong, Hooi Chia Tang, Swee Keong Yeap, Abdul Rahman Omar, Kok Lian Ho, Wen Siang Tan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7151 PubMed 31341728

July 15, 2019

A green garlic (Allium sativum L.) based intercropping system reduces the strain of continuous monocropping in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) by adjusting the micro-ecological environment of soil

Xuemei Xiao, Zhihui Cheng, Jian Lv, Jianming Xie, Ning Ma, Jihua Yu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7267 PubMed 31341735

July 4, 2019

A survey of the sperm whale (Physeter catodon) commensal microbiome

Chang Li, Xiaoxuan Tan, Jie Bai, Qiwu Xu, Shanshan Liu, Wenjie Guo, Cong Yu, Guangyi Fan, Yishan Lu, He Zhang, Huanming Yang, Jianwei Chen, Xin Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7257 PubMed 31309006

July 22, 2019

Cloning, purification, and characterization of GH3 β-glucosidase, MtBgl85, from Microbulbifer thermotolerans DAU221

Hyo-Min Pyeon, Yong-Suk Lee, Yong-Lark Choi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7106 PubMed 31367479

July 15, 2019

Molecular characterization of bacterial leaf streak resistance in hard winter wheat

Sai Mukund Ramakrishnan, Jagdeep Singh Sidhu, Shaukat Ali, Navjot Kaur, Jixiang Wu, Sunish K. Sehgal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7276 PubMed 31341737

July 25, 2019

TiO₂ nanoparticles affect the bacterial community structure and Eisenia fetida (Savigny, 1826) in an arable soil

Katia Berenice Sánchez-López, Francisco J. De los Santos-Ramos, Elizabeth Selene Gómez-Acata, Marco Luna-Guido, Yendi E. Navarro-Noya, Fabián Fernández-Luqueño, Luc Dendooven

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6939 PubMed 31380145

July 17, 2019

Microbial regulation of soil carbon properties under nitrogen addition and plant inputs removal

Ran Wu, Xiaoqin Cheng, Wensong Zhou, Hairong Han

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7343 PubMed 31346503

July 30, 2019

Shared mycorrhizae but distinct communities of other root-associated microbes on co-occurring native and invasive maples

Tonia DeBellis, Steven W. Kembel, Jean-Philippe Lessard

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7295 PubMed 31392089

July 19, 2019

Microbial taxonomical composition in spruce phyllosphere, but not community functional structure, varies by geographical location

Yunshi Li, Xiukun Wu, Wanfu Wang, Minghao Wang, Changming Zhao, Tuo Chen, Guangxiu Liu, Wei Zhang, Shiweng Li, Huaizhe Zhou, Minghui Wu, Ruiqi Yang, Gaosen Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7376 PubMed 31355059

July 19, 2019

Proximate grassland and shrub-encroached sites show dramatic restructuring of soil bacterial communities

Xingjia Xiang, Sean M. Gibbons, He Li, Haihua Shen, Haiyan Chu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7304 PubMed 31355057

July 8, 2019

Soil carbon mineralization in response to nitrogen enrichment in surface and subsurface layers in two land use types

Nazia Perveen, Mariam Ayub, Tanvir Shahzad, Muhammad Rashid Siddiq, Muhammad Sohail Memon, Sébastien Barot, Hamid Saeed, Ming Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7130 PubMed 31328029