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December 2019

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

December 4, 2019

Rediscovery of Osteocephalus vilarsi (Anura: Hylidae): an overlooked but widespread Amazonian spiny-backed treefrog

Miquéias Ferrão, Jiří Moravec, Leandro J.C.L. Moraes, Vinicius T. de Carvalho, Marcelo Gordo, Albertina P. Lima

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8160 PubMed 31824771

December 20, 2019

Genetic links between endometriosis and cancers in women

Salma Begum Bhyan, Li Zhao, YongKiat Wee, Yining Liu, Min Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8135 PubMed 31879572

December 3, 2019

Effectiveness of water-saving technologies during early stages of restoration of endemic Opuntia cacti in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

Patricia Isabela Tapia, Luka Negoita, James P. Gibbs, Patricia Jaramillo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8156 PubMed 31824769

December 17, 2019

Ontogenetic and inter-elemental osteohistological variability in the leopard tortoise Stigmochelys pardalis

Alexander Edward Botha, Jennifer Botha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8030 PubMed 31871831

December 13, 2019

Vegetation dynamic analysis based on multisource remote sensing data in the east margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Haijun Wang, Peihao Peng, Xiangdong Kong, Tingbin Zhang, Guihua Yi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8223 PubMed 31844592

December 20, 2019

Characterization and comparative analysis of the complete chloroplast genome sequence from Prunus avium ‘Summit’

Xueqing Zhao, Ming Yan, Yu Ding, Yan Huo, Zhaohe Yuan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8210 PubMed 31879574

December 20, 2019

A new insight to biomarkers related to resistance in survived-white spot syndrome virus challenged giant tiger shrimp, Penaeus monodon

Farhana Mohd Ghani, Subha Bhassu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8107 PubMed 31875142

December 19, 2019

Biomarker potential of repetitive-element transcriptome in lung cancer

Macarena Arroyo, Rocío Bautista, Rafael Larrosa, Manuel Ángel Cobo, M. Gonzalo Claros

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8277 PubMed 31875158

December 11, 2019

Response of colonial Peruvian guano birds to flying UAVs: effects and feasibility for implementing new population monitoring methods

Cinthia Irigoin-Lovera, Diana M. Luna, Diego A. Acosta, Carlos B. Zavalaga

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8129 PubMed 31844569

December 10, 2019

A comparison of random-field-theory and false-discovery-rate inference results in the analysis of registered one-dimensional biomechanical datasets

Hanaa Naouma, Todd C. Pataky

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8189 PubMed 31844582

December 9, 2019

Systematic analysis and prediction model construction of alternative splicing events in hepatocellular carcinoma: a study on the basis of large-scale spliceseq data from The Cancer Genome Atlas

Lingpeng Yang, Yang He, Zifei Zhang, Wentao Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8245 PubMed 31844595

December 5, 2019

Design and preliminary application of affinity peptide based on the structure of the porcine circovirus type II Capsid (PCV2 Cap)

Junfang Hao, Fangyu Wang, Guangxu Xing, Yunchao Liu, Ruiguang Deng, Hao Zhang, Anchun Cheng, Gaiping Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8132 PubMed 31824765

December 3, 2019

Amino acids and acylcarnitine production by Chlorella vulgaris and Chlorella sorokiniana microalgae from wastewater culture

Juan M. Ballesteros-Torres, Luis Samaniego-Moreno, Ricardo Gomez-Flores, Reyes S. Tamez-Guerra, Cristina Rodríguez-Padilla, Patricia Tamez-Guerra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7977 PubMed 31824754

December 3, 2019

Overexpression of VEGF-C and MMP-9 predicts poor prognosis in Kazakh patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Jiangfen Li, Yufang Xie, Xueli Wang, Chenhao Jiang, Xin Yuan, Anzhi Zhang, Chunxia Liu, Lijuan Pang, Feng Li, Jianming Hu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8182 PubMed 31824776

December 16, 2019

Prey-tracking behavior and prey preferences in a tree-climbing firefly

Nozomu Sato

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8080 PubMed 31871834

December 11, 2019

Identification of miRNA precursors in the phloem of Cucurbita maxima

Eugeny Tolstyko, Alexander Lezzhov, Andrey Solovyev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8269 PubMed 31844599

December 20, 2019

Comparative RNA-sequencing profiled the differential gene expression of liver in response to acetyl-CoA carboxylase inhibitor GS-0976 in a mouse model of NASH

Ying Lu, Xiaolan Su, Manyu Zhao, Qianru Zhang, Chuang Liu, Qinhuai Lai, Sijia Wu, Aiping Fang, Jinliang Yang, Xiaoxin Chen, Yuqin Yao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8115 PubMed 31879571

December 17, 2019

Why do we transition from walking to running? Energy cost and lower leg muscle activity before and after gait transition under body weight support

Daijiro Abe, Yoshiyuki Fukuoka, Masahiro Horiuchi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8290 PubMed 31871846

December 2, 2019

Propofol inhibits stromatoxin-1-sensitive voltage-dependent K⁺ channels in pancreatic β-cells and enhances insulin secretion

Munenori Kusunoki, Mikio Hayashi, Tomohiro Shoji, Takeo Uba, Hiromasa Tanaka, Chisato Sumi, Yoshiyuki Matsuo, Kiichi Hirota

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8157 PubMed 31824770

December 18, 2019

Sipha maydis sensitivity to defences of Lolium multiflorum and its endophytic fungus Epichloë occultans

Daniel A. Bastías, Maria Alejandra Martínez-Ghersa, Jonathan A. Newman, Stuart D. Card, Wade J. Mace, Pedro E. Gundel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8257 PubMed 31976166

December 11, 2019

Soil and plant phytoliths from the Acacia-Commiphora mosaics at Oldupai Gorge (Tanzania)

Julio Mercader, Siobhán Clarke, Mariam Bundala, Julien Favreau, Jamie Inwood, Makarius Itambu, Fergus Larter, Patrick Lee, Garnet Lewiski-McQuaid, Neduvoto Mollel, Aloyce Mwambwiga, Robert Patalano, María Soto, Laura Tucker, Dale Walde

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8211 PubMed 31844589

December 4, 2019

Migraine aura, a predictor of near-death experiences in a crowdsourced study

Daniel Kondziella, Markus Harboe Olsen, Coline L. Lemale, Jens P. Dreier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8202 PubMed 31824781

December 20, 2019

Benchmarking protocols for the metagenomic analysis of stream biofilm viromes

Meriem Bekliz, Jade Brandani, Massimo Bourquin, Tom J. Battin, Hannes Peter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8187 PubMed 31879573

December 12, 2019

Organ health and development in larval kingfish are unaffected by ocean acidification and warming

Andrea Y. Frommel, Colin J. Brauner, Bridie J.M. Allan, Simon Nicol, Darren M. Parsons, Steve M.J. Pether, Alvin N. Setiawan, Neville Smith, Philip L. Munday

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8266 PubMed 31844598

December 20, 2019

Systematic evaluation of the gut microbiome of swamp eel (Monopterus albus) by 16S rRNA gene sequencing

Xuan Chen, Shaoming Fang, Lili Wei, Qiwang Zhong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8176 PubMed 31875148