Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 24, 2020

Cranial anatomy of Allosaurus jimmadseni, a new species from the lower part of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Western North America

1 citation

2,235 downloads

14,641 views

Daniel J. Chure, Mark A. Loewen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7803 PubMed 32002317

January 30, 2020

Morpho-physiological traits, biochemical response and phytoextraction potential of short-term copper stress on kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) seedlings

1 citation

106 downloads

354 views

Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Shah Fahad, Muzammal Rehman, Shah Saud, Yousaf Jamal, Sajjad Khan, Lijun Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8321 PubMed 32030320

January 6, 2020

The Rametrix^™ PRO Toolbox v1.0 for MATLAB^®

1 citation

51 downloads

211 views

Ryan S. Senger, John L. Robertson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8179 PubMed 31934499

January 6, 2020

The first pterosaur basihyal, shedding light on the evolution and function of pterosaur hyoid apparatuses

565 downloads

2,307 views

Shunxing Jiang, Zhiheng Li, Xin Cheng, Xiaolin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8292 PubMed 31934505

January 9, 2020

New mammalian and avian records from the late Eocene La Meseta and Submeseta formations of Seymour Island, Antarctica

511 downloads

1,398 views

Sarah N. Davis, Christopher R. Torres, Grace M. Musser, James V. Proffitt, Nicholas M.A. Crouch, Ernest L. Lundelius, Matthew C. Lamanna, Julia A. Clarke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8268 PubMed 31942255

January 31, 2020

Analysis of the genetic diversity of the coastal and island endangered plant species Elaeagnus macrophylla via conserved DNA-derived polymorphism marker

492 downloads

614 views

Yi Wang, Yan Ma, Bingyu Jia, Qichao Wu, Dekui Zang, Xiaoyan Yu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8498 PubMed 32042513

January 6, 2020

Cas9/gRNA-mediated genome editing of yeast mitochondria and Chlamydomonas chloroplasts

372 downloads

1,943 views

Byung-Chun Yoo, Narendra S. Yadav, Emil M. Orozco, Hajime Sakai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8362 PubMed 31934513

January 20, 2020

Ecology of an ocelot population at the northern edge of the species’ distribution in northern Sonora, Mexico

347 downloads

1,764 views

James C. Rorabaugh, Jan Schipper, Sergio Avila-Villegas, Jessica A. Lamberton-Moreno, Timothy Flood

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8414 PubMed 31998562

January 29, 2020

A simple and efficient cloning system for CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in rice

310 downloads

641 views

Xiaoli Liu, Xiujuan Zhou, Kang Li, Dehong Wang, Yuanhao Ding, Xianqing Liu, Jie Luo, Chuanying Fang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8491 PubMed 32030327

January 2, 2020

The fossil record of the genus Varanus from the Southern Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia)

286 downloads

512 views

Davit Vasilyan, Maia Bukhsianidze

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8322 PubMed 31915588

January 2, 2020

Effects of low pH and feeding on calcification rates of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus

278 downloads

983 views

Ariadna Martínez-Dios, Carles Pelejero, Àngel López-Sanz, Robert M. Sherrell, Stanley Ko, Verena Häussermann, Günter Försterra, Eva Calvo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8236 PubMed 31915573

January 13, 2020

A new species of rorqual whale (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae) from the Late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the role of the North Atlantic in the paleobiogeography of Archaebalaenoptera

257 downloads

1,420 views

Michelangelo Bisconti, Dirk K. Munsterman, René H.B. Fraaije, Mark E.J. Bosselaers, Klaas Post

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8315 PubMed 31976176

January 2, 2020

Testing marine regional-scale hypotheses along the Yucatan continental shelf using soft-bottom macrofauna

244 downloads

1,247 views

Ivan Hernandez-Avila, Frank A. Ocaña, Daniel Pech

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8227 PubMed 31915571

January 23, 2020

Developing and assessing a density surface model in a Bayesian hierarchical framework with a focus on uncertainty: insights from simulations and an application to fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus)

238 downloads

865 views

Douglas B. Sigourney, Samuel Chavez-Rosales, Paul B. Conn, Lance Garrison, Elizabeth Josephson, Debra Palka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8226 PubMed 32002319

January 21, 2020

Predicting hedgehog mortality risks on British roads using habitat suitability modelling

225 downloads

1,740 views

Patrick G.R. Wright, Frazer G. Coomber, Chloe C. Bellamy, Sarah E. Perkins, Fiona Mathews

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8154 PubMed 31998548

January 9, 2020

Analysis of the RNA virome of basal hexapods

211 downloads

528 views

Sabina Ott Rutar, Dusan Kordis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8336 PubMed 31942257

January 27, 2020

Crypsis and convergence: integrative taxonomic revision of the Gehyra australis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northern Australia

209 downloads

743 views

Paul M. Oliver, Audrey Miranda Prasetya, Leonardo G. Tedeschi, Jessica Fenker, Ryan J. Ellis, Paul Doughty, Craig Moritz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7971 PubMed 32025362

January 29, 2020

Alternative splicing in tea plants was extensively triggered by drought, heat and their combined stresses

208 downloads

302 views

Yiqian Ding, Yu Wang, Chen Qiu, Wenjun Qian, Hui Xie, Zhaotang Ding

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8258 PubMed 32030318

January 6, 2020

A new species of Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 from the Langbian Plateau, southern Vietnam, with additional information on Oligodon annamensis Leviton, 1953 (Squamata: Colubridae)

207 downloads

1,027 views

Hung Ngoc Nguyen, Bang Van Tran, Linh Hoang Nguyen, Thy Neang, Platon V. Yushchenko, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8332 PubMed 31934510

January 14, 2020

Alteration of the gut microbiota associated with childhood obesity by 16S rRNA gene sequencing

200 downloads

530 views

Xiaowei Chen, Haixiang Sun, Fei Jiang, Yan Shen, Xin Li, Xueju Hu, Xiaobing Shen, Pingmin Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8317 PubMed 31976177

January 3, 2020

Identification and validation of a three-gene signature as a candidate prognostic biomarker for lower grade glioma

200 downloads

502 views

Kai Xiao, Qing Liu, Gang Peng, Jun Su, Chao-Ying Qin, Xiang-Yu Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8312 PubMed 31921517

January 3, 2020

Morphological descriptions and morphometric discriminant function analysis reveal an additional four groups of Scylla spp

197 downloads

796 views

Hanafiah Fazhan, Khor Waiho, Emilia Quinitio, Juliana C. Baylon, Yushinta Fujaya, Nita Rukminasari, Mohammad Farhan Darin Azri, Md. Sheriff Shahreza, Hongyu Ma, Mhd Ikhwanuddin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8066 PubMed 31915566

January 7, 2020

Development of an autophagy-related gene prognostic signature in lung adenocarcinoma and lung squamous cell carcinoma

197 downloads

513 views

Jie Zhu, Min Wang, Daixing Hu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8288 PubMed 31938577

January 3, 2020

Identification of biological pathways and genes associated with neurogenic heterotopic ossification by text mining

196 downloads

529 views

Yichong Zhang, Yuanbo Zhan, Yuhui Kou, Xiaofeng Yin, Yanhua Wang, Dianying Zhang