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

Daniel J. Chure, Mark A. Loewen

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

January 29, 2020

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

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 28, 2020

The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education

Freek T. Bakker, Alexandre Antonelli, Julia A. Clarke, Joseph A. Cook, Scott V. Edwards, Per G.P. Ericson, Søren Faurby, Nuno Ferrand, Magnus Gelang, Rosemary G. Gillespie, Martin Irestedt, Kennet Lundin, Ellen Larsson, Pável Matos-Maraví, Johannes Müller, Ted von Proschwitz, George K. Roderick, Alexander Schliep, Niklas Wahlberg, John Wiedenhoeft, Mari Källersjö

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8225 PubMed 32025365

January 6, 2020

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

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

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

January 31, 2020

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

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

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

January 20, 2020

Integrated bioinformatics analysis of potential pathway biomarkers using abnormal proteins in clubfoot

Guiquan Cai, Xuan Yang, Ting Chen, Fangchun Jin, Jing Ding, Zhenkai Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8422 PubMed 31998564

January 6, 2020

Comparative analysis of primary metabolites and transcriptome changes between ungrafted and pumpkin-grafted watermelon during fruit development

Ali Aslam, Shengjie Zhao, Muhammad Azam, Xuqiang Lu, Nan He, Bingbing Li, Junling Dou, Hongju Zhu, Wenge Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8259 PubMed 31934503

January 6, 2020

The Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) degradation activities and genome analysis of a novel strain Stenotrophomonas sp. Pemsol isolated from Mexico

Temidayo O. Elufisan, Isabel C. Rodríguez-Luna, Omotayo Opemipo Oyedara, Alejandro Sánchez-Varela, Armando Hernández-Mendoza, Edgar Dantán Gonzalez, Alma D. Paz-González, Kashif Muhammad, Gildardo Rivera, Miguel Angel Villalobos-Lopez, Xianwu Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8102 PubMed 31934497

January 9, 2020

Effects of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria on co-inoculation with Bradyrhizobium in soybean crop: a meta-analysis of studies from 1987 to 2018

Douglas M. Zeffa, Lucas H. Fantin, Alessandra Koltun, André L.M. de Oliveira, Maria P.B.A. Nunes, Marcelo G. Canteri, Leandro S.A. Gonçalves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7905 PubMed 31942248

January 14, 2020

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

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 6, 2020

sv-callers: a highly portable parallel workflow for structural variant detection in whole-genome sequence data

Arnold Kuzniar, Jason Maassen, Stefan Verhoeven, Luca Santuari, Carl Shneider, Wigard P. Kloosterman, Jeroen de Ridder

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8214 PubMed 31934500

January 21, 2020

Predicting hedgehog mortality risks on British roads using habitat suitability modelling

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

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

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 6, 2020

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

Shunxing Jiang, Zhiheng Li, Xin Cheng, Xiaolin Wang

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

January 17, 2020

Identification of key biomarkers and immune infiltration in the synovial tissue of osteoarthritis by bioinformatics analysis

Weisong Cai, Haohuan Li, Yubiao Zhang, Guangtao Han

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8390 PubMed 31988808

January 27, 2020

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

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 20, 2020

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

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

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

January 14, 2020

New insights into human hair: SAXS, SEM, TEM and EDX for Alopecia Areata investigations

Adina Coroaba, Anca E. Chiriac, Liviu Sacarescu, Tudor Pinteala, Bogdan Minea, Sorin-Alexandru Ibanescu, Mihaela Pertea, Aurelian Moraru, Irina Esanu, Stelian S. Maier, Anca Chiriac, Mariana Pinteala

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8376 PubMed 31976181

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)

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 14, 2020

Isolation and identification of L-asparaginase-producing endophytic fungi from the Asteraceae family plant species of Iran

Sareh Hatamzadeh, Kamran Rahnama, Saeed Nasrollahnejad, Khalil Berdi Fotouhifar, Khodayar Hemmati, James F. White, Fakhtak Taliei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8309 PubMed 31976175

January 24, 2020

Viability and management of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) population in the Endau Rompin landscape, Peninsular Malaysia

Salman Saaban, Mohd Nawayai Yasak, Melvin Gumal, Aris Oziar, Francis Cheong, Zaleha Shaari, Martin Tyson, Simon Hedges

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8209 PubMed 32002318

January 3, 2020

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

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 3, 2020

Genetic diversity and population structure of two subspecies of western honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) in the Republic of South Africa as revealed by microsatellite genotyping

Amin Eimanifar, Johanna T. Pieplow, Alireza Asem, James D. Ellis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8280 PubMed 31915579

January 29, 2020

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

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

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

January 2, 2020

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

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