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

7 citations

3,533 downloads

21,287 views

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

1 citation

1,803 downloads

2,410 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 28, 2020

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

15 citations

1,335 downloads

6,315 views

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

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

1 citation

992 downloads

3,027 views

Shunxing Jiang, Zhiheng Li, Xin Cheng, Xiaolin Wang

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

January 6, 2020

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

7 citations

961 downloads

3,360 views

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

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

January 9, 2020

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

1 citation

916 downloads

2,282 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 6, 2020

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

5 citations

822 downloads

1,259 views

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 14, 2020

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

9 citations

797 downloads

2,294 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 20, 2020

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

1 citation

762 downloads

2,833 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 31, 2020

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

1 citation

758 downloads

962 views

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

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

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

6 citations

756 downloads

1,879 views

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 21, 2020

Predicting hedgehog mortality risks on British roads using habitat suitability modelling

9 citations

745 downloads

3,697 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 27, 2020

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

3 citations

730 downloads

1,949 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 17, 2020

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

4 citations

674 downloads

1,767 views

Weisong Cai, Haohuan Li, Yubiao Zhang, Guangtao Han

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

January 6, 2020

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

2 citations

661 downloads

2,384 views

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 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)

1 citation

630 downloads

1,654 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 6, 2020

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

1 citation

629 downloads

1,371 views

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 22, 2020

Prehaustorial local resistance to coffee leaf rust in a Mexican cultivar involves expression of salicylic acid-responsive genes

1 citation

600 downloads

1,026 views

Edgar Couttolenc-Brenis, Gloria L. Carrión, Luc Villain, Fernando Ortega-Escalona, Daniel Ramírez-Martínez, Martín Mata-Rosas, Alfonso Méndez-Bravo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8345 PubMed 32002327

January 3, 2020

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

3 citations

592 downloads

1,842 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 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

1 citation

572 downloads

1,172 views

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

2 citations

522 downloads