Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Maxime Borry, Bryan Cordova, Angela Perri, Marsha Wibowo, Tanvi Prasad Honap, Jada Ko, Jie Yu, Kate Britton, Linus Girdland-Flink, Robert C. Power, Ingelise Stuijts, Domingo C. Salazar-García, Courtney Hofman, Richard Hagan, Thérèse Samdapawindé Kagoné, Nicolas Meda, Helene Carabin, David Jacobson, Karl Reinhard, Cecil Lewis, Aleksandar Kostic, Choongwon Jeong, Alexander Herbig, Alexander Hübner, Christina Warinner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9001 PubMed 32337106

April 6, 2020

Blue carbon of Mexico, carbon stocks and fluxes: a systematic review

Jorge A. Herrera-Silveira, Monica A. Pech-Cardenas, Sara M. Morales-Ojeda, Siuling Cinco-Castro, Andrea Camacho-Rico, Juan P. Caamal Sosa, Juan E. Mendoza-Martinez, Eunice Y. Pech-Poot, Jorge Montero, Claudia Teutli-Hernandez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8790 PubMed 32292646

April 14, 2020

Clinical applicability of the Feline Grimace Scale: real-time versus image scoring and the influence of sedation and surgery

Marina C. Evangelista, Javier Benito, Beatriz P. Monteiro, Ryota Watanabe, Graeme M. Doodnaught, Daniel S.J. Pang, Paulo V. Steagall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8967 PubMed 32322445

April 2, 2020

Nitrogen eutrophication particularly promotes turf algae in coral reefs of the central Red Sea

Denis B. Karcher, Florian Roth, Susana Carvalho, Yusuf C. El-Khaled, Arjen Tilstra, Benjamin Kürten, Ulrich Struck, Burton H. Jones, Christian Wild

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8737 PubMed 32274261

April 6, 2020

Diversity of rhizosphere and endophytic fungi in Atractylodes macrocephala during continuous cropping

Bo Zhu, Jianjun Wu, Qingyong Ji, Wei Wu, Shihui Dong, Jiayan Yu, Qiaoyan Zhang, Luping Qin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8905 PubMed 32292655

April 22, 2020

Insight into the kinematics of blue whale surface foraging through drone observations and prey data

Leigh G. Torres, Dawn R. Barlow, Todd E. Chandler, Jonathan D. Burnett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8906 PubMed 32351781

April 8, 2020

Transcriptome analysis revealed key prognostic genes and microRNAs in hepatocellular carcinoma

Xi Ma, Lin Zhou, Shusen Zheng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8930 PubMed 32296612

April 27, 2020

Measuring recognition memory in zebrafish larvae: issues and limitations

Matteo Bruzzone, Elia Gatto, Tyrone Lucon Xiccato, Luisa Dalla Valle, Camilla Maria Fontana, Giacomo Meneghetti, Angelo Bisazza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8890 PubMed 32368416

April 10, 2020

Functional characterization of maize heat shock transcription factor gene ZmHsf01 in thermotolerance

Huaning Zhang, Guoliang Li, Dong Hu, Yuanyuan Zhang, Yujie Zhang, Hongbo Shao, Lina Zhao, Ruiping Yang, Xiulin Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8926 PubMed 32309048

April 13, 2020

Estimating the evolutionary rates in mosasauroids and plesiosaurs: discussion of niche occupation in Late Cretaceous seas

Daniel Madzia, Andrea Cau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8941 PubMed 32322442

April 28, 2020

Identification and expression analysis of the DREB transcription factor family in pineapple (Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.)

Mengnan Chai, Han Cheng, Maokai Yan, SVGN Priyadarshani, Man Zhang, Qing He, Youmei Huang, Fangqian Chen, Liping Liu, Xiaoyi Huang, Linyi Lai, Huihuang Chen, Hanyang Cai, Yuan Qin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9006 PubMed 32377449

April 30, 2020

Fear and stressing in predator–prey ecology: considering the twin stressors of predators and people on mammals

Loren L. Fardell, Chris R. Pavey, Christopher R. Dickman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9104 PubMed 32391213

April 24, 2020

A scoping review of determinants of performance in dressage

Sarah Jane Hobbs, Lindsay St George, Janet Reed, Rachel Stockley, Clare Thetford, Jonathan Sinclair, Jane Williams, Kathryn Nankervis, Hilary M. Clayton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9022 PubMed 32355578

April 15, 2020

Predicting the risk of sarcopenia in elderly patients with patellar fracture: development and assessment of a new predictive nomogram

Yi-sheng Chen, Yan-xian Cai, Xue-ran Kang, Zi-hui Zhou, Xin Qi, Chen-ting Ying, Yun-peng Zhang, Jie Tao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8793 PubMed 32328345

April 29, 2020

Diversity and paleoenvironmental implications of an elasmobranch assemblage from the Oligocene–Miocene boundary of Ecuador

Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Jaime A. Villafaña, Carlos De Gracia, F. Fernando Flores-Alcívar, René Kindlimann, Juan Abella

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9051 PubMed 32391203

April 1, 2020

New anatomical information on Dsungaripterus weii Young, 1964 with focus on the palatal region

He Chen, Shunxing Jiang, Alexander W.A. Kellner, Xin Cheng, Xinjun Zhang, Rui Qiu, Yang Li, Xiaolin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8741 PubMed 32274262

April 29, 2020

Purification, characterization and antioxidant activities in vitro of polysaccharides from Amaranthus hybridus L.

Zizhong Tang, Caixia Zhou, Yi Cai, Yujia Tang, Wenjun Sun, Huipeng Yao, Tianrun Zheng, Hui Chen, Yirong Xiao, Zhi Shan, Tongliang Bu, Xiaoli Wang, Lin Huang, Lin Gou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9077 PubMed 32391207

April 21, 2020

Effect of additional body weight on arch index and dynamic plantar pressure distribution during walking and gait termination

Xuanzhen Cen, Datao Xu, Julien S. Baker, Yaodong Gu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8998 PubMed 32341901

April 17, 2020

Size-frequency distribution of coral assemblages in insular shallow reefs of the Mexican Caribbean using underwater photogrammetry

Roberto C. Hernández-Landa, Erick Barrera-Falcon, Rodolfo Rioja-Nieto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8957 PubMed 32337105

April 22, 2020

Long-reads reveal that Rhododendron delavayi plastid genome contains extensive repeat sequences, and recombination exists among plastid genomes of photosynthetic Ericaceae

Huie Li, Qiqiang Guo, Qian Li, Lan Yang