Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 17, 2020

CoproID predicts the source of coprolites and paleofeces using microbiome composition and host DNA content

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 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 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

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9048 PubMed 32351791

April 7, 2020

Diffusion tubes: a method for the mass culture of ctenophores and other pelagic marine invertebrates

Wyatt L. Patry, MacKenzie Bubel, Cypress Hansen, Thomas Knowles

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8938 PubMed 32292660

April 29, 2020

Post-transcriptional regulation of several biological processes involved in latex production in Hevea brasiliensis

Julie Leclercq, Shuangyang Wu, Benoît Farinas, Stéphanie Pointet, Bénédicte Favreau, Hélène Vignes, Kuswanhadi Kuswanhadi, Enrique Ortega-Abboud, Jean-François Dufayard, Shenghan Gao, Gaëtan Droc, Songnian Hu, Chaorong Tang, Pascal Montoro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8932 PubMed 32391199

April 6, 2020

First de novo whole genome sequencing and assembly of the bar-headed goose

Wen Wang, Fang Wang, Rongkai Hao, Aizhen Wang, Kirill Sharshov, Alexey Druzyaka, Zhuoma Lancuo, Yuetong Shi, Shuo Feng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8914 PubMed 32292659

April 22, 2020

The corepressor NCOR1 and OCT4 facilitate early reprogramming by suppressing fibroblast gene expression

Georgina Peñalosa-Ruiz, Klaas W. Mulder, Gert Jan C. Veenstra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8952 PubMed 32351783

April 7, 2020

ECuADOR—Easy Curation of Angiosperm Duplicated Organellar Regions, a tool for cleaning and curating plastomes assembled from next generation sequencing pipelines

Angelo D. Armijos Carrion, Damien D. Hinsinger, Joeri S. Strijk