Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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 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 24, 2020

Exosomes derived from M0, M1 and M2 macrophages exert distinct influences on the proliferation and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells

Yu Xia, Xiao-Tao He, Xin-Yue Xu, Bei-Min Tian, Ying An, Fa-Ming Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8970 PubMed 32355576

April 20, 2020

Effects of biodegradable plastic film mulching on soil microbial communities in two agroecosystems

Sreejata Bandopadhyay, Henry Y. Sintim, Jennifer M. DeBruyn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9015 PubMed 32341903

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 1, 2020

Prediction of antiviral drugs against African swine fever viruses based on protein–protein interaction analysis

Zhaozhong Zhu, Yunshi Fan, Yang Liu, Taijiao Jiang, Yang Cao, Yousong Peng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8855 PubMed 32274268

April 15, 2020

Isolation and identification of flavonoid-producing endophytic fungi from medicinal plant Conyza blinii H.Lév that exhibit higher antioxidant and antibacterial activities

Zizhong Tang, Yinsheng Wang, Jingyu Yang, Yirong Xiao, Yi Cai, Yujun Wan, Hui Chen, Huipeng Yao, Zhi Shan, Chenglei Li, Gang Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8978 PubMed 32328352

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 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 21, 2020

Additions to the phylogeny of colubrine snakes in Southwestern Asia, with description of a new genus and species (Serpentes: Colubridae: Colubrinae)

Mahdi Rajabizadeh, R. Alexander Pyron, Roman Nazarov, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Dominique Adriaens, Anthony Herrel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9016 PubMed 32341904

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 22, 2020

Production of cupcake-like dessert containing microbial biosurfactant as an emulsifier

Ivison A. Silva, Bruno O. Veras, Beatriz G. Ribeiro, Jaciana S. Aguiar, Jenyffer M. Campos Guerra, Juliana M. Luna, Leonie A. Sarubbo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9064 PubMed 32351793

April 6, 2020

Living (stained) foraminifera in the Lesser Syrtis (Tunisia): influence of pollution and substratum

Akram El Kateb, Valentina Beccari, Stephanie Stainbank, Silvia Spezzaferri, Giovanni Coletti

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8839 PubMed 32292648

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 7, 2020

Rock sponges (lithistid Demospongiae) of the Northeast Atlantic seamounts, with description of ten new species

Francisca C. Carvalho, Paco Cárdenas, Pilar Ríos, Javier Cristobo, Hans Tore Rapp, Joana R. Xavier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8703 PubMed 32292645

April 22, 2020

Population structure and microbial community diversity of two common tetillid sponges in a tropical reef lagoon

Jake Ivan P. Baquiran, Michael Angelou L. Nada, Niño Posadas, Dana P. Manogan, Patrick C. Cabaitan, Cecilia Conaco

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9017 PubMed 32351788

April 17, 2020

Assessing and genotyping threatened staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis nurseries during restoration in southeast Dominican Republic

Johanna Calle-Triviño, Renata Rivera-Madrid, María Geovana León-Pech, Camilo Cortés-Useche, Rita Inés Sellares-Blasco, Margarita Aguilar-Espinosa, Jesús Ernesto Arias-González

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8863 PubMed 32337099

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 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 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 9, 2020

Reduced fish diversity despite increased fish biomass in a Gulf of California Marine Protected Area

Georgina Ramírez-Ortiz, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla, Eduardo F. Balart, Damien Olivier, Leonardo Huato-Soberanis, Fiorenza Micheli, Graham J. Edgar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8885 PubMed 32296607

April 9, 2020

Genome-wide identification of the PEBP genes in pears and the putative role of PbFT in flower bud differentiation

Shuliang Zhao, Yarui Wei, Hongguang Pang, Jianfeng Xu, Yingli Li, Haixia Zhang, Jianguang Zhang, Yuxing Zhang