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November 2020

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

November 2, 2020

Genome-wide discovery and characterization of long noncoding RNAs in African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)

Wei Xia, Yajing Dou, Rui Liu, Shufang Gong, Dongyi Huang, Haikuo Fan, Yong Xiao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9585 PubMed 33194332

November 17, 2020

Predicting disease occurrence of cabbage Verticillium wilt in monoculture using species distribution modeling

Kentaro Ikeda, Takeshi Osawa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10290 PubMed 33240630

November 3, 2020

In silico structural homology modeling and characterization of multiple N-terminal domains of selected bacterial Tcps

Mohammed Alaidarous

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10143 PubMed 33194392

November 3, 2020

Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis emissions from humans and animals in the Three Gorges Reservoir in Chongqing, China

Qian Huang, Ling Yang, Bo Li, Huihui Du, Feng Zhao, Lin Han, Qilong Wang, Yunjia Deng, Guosheng Xiao, Dayong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9985 PubMed 33194374

November 18, 2020

Changes and sex- and age-related differences in the expression of drug metabolizing enzymes in a KRAS-mutant mouse model of lung cancer

Xiaoyan Li, Yiyan Lu, Xiaojun Ou, Sijing Zeng, Ying Wang, Xiaoxiao Qi, Lijun Zhu, Zhongqiu Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10182 PubMed 33240601

November 10, 2020

Spectroscopic and electrochemical study of interactions between DNA and different salts of 1,4-dihydropyridine AV-153

Elina Leonova, Karlis Shvirksts, Vitalijs Borisovs, Edgars Smelovs, Jelizaveta Sokolovska, Egils Bisenieks, Gunars Duburs, Mara Grube, Nikolajs Sjakste

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10061 PubMed 33240591

November 23, 2020

Comprehensive genomic analysis of microenvironment phenotypes in ovarian cancer

Jingshu Wang, Tingting Zhang, Lina Yang, Gong Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10255 PubMed 33282553

November 26, 2020

Partial restoration of normal intestinal microbiota in morbidly obese women six months after bariatric surgery

Jukka Koffert, Leo Lahti, Lotta Nylund, Seppo Salminen, Jarna C. Hannukainen, Paulina Salminen, Willem M. de Vos, Pirjo Nuutila

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10442 PubMed 33304658

November 4, 2020

Prognostic model of invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast based on differentially expressed glycolysis-related genes

Xiaoping Li, Qihe Yu, Jishang Chen, Hui Huang, Zhuangsheng Liu, Chengxing Wang, Yaoming He, Xin Zhang, Weiwen Li, Chao Li, Jinglin Zhao, Wansheng Long

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10249 PubMed 33194424

November 12, 2020

The rs78378222 prevalence and the copy loss of the protective allele A in the tumor tissue of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Elena N. Voropaeva, Yuriy L. Orlov, Tatiana I. Pospelova, Anna A. Gurageva, Mikhail I. Voevoda, Vladimir N. Maksimov, Olga B. Seregina, Maria I. Churkina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10335 PubMed 33240649

November 3, 2020

Gut microbiota in hospitalized children with acute infective gastroenteritis caused by virus or bacteria in a regional Peruvian hospital

Andre Alonso Taco-Masias, Augusto R. Fernandez-Aristi, Angela Cornejo-Tapia, Miguel Angel Aguilar-Luis, Luis J. del Valle, Wilmer Silva-Caso, Victor Zavaleta-Gavidia, Pablo Weilg, Hernán Cornejo-Pacherres, Jorge Bazán-Mayra, Zully M. Puyen, Juana del Valle-Mendoza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9964 PubMed 33194370

November 11, 2020

High ecological resilience of the sea fan Gorgonia ventalina during two severe hurricanes

Peter J. Edmunds

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10315 PubMed 33240641

November 10, 2020

Exogenous Fe²⁺ alleviated the toxicity of CuO nanoparticles on Pseudomonas tolaasii Y-11 under different nitrogen sources

Yuran Yang, Can Zhang, Xuejiao Huang, Xuwei Gui, Yifang Luo, Zhenlun Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10351 PubMed 33240659

November 10, 2020

Differential effects of cotreatment of the antibiotic rifampin with host-directed therapeutics in reducing intracellular Staphylococcus aureus infection

Melissa D. Evans, Robert Sammelson, Susan McDowell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10330 PubMed 33240647

November 3, 2020

A 22-amino-acid peptide regulates tight junctions through occludin and cell apoptosis

Maoying Zhu, Juan Lu, Jianyun Shen, Lumin Fei, Deyu Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10147 PubMed 33194394

November 30, 2020

Effects of food type and abundance on begging and sharing in Asian small-clawed otters (Aonyx cinereus)

Madison Bowden-Parry, Erik Postma, Neeltje J. Boogert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10369 PubMed 33335807

November 12, 2020

A new species of the large-headed coastal marine turtle Solnhofia (Testudinata, Thalassochelydia) from the Late Jurassic of NW Switzerland

Jérémy Anquetin, Christian Püntener

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9931 PubMed 33240584

November 18, 2020

Kinematic effects of the circle with and without rider in walking horses

Agneta Egenvall, Hanna Engström, Anna Byström

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10354 PubMed 33240661

November 17, 2020

Increased copy number of syncytin-1 in the trophectoderm is associated with implantation of the blastocyst

Luyan Guo, Fang Gu, Yan Xu, Canquan Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10368 PubMed 33240670

November 18, 2020

Indomethacin augments lipopolysaccharide-induced expression of inflammatory molecules in the mouse brain

Mona Yasin Mohamed, Willias Masocha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10391 PubMed 33240677

November 16, 2020

The easternmost occurrence of Mammut pacificus (Proboscidea: Mammutidae), based on a partial skull from eastern Montana, USA

Andrew T. McDonald, Amy L. Atwater, Alton C. Dooley Jr, Charlotte J.H. Hohman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10030 PubMed 33240588

November 4, 2020

Identification of the miRNA-mRNA regulatory pathways and a miR-21-5p based nomogram model in clear cell renal cell carcinoma

Yiqiao Zhao, Zijia Tao, Xiaonan Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10292 PubMed 33194441

November 24, 2020

Hissing of geese: caller identity encoded in a non-vocal acoustic signal

Richard Policht, Artur Kowalczyk, Ewa Łukaszewicz, Vlastimil Hart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10197 PubMed 33282549

November 9, 2020

Loading history changes the morphology and compressive force-induced expression of receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B ligand/osteoprotegerin in MLO-Y4 osteocytes

Ziyi Wang, Yao Weng, Yoshihito Ishihara, Naoya Odagaki, Ei Ei Hsu Hlaing, Takashi Izawa, Hirohiko Okamura, Hiroshi Kamioka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10244 PubMed 33240612

November 30, 2020

Addition of L-cysteine to the N- or C-terminus of the all-D-enantiomer [_D(KLAKLAK)₂] increases antimicrobial activities against multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii and Escherichia coli

Maki K. Ohno, Teruo Kirikae, Eisaku Yoshihara, Fumiko Kirikae, Isao Ishida

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10176 PubMed 33335804