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November 2020

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

November 20, 2020

Translocation of an arctic seashore plant reveals signs of maladaptation to altered climatic conditions

Maria Hällfors, Susanna Lehvävirta, Tone Aandahl, Iida-Maria Lehtimäki, Lars Ola Nilsson, Anna Ruotsalainen, Leif E. Schulman, Marko T. Hyvärinen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10357 PubMed 33240662

November 23, 2020

The use of artificial substrate units to improve inventories of cryptic crustacean species on Caribbean coral reefs

Luz Verónica Monroy-Velázquez, Rosa E. Rodríguez-Martínez, Paul Blanchon, Fernando Alvarez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10389 PubMed 33282560

November 20, 2020

Loss of HOXB3 correlates with the development of hormone receptor negative breast cancer

Lizhe Zhu, Shibo Yu, Siyuan Jiang, Guanqun Ge, Yu Yan, Yuhui Zhou, Ligang Niu, Jianjun He, Yu Ren, Bin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10421 PubMed 33240685

November 4, 2020

A new nurse frog (Anura: Allobates) from Brazilian Amazonia with a remarkably fast multi-noted advertisement call

Jesus R.D. Souza, Miquéias Ferrão, James Hanken, Albertina P. Lima

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9979 PubMed 33194373

November 13, 2020

Identification of L-asparaginases from Streptomyces strains with competitive activity and immunogenic profiles: a bioinformatic approach

Iván González-Torres, Ernesto Perez-Rueda, Zahaed Evangelista-Martínez, Andrés Zárate-Romero, Angélica Moreno-Enríquez, Alejandro Huerta-Saquero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10276 PubMed 33240625

November 30, 2020

A Bayesian brain model of adaptive behavior: an application to the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task

Marco D’Alessandro, Stefan T. Radev, Andreas Voss, Luigi Lombardi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10316 PubMed 33335805

November 17, 2020

Different analysis strategies of 16S rRNA gene data from rodent studies generate contrasting views of gut bacterial communities associated with diet, health and obesity

Jose F. Garcia-Mazcorro, Jorge R. Kawas, Cuauhtemoc Licona Cassani, Susanne Mertens-Talcott, Giuliana Noratto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10372 PubMed 33240672

November 3, 2020

Differentially expressed serum proteins in children with or without asthma as determined using isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation proteomics

Ming Li, Mingzhu Wu, Ying Qin, Huaqing Liu, Chengcheng Tu, Bing Shen, Xiaohong Xu, Hongbo Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9971 PubMed 33194371

November 19, 2020

Comprehensive analysis and identification of key genes and signaling pathways in the occurrence and metastasis of cutaneous melanoma

Hanying Dai, Lihuang Guo, Mingyue Lin, Zhenbo Cheng, Jiancheng Li, Jinxia Tang, Xisha Huan, Yue Huang, Keqian Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10265 PubMed 33240619

November 17, 2020

Analysis of genes and underlying mechanisms involved in foam cells formation and atherosclerosis development

Kai Zhang, Xianyu Qin, Xianwu Zhou, Jianrong Zhou, Pengju Wen, Shaoxian Chen, Min Wu, Yueheng Wu, Jian Zhuang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10336 PubMed 33240650

November 16, 2020

Effects of microhabitat on rodent-mediated seed removal of endangered Kmeria septentrionalis in the karst habitat

Guohai Wang, Yang Pan, Guole Qin, Weining Tan, Changhu Lu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10378 PubMed 33240673

November 10, 2020

Hypoxia and metabolic inhibitors alter the intracellular ATP:ADP ratio and membrane potential in human coronary artery smooth muscle cells

Mingming Yang, Caroline Dart, Tomoko Kamishima, John M. Quayle

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10344 PubMed 33240653

November 17, 2020

Short stature and SHOX (Short stature homeobox) variants—efficacy of screening using various strategies

Pavlina Capkova, Zuzana Capkova, Peter Rohon, Katerina Adamová, Jirina Zapletalova

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10236 PubMed 33240610

November 18, 2020

Genetic diversity, population structure, and effective population size in two yellow bat species in south Texas

Austin S. Chipps, Amanda M. Hale, Sara P. Weaver, Dean A. Williams

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10348 PubMed 33240657

November 4, 2020

Geographic variation in the skull morphology of the lesser grison (Galictis cuja: Carnivora, Mustelidae) from two Brazilian ecoregions

Raissa Prior Migliorini, Rodrigo Fornel, Carlos Benhur Kasper

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9388 PubMed 33194321

November 26, 2020

A signature of tumor DNA repair genes associated with the prognosis of surgically-resected lung adenocarcinoma

Xiongtao Yang, Guohui Wang, Runchuan Gu, Xiaohong Xu, Guangying Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10418 PubMed 33304656

November 10, 2020

A forecast model for prevention of foodborne outbreaks of non-typhoidal salmonellosis

Fernando Rojas, Claudia Ibacache-Quiroga

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10009 PubMed 33240587

November 30, 2020

Using high-resolution melting to identify Calliphoridae (blowflies) species from Brazil

Pablo Viana Oliveira, Francine Alves Nogueira de Almeida, Magda Delorence Lugon, Karolinni Bianchi Britto, Janyra Oliveira-Costa, Alexandre Rosa Santos, Greiciane Gaburro Paneto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9680 PubMed 33335803

November 19, 2020

Oxytocin weakens self-other distinction in males during empathic responses to sadness: an event-related potentials study

Tong Yue, Ying Xu, Liming Xue, Xiting Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10384 PubMed 33240676

November 19, 2020

High cytoplasmic YAP1 expression predicts a poor prognosis in patients with colorectal cancer

Tianqi Dong, Yuncang Yuan, Xudong Xiang, Shuping Sang, Hao Shen, Lei Wang, Chunyan Yang, Fangfang Li, Hongliang Li, Shangyong Zheng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10397 PubMed 33240680

November 11, 2020

Chemical analysis of callus extracts from toxic and non-toxic varieties of Jatropha curcas L.

Gerardo Leyva-Padrón, Pablo Emilio Vanegas-Espinoza, Silvia Evangelista-Lozano, Alma Angélica Del Villar-Martínez, Crescencio Bazaldúa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10172 PubMed 33240600

November 20, 2020

Genomic characterization and phylogenetic analysis of Salmonella enterica serovar Javiana

Lauren K. Hudson, Lisha Constantine-Renna, Linda Thomas, Christina Moore, Xiaorong Qian, Katie Garman, John R. Dunn, Thomas G. Denes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10256 PubMed 33240617

November 18, 2020

Phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic position of genus Hyperacrius (Rodentia: Arvicolinae) from Kashmir based on evidences from analysis of mitochondrial genome and study of skull morphology

Natalia I. Abramson, Fedor N. Golenishchev, Semen Yu. Bodrov, Olga V. Bondareva, Evgeny A. Genelt-Yanovskiy, Tatyana V. Petrova

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10364 PubMed 33240667

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 23, 2020

Sensation of the tiniest kind: the antennal sensilla of the smallest free-living insect Scydosella musawasensis (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae)

Anna V. Diakova, Alexey A. Polilov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10401 PubMed 33282562