Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

March 16, 2021

Reproducible, portable, and efficient ancient genome reconstruction with nf-core/eager

James A. Fellows Yates, Thiseas C. Lamnidis, Maxime Borry, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Zandra Fagernäs, Stephen Clayton, Maxime U. Garcia, Judith Neukamm, Alexander Peltzer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10947 PubMed 33777521

March 31, 2021

eDNAir: proof of concept that animal DNA can be collected from air sampling

Elizabeth L. Clare, Chloe K. Economou, Chris G. Faulkes, James D. Gilbert, Frances Bennett, Rosie Drinkwater, Joanne E. Littlefair

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11030 PubMed 33850648

March 2, 2021

Comparative transcriptome analyses of maize seedling root responses to salt stress

Xiaoxiang Zhang, Peng Liu, Chunyan Qing, Cong Yang, Yaou Shen, Langlang Ma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10765 PubMed 33717668

March 4, 2021

Characterizing avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) from colibacillosis cases, 2018

Darby M. Newman, Nicolle L. Barbieri, Aline L. de Oliveira, Dajour Willis, Lisa K. Nolan, Catherine M. Logue

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11025 PubMed 33717713

March 30, 2021

COL1A1 is a prognostic biomarker and correlated with immune infiltrates in lung cancer

Qishun Geng, Zhibo Shen, Lifeng Li, Jie Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11145 PubMed 33850663

March 24, 2021

Characteristics of the gut microbiome in patients with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes

Zewen Zhang, Tian Tian, Zhen Chen, Lirong Liu, Tao Luo, Jianghong Dai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10952 PubMed 33828910

March 1, 2021

Comparison of gut microbiota between adults with autism spectrum disorder and obese adults

Qiang Zhang, Rong Zou, Min Guo, Mengmeng Duan, Quan Li, Huajun Zheng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10946 PubMed 33717692

March 19, 2021

A fresh look at an old concept: home-range estimation in a tidy world

Johannes Signer, John R. Fieberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11031 PubMed 33954027

March 30, 2021

VirION2: a short- and long-read sequencing and informatics workflow to study the genomic diversity of viruses in nature

Olivier Zablocki, Michelle Michelsen, Marie Burris, Natalie Solonenko, Joanna Warwick-Dugdale, Romik Ghosh, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Matthew B. Sullivan, Ben Temperton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11088 PubMed 33850654

March 30, 2021

In vitro and in vivo activities of the carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, dorzolamide, against vancomycin-resistant enterococci

Nader S. Abutaleb, Ahmed E.M. Elhassanny, Daniel P. Flaherty, Mohamed N. Seleem

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11059 PubMed 33850651

March 31, 2021

The classification of EEG-based winking signals: a transfer learning and random forest pipeline

Jothi Letchumy Mahendra Kumar, Mamunur Rashid, Rabiu Muazu Musa, Mohd Azraai Mohd Razman, Norizam Sulaiman, Rozita Jailani, Anwar P.P. Abdul Majeed

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11182 PubMed 33850667

March 12, 2021

Effect of Bacillus subtilis on antioxidant enzyme activities in tomato grafting

Maria D. Arias Padró, Emilia Caboni, Karla Azucena Salazar Morin, Marco Antonio Meraz Mercado, Víctor Olalde-Portugal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10984 PubMed 33763301

March 31, 2021

Research progress on the application of feed additives in ruminal methane emission reduction: a review

Kang Sun, Huihui Liu, Huiyu Fan, Ting Liu, Chen Zheng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11151 PubMed 33850664

March 8, 2021

Three-dimensional data-tracking simulations of sprinting using a direct collocation optimal control approach

Nicos Haralabidis, Gil Serrancolí, Steffi Colyer, Ian Bezodis, Aki Salo, Dario Cazzola

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10975 PubMed 33732550

March 10, 2021

Settling taxonomic and nomenclatural problems in brine shrimps, Artemia (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca), by integrating mitogenomics, marker discordances and nomenclature rules

Lucía Sainz-Escudero, E. Karen López-Estrada, Paula Carolina Rodríguez-Flores, Mario García-París

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10865 PubMed 33854829

March 12, 2021

Genome-wide identification of HSF family in peach and functional analysis of PpHSF5 involvement in root and aerial organ development

Bin Tan, Liu Yan, Huannan Li, Xiaodong Lian, Jun Cheng, Wei Wang, Xianbo Zheng, Xiaobei Wang, Jidong Li, Xia Ye, Langlang Zhang, Zhiqian Li, Jiancan Feng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10961 PubMed 33763299

March 15, 2021

Preparation and characterization of gelatin-polysaccharide composite hydrogels for tissue engineering

Jing Ye, Gang Yang, Jing Zhang, Zhenghua Xiao, Ling He, Han Zhang, Qi Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11022 PubMed 33777525

March 3, 2021

Influence of plastic film mulch with biochar application on crop yield, evapotranspiration, and water use efficiency in northern China: A meta-analysis

Erastus Mak-Mensah, Peter Bilson Obour, Eunice Essel, Qi Wang, John K. Ahiakpa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10967 PubMed 33717698

March 4, 2021

Maniraptoran pelvic musculature highlights evolutionary patterns in theropod locomotion on the line to birds

Matthew M. Rhodes, Donald M. Henderson, Philip J. Currie