Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

March 10, 2021

Characterization of the first vaginal Lactobacillus crispatus genomes isolated in Brazil

Marcelle Oliveira de Almeida, Rodrigo Carvalho, Flavia Figueira Aburjaile, Fabio Malcher Miranda, Janaína Canário Cerqueira, Bertram Brenig, Preetam Ghosh, Rommel Ramos, Rodrigo Bentes Kato, Siomar de Castro Soares, Artur Silva, Vasco Azevedo, Marcus Vinicius Canário Viana

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11079 PubMed 33854845

March 18, 2021

Molecular barcode and morphological analysis of Smilax purhampuy Ruiz, Ecuador

Pilar Soledispa, Efrén Santos-Ordóñez, Migdalia Miranda, Ricardo Pacheco, Yamilet Irene Gutiérrez Gaiten, Ramón Scull

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11028 PubMed 33777526

March 3, 2021

iTRAQ-based comparative proteome analyses of different growth stages revealing the regulatory role of reactive oxygen species in the fruiting body development of Ophiocordyceps sinensis

Xinxin Tong, Fang Wang, Han Zhang, Jing Bai, Qiang Dong, Pan Yue, Xinyi Jiang, Xinrui Li, Li Wang, Jinlin Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10940 PubMed 33717691

March 4, 2021

Compositional and functional profiling of the rhizosphere microbiomes of the invasive weed Ageratina adenophora and native plants

Yun Xia, Minghua Dong, Lei Yu, Lingdong Kong, Robert Seviour, Yunhong Kong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10844 PubMed 33717679

March 16, 2021

Phylogeny and evolution of Lasiopodomys in subfamily Arvivolinae based on mitochondrial genomics

Luye Shi, Likuan Liu, Xiujuan Li, Yue Wu, Xiangyu Tian, Yuhua Shi, Zhenlong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10850 PubMed 33777513

March 17, 2021

Bioinformatics analysis identified CDC20 as a potential drug target for cholangiocarcinoma

Prin Sungwan, Worachart Lert-itthiporn, Atit Silsirivanit, Nathakan Klinhom-on, Seiji Okada, Sopit Wongkham, Wunchana Seubwai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11067 PubMed 33777535

March 2, 2021

Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of ADP-ribosylation factors associated with biotic and abiotic stress in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Yaqian Li, Jinghan Song, Guang Zhu, Zehao Hou, Lin Wang, Xiaoxue Wu, Zhengwu Fang, Yike Liu, Chunbao Gao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10963 PubMed 33717696

March 25, 2021

Genetic signatures of population bottlenecks, relatedness, and inbreeding highlight recent and novel conservation concerns in the Egyptian vulture

Guillermo Blanco, Francisco Morinha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11139 PubMed 33828925

March 4, 2021

Differential gene expression in a tripartite interaction: Drosophila, Spiroplasma and parasitic wasps

Victor Manuel Higareda Alvear, Mariana Mateos, Diego Cortez, Cecilia Tamborindeguy, Esperanza Martinez-Romero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11020 PubMed 33717711

March 2, 2021

The methylation level of TFAP2A is a potential diagnostic biomarker for retinoblastoma: an analytical validation study

Qi Zeng, Sha Wang, Jia Tan, Lu Chen, Jinwei Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10830 PubMed 33717678

March 30, 2021

AbhemC encoding porphobilinogen deaminase plays an important role in chlorophyll biosynthesis and function in albino Ananas comosus var. bracteatus leaves

Yanbin Xue, Xia Li, Meiqin Mao, Yehua He, Mark Owusu Adjei, Xuzixin Zhou, Hao Hu, Jiawen Liu, Xi Li, Jun Ma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11118 PubMed 33850657

March 5, 2021

Genome-wide identification and characterization of the OFP gene family in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L. ssp. pekinensis)

Ruihua Wang, Taili Han, Jifeng Sun, Ligong Xu, Jingjing Fan, Hui Cao, Chunxiang Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10934 PubMed 33717690

March 11, 2021

Molecular characteristic of treatment failure clinical isolates of Leishmania major

Gilda Eslami, Samira Hatefi, Vahid Ramezani, Masoud Tohidfar, Tatyana V. Churkina, Yuriy L. Orlov, Saeedeh Sadat Hosseini, Mohammad Javad Boozhmehrani, Mahmood Vakili

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10969 PubMed 33763300

March 31, 2021

Use of conditioned media (CM) and xeno-free serum substitute on human adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) differentiation into urothelial-like cells

Ban Al- kurdi, Nidaa A. Ababneh, Nizar Abuharfeil, Saddam Al Demour, Abdalla S. Awidi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10890 PubMed 33850639

March 23, 2021

The effects of parental age difference on the offspring sex and fitness of European blackbirds

Marta Cholewa, Łukasz Jankowiak, Magdalena Szenejko, Andrzej Dybus, Przemysław Śmietana, Dariusz Wysocki

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10858 PubMed 33828905

March 22, 2021

Combining transcriptome analysis and GWAS for identification and validation of marker genes in the Physalis peruviana-Fusarium oxysporum pathosystem

Gina A. Garzón-Martínez, Francy L. García-Arias, Felix E. Enciso-Rodríguez, Mauricio Soto-Suárez, Carolina González, Aureliano Bombarely, Luz Stella Barrero, Jaime A. Osorio Guarín

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11135 PubMed 33828924

March 19, 2021

Enzymatic and transcriptomic analysis reveals the essential role of carbohydrate metabolism in freesia (Freesia hybrida) corm formation

Li Ma, Suqin Ding, Xueqing Fu, Zi Yan, Dongqin Tang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11078 PubMed 33777537

March 9, 2021

Colchicine induction of ‘Old Blush’ 2n pollen for the hybridization and breeding of tetraploid rose

Shumin Gao, Yahong Sun, Yan Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11043 PubMed 33854842

March 8, 2021

Two centuries from species discovery to diagnostic characters: molecular and morphological evidence for narrower species limits in the widespread SW Australian Anarthria gracilis complex (Restionaceae s.l./Anarthriaceae, Poales)

Constantin I. Fomichev, Terry D. Macfarlane, Carmen M. Valiejo-Roman, Tahir H. Samigullin, Galina V. Degtjareva, Barbara G. Briggs, Dmitry D. Sokoloff

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10935 PubMed 33732546

March 19, 2021

Network based multifactorial modelling of miRNA-target interactions

Selcen Ari Yuka, Alper Yilmaz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11121 PubMed 33777541

March 4, 2021

A set of RT-PCR assays for detection of all known avian paramyxoviruses and application in surveillance of avian paramyxoviruses in China

Ji-Hui Jin, Jing-Jing Wang, Ying-Chao Ren, Shuo Liu, Jin-Ping Li, Guang-Yu Hou, Hua-Lei Liu, Qing-Ye Zhuang, Su-Chun Wang, Wen-Ming Jiang, Xiao-Hui Yu, Jian-Min Yu, Li-Ping Yuan, Cheng Peng, Guo-Zhong Zhang, Ji-Ming Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10748 PubMed 33717667

March 9, 2021

The extent of carbapenemase-encoding genes in public genome sequences

Ingmar Janse, Rick Beeloo, Arno Swart, Michael Visser, Leo Schouls, Engeline van Duijkeren, Mark W.J. van Passel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11000 PubMed 33732552

March 23, 2021

The effect of carbon monoxide on meiotic maturation of porcine oocytes

David Němeček, Eva Chmelikova, Jaroslav Petr, Tomas Kott, Markéta Sedmíková

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10636 PubMed 33828903