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March 2021

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

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 31, 2021

Bioinformatic strategies for the analysis of genomic aberrations detected by targeted NGS panels with clinical application

Jakub Hynst, Veronika Navrkalova, Karol Pal, Sarka Pospisilova

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10897 PubMed 33850640

March 9, 2021

Age constraint for the Moreno Hill Formation (Zuni Basin) by CA-TIMS and LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon geochronology

Charl D. Cilliers, Ryan T. Tucker, James L. Crowley, Lindsay E. Zanno

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10948 PubMed 33854833

March 16, 2021

Photosymbiosis in Late Triassic scleractinian corals from the Italian Dolomites

Katarzyna Frankowiak, Ewa Roniewicz, Jarosław Stolarski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11062 PubMed 33777534

March 18, 2021

Identification of fibroblast activation-related genes in two acute kidney injury models

Weiming Deng, Xiangling Wei, Zhanwen Dong, Jinhua Zhang, Zhengyu Huang, Ning Na

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10926 PubMed 33777519

March 19, 2021

Mating system of Datura inoxia: association between selfing rates and herkogamy within populations

Vania Jiménez-Lobato, Juan Núñez-Farfán

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10698 PubMed 33777507

March 30, 2021

Effectiveness of isolation policies in schools: evidence from a mathematical model of influenza and COVID-19

Adam A.C. Burns, Alexander Gutfraind

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11211 PubMed 33850668

March 11, 2021

Effects of temperature frequency trends on projected japonica rice (Oryza sativa L.) yield and dry matter distribution with elevated carbon dioxide

Zeyu Zhou, Jiming Jin, Libing Song, Ling Yan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11027 PubMed 33763306

March 9, 2021

Sucrose synthase gene family in Brassica juncea: genomic organization, evolutionary comparisons, and expression regulation

Mengyao Li, Qi He, Ying Huang, Ya Luo, Yong Zhang, Qing Chen, Yan Wang, Yuanxiu Lin, Yunting Zhang, Zejing Liu, Xiao-Rong Wang, Haoru Tang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10878 PubMed 33854830

March 1, 2021

Phenotype study of multifoliolate leaf formation in Trifolium alexandrinum L.

Devendra Ram Malaviya, Ajoy Kumar Roy, Pankaj Kaushal, Shalini Pathak, Ruslan Kalendar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10874 PubMed 33717683

March 9, 2021

Arsenic transfer along the soil-sclerotium-stroma chain in Chinese cordyceps and the related health risk assessment

YuGuo Liu, Ming Shi, XiaoShan Liu, JinYing Xie, RunHuang Yang, QiaoWei Ma, LianXian Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11023 PubMed 33854840

March 10, 2021

Short-term variation in abundance of four Acartia species (Copepoda, Calanoida) in a eutrophic bay

Seo Yeol Choi, Min Ho Seo, Ho Young Soh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10835 PubMed 33854826

March 15, 2021

Depression of the soil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community by the canopy gaps in a Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) plantation on Lushan Mountain, subtropical China

Guiwu Zou, Yuanqiu Liu, Fanqian Kong, Liqin Liao, Guanghua Deng, Xueru Jiang, Junhuo Cai, Wei Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10905 PubMed 33777516

March 31, 2021

Post-emergence seedling damage due to vertebrate pests and its impact on soybean establishment

Jay Ram Lamichhane

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11106 PubMed 33850655

March 2, 2021

Examining long-term natural vegetation dynamics in the Aral Sea Basin applying the linear spectral mixture model

Yiting Su, Dongchuan Wang, Shuang Zhao, Jiancong Shi, Yanqing Shi, Dongying Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10747 PubMed 33717666

March 4, 2021

A review of the diagnosis and geographical distribution of the recently described flea toad Brachycephalus sulfuratus in relation to B. hermogenesi (Anura: Brachycephalidae)

Marcos R. Bornschein, Luiz Fernando Ribeiro, Larissa Teixeira, Ricardo Belmonte-Lopes, Leonardo Amaral de Moraes, Leandro Corrêa, Giovanni Nachtigall Maurício, Júnior Nadaline, Marcio R. Pie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10983 PubMed 33717704

March 24, 2021

LINflow: a computational pipeline that combines an alignment-free with an alignment-based method to accelerate generation of similarity matrices for prokaryotic genomes

Long Tian, Reza Mazloom, Lenwood S. Heath, Boris A. Vinatzer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10906 PubMed 33828908

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 23, 2021

ITS secondary structure reconstruction to resolve taxonomy and phylogeny of the Betula L. genus

Andrii S. Tarieiev, Oliver Gailing, Konstantin V. Krutovsky

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10889 PubMed 33828907

March 15, 2021

Metabolite profiling of endophytic Streptomyces spp. and its antiplasmodial potential

Siti Junaidah Ahmad, Noraziah Mohamad Zin, Noor Wini Mazlan, Syarul Nataqain Baharum, Mohd Shukri Baba, Yee Ling Lau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10816 PubMed 33777509

March 31, 2021

Learning to perform role-filler binding with schematic knowledge

Catherine Chen, Qihong Lu, Andre Beukers, Christopher Baldassano, Kenneth A. Norman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11046 PubMed 33850650

March 2, 2021

Putative carboxylesterase gene identification and their expression patterns in Hyphantria cunea (Drury)

Jia Ye, Dingze Mang, Ke Kang, Cheng Chen, Xiaoqing Zhang, Yanping Tang, Endang R. Purba, Liwen Song, Qing-He Zhang, Longwa Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10919 PubMed 33717687

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 3, 2021

Estimating species sensitivity distributions on the basis of readily obtainable descriptors and toxicity data for three species of algae, crustaceans, and fish

Yuichi Iwasaki, Kiyan Sorgog

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10981 PubMed 33717703

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