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 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 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 16, 2021

Genomic characterization and phylogenetic analysis of the first SARS-CoV-2 variants introduced in Lebanon

Rita Feghali, Georgi Merhi, Aurelia Kwasiborski, Veronique Hourdel, Nada Ghosn, Sima Tokajian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11015 PubMed 34611501

March 15, 2021

Beyond gene ontology (GO): using biocuration approach to improve the gene nomenclature and functional annotation of rice S-domain kinase subfamily

Sushma Naithani, Daemon Dikeman, Priyanka Garg, Noor Al-Bader, Pankaj Jaiswal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11052 PubMed 33777532

March 12, 2021

High throughput microRNAs sequencing profile of serum exosomes in women with and without polycystic ovarian syndrome

Feng Zhang, Su-Ping Li, Tao Zhang, Bin Yu, Juan Zhang, Hai-Gang Ding, Fei-Jun Ye, Hua Yuan, Ying-Ying Ma, Hai-Tao Pan, Yao He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10998 PubMed 33763302

March 31, 2021

New alignment-based sequence extraction software (ALiBaSeq) and its utility for deep level phylogenetics

Alexander Knyshov, Eric R.L. Gordon, Christiane Weirauch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11019 PubMed 33850647

March 29, 2021

Transcriptome-wide and expression analysis of the NAC gene family in pepino (Solanum muricatum) during drought stress

Shipeng Yang, Haodong Zhu, Liping Huang, Guangnan Zhang, Lihui Wang, Xiaoting Jiang, Qiwen Zhong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10966 PubMed 33850643

March 1, 2021

A heat-shock 20 protein isolated from watermelon (ClHSP22.8) negatively regulates the response of Arabidopsis to salt stress via multiple signaling pathways

Yanjun He, Yixiu Yao, Lili Li, Yulin Li, Jie Gao, Min Fan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10524 PubMed 33717662

March 3, 2021

Comparative transcriptomic analysis reveals the cold acclimation during chilling stress in sensitive and resistant passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) cultivars

Yanyan Wu, Weihua Huang, Qinglan Tian, Jieyun Liu, Xiuzhong Xia, Xinghai Yang, Haifei Mou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10977 PubMed 33717701

March 9, 2021

Expression analysis of genes related to cold tolerance in Dendroctonus valens

Dongfang Zhao, Chunchun Zheng, Fengming Shi, Yabei Xu, Shixiang Zong, Jing Tao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10864 PubMed 33854828

March 9, 2021

Genes for degradation and utilization of uronic acid-containing polysaccharides of a marine bacterium Catenovulum sp. CCB-QB4

Go Furusawa, Nor Azura Azami, Aik-Hong Teh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10929 PubMed 33732545

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 22, 2021

De novo assembly of Amorpha fruticosa L. transcriptome in response to drought stress provides insight into the tolerance mechanisms

Xinzhu Sun, Songmiao Hu, Xin Wang, He Liu, Yun wei Zhou, Qingjie Guan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11044 PubMed 33828914

March 10, 2021

Genome-wide identification and expression pattern of SnRK gene family under several hormone treatments and its role in floral scent emission in Hedychium coronarium

Chutian Wang, Farhat Abbas, Yiwei Zhou, Yanguo Ke, Xinyue Li, Yuechong Yue, Yunyi Yu, Rangcai Yu, Yanping Fan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10883 PubMed 33854831

March 31, 2021

Systematic analysis of JmjC gene family and stress-response expression of KDM5 subfamily genes in Brassica napus

Xinghui He, Qianwen Wang, Jiao Pan, Boyu Liu, Ying Ruan, Yong Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11137 PubMed 33850662

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 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 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 5, 2021

Comparative analysis of complete plastid genomes from Lilium lankongense Franchet and its closely related species and screening of Lilium-specific primers

Danmei Su, Fumin Xie, Haiying Liu, Dengfeng Xie, Juan Li, Xingjin He, Xianlin Guo, Songdong Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10964 PubMed 33717697

March 11, 2021

In silico candidate variant and gene identification using inbred mouse strains

Matthias Munz, Mohammad Khodaygani, Zouhair Aherrahrou, Hauke Busch, Inken Wohlers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11017 PubMed 33763305

March 22, 2021

Structure and comparative analysis of the mitochondrial genomes of Liolaemus lizards with different modes of reproduction and ploidy levels

Julian Valdes, Sergio Sebastian Samoluk, Cristian Simón Abdala, Diego Baldo, Guillermo Seijo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10677 PubMed 33828904

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

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