Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 20, 2021

Long non-coding RNA taurine upregulated gene 1 is downregulated in osteoporosis and influences the osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells

Zhaowei Teng, Yun Zhu, Qinggang Hao, Xiaochao Yu, Yirong Teng, Qiaoning Yue, Xiguang Zhang, Sheng Lu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11251 PubMed 33976977

April 14, 2021

Natural resources to control COVID-19: could lactoferrin amend SARS-CoV-2 infectivity?

Ehab H. Mattar, Fatma Elrashdy, Hussein A. Almehdar, Vladimir N. Uversky, Elrashdy M. Redwan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11303 PubMed 33954061

April 21, 2021

Effects of different resistance training frequencies on body composition and muscular performance adaptations in men

Hamid Arazi, Abbas Asadi, Paulo Gentil, Rodrigo Ramírez-Campillo, Pooria Jahangiri, Adel Ghorbani, Anthony C. Hackney, Hassane Zouhal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10537 PubMed 33976952

April 8, 2021

spa diversity of methicillin-resistant and -susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in clinical strains from Malaysia: a high prevalence of invasive European spa-type t032

Sherry Usun Jones, Kek Heng Chua, Ching Hoong Chew, Chew Chieng Yeo, Fatimah Haslina Abdullah, Norlela Othman, Boon Pin Kee, Suat Moi Puah

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11195 PubMed 33889447

April 5, 2021

Honey bees communicate distance via non-linear waggle duration functions

Patrick L. Kohl, Benjamin Rutschmann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11187 PubMed 33868825

April 14, 2021

Morphological grounds for the obligate aerial respiration of an aquatic snail: functional and evolutionary perspectives

Cristian Rodriguez, Guido I. Prieto, Israel A. Vega, Alfredo Castro-Vazquez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10763 PubMed 33954023

April 14, 2021

Unraveling the genetic diversity and structure of Quercus liaotungensis population through analysis of microsatellite markers

Bin Guo, Xiangchun Hao, Lijun Han, Yu Zhai, Shuai Zhou, Si Chen, Da Ren, Xinmin An

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10922 PubMed 33954024

April 27, 2021

Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals key insights into male sterility in Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge

Yan Yu, Yuanyuan Jiang, Long Wang, Yichao Wu, Jinqiu Liao, Mingzhi Zhong, Ruiwu Yang, Xingfu Chen, Qingmiao Li, Li Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11326 PubMed 33987012

April 15, 2021

Melatonin ameliorates myocardial injury by reducing apoptosis and autophagy of cardiomyocytes in a rat cardiopulmonary bypass model

Xiaolin Huang, Jian Hou, Suiqing Huang, Kangni Feng, Yuan Yue, Huayang Li, Shaojie Huang, Mengya Liang, Guangxian Chen, Zhongkai Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11264 PubMed 33954056

April 27, 2021

Dysregulation of miR-381-3p and miR-23b-3p in skeletal muscle could be a possible estimator of early post-mortem interval in rats

Vanessa Martínez-Rivera, Christian A. Cárdenas-Monroy, Oliver Millan-Catalan, Jessica González-Corona, N. Sofia Huerta-Pacheco, Antonio Martínez-Gutiérrez, Alexa Villavicencio-Queijeiro, Carlos Pedraza-Lara, Alfredo Hidalgo-Miranda, María Elena Bravo-Gómez, Carlos Pérez-Plasencia, Mariano Guardado-Estrada

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11102 PubMed 33986977

April 5, 2021

Three new Luticola D.G.Mann (Bacillariophyta) species from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) found in terrestrial diatom assemblages dominated by widely distributed taxa

Łukasz Peszek, Mateusz Rybak, Horst Lange-Bertalot, John Patrick Kociolek, Andrzej Witkowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11142 PubMed 33868817

April 27, 2021

Identification of key genes and biological processes contributing to colitis associated dysplasia in ulcerative colitis

Di Zhang, Pengguang Yan, Taotao Han, Xiaoyun Cheng, Jingnan Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11321 PubMed 33987007

April 22, 2021

Bloom evenness modulates the influence of bloom abundance on insect community structure in suburban gardens

Elizabeth Y. Braatz, Zachariah J. Gezon, Kristin Rossetti, Lily T. Maynard, Jonathan S. Bremer, Geena M. Hill, Marissa A. Streifel, Jaret C. Daniels

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11132 PubMed 33981490

April 16, 2021

TP53 mutation and MET amplification in circulating tumor DNA analysis predict disease progression in patients with advanced gastric cancer

Jia Li, Zhaoyan Li, Yajie Ding, Yan Xu, Xiaohong Zhu, Nida Cao, Chen Huang, Mengmeng Qin, Feng Liu, Aiguang Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11146 PubMed 33959414

April 29, 2021

Evidence of integumentary scale diversity in the late Jurassic Sauropod Diplodocus sp. from the Mother’s Day Quarry, Montana

Tess Gallagher, Jason Poole, Jason P. Schein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11202 PubMed 33986987

April 14, 2021

A quantitative comparison of towed-camera and diver-camera transects for monitoring coral reefs

Anna K. Cresswell, Nicole M. Ryan, Andrew J. Heyward, Adam N. H. Smith, Jamie Colquhoun, Mark Case, Matthew J. Birt, Mark Chinkin, Mathew Wyatt, Ben Radford, Paul Costello, James P. Gilmour

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11090 PubMed 33954031

April 21, 2021

Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the EXO70 gene family in grape (Vitis vinifera L)

Han Wang, Zong-Huan Ma, Juan Mao, Bai-Hong Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11176 PubMed 33976971

April 8, 2021

Bioinformatic prediction of immunodominant regions in spike protein for early diagnosis of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Siqi Zhuang, Lingli Tang, Yufeng Dai, Xiaojing Feng, Yiyuan Fang, Haoneng Tang, Ping Jiang, Xiang Wu, Hezhi Fang, Hongzhi Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11232 PubMed 33889450

April 6, 2021

Identification problems of travelling snail species—new exotic introductions to tropical greenhouses in Gothenburg, Sweden (Gastropoda: Achatinellidae, Strobilopsidae, Helicarionidae)

Ira Richling, Ted von Proschwitz