Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 21, 2021

Transfection types, methods and strategies: a technical review

Zhi Xiong Chong, Swee Keong Yeap, Wan Yong Ho

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11165 PubMed 33976969

April 12, 2021

scAnt—an open-source platform for the creation of 3D models of arthropods (and other small objects)

Fabian Plum, David Labonte

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11155 PubMed 33954036

April 19, 2021

Geology and taphonomy of a unique tyrannosaurid bonebed from the upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah: implications for tyrannosaurid gregariousness

Alan L. Titus, Katja Knoll, Joseph J.W. Sertich, Daigo Yamamura, Celina A. Suarez, Ian J. Glasspool, Jonathan E. Ginouves, Abigail K. Lukacic, Eric M. Roberts

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11013 PubMed 33976955

April 6, 2021

Extensive microbial diversity within the chicken gut microbiome revealed by metagenomics and culture

Rachel Gilroy, Anuradha Ravi, Maria Getino, Isabella Pursley, Daniel L. Horton, Nabil-Fareed Alikhan, Dave Baker, Karim Gharbi, Neil Hall, Mick Watson, Evelien M. Adriaenssens, Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko, Sheikh Jarju, Arss Secka, Martin Antonio, Aharon Oren, Roy R. Chaudhuri, Roberto La Ragione, Falk Hildebrand, Mark J. Pallen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10941 PubMed 33868800

April 27, 2021

A Python script to merge Sanger sequences

Cen Chen, Bingguo Lu, Xiaofang Huang, Chuyun Bi, Lili Zhao, Yunzhuo Hu, Xuanyang Chen, Shiqiang Lin, Kai Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11354 PubMed 33987023

April 13, 2021

Identification of a novel inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 3CL-PRO through virtual screening and molecular dynamics simulation

Asim Kumar Bepari, Hasan Mahmud Reza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11261 PubMed 33954055

April 8, 2021

Measuring change in biological communities: multivariate analysis approaches for temporal datasets with low sample size

Hannah L. Buckley, Nicola J. Day, Bradley S. Case, Gavin Lear

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11096 PubMed 33889442

April 16, 2021

Relationship between emotional intelligence and empathy towards humans and animals

Raquel Gómez-Leal, Ana Costa, Alberto Megías-Robles, Pablo Fernández-Berrocal, Luísa Faria

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11274 PubMed 33959424

April 2, 2021

A new brachylophosaurin (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico

Andrew T. McDonald, Douglas G. Wolfe, Elizabeth A. Freedman Fowler, Terry A. Gates

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11084 PubMed 33859873

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 6, 2021

Phylogenomic analyses reveal a Gondwanan origin and repeated out of India colonizations into Asia by tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae)

Saoirse Foley, Henrik Krehenwinkel, Dong-Qiang Cheng, William H. Piel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11162 PubMed 33868819

April 23, 2021

A molecular dynamics simulation study of the ACE2 receptor with screened natural inhibitors to identify novel drug candidate against COVID-19

Neha Srivastava, Prekshi Garg, Prachi Srivastava, Prahlad Kishore Seth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11171 PubMed 33981493

April 16, 2021

Evaluation potential of PGPR to protect tomato against Fusarium wilt and promote plant growth

Rizwana begum Syed Nabi, Raheem Shahzad, Rupesh Tayade, Muhammad Shahid, Adil Hussain, Muhammad Waqas Ali, Byung-Wook Yun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11194 PubMed 33959416

April 21, 2021

First remains of the enormous alligatoroid Deinosuchus from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation, New Mexico

Benjamin F. Mohler, Andrew T. McDonald, Douglas G. Wolfe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11302 PubMed 33981505

April 26, 2021

Hematological and cytochemical characteristics of peripheral blood cells in the argus snakehead (Ophiocephalus argus Cantor)

Xue Wang, Zhengjie Wu, Shengmei Wu, Xianxian Chen, Misbah Hanif, Shengzhou Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11234 PubMed 33981499

April 27, 2021

Phenotypic, molecular and pathogenic characterization of Colletotrichum scovillei infecting Capsicum species in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Renata Mussoi Giacomin, Claudete de Fátima Ruas, Viviane Yumi Baba, Sara Mataroli De Godoy, Claudia Pombo Sudré, Cintia dos Santos Bento, Maura Da Cunha, Ingrid Gaspar Da Costa Geronimo, Rosana Rodrigues, Leandro SA Gonçalves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10782 PubMed 33986974

April 16, 2021

Predicting migration routes for three species of migratory bats using species distribution models

Jamin G. Wieringa, Bryan C. Carstens, H Lisle Gibbs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11177 PubMed 33959415

April 20, 2021

Widely assumed phenotypic associations in Cannabis sativa lack a shared genetic basis

Daniela Vergara, Cellene Feathers, Ezra L. Huscher, Ben Holmes, Jacob A. Haas, Nolan C. Kane

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10672 PubMed 33976953

April 12, 2021

Clinical validation of the short and long UNESP-Botucatu scales for feline pain assessment

Maíra Belli, Alice R. de Oliveira, Mayara T. de Lima, Pedro H.E. Trindade, Paulo V. Steagall, Stelio P.L. Luna

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11225 PubMed 33954046

April 20, 2021

Negative psychological aspects of working with experimental animals in scientific research

Hanna Mamzer, Agnieszka Zok, Piotr Białas, Mirosław Andrusiewicz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11035 PubMed 33976956

April 23, 2021

Marine microalgae co-cultured with floc-forming bacterium: Insight into growth and lipid productivity

Chin Sze Yee, Victor Tosin Okomoda, Fakriah Hashim, Khor Waiho, Siti Rozaimah Sheikh Abdullah, Cosmas Alamanjo, Hassimi Abu Hasan, Emienour Muzalina Mustafa, Nor Azman Kasan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11217 PubMed 33981498

April 29, 2021

PhyloPrimer: a taxon-specific oligonucleotide design platform

Gilda Varliero, Jared Wray, Cédric Malandain, Gary Barker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11120 PubMed 33986979

April 14, 2021

Age and growth of Palaeoloxodon huaihoensis from Penghu Channel, Taiwan: significance of their age distribution based on fossils

Jia-Cih Kang, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Chun-Hsiang Chang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11236 PubMed 33954049

April 6, 2021

The effects of vegetable pickling conditions on the dynamics of microbiota and metabolites

Kazunori Sawada, Hitoshi Koyano, Nozomi Yamamoto, Takuji Yamada