Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Akbar Adjie Pratama, Benjamin Bolduc, Ahmed A. Zayed, Zhi-Ping Zhong, Jiarong Guo, Dean R. Vik, Maria Consuelo Gazitúa, James M. Wainaina, Simon Roux, Matthew B. Sullivan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11447 PubMed 34178438

June 1, 2021

Alien plants of Europe: introduction pathways, gateways and time trends

Margarita Arianoutsou, Ioannis Bazos, Anastasia Christopoulou, Yannis Kokkoris, Andreas Zikos, Sevasti Zervou, Pinelopi Delipetrou, Ana Cristina Cardoso, Ivan Deriu, Eugenio Gervasini, Konstantinos Tsiamis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11270 PubMed 34141463

June 11, 2021

Development and validation of ferroptosis-related lncRNAs signature for hepatocellular carcinoma

Jiaying Liang, Yaofeng Zhi, Wenhui Deng, Weige Zhou, Xuejun Li, Zheyou Cai, Zhijian Zhu, Jinxiang Zeng, Wanlan Wu, Ying Dong, Jin Huang, Yuzhuo Zhang, Shichao Xu, Yixin Feng, Fuping Ding, Jin Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11627 PubMed 34178478

June 30, 2021

Taxonomic revision of the Temnothorax salvini clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key to the clades of New World Temnothorax

Matthew M. Prebus

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11514 PubMed 34249486

June 15, 2021

Tropane alkaloids and terpenes synthase genes of Datura stramonium (Solanaceae)

Sabina Velázquez-Márquez, Iván M. De-la-Cruz, Rosalinda Tapia-López, Juan Núñez-Farfán

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11466 PubMed 34178440

June 23, 2021

Rare evidence for ‘gnawing-like’ behavior in a small-bodied theropod dinosaur

Caleb M. Brown, Darren H. Tanke, David W.E. Hone

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11557 PubMed 34221716

June 3, 2021

Multiscale patterns of isolation by ecology and fine-scale population structure in Texas bobcats

Imogene A. Cancellare, Elizabeth M. Kierepka, Jan Janecka, Byron Weckworth, Richard T. Kazmaier, Rocky Ward

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11498 PubMed 34141475

June 10, 2021

nCov2019: an R package for studying the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic

Tianzhi Wu, Erqiang Hu, Xijin Ge, Guangchuang Yu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11421 PubMed 34178436

June 17, 2021

Shifts in gut and vaginal microbiomes are associated with cancer recurrence time in women with ovarian cancer

David Jacobson, Kathleen Moore, Camille Gunderson, Michelle Rowland, Rita Austin, Tanvi Prasad Honap, Jiawu Xu, Christina Warinner, Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan, Cecil M. Lewis Jr

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11574 PubMed 34178459

June 17, 2021

A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia

Stephen F. Poropat, Matt A. White, Tim Ziegler, Adele H. Pentland, Samantha L. Rigby, Ruairidh J. Duncan, Trish Sloan, David A. Elliott

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11544 PubMed 34178452

June 30, 2021

Microbial metagenome-assembled genomes of the Fram Strait from short and long read sequencing platforms

Taylor Priest, Luis H. Orellana, Bruno Huettel, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Rudolf Amann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11721 PubMed 34249520

June 8, 2021

Unsupervised learning of satellite images enhances discovery of late Miocene fossil sites in the Urema Rift, Gorongosa, Mozambique

João d’Oliveira Coelho, Robert L. Anemone, Susana Carvalho

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11573 PubMed 34164235

June 18, 2021

Determinants of pro-environmental behavior among excessive smartphone usage children and moderate smartphone usage children in Taiwan

Wei-Ta Fang, Eric Ng, Shu-Mei Liu, Yi-Te Chiang, Mei-Chuan Chang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11635 PubMed 34178481

June 30, 2021

New austrolimulid from Russia supports role of Early Triassic horseshoe crabs as opportunistic taxa

Russell D.C. Bicknell, Dmitry E. Shcherbakov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11709 PubMed 34249518

June 30, 2021

Heterogeneity of gut microbial responses in healthy household dogs transitioning from an extruded to a mildly cooked diet

Jirayu Tanprasertsuk, Justin Shmalberg, Heather Maughan, Devon E. Tate, LeeAnn M. Perry, Aashish R. Jha, Ryan W. Honaker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11648 PubMed 34249503

June 15, 2021

AlleleShift: an R package to predict and visualize population-level changes in allele frequencies in response to climate change

Roeland Kindt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11534 PubMed 34178449

June 24, 2021

Genome-wide analysis, identification, evolution and genomic organization of dehydration responsive element-binding (DREB) gene family in Solanum tuberosum

Nida Mushtaq, Faiza Munir, Alvina Gul, Rabia Amir, Rehan Zafar Paracha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11647 PubMed 34221730

June 21, 2021

Grab what you can—an evaluation of spatial replication to decrease heterogeneity in sediment eDNA metabarcoding

Jon T. Hestetun, Anders Lanzén, Thomas G. Dahlgren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11619 PubMed 34221724

June 29, 2021

Space-filling and benthic competition on coral reefs

Emma E. George, James A. Mullinix, Fanwei Meng, Barbara A. Bailey, Clinton Edwards, Ben Felts, Andreas F. Haas, Aaron C. Hartmann, Benjamin Mueller, Ty N.F. Roach, Peter Salamon, Cynthia Silveira, Mark J.A. Vermeij, Forest Rohwer, Antoni Luque

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11213 PubMed 34249480

June 24, 2021

Using an integrative taxonomic approach to delimit a sibling species, Mycetomoellerius mikromelanos sp. nov. (Formicidae: Attini: Attina)

Cody Raul Cardenas, Amy Rongyan Luo, Tappey H. Jones, Ted R. Schultz, Rachelle M.M. Adams

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11622 PubMed 34221725

June 2, 2021

Dynamic residue interaction network analysis of the oseltamivir binding site of N1 neuraminidase and its H274Y mutation site conferring drug resistance in influenza A virus

Mohini Yadav, Manabu Igarashi, Norifumi Yamamoto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11552 PubMed 34141489