Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

August 13, 2021

Metabarcoding confirms the opportunistic foraging behaviour of Atlantic bluefin tuna and reveals the importance of gelatinous prey

Babett Günther, Jean-Marc Fromentin, Luisa Metral, Sophie Arnaud-Haond

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11757 PubMed 34447617

August 3, 2021

DLFF-ACP: prediction of ACPs based on deep learning and multi-view features fusion

Ruifen Cao, Meng Wang, Yannan Bin, Chunhou Zheng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11906 PubMed 34414035

August 24, 2021

Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli is associated with antibiotic resistance and urinary tract infection symptomatology

Verónica I. Martínez-Santos, María Ruíz-Rosas, Arturo Ramirez- Peralta, Oscar Zaragoza García, Luis Armando Resendiz-Reyes, Obed Josimar Romero-Pineda, Natividad Castro-Alarcón

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11726 PubMed 34513321

August 18, 2021

Atlas of tissue-specific and tissue-preferential gene expression in ecologically and economically significant conifer Pinus sylvestris

Sandra Cervantes, Jaana Vuosku, Tanja Pyhäjärvi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11781 PubMed 34466281

August 27, 2021

Genetic diversity and structure of one of the most endangered freshwater fish species in Mexico: Tlaloc hildebrandi (Miller, 1950) and recognition of its evolutionarily significant units

Rosa G. Beltrán-López, Alfonso A. González-Díaz, Miriam Soria-Barreto, Marco Antonio Garduño-Sánchez, Carmela Xochitla-Castrejón, Rocío Rodiles-Hernández, Claudia Patricia Ornelas-García

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11952 PubMed 34532157

August 4, 2021

Genetic diversity and structure of the noble crayfish populations in the Balkan Peninsula revealed by mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA markers

Riho Gross, Leona Lovrenčić, Mišel Jelić, Frederic Grandjean, Simona Ðuretanović, Vladica Simić, Oksana Burimski, Lena Bonassin, Marius-Ioan Groza, Ivana Maguire

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11838 PubMed 34430076

August 5, 2021

An efficient sorghum transformation system using embryogenic calli derived from mature seeds

Lihua Wang, Li Gao, Guoquan Liu, Ruirui Meng, Yanlong Liu, Jieqin Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11849 PubMed 34430078

August 11, 2021

Morphometric and microsatellite-based comparative genetic diversity analysis in Bubalus bubalis from North India

Vikas Vohra, Narendra Pratap Singh, Supriya Chhotaray, Varinder Singh Raina, Alka Chopra, Ranjit Singh Kataria

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11846 PubMed 34447621

August 18, 2021

Phylogenetic relationships, origin and historical biogeography of the genus Sprattus (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae)

Cristian B. Canales-Aguirre, Peter A. Ritchie, Sebastián Hernández, Victoria Herrera-Yañez, Sandra Ferrada Fuentes, Fernanda X. Oyarzún, Cristián E. Hernández, Ricardo Galleguillos, Gloria Arratia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11737 PubMed 34466280

August 20, 2021

Phylogeography of high Andean killifishes Orestias (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) in Caquena and Lauca sub-basins of the Altiplano (Chile): mitochondrial and nuclear analysis of an endangered fish

Violeta Cárcamo-Tejer, Irma Vila, Francisco Llanquín-Rosas, Alberto Sáez-Arteaga, Claudia Guerrero-Jiménez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11917 PubMed 34484986

August 17, 2021

Virulence effector SidJ evolution in Legionella pneumophila is driven by positive selection and intragenic recombination

Xiao-Yong Zhan, Jin-Lei Yang, Xuefu Zhou, Yi-Chao Qian, Ke Huang, Honghua Sun, Huacheng Wang, Yang Leng, Bihui Huang, Yulong He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12000 PubMed 34458026

August 17, 2021

Non-linear genetic diversity and notable population differentiation caused by low gene flow of bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.] along longitude gradients

Jing-Xue Zhang, Miaoli Wang, Jibiao Fan, Zhi-Peng Guo, Yongzhuo Guan, Gen Qu, Chuan-Jie Zhang, Yu-Xia Guo, Xuebing Yan