Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

September 21, 2021

Key auxin response factor (ARF) genes constraining wheat tillering of mutant dmc

Junchang Li, Yumei Jiang, Jing Zhang, Yongjing Ni, Zhixin Jiao, Huijuan Li, Ting Wang, Peipei Zhang, Wenlong Guo, Lei Li, Hongjie Liu, Hairong Zhang, Qiaoyun Li, Jishan Niu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12221 PubMed 34616635

September 10, 2021

Estrogen receptor alpha regulates the expression of adipogenic genes genetically and epigenetically in rat bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells

Ceylan V. Bitirim, Zeynep B. Ozer, Kamil C. Akcali

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12071 PubMed 34595066

September 28, 2021

Influence of Pleistocene climatic oscillations on the phylogeography and demographic history of endemic vulnerable trees (section Magnolia) of the Tropical Montane Cloud Forest in Mexico

Yessica Rico, M. Ángel León-Tapia, Marisol Zurita-Solís, Flor Rodríguez-Gómez, Suria Gisela Vásquez-Morales

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12181 PubMed 34692249

September 29, 2021

Discordance in maternal and paternal genetic markers in lesser long-nosed bat Leptonycteris yerbabuenae, a migratory bat: recent expansion to the North and male phylopatry

Roberto-Emiliano Trejo-Salazar, Gabriela Castellanos-Morales, DulceCarolina Hernández-Rosales, Niza Gámez, Jaime Gasca-Pineda, Miguel Rene Morales Garza, Rodrigo Medellin, Luis E. Eguiarte

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12168 PubMed 34703665

September 27, 2021

Evolution of inbreeding: a gaze into five Italian beef cattle breeds history

Giacomo Rovelli, Maria Gracia Luigi-Sierra, Dailu Guan, Fiorella Sbarra, Andrea Quaglia, Francesca Maria Sarti, Marcel Amills, Emiliano Lasagna

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12049 PubMed 34692245

September 21, 2021

LitR directly upregulates autoinducer synthesis and luminescence in Aliivibrio logei

Sergey Bazhenov, Olga Melkina, Vadim Fomin, Ekaterina Scheglova, Pavel Krasnik, Svetlana Khrulnova, Gennadii Zavilgelsky, Ilya Manukhov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12030 PubMed 34616599

September 23, 2021

Adam21 is dispensable for reproductive processes in mice

Yinghong Chen, Chao Liu, Yongliang Shang, Liying Wang, Wei Li, Guoping Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12210 PubMed 34631320

September 27, 2021

Efficacy of krill oil versus fish oil on obesity-related parameters and lipid gene expression in rats: randomized controlled study

Mevra Aydin Cil, Atena Ghosi Ghareaghaji, Yasin Bayir, Zehra Buyuktuncer, Halit Tanju Besler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12009 PubMed 34692241

September 21, 2021

Graft survival of Pinus engelmannii Carr. in relation to two grafting techniques with dormant and sprouting buds

Alberto Pérez-Luna, José Ciro Hernández-Díaz, Christian Wehenkel, Sergio Leonel Simental-Rodríguez, Javier Hernández-Velasco, José Ángel Prieto-Ruíz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12182 PubMed 34616627

September 28, 2021

Genetic diversity across the mitochondrial genome of eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Chani R. Rue, Jason D. Selwyn, Patricia M. Cockett, Bryan Gillis, Lauren Gurski, Philip Jose, Brandi L. Kutil, Sharon F. Magnuson, Luz Ángela López de Mesa, R Deborah Overath, Delbert Lee Smee, Christopher E. Bird

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12205 PubMed 34692250

September 27, 2021

Heterogeneity in conservation of multifunctional partner enzymes with meiotic importance, CDK2 kinase and BRCA1 ubiquitin ligase

Sergey Matveevsky, Tatiana Grishaeva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12231 PubMed 34692254

September 24, 2021

Quantitative trait locus mapping analysis of multiple traits when using genotype data with potential errors

Liang Tong, Ying Zhou, Yixing Guo, Hui Ding, Donghai Ji

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12187 PubMed 34631317

September 2, 2021

Weak spatial-genetic structure in a native invasive, the southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis), across the eastern United States

Ryan C. Garrick, Ísis C. Arantes, Megan B. Stubbs, Nathan P. Havill