Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

September 6, 2021

Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem

Jonathan P. Rio, Philip D. Mannion

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12094 PubMed 34567843

September 9, 2021

The importance of molecular characters when morphological variability hinders diagnosability: systematics of the moon jellyfish genus Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)

Jonathan W. Lawley, Edgar Gamero-Mora, Maximiliano M. Maronna, Luciano M. Chiaverano, Sérgio N. Stampar, Russell R. Hopcroft, Allen G. Collins, André C. Morandini

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11954 PubMed 34589293

September 30, 2021

Highly comparable metabarcoding results from MGI-Tech and Illumina sequencing platforms

Sten Anslan, Vladimir Mikryukov, Kęstutis Armolaitis, Jelena Ankuda, Dagnija Lazdina, Kristaps Makovskis, Lars Vesterdal, Inger Kappel Schmidt, Leho Tedersoo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12254 PubMed 34703674

September 1, 2021

Revisiting food-sourced vitamins for consumer diet and health needs: a perspective review, from vitamin classification, metabolic functions, absorption, utilization, to balancing nutritional requirements

Chigozie E. Ofoedu, Jude O. Iwouno, Ebelechukwu O. Ofoedu, Chika C. Ogueke, Victory S. Igwe, Ijeoma M. Agunwah, Arinze F. Ofoedum, James S. Chacha, Onyinye P. Muobike, Adedoyin O. Agunbiade, Njideka E. Njoku, Angela A. Nwakaudu, Nkiru E. Odimegwu, Onyekachi E. Ndukauba, Chukwuka U. Ogbonna, Joncer Naibaho, Maciej Korus, Charles Odilichukwu R. Okpala

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11940 PubMed 34557342

September 20, 2021

A comprehensive review and call for studies on firefly larvae

William B. Riley, Simone Policena Rosa, Luiz Felipe Lima da Silveira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12121 PubMed 34616609

September 8, 2021

High bycatch rates of manta and devil rays in the “small-scale” artisanal fisheries of Sri Lanka

Daniel Fernando, Joshua D. Stewart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11994 PubMed 34589295

September 17, 2021

Soap, water, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2): an ancient handwashing strategy for preventing dissemination of a novel virus

M. Khalid Ijaz, Raymond W. Nims, Sarah de Szalay, Joseph R. Rubino

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12041 PubMed 34616601

September 29, 2021

The oldest species of Peltoperleidus (Louwoichthyiformes, Neopterygii) from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of China, with phylogenetic and biogeographic implications

Guang-Hui Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12225 PubMed 34703669

September 23, 2021

A predictive model for the ichnological suitability of the Jezero crater, Mars: searching for fossilized traces of life-substrate interactions in the 2020 Rover Mission Landing Site

Andrea Baucon, Carlos Neto de Carvalho, Antonino Briguglio, Michele Piazza, Fabrizio Felletti

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11784 PubMed 34631304

September 13, 2021

Active behaviour of terrestrial caterpillars on the water surface

Masakazu Hayashi, Shinji Sugiura

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11971 PubMed 34603846

September 7, 2021

Potential applications of personality assessments to the management of non-human primates: a review of 10 years of study

Max Norman, Lewis J. Rowden, Guy Cowlishaw

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12044 PubMed 34589296

September 23, 2021

Organic farming practices change the soil bacteria community, improving soil quality and maize crop yields

Ademir Durrer, Thiago Gumiere, Maurício Rumenos Guidetti Zagatto, Henrique Petry Feiler, Antonio Marcos Miranda Silva, Rodrigo Henriques Longaresi, Sérgio K. Homma, Elke J.B.N. Cardoso

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11985 PubMed 34631309

September 14, 2021

High-resolution prediction of American red squirrel in Interior Alaska: a role model for conservation using open access data, machine learning, GIS and LIDAR

Richard B. Robold, Falk Huettmann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11830 PubMed 34611502

September 7, 2021

Identification of immune related cells and crucial genes in the peripheral blood of ankylosing spondylitis by integrated bioinformatics analysis

Yang Zheng, Bingbing Cai, Conglin Ren, Haipeng Xu, Weibin Du, Yijiang Wu, Fu Lin, Helou Zhang, Renfu Quan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12125 PubMed 34589304

September 15, 2021

Novel ACE2 protein interactions relevant to COVID-19 predicted by evolutionary rate correlations

Austin A. Varela, Sammy Cheng, John H. Werren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12159 PubMed 34616619

September 3, 2021

Expression and prognosis of CDC45 in cervical cancer based on the GEO database

Zikang He, Xiaojin Wang, Zhiming Yang, Ying Jiang, Luhui Li, Xingyun Wang, Zheyao Song, Xiuli Wang, Jiahui Wan, Shijun Jiang, Naiwen Zhang, Rongjun Cui

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12114 PubMed 34557356

September 24, 2021

The modeled distribution of corals and sponges surrounding the Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges with implications for high seas conservation

Samuel Georgian, Lance Morgan, Daniel Wagner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11972 PubMed 34631308

September 6, 2021

VGEA: an RNA viral assembly toolkit

Paul E. Oluniyi, Fehintola Ajogbasile, Judith Oguzie, Jessica Uwanibe, Adeyemi Kayode, Anise Happi, Alphonsus Ugwu, Testimony Olumade, Olusola Ogunsanya, Philomena Ehiaghe Eromon, Onikepe Folarin, Simon D.W. Frost, Jonathan Heeney, Christian T. Happi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12129 PubMed 34567846

September 30, 2021

Blockchain for genomics and healthcare: a literature review, current status, classification and open issues

Beyhan Adanur Dedeturk, Ahmet Soran, Burcu Bakir-Gungor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12130 PubMed 34703661

September 24, 2021

Locating ligand binding sites in G-protein coupled receptors using combined information from docking and sequence conservation

Ashley Ryan Vidad, Stephen Macaspac, Ho Leung Ng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12219 PubMed 34631323

September 17, 2021

Exosomal hsa-miR-21-5p is a biomarker for breast cancer diagnosis

Min Liu, Fei Mo, Xiaohan Song, Yun He, Yan Yuan, Jiaoyan Yan, Ye Yang, Jian Huang, Shu Zhang