Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Yajun Chen, Zhixin Guo, Lili Dong, Zhenxuan Fu, Qianjiao Zheng, Gaoyun Zhang, Ligang Qin, Xiaoyang Sun, Zhenjie Shi, Shah Fahad, Fuchun Xie, Shah Saud

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12252 PubMed 34703673

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 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 29, 2021

Anthropogenic transformations of river ecosystems are not always bad for the environment: Multi-taxa analyses of changes in aquatic and terrestrial environments after dredging of a small lowland river

Robert Stryjecki, Andrzej Zawal, Tomasz Krepski, Edyta Stępień, Edyta Buczyńska, Paweł Buczyński, Stanisław Czachorowski, Łukasz Jankowiak, Joanna Pakulnicka, Anna Sulikowska-Drozd, Vladimir Pešić, Grzegorz Michoński, Michał Grabowski, Aleksandra Jabłońska, Magdalena Achrem, Tomasz Olechwir, Lech Pietrzak, Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12224 PubMed 34703668

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 29, 2021

Nickel stress-tolerance in plant-bacterial associations

Veronika Pishchik, Galina Mirskaya, Elena Chizhevskaya, Vladimir Chebotar, Debasis Chakrabarty

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12230 PubMed 34703670

September 29, 2021

Integrative analysis of miRNA–mRNA network in idiopathic membranous nephropathy by bioinformatics analysis

Wenfang He, Jinshi Zhang, Shizhu Yuan, Mingzhu Liang, Weidong Chen, Juan Jin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12271 PubMed 34703677

September 28, 2021

Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Mischonyx Bertkau, 1880, with taxonomic changes and three new species description (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae)

Caio Gueratto, Alípio Benedetti, Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11682 PubMed 34692238

September 28, 2021

The light’s in my eyes: optical modeling demonstrates wind is more important than sea surface-reflected sunlight for foraging herons

Holly K.M. Brown, Margaret Rubega, Heidi M. Dierssen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12006 PubMed 34692240

September 28, 2021

Cryptocentrus steinhardti (Actinopterygii; Gobiidae): a new species of shrimp-goby, and a new invasive to the Mediterranean Sea

Menachem Goren, Nir Stern

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12136 PubMed 34692246

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 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 28, 2021

miR-452-3p inhibited osteoblast differentiation by targeting Smad4

Ming Wu, Hongyan Wang, Dece Kong, Jin Shao, Chao Song, Tieyi Yang, Yan Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12228 PubMed 34692253

September 27, 2021

MINTIA: a metagenomic INserT integrated assembly and annotation tool

Philippe Bardou, Sandrine Laguerre, Sarah Maman Haddad, Sabrina Legoueix Rodriguez, Elisabeth Laville, Claire Dumon, Gabrielle Potocki-Veronese, Christophe Klopp

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11885 PubMed 34692239

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 27, 2021

Evolutionary drivers of the hump-shaped latitudinal gradient of benthic polychaete species richness along the Southeastern Pacific coast

Rodrigo A. Moreno, Fabio A. Labra, Darko D. Cotoras, Patricio A. Camus, Dimitri Gutiérrez, Luis Aguirre, Nicolás Rozbaczylo, Elie Poulin, Nelson A. Lagos, Daniel Zamorano, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12010 PubMed 34692242

September 27, 2021

Long distance (>20 km) downstream detection of endangered stream frogs suggests an important role for eDNA in surveying for remnant amphibian populations

Cecilia Villacorta-Rath, Conrad J. Hoskin, Jan M. Strugnell, Damien Burrows

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12013 PubMed 34692243

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 27, 2021

Development of droplet digital Polymerase Chain Reaction assays for the detection of long-finned (Anguilla dieffenbachii) and short-finned (Anguilla australis) eels in environmental samples

Georgia Thomson-Laing, Russleigh Parai, Laura T. Kelly, Xavier Pochon, Rewi Newnham, Marcus J. Vandergoes, Jamie D. Howarth, Susanna A. Wood