Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Franco Cicconetti, Piero Sestili, Valeria Madiai, Maria Cristina Albertini, Luigi Campanella, Sofia Coppari, Daniele Fraternale, Bryan Saunders, Laura Teodori

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12227 PubMed 34721966

October 21, 2021

A new vertebrate fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Holly Creek Formation of the Trinity Group, southwest Arkansas, USA

Celina A. Suarez, Joseph Frederickson, Richard L. Cifelli, Jeffrey G. Pittman, Randall L. Nydam, ReBecca K. Hunt-Foster, Kirsty Morgan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12242 PubMed 34721970

October 27, 2021

Relatively low tooth replacement rate in a sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Ruyang Basin of central China

Huali Chang, Hai-Lu You, Li Xu, Waisum Ma, Diansong Gao, Songhai Jia, Mengli Xia, Jiming Zhang, Yu Li, Xirui Wang, Di Liu, Jie Li, Jianhua Zhang, Lili Yang, Xuefang Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12361 PubMed 34760377

October 19, 2021

Marine amphipods (Parhyale hawaiensis) as an alternative feed for the lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus, Perri 1810): nutritional value and feeding trial

Jorge Arturo Vargas-Abúndez, Gemma Leticia Martínez-Moreno, Nuno Simões, Elsa Noreña-Barroso, Maite Mascaró

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12288 PubMed 34721977

October 7, 2021

Heronry distribution and site preference dynamics of tree-nesting colonial waterbirds in Tamil Nadu

Sadrack Jabaraj Dhanaraj Frank, Govindan Veeraswami Gopi, Bivash Pandav

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12256 PubMed 34707938

October 5, 2021

Potential of artificial intelligence to accelerate diagnosis and drug discovery for COVID-19

Indira Mikkili, Abraham Peele Karlapudi, T. C. Venkateswarulu, Vidya Prabhakar Kodali, Deepika Sri Singh Macamdas, Krupanidhi Sreerama

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12073 PubMed 34707924

October 15, 2021

Biometric indices and population parameters of three polynemid fishes from Batang Lassa Estuary of East Malaysia

M. Golam Mustafa, Amy Halimah Rajaee, Hadi Hamli, Khairul Adha A. Rahim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12183 PubMed 34721960

October 28, 2021

The inconsistent microbiota of Budu, the Malaysian fermented anchovy sauce, revealed through 16S amplicon sequencing

Muhammad Zarul Hanifah Md Zoqratt, Han Ming Gan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12345 PubMed 34760368

October 18, 2021

Changes in the spike and nucleocapsid protein of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus strain in Vietnam—a molecular potential for the vaccine development?

Thach Xuan Tran, Nguyen T.K. Lien, Ha T. Thu, Nguyen Dinh Duy, Bui T.T. Duong, Dong Van Quyen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12329 PubMed 34721997

October 8, 2021

Genetic effects of long-term captive breeding on the endangered pygmy hog

Deepanwita Purohit, Shivakumara Manu, Muthuvarmadam Subramanian Ram, Shradha Sharma, Harika Chinchilam Patnaik, Parag Jyoti Deka, Goutam Narayan, Govindhaswamy Umapathy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12212 PubMed 34707930

October 22, 2021

Anti-fouling activity and toxicity of the Mediterranean alien sponge Paraleucilla magna Klautau, Monteiro & Borojevic, 2004 (Porifera, Calcarea)

Caterina Longo, Roberta Trani, Carlotta Nonnis Marzano, Maria Mercurio, Tamara Lazic, Pietro Cotugno, Erika Santobianchi, Maria Flavia Gravina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12279 PubMed 34733587

October 5, 2021

Urbanization processes drive divergence at the major histocompatibility complex in a common waterbird

Ewa Pikus, Radosław Włodarczyk, Jan Jedlikowski, Piotr Minias

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12264 PubMed 34707940

October 19, 2021

A noteworthy case of rewilding Chinese yew from a garden population in eastern China

Kaidi Li, Guangfu Zhang, Ying Zhang, M. Patrick Griffith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12341 PubMed 34721999

October 15, 2021

Testis development in the Japanese eel is affected by photic signals through melatonin secretion

Ji-Yeon Hyeon, Jun-Hwan Byun, Eun-Su Kim, Yoon-Seong Heo, Kodai Fukunaga, Shin-Kwon Kim, Satoshi Imamura, Se-Jae Kim, Akihiro Takemura, Sung-Pyo Hur

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12289 PubMed 34721978

October 18, 2021

Migration effects on the intestinal microbiota of Tibetans

Tian Liang, Fang Liu, Lifeng Ma, Zhiying Zhang, Lijun Liu, Tingting Huang, Jing Li, Wenxue Dong, Han Zhang, Yansong Li, Yaqiong Jiang, Weimin Ye, Su Bai, Longli Kang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12036 PubMed 34721954

October 4, 2021

The correlation of WDR76 expression with survival outcomes and immune infiltrates in lung adenocarcinoma

Likui Fang, Guocan Yu, Wenfeng Yu, Gang Chen, Bo Ye

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12277 PubMed 34707943

October 8, 2021

WIN 55,212-2 shows anti-inflammatory and survival properties in human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes infected with SARS-CoV-2

Luiz Guilherme H. S. Aragão, Júlia T. Oliveira, Jairo R. Temerozo, Mayara A. Mendes, José Alexandre Salerno, Carolina S. G. Pedrosa, Teresa Puig-Pijuan, Carla P. Veríssimo, Isis M. Ornelas, Thayana Torquato, Gabriela Vitória, Carolina Q. Sacramento, Natalia Fintelman-Rodrigues, Suelen da Silva Gomes Dias, Vinicius Cardoso Soares, Letícia R. Q. Souza, Karina Karmirian, Livia Goto-Silva, Diogo Biagi, Estela M. Cruvinel, Rafael Dariolli, Daniel R. Furtado, Patrícia T. Bozza, Helena L. Borges, Thiago M. L. Souza, Marília Zaluar P. Guimarães, Stevens K. Rehen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12262 PubMed 34707939

October 27, 2021

Land-use change influence soil quality parameters at an ecologically fragile area of YongDeng County of Gansu Province, China

Samuel Adingo, Jie-Ru Yu, Liu Xuelu, Sun Jing, Xiaodan Li, Zhang Xiaoning

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12246 PubMed 34760350

October 29, 2021

Cryptic diversity in the subgenus Oxyphortica (Diptera, Drosophilidae, Stegana)

Ya-Lian Wang, Nan-Nan Wang, Yuan Zhang, Shun-Chern Tsaur, Hong-Wei Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12347 PubMed 34760370