Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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 12, 2021

Reducing publication delay to improve the efficiency and impact of conservation science

Alec P. Christie, Thomas B. White, Philip A. Martin, Silviu O. Petrovan, Andrew J. Bladon, Andrew E. Bowkett, Nick A. Littlewood, Anne-Christine Mupepele, Ricardo Rocha, Katherine A. Sainsbury, Rebecca K. Smith, Nigel G. Taylor, William J. Sutherland

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12245 PubMed 34721971

October 26, 2021

Significant correlation between HSPA4 and prognosis and immune regulation in hepatocellular carcinoma

Bing-Bing Shang, Jun Chen, Zhi-Guo Wang, Hui Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12315 PubMed 34754620

October 1, 2021

A histological survey of avian post-natal skeletal ontogeny

Jessie Atterholt, Holly N. Woodward

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12160 PubMed 34703663

October 5, 2021

The largest theropod track site in Yunnan, China: a footprint assemblage from the Lower Jurassic Fengjiahe Formation

Hongqing Li, Claire Peyre de Fabrègues, Shundong Bi, Yi Wang, Xing Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11788 PubMed 34707920

October 15, 2021

Variation of soil microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) and its Influence mechanism in the context of global environmental change: a review

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

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12131 PubMed 34721956

October 8, 2021

Evaluation of cognitive load in team sports: literature review

Joan Fuster, Toni Caparrós, Lluis Capdevila

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12045 PubMed 34707923

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 5, 2021

Pooling size sorted Malaise trap fractions to maximize taxon recovery with metabarcoding

Vasco Elbrecht, Sarah J. Bourlat, Thomas Hörren, Angie Lindner, Adriana Mordente, Niklas W. Noll, Livia Schäffler, Martin Sorg, Vera M.A. Zizka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12177 PubMed 34707928

October 28, 2021

Wild gut microbiomes reveal individuals, species, and location as drivers of variation in two critically endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers

Maria S. Costantini, Matthew C.I. Medeiros, Lisa H. Crampton, Floyd A. Reed

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12291 PubMed 34760361

October 27, 2021

In vitro induction and identification of polyploid Neolamarckia cadamba plants by colchicine treatment

Wee Hiang Eng, Wei Seng Ho, Kwong Hung Ling

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12399 PubMed 34760387

October 19, 2021

New phiocricetomyine rodents (Hystricognathi) from the Jebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum Depression, Egypt

Shorouq F. Al-Ashqar, Erik R. Seiffert, Dorien de Vries, Sanaa El-Sayed, Mohamed S. Antar, Hesham M. Sallam

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12074 PubMed 34721955

October 29, 2021

A new specimen of Sinopterus dongi (Pterosauria, Tapejaridae) from the Jiufotang Formation (Early Cretaceous, China)

Caizhi Shen, Rodrigo V. Pêgas, Chunling Gao, Martin Kundrát, Lijun Zhang, Xuefang Wei, Xuanyu Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12360 PubMed 34760376

October 19, 2021

Genome-wide association study and population structure analysis of seed-bound amino acids and total protein in watermelon

Vijay Joshi, Padma Nimmakayala, Qiushuo Song, Venkata Abburi, Purushothaman Natarajan, Amnon Levi, Kevin Crosby, Umesh K. Reddy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12343 PubMed 34722000

October 7, 2021

Analysis of how the spatial and temporal patterns of fire and their bioclimatic and anthropogenic drivers vary across the Amazon rainforest in El Niño and non-El Niño years

Minerva Singh, Xiaoxiang Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12029 PubMed 34707922

October 14, 2021

A novel pyroptosis-associated gene signature for immune status and prognosis of cutaneous melanoma

Zhengyuan Wu, Leilei Chen, Chaojie Jin, Jing Xu, Xingqun Zhang, Yi Yao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12304 PubMed 34721986

October 26, 2021

Identification of hub genes and transcription factor-miRNA-mRNA pathways in mice and human renal ischemia-reperfusion injury

Peng Ke, Lin Qian, Yi Zhou, Liu Feng, Zhentao Zhang, Chengjie Zheng, Mengnan Chen, Xinlei Huang, Xiaodan Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12375 PubMed 34754625

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 21, 2021

Fecal microbiota transplantation mitigates bone loss by improving gut microbiome composition and gut barrier function in aged rats

Sicong Ma, Ning Wang, Pu Zhang, Wen Wu, Lingjie Fu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12293 PubMed 34721980

October 11, 2021

Prediction of coronary heart disease in rural Chinese adults: a cross sectional study

Qian Wang, Wenxing Li, Yongbin Wang, Huijun Li, Desheng Zhai, Weidong Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12259 PubMed 34721974

October 19, 2021

In silico evaluation of molecular virus–virus interactions taking place between Cotton leaf curl Kokhran virus- Burewala strain and Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus

Nida Fatima Ali, Rehan Zafar Paracha, Muhammad Tahir

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12018 PubMed 34721952

October 18, 2021

Identification and validation of a novel zinc finger protein-related gene-based prognostic model for breast cancer

Min Ye, Liang Li, Donghua Liu, Qiuming Wang, Yunuo Zhang, Jinfeng Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12276 PubMed 34721975

October 14, 2021

Betulinic acid decreases lipid accumulation in adipogenesis-induced human mesenchymal stem cells with upregulation of PGC-1α and UCP-1 and post-transcriptional downregulation of adiponectin and leptin secretion

Sasithon Senamontree, Thitiporn Lakthan, Pornsri Charoenpanich, Chanpen Chanchao, Adisri Charoenpanich

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12321 PubMed 34721992

October 22, 2021

Complete chloroplast genome sequences of five Bruguiera species (Rhizophoraceae): comparative analysis and phylogenetic relationships

Panthita Ruang-areerate, Wasitthee Kongkachana, Chaiwat Naktang, Chutima Sonthirod, Nattapol Narong, Nukoon Jomchai, Pasin Maprasop, Chatree Maknual, Nawin Phormsin, Jeremy R. Shearman, Wirulda Pootakham, Sithichoke Tangphatsornruang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12268 PubMed 34733586

October 15, 2021

Effect of yeast and essential oil-enriched diets on critical determinants of health and immune function in Africanized Apis mellifera

César Canché-Collí, Humberto Estrella-Maldonado, Luis A. Medina-Medina, Humberto Moo-Valle, Luz Maria Calvo-Irabien, Elisa Chan-Vivas, Rosalina Rodríguez, Azucena Canto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12164 PubMed 34721958

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