Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 3, 2021

Integrative analysis of Iso-Seq and RNA-seq data reveals transcriptome complexity and differentially expressed transcripts in sheep tail fat

Zehu Yuan, Ling Ge, Jingyi Sun, Weibo Zhang, Shanhe Wang, Xiukai Cao, Wei Sun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12454 PubMed 34760406

November 15, 2021

Environmental DNA metabarcoding for monitoring metazoan biodiversity in Antarctic nearshore ecosystems

Laurence J. Clarke, Leonie Suter, Bruce E. Deagle, Andrea M. Polanowski, Aleks Terauds, Glenn J. Johnstone, Jonathan S. Stark

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12458 PubMed 34820189

November 24, 2021

Genome-wide QTL mapping of yield and agronomic traits in two widely adapted winter wheat cultivars from multiple mega-environments

Smit Dhakal, Xiaoxiao Liu, Chenggen Chu, Yan Yang, Jackie C. Rudd, Amir M.H. Ibrahim, Qingwu Xue, Ravindra N. Devkota, Jason A. Baker, Shannon A. Baker, Bryan E. Simoneaux, Geraldine B. Opena, Russell Sutton, Kirk E. Jessup, Kele Hui, Shichen Wang, Charles D. Johnson, Richard P. Metz, Shuyu Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12350 PubMed 34900409

November 5, 2021

Evolutionary history of the vertebrate Piwi gene family

Javier Gutierrez, Roy Platt, Juan C. Opazo, David A. Ray, Federico Hoffmann, Michael Vandewege

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12451 PubMed 34760405

November 12, 2021

Conserved molecular signatures in the spike protein provide evidence indicating the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and a Pangolin-CoV (MP789) by recombination(s) between specific lineages of Sarbecoviruses

Bijendra Khadka, Radhey S. Gupta

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12434 PubMed 35028194

November 30, 2021

Mapping the hidden diversity of the Geophagus sensu stricto species group (Cichlidae: Geophagini) from the Amazon basin

Aline Mourão Ximenes, Pedro Senna Bittencourt, Valéria Nogueira Machado, Tomas Hrbek, Izeni Pires Farias