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December 2021

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

December 10, 2021

Current freezing and thawing scenarios employed by North Atlantic fisheries: their potential role in Newfoundland and Labrador’s northern cod (Gadus morhua) fishery

Pete Brown, Deepika Dave

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12526 PubMed 34966580

December 15, 2021

Foreflipper and hindflipper muscle reconstructions of Cryptoclidus eurymerus in comparison to functional analogues: introduction of a myological mechanism for flipper twisting

Anna Krahl, Ulrich Witzel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12537 PubMed 35003916

December 23, 2021

Reinvestigating the phylogeny of Myriapoda with more extensive taxon sampling and novel genetic perspective

Jiajia Wang, Yu Bai, Haifeng Zhao, Ruinan Mu, Yan Dong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12691 PubMed 35036164

December 23, 2021

Quantification of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic in dairy manure

Yi Wang, Pramod Pandey, Colleen Chiu, Richard Jeannotte, Sundaram Kuppu, Ruihong Zhang, Richard Pereira, Bart C. Weimer, Nitin Nitin, Sharif S. Aly

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12408 PubMed 35036113

December 14, 2021

Occupancy of wild southern pig-tailed macaques in intact and degraded forests in Peninsular Malaysia

Anna Holzner, D. Mark Rayan, Jonathan Moore, Cedric Kai Wei Tan, Laura Clart, Lars Kulik, Hjalmar Kühl, Nadine Ruppert, Anja Widdig

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12462 PubMed 34993012

December 7, 2021

Foraging ecology of the amphibious mudskipper Periophthalmus chrysospilos (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae)

Quang Minh Dinh, Ton Huu Duc Nguyen, Tran Thi Huyen Lam, Tien Thi Kieu Nguyen, Giang Van Tran, Zeehan Jaafar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12582 PubMed 34966591

December 7, 2021

Mitochondrial sequence diversity reveals the hybrid origin of invasive gibel carp (Carassius gibelio) populations in Hungary

Szilvia Keszte, Arpad Ferincz, Katalin Tóth-Ihász, Réka Enikő Balogh, Ádám Staszny, Árpád Hegyi, Péter Takács, Bela Urbanyi, Balázs Kovács

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12441 PubMed 34966576

December 14, 2021

Transcriptome analysis identifies candidate genes in the biosynthetic pathway of sex pheromones from a zygaenid moth, Achelura yunnanensis (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae)

Shu-Mei Nuo, An-Jin Yang, Gen-Ceng Li, Hai-Yan Xiao, Nai-Yong Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12641 PubMed 34993022

December 24, 2021

Macrophage immunomodulatory activity of Acanthopanax senticousus polysaccharide nanoemulsion via activation of P65/JNK/ikkαsignaling pathway and regulation of Th1/Th2 Cytokines

Xianghui Li, Zhiqiang Zhang, Zhenhuan Guo, Li Zhao, Yonglu Liu, Xia Ma, Qigai He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12575 PubMed 35036126

December 17, 2021

Inhibition of LINK-A lncRNA overcomes ibrutinib resistance in mantle cell lymphoma by regulating Akt/Bcl2 pathway

Ye Zhang, Peng Lu, Yan Zhou, Lifei Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12571 PubMed 35003920

December 10, 2021

A fresh look at Cladarosymblema narrienense, a tetrapodomorph fish (Sarcopterygii: Megalichthyidae) from the Carboniferous of Australia, illuminated via X-ray tomography

Alice M. Clement, Richard Cloutier, Jing Lu, Egon Perilli, Anton Maksimenko, John Long

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12597 PubMed 34966593

December 16, 2021

Putative fossil blood cells reinterpreted as diagenetic structures

Dana E. Korneisel, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Sarah Werning, Shuhai Xiao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12651 PubMed 35003935

December 13, 2021

Spatial and temporal distribution patterns of tick-borne diseases (Tick-borne Encephalitis and Lyme Borreliosis) in Germany

Sarah Cunze, Gustav Glock, Sven Klimpel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12422 PubMed 34993011

December 17, 2021

Metabarcoding prey DNA from fecal samples of adult dragonflies shows no predicted sex differences, and substantial inter-individual variation, in diets

André Morrill, Kari M. Kaunisto, Julia J. Mlynarek, Ella Sippola, Eero J. Vesterinen, Mark R. Forbes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12634 PubMed 35003931

December 14, 2021

The metabolic core of the prokaryotic community from deep-sea sediments of the southern Gulf of Mexico shows different functional signatures between the continental slope and abyssal plain

Mónica Torres-Beltrán, Lluvia Vargas-Gastélum, Dante Magdaleno-Moncayo, Meritxell Riquelme, Juan Carlos Herguera-García, Alejandra Prieto-Davó, Asunción Lago-Lestón

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12474 PubMed 34993013

December 15, 2021

Transcriptome analysis of ovary culture-induced embryogenesis in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)

Ying Deng, Wenyuan Fu, Bing Tang, Lian Tao, Lu Zhang, Xia Zhou, Qingqing Wang, Ji Li, Jinfeng Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12145 PubMed 35003908

December 9, 2021

Comparative and phylogenomic analyses of mitochondrial genomes in Coccinellidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea)

Xinghao Li, Nan Song, Heng Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12169 PubMed 34966567

December 8, 2021

The cost of a meal: factors influencing prey profitability in Australian fur seals

Nelle Meyers, Cassie N. Speakman, Nicole A.S.-Y. Dorville, Mark A. Hindell, Jayson M. Semmens, Jacquomo Monk, Alistair M.M. Baylis, Daniel Ierodiaconou, Andrew J. Hoskins, Greg J. Marshall, Kyler Abernathy, John P.Y. Arnould

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12608 PubMed 34966597

December 23, 2021

A journey through the Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis proteome promotes insights into its functional genome

Wanderson Marques da Silva, Nubia Seyffert, Artur Silva, Vasco Azevedo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12456 PubMed 35036114

December 15, 2021

The cnidarian parasite Ceratonova shasta utilizes inherited and recruited venom-like compounds during infection

Benjamin Americus, Nicole Hams, Anna M. L. Klompen, Gema Alama-Bermejo, Tamar Lotan, Jerri L. Bartholomew, Stephen D. Atkinson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12606 PubMed 35003924

December 15, 2021

Genome-wide identification, evolution, and expression analysis of the NPR1-like gene family in pears

Yarui Wei, Shuliang Zhao, Na Liu, Yuxing Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12617 PubMed 35003927

December 22, 2021

Identification of HMMR as a prognostic biomarker for patients with lung adenocarcinoma via integrated bioinformatics analysis

Zhaodong Li, Hongtian Fei, Siyu Lei, Fengtong Hao, Lijie Yang, Wanze Li, Laney Zhang, Rui Fei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12624 PubMed 35036134

December 9, 2021

Prognostic values of the core components of the mammalian circadian clock in prostate cancer

Wenchang Yue, Xiao Du, Xuhong Wang, Niu Gui, Weijie Zhang, Jiale Sun, Jiawei You, Dong He, Xinyu Geng, Yuhua Huang, Jianquan Hou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12539 PubMed 34966582

December 1, 2021

Functions of 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3, vitamin D3 receptor and interleukin-22 involved in pathogenesis of gout arthritis through altering metabolic pattern and inflammatory responses

Yuqi Chen, Huiya Ma, Youwei Du, Jianjian Dong, Chenkai Jin, Lihui Tan, Rong Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12585 PubMed 34917427

December 14, 2021

Comprehensive analysis of ceRNA network of ERCC4 in colorectal cancer

Huixin Hu, Songyi Liu, Aining Chu, Jing Chen, Chengzhong Xing, Jingjing Jing

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12647 PubMed 34993023