Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Sen Zhang, Shaoping Wu, Chunhua Hu, Qiaosong Yang, Tao Dong, Ou Sheng, Guiming Deng, Weidi He, Tongxin Dou, Chunyu Li, Chenkang Sun, Ganjun Yi, Fangcheng Bi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12664 PubMed 35036088

January 10, 2022

An integrative taxonomic revision of slug-eating snakes (Squamata: Pareidae: Pareineae) reveals unprecedented diversity in Indochina

Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Tan Van Nguyen, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Platon V. Yushchenko, Peter Brakels, Linh Hoang Nguyen, Hung Ngoc Nguyen, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Nikolai Orlov, Gernot Vogel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12713 PubMed 35047234

January 6, 2022

Uvariopsis dicaprio (Annonaceae) a new tree species with notes on its pollination biology, and the Critically Endangered narrowly endemic plant species of the Ebo Forest, Cameroon

George Gosline, Martin Cheek, Jean Michel Onana, Eric Ngansop Tchatchouang, Xander M. van der Burgt, Lorna MacKinnon, Léo-Paul M. J. Dagallier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12614 PubMed 35036131

January 13, 2022

ChiroVox: a public library of bat calls

Tamás Görföl, Joe Chun-Chia Huang, Gábor Csorba, Dorottya Győrössy, Péter Estók, Tigga Kingston, Kriszta Lilla Szabadi, Ellen McArthur, Juliana Senawi, Neil M. Furey, Vuong Tan Tu, Vu Dinh Thong, Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan, Emy Ritta Jinggong, Melissa Donnelly, Jayaraj Vijaya Kumaran, Jian-Nan Liu, Shiang-Fan Chen, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Ying-Yi Ho, Heng-Chia Chang, Nurul-Ain Elias, Nur-Izzati Abdullah, Lee-Sim Lim, C Daniel Squire, Sándor Zsebők

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12445 PubMed 35070499

January 19, 2022

Biological effects of gamma-ray radiation on tulip (Tulipa gesneriana L.)

Yirui Li, Li Chen, Xiaodie Zhan, Liang Liu, Feihong Feng, Zihua Guo, Dan Wang, Hao Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12792 PubMed 35111407

January 11, 2022

Biochemical profile in mixed martial arts athletes

Łukasz Marcin Tota, Szczepan Stanisław Wiecha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12708 PubMed 35047233

January 21, 2022

Antimicrobial peptides properties beyond growth inhibition and bacterial killing

Israel Castillo-Juárez, Blanca Esther Blancas-Luciano, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Ana María Fernández-Presas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12667 PubMed 35116194

January 14, 2022

Using InVEST to evaluate water yield services in Shangri-La, Northwestern Yunnan, China

Yuanhe Yu, Xingqi Sun, Jinliang Wang, Jianpeng Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12804 PubMed 35174014

January 5, 2022

Effectiveness of antifungal treatments during chytridiomycosis epizootics in populations of an endangered frog

Roland A. Knapp, Maxwell B. Joseph, Thomas C. Smith, Ericka E. Hegeman, Vance T. Vredenburg, James E. Erdman Jr, Daniel M. Boiano, Andrea J. Jani, Cheryl J. Briggs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12712 PubMed 35036095

January 4, 2022

Pecan agroforestry systems improve soil quality by stimulating enzyme activity

Zhaocheng Wang, Mengyu Zhou, Hua Liu, Cheng Huang, Yuhua Ma, Hao xin Ge, Xiang Ge, Songling Fu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12663 PubMed 35036087

January 25, 2022

Seasonal and diel variations in the vertical distribution, composition, abundance and biomass of zooplankton in a deep Chilean Patagonian Fjord

Nur Garcia-Herrera, Astrid Cornils, Jürgen Laudien, Barbara Niehoff, Juan Höfer, Günter Försterra, Humberto E. González, Claudio Richter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12823 PubMed 35127292

January 5, 2022

Protection of catalpol against triptolide-induced hepatotoxicity by inhibiting excessive autophagy via the PERK-ATF4-CHOP pathway

Linluo Zhang, Changqing Li, Ling Fu, Zhichao Yu, Gengrui Xu, Jie Zhou, Meiyu Shen, Zhe Feng, Huaxu Zhu, Tong Xie, Lingling Zhou, Xueping Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12759 PubMed 35036109

January 5, 2022

Salivary miRNAs as non-invasive biomarkers of hepatocellular carcinoma: a pilot study

Arshiya Mariam, Galen Miller-Atkins, Amika Moro, Alejandro I. Rodarte, Shirin Siddiqi, Lou-Anne Acevedo-Moreno, J. Mark Brown, Daniela S. Allende, Federico Aucejo, Daniel M. Rotroff

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12715 PubMed 35036096

January 12, 2022

Effects of different intensities of long-term grazing on plant diversity, biomass and carbon stock in alpine shrubland on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Jinlan Wang, Wen Li, Wenxia Cao, Shilin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12771 PubMed 35070507

January 11, 2022

A decision support system for primary headache developed through machine learning

Fangfang Liu, Guanshui Bao, Mengxia Yan, Guiming Lin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12743 PubMed 35047235

January 5, 2022

Genome-wide identification and expression analyses of C2H2 zinc finger transcription factors in Pleurotus ostreatus

Qiangqiang Ding, Hongyuan Zhao, Peilei Zhu, Xiangting Jiang, Fan Nie, Guoqing Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12654 PubMed 35036086

January 12, 2022

Old trees are perceived as a valuable element of the municipal forest landscape

Marzena Suchocka, Magdalena Wojnowska-Heciak, Magdalena Błaszczyk, Agnieszka Gawłowska, Joanna Ciemniewska, Agata Jarska, Jakub Heciak, Beata Pachnowska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12700 PubMed 35070501

January 5, 2022

Genome-wide sequence identification and expression analysis of N⁶-methyladenosine demethylase in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) under salt stress

Jie Cui, Junli Liu, Junliang Li, Dayou Cheng, Cuihong Dai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12719 PubMed 35036097

January 4, 2022

Developmental exposure to the DE-71 mixture of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants induce a complex pattern of endocrine disrupting effects in rats

Louise Ramhøj, Karen Mandrup, Ulla Hass, Terje Svingen, Marta Axelstad

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12738 PubMed 35036103