Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Aleksander Braczkowski, Ralph Schenk, Dinal Samarasinghe, Duan Biggs, Allie Richardson, Nicholas Swanson, Merlin Swanson, Arjun Dheer, Julien Fattebert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12307 PubMed 35127275

January 25, 2022

A newly recognized theropod assemblage from the Lewisville Formation (Woodbine Group; Cenomanian) and its implications for understanding Late Cretaceous Appalachian terrestrial ecosystems

Christopher R. Noto, Domenic C. D’Amore, Stephanie K. Drumheller, Thomas L. Adams

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12782 PubMed 35127286

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 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 4, 2022

Predicting continuous ground reaction forces from accelerometers during uphill and downhill running: a recurrent neural network solution

Ryan S. Alcantara, W. Brent Edwards, Guillaume Y. Millet, Alena M. Grabowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12752 PubMed 35036107

January 24, 2022

Almost all known sauropod necks are incomplete and distorted

Michael P. Taylor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12810 PubMed 35127288

January 25, 2022

Isolation, identification and characterization of nitrogen fixing endophytic bacteria and their effects on cassava production

Xiao Zhang, Juanjuan Tong, Mengmeng Dong, Kashif Akhtar, Bing He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12677 PubMed 35127278

January 5, 2022

Theobroma cacao L. cultivar CCN 51: a comprehensive review on origin, genetics, sensory properties, production dynamics, and physiological aspects

Ramon E. Jaimez, Luigy Barragan, Miguel Fernández-Niño, Ludger A. Wessjohann, George Cedeño-Garcia, Ignacio Sotomayor Cantos, Francisco Arteaga

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12676 PubMed 35036091

January 20, 2022

Galapagos land iguanas as ecosystem engineers

Washington Tapia, James P. Gibbs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12711 PubMed 35116195

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 18, 2022

A new ancient lineage of ablepharine skinks (Sauria: Scincidae) from eastern Himalayas with notes on origin and systematics of the group

Zeeshan A. Mirza, Andrey M. Bragin, Harshal Bhosale, Gaurang G. Gowande, Harshil Patel, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12800 PubMed 35111410

January 25, 2022

Identification and validation of a novel signature for prediction the prognosis and immunotherapy benefit in bladder cancer

Yichi Zhang, Yifeng Lin, Daojun Lv, Xiangkun Wu, Wenjie Li, Xueqing Wang, Dongmei Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12843 PubMed 35127296

January 27, 2022

Conservation paleobiology on Minami-Daito Island, Okinawa, Japan: anthropogenic extinction of cave-dwelling bats on a tropical oceanic island

Yuri Kimura, Dai Fukui, Mizuko Yoshiyuki, Kazuaki Higashi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12702 PubMed 35127280

January 4, 2022

Human-wildlife conflicts with crocodilians, cetaceans and otters in the tropics and subtropics

Patrick Cook, Joseph E. Hawes, João Vitor Campos-Silva, Carlos A. Peres

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12688 PubMed 35036162

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 18, 2022

Bioinformatics analysis and identification of hub genes and immune-related molecular mechanisms in chronic myeloid leukemia

Fangyi Yao, Cui Zhao, Fangmin Zhong, Tingyu Qin, Shuqi Li, Jing Liu, Bo Huang, Xiaozhong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12616 PubMed 35111390

January 13, 2022

Genome-wide identification and evolution of WNK kinases in Bambusoideae and transcriptional profiling during abiotic stress in Phyllostachys edulis

RongXiu Liu, Naresh Vasupalli, Dan Hou, Antony Stalin, Hantian Wei, Huicong Zhang, Xinchun Lin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12718 PubMed 35070502

January 5, 2022

Increased mutation efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in banana by optimized construct

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 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 31, 2022

Identification of key genes and biological pathways in Chinese lung cancer population using bioinformatics analysis

Ping Liu, Hui Li, Chunfeng Liao, Yuling Tang, Mengzhen Li, Zhouyu Wang, Qi Wu, Yun Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12731 PubMed 35178291

January 13, 2022

Therapeutic targeting of ARID1A and PI3K/AKT pathway alterations in cholangiocarcinoma

Supharada Tessiri, Anchalee Techasen, Sarinya Kongpetch, Achira Namjan, Watcharin Loilome, Waraporn Chan-on, Raynoo Thanan, Apinya Jusakul

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12750 PubMed 35070505