Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

February 16, 2022

Evidence of episodic positive selection in Corynebacterium diphtheriae complex of species and its implementations in identification of drug and vaccine targets

Marcus Vinicius Canário Viana, Rodrigo Profeta, Janaína Canário Cerqueira, Alice Rebecca Wattam, Debmalya Barh, Artur Silva, Vasco Azevedo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12662 PubMed 35190783

February 10, 2022

Depletion of RIPK4 parallels higher malignancy potential in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

Jing Xu, Dongping Wu, Bicheng Zhang, Chi Pan, Yinglu Guo, Qichun Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12932 PubMed 35186499

February 15, 2022

Dogs and wolves differ in their response allocation to their owner/caregiver or food in a concurrent choice procedure

Lindsay Isernia, Clive D.L. Wynne, Leanna House, Erica N. Feuerbacher

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12834 PubMed 35186459

February 7, 2022

Using virtual reality for anatomical landmark annotation in geometric morphometrics

Dolores Messer, Michael Atchapero, Mark B. Jensen, Michelle S. Svendsen, Anders Galatius, Morten T. Olsen, Jeppe R. Frisvad, Vedrana A. Dahl, Knut Conradsen, Anders B. Dahl, Andreas Bærentzen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12869 PubMed 35186472

February 9, 2022

Unraveling the hidden paleobiodiversity of the Middle Devonian (Emsian) crinoids (Crinoidea, Echinodermata) from Poland

William I. Ausich, Mariusz A. Salamon, Bartosz J. Płachno, Tomasz Brachaniec, Wojciech Krawczyński, Andrzej Boczarowski, Karolina Paszcza, Magdalena Łukowiak, Przemysław Gorzelak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12842 PubMed 35186460

February 9, 2022

On the Andean genus Leschenius (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae): Updated phylogeny, with a new species from Ecuador, discovery of males, and larval description of the potato weevil Leschenius vulcanorum

María Guadalupe del Río, Adriana E. Marvaldi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12913 PubMed 35186491

February 15, 2022

Identification of novel prophage regions in Xenorhabdus nematophila genome and gene expression analysis during phage-like particle induction

Emilie Lefoulon, Natalie Campbell, S. Patricia Stock

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12956 PubMed 35186508

February 17, 2022

Deciphering the Heteropterys pannosa species complex (Malpighiaceae)

André M. Amorim, Lucas C. Marinho, Augusto Francener

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12937 PubMed 35194527

February 28, 2022

Sargasso Sea bacterioplankton community structure and drivers of variance as revealed by DNA metabarcoding analysis

John Geoffrey Gill, Kristina M. Hill-Spanik, Kerry A. Whittaker, Martin L. Jones, Craig Plante

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12835 PubMed 35251777

February 1, 2022

In leukemia, knock-down of the death inducer-obliterator gene would inhibit the proliferation of endothelial cells by inhibiting the expression of CDK6 and CCND1

Honghua Cao, Lilan Wang, Chengkui Geng, Man Yang, Wenwen Mao, Linlin Yang, Yin Ma, Ming He, Yeying Zhou, Lianqing Liu, Xuejiao Hu, Jingxing Yu, Xiufen Shen, Xuezhong Gu, Liefen Yin, Zhenglei Shen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12832 PubMed 35178295

February 8, 2022

A new golden species of Diasporus (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) from southwestern Colombia, with evaluation of the phylogenetic significance of morphological characters in Diasporus

Jhon Jairo Ospina Sarria, David Andrés Velásquez Trujillo, Christian Oswaldo Castaño Saavedra, Luis Fernando Castillo, Wilmar Bolívar-García

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12765 PubMed 35186452

February 8, 2022

Characterization of the bark storage protein gene (JcBSP) family in the perennial woody plant Jatropha curcas and the function of JcBSP1 in Arabidopsis thaliana

Ming-Jun Zhang, Qiantang Fu, Mao-Sheng Chen, Huiying He, Mingyong Tang, Jun Ni, Yan-Bin Tao, Zeng-Fu Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12938 PubMed 35186503

February 23, 2022

Holothuriophilus trapeziformis Nauck, 1880 (Decapoda: Pinnotheridae) from the Pacific coast of Mexico: taxonomic revision based on integrative taxonomy

Fernando Cortés-Carrasco, Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez, María del Socorro García-Madrigal