Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 25, 2022

A DNA barcode survey of insect biodiversity in Pakistan

Muhammad Ashfaq, Arif M. Khan, Akhtar Rasool, Saleem Akhtar, Naila Nazir, Nazeer Ahmed, Farkhanda Manzoor, Jayme Sones, Kate Perez, Ghulam Sarwar, Azhar A. Khan, Muhammad Akhter, Shafqat Saeed, Riffat Sultana, Hafiz Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad A. Rafi, Romana Iftikhar, Muhammad Tayyib Naseem, Mariyam Masood, Muhammad Tufail, Santosh Kumar, Sabila Afzal, Jaclyn McKeown, Ahmed Ali Samejo, Imran Khaliq, Michelle L. D’Souza, Shahid Mansoor, Paul D. N. Hebert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13267 PubMed 35497186

April 13, 2022

PipeCoV: a pipeline for SARS-CoV-2 genome assembly, annotation and variant identification

Renato R. M. Oliveira, Tatianne Costa Negri, Gisele Nunes, Inácio Medeiros, Guilherme Araújo, Fabricio de Oliveira Silva, Jorge Estefano Santana de Souza, Ronnie Alves, Guilherme Oliveira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13300 PubMed 35437474

April 27, 2022

Polyphenolic extract from Punica granatum peel causes cytoskeleton-related damage on Giardia lamblia trophozoites in vitro

Lissethe Palomo-Ligas, Job Estrada-Camacho, Mariana Garza-Ontiveros, José Roberto Vargas-Villanueva, Filiberto Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, Sendar Daniel Nery-Flores, Jorge Arturo Cañas Montoya, Juan Ascacio-Valdés, Lizeth Guadalupe Campos-Muzquiz, Raul Rodriguez-Herrera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13350 PubMed 35502204

April 28, 2022

Effectiveness of agricultural waste in the enhancement of biological denitrification of aquaculture wastewater

Shuwei Gao, Wangbao Gong, Kai Zhang, Zhifei Li, Guangjun Wang, Ermeng Yu, Yun Xia, Jingjing Tian, Hongyan Li, Jun Xie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13339 PubMed 35505679

April 20, 2022

Analysis of serum and gene expression profile of cytokines (IL-6, TNF-α and TGF-β1) in chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Ismail Che Noh, Richard Avoi, Asma Abdullah Nurul, Imran Ahmad, Ruzilawati Abu Bakar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13330 PubMed 35469194

April 20, 2022

Changes in serum amino acid levels in non-small cell lung cancer: a case-control study in Chinese population

Ke Liu, Jiaoyuan Li, Tingting Long, Yi Wang, Tongxin Yin, Jieyi Long, Ying Shen, Liming Cheng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13272 PubMed 35469201

April 5, 2022

Identification and analysis of sucrose synthase gene family associated with polysaccharide biosynthesis in Dendrobium catenatum by transcriptomic analysis

Min Jiang, Shangyun Li, Changling Zhao, Mingfu Zhao, Shaozhong Xu, Guosong Wen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13222 PubMed 35402092

April 28, 2022

Soil characteristic changes and quality evaluation of degraded desert steppe in arid windy sandy areas

Jing Ma, Jianrong Qin, Hongbin Ma, Yao Zhou, Yan Shen, Yingzhong Xie, Dongmei Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13100 PubMed 35505677

April 5, 2022

Identification and charactering of APX genes provide new insights in abiotic stresses response in Brassica napus

Jiao Pan, Lei Zhang, Min Chen, Yuxuan Ruan, Peifang Li, Zhihui Guo, Boyu Liu, Ying Ruan, Mu Xiao, Yong Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13166 PubMed 35402101

April 8, 2022

Times and partners are a-changin’: relationships between declining food abundance, breeding success, and divorce in a monogamous seabird species

David Pelletier, Magella Guillemette

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13073 PubMed 35419215

April 19, 2022

Association of toll-like receptors single nucleotide polymorphisms with HBV and HCV infection: research status

Yaxin Xu, Wentao Xue, Hongwei Gao, Jiabo Cui, Lingzhi Zhao, Chongge You

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13335 PubMed 35462764

April 6, 2022

Early Pleistocene large mammals from Maka’amitalu, Hadar, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia

John Rowan, Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, Christopher J. Campisano, Faysal Bibi, René Bobe, Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Stephen R. Frost, Tomas Getachew, Christopher C. Gilbert, Margaret E. Lewis, Sahleselasie Melaku, Eric Scott, Antoine Souron, Lars Werdelin, William H. Kimbel, Kaye E. Reed

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13210 PubMed 35411256

April 4, 2022

Combining biomedical knowledge graphs and text to improve predictions for drug-target interactions and drug-indications

Mona Alshahrani, Abdullah Almansour, Asma Alkhaldi, Maha A. Thafar, Mahmut Uludag, Magbubah Essack, Robert Hoehndorf

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13061 PubMed 35402106

April 28, 2022

Differentiated historical demography and ecological niche forming present distribution and genetic structure in coexisting two salamanders (Amphibia, Urodela, Hynobiidae) in a small island, Japan

Keita Niwa, Dung Van Tran, Kanto Nishikawa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13202 PubMed 35505683

April 18, 2022

Phenotypic variation of Chitala chitala (Hamilton, 1822) from Indian rivers using truss network and geometric morphometrics

Rejani Chandran, Achal Singh, Rajeev K. Singh, Sangeeta Mandal, Kantharajan Ganesan, Priyanka Sah, Pradipta Paul, Abhinav Pathak, Nimisha Dutta, Ramashankar Sah, Kuldeep K. Lal, Vindhya Mohindra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13290 PubMed 35462771

April 1, 2022

Comparison of changes in fecal microbiota of calves with and without dam

Mengya Li, Zhisheng Wang, Lizhi Wang, Bai Xue, Rui Hu, Huawei Zou, Siqiang Liu, Ali Mujtaba Shah, Quanhui Peng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12826 PubMed 35386429

April 4, 2022

Biochemical composition and function of subalpine shrubland and meadow soil microbiomes in the Qilian Mountains, Qinghai–Tibetan plateau, China

Qiuyun Fan, Yuguo Yang, Yuqing Geng, Youlin Wu, Zhanen Niu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13188 PubMed 35402098

April 12, 2022

Identification of the original plants of cultivated Bupleuri Radix based on DNA barcoding and chloroplast genome analysis

Gaixia Zhang, Hui Wang, Linchun Shi, Yang Liu, Ruyu Yao, Chun Sui, Chengmin Yang, Hongliang Ji, Qiuling Wang, Jianhe Wei