Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 2, 2022

Cranial osteology, taxonomic reassessment, and phylogenetic relationships of the Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) turtle Trinitichelys hiatti (Paracryptodira)

Yann Rollot, Serjoscha W. Evers, Stephanie E. Pierce, Walter G. Joyce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14138 PubMed 36345484

November 4, 2022

Machine learning based estimation of field-scale daily, high resolution, multi-depth soil moisture for the Western and Midwestern United States

Yushu Xia, Jennifer D. Watts, Megan B. Machmuller, Jonathan Sanderman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14275 PubMed 36353602

November 7, 2022

Identification and expression analysis of maize NF-YA subunit genes

Mingyue Lv, Hongzhe Cao, Xue Wang, Kang Zhang, Helong Si, Jinping Zang, Jihong Xing, Jingao Dong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14306 PubMed 36389434

November 2, 2022

Unified methods in collecting, preserving, and archiving coral bleaching and restoration specimens to increase sample utility and interdisciplinary collaboration

Rebecca Vega Thurber, Emily R. Schmeltzer, Andréa G. Grottoli, Robert van Woesik, Robert J. Toonen, Mark Warner, Kerri L. Dobson, Rowan H. McLachlan, Katie Barott, Daniel J. Barshis, Justin Baumann, Leila Chapron, David J. Combosch, Adrienne MS Correa, Thomas M. DeCarlo, Mary Hagedorn, Laetitia Hédouin, Kenneth Hoadley, Thomas Felis, Christine Ferrier-Pagès, Carly Kenkel, Ilsa B. Kuffner, Jennifer Matthews, Mónica Medina, Christopher Meyer, Corinna Oster, James Price, Hollie M. Putnam, Yvonne Sawall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14176 PubMed 36345483

November 9, 2022

Re-evaluation of the morphology and phylogeny of Diplocynodon levantinicum Huene & Nikoloff, 1963 and the stratigraphic age of the West Maritsa coal field (Upper Thrace Basin, Bulgaria)

Tobias Massonne, Madelaine Böhme

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14167 PubMed 36389401

November 2, 2022

Elasmobranch-associated microbiota: a scientometric literature review

Ivana Correia Costa, Mariene Amorim de Oliveira, Natascha Wosnick, Rachel Ann Hauser-Davis, Salvatore Siciliano, Jorge Luiz Silva Nunes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14255 PubMed 36345481

November 11, 2022

Season of prescribed burns and management of an early successional species affect flower density and pollinator activity in a pine savanna ecosystem

Opeyemi A. Adedoja, Raelene M. Crandall, Rachel E. Mallinger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14377 PubMed 36389407

November 7, 2022

AAA+ proteases: the first line of defense against mitochondrial damage

Gautam Pareek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14350 PubMed 36389399

November 29, 2022

Pea eggplant (Solanum torvum Swartz) is a source of plant food polyphenols with SARS-CoV inhibiting potential

Nisha Govender, Norazura Syazlin Zulkifli, Nurul Farhana Badrul Hisham, Nur Syatila Ab Ghani, Zeti-Azura Mohamed-Hussein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14168 PubMed 36518265

November 4, 2022

Examining abnormal Silurian trilobites from the Llandovery of Australia

Russell D.C. Bicknell, Patrick M. Smith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14308 PubMed 36353603

November 30, 2022

Screening of high-risk deleterious missense variations in the CYP1B1 gene implicated in the pathogenesis of primary congenital glaucoma: A comprehensive in silico approach

Muhammad Shahid, Ahmad Azfaralariff, Muhammad Tufail, Nazeer Hussain Khan, Ahmed Abdulkareem Najm, Sabika Firasat, Muhammad Zubair, Shazrul Fazry, Douglas Law

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14132 PubMed 36518267

November 11, 2022

Human access and deterministic processes play a major role in structuring planktonic and sedimentary bacterial and eukaryotic communities in lakes

John K. Pearman, Georgia Thomson-Laing, Lucy Thompson, Sean Waters, Marcus J. Vandergoes, Jamie D. Howarth, Ian C. Duggan, Ian D. Hogg, Susanna A. Wood

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14378 PubMed 36389411

November 29, 2022

The evolution of unique cranial traits in leporid lagomorphs

Amber P. Wood-Bailey, Philip G. Cox, Alana C. Sharp

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14414 PubMed 36518283

November 3, 2022

Differences in leaf and root litter decomposition in tropical montane rainforests are mediated by soil microorganisms not by decomposer microarthropods

Laura M. Sánchez-Galindo, Dorothee Sandmann, Franca Marian, Tobias Lauermann, Mark Maraun, Stefan Scheu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14264 PubMed 36348661

November 25, 2022

Confirmation of the southern African distribution of the marine sponge Hymeniacidon perlevis (Montagu, 1814) in the context of its global dispersal

Toufiek Samaai, Thomas L. Turner, Jyothi Kara, Dawit Yemane, Benedicta Biligwe Ngwakum, Robyn P. Payne, Sven Kerwath

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14388 PubMed 36452081

November 2, 2022

Molecular phylogeny of Columbellidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda)

Marta deMaintenon, Ellen E. Strong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13996 PubMed 36345482

November 25, 2022

Canopy spectral reflectance indices correlate with yield traits variability in bread wheat genotypes under drought stress

Mohammed Mohi-Ud-Din, Md. Alamgir Hossain, Md. Motiar Rohman, Md. Nesar Uddin, Md. Sabibul Haque, Jalal Uddin Ahmed, Hasan Muhammad Abdullah, Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Mohammad Pessarakli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14421 PubMed 36452074

November 9, 2022

Identification of quantitative trait loci of agronomic traits in bread wheat using a Pamyati Azieva × Paragon mapping population harvested in three regions of Kazakhstan

Akerke Amalova, Kanat Yermekbayev, Simon Griffiths, Saule Abugalieva, Adylkhan Babkenov, Elena Fedorenko, Aigul Abugalieva, Yerlan Turuspekov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14324 PubMed 36389412

November 29, 2022

Exogenous melatonin improves salt tolerance mainly by regulating the antioxidant system in cyanobacterium Nostoc flagelliforme

Xiaolong Yuan, Jing An, Tao Zheng, Wenjian Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14479 PubMed 36518273

November 30, 2022

Hybrid purity identification using EST-SSR markers and heterosis analysis of quantitative traits of Russian wildrye

Zhiqi Gao, Lan Yun, Zhen Li, Qiyu Liu, Chen Zhang, Yingmei Ma, Fengling Shi