Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 9, 2022

Analysis of influencing factors of serum total protein and serum calcium content in plasma donors

Bin Liu, Demei Dong, Zongkui Wang, Yang Gao, Ding Yu, Shengliang Ye, Xi Du, Li Ma, Haijun Cao, Fengjuan Liu, Rong Zhang, Changqing Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14474 PubMed 36523465

December 5, 2022

Genome-wide identification and expression pattern analysis of quinoa BBX family

Du Xuefen, Xiaohong Wei, Baoqiang Wang, Zhu Xiaolin, Wang Xian, Luo Jincheng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14463 PubMed 36523472

December 1, 2022

Humans read emotional arousal in monkey vocalizations: evidence for evolutionary continuities in communication

Jay W. Schwartz, Harold Gouzoules

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14471 PubMed 36518288

December 15, 2022

The long-term dynamics of serum antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

Graziele Fonseca de Sousa, Thuany da Silva Nogueira, Lana Soares de Sales, Fernanda Ferreira Maissner, Odara Araújo de Oliveira, Hellade Lopes Rangel, Daniele das Graças dos Santos, Rodrigo Nunes-da-Fonseca, Jackson de Souza-Menezes, Jose Luciano Nepomuceno-Silva, Flávia Borges Mury, Raquel de Souza Gestinari, Amilcar Tanuri, Orlando da Costa Ferreira Jr, Cintia Monteiro-de-Barros

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14547 PubMed 36540807

December 21, 2022

A new Meckel’s cartilage from the Devonian Hangenberg black shale in Morocco and its position in chondrichthyan jaw morphospace

Merle Greif, Humberto G. Ferrón, Christian Klug

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14418 PubMed 36573235

December 20, 2022

Knockdown of hsa_circ_0008922 inhibits the progression of glioma

Chunhong Xue, Chang Liu, Xiang Yun, Xiaoqiong Zou, Xin Li, Ping Wang, Feng Li, Yingying Ge, Qingmei Zhang, Xiaoxun Xie, Xisheng Li, Bin Luo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14552 PubMed 36570001

December 13, 2022

Predicting RNA secondary structure by a neural network: what features may be learned?

Elizaveta I. Grigorashvili, Zoe S. Chervontseva, Mikhail S. Gelfand

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14335 PubMed 36530406

December 15, 2022

Ethanolic extract of Ya-nang (Tiliacora triandra) leaf powder induces apoptosis in cholangiocarcinoma cell lines via induction of hyperacetylation and inhibition of growth signaling

Arunta Samankul, Gulsiri Senawong, Prasan Swatsitang, Banchob Sripa, Chanokbhorn Phaosiri, Somdej Kanokmedhakul, Thanaset Senawong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14518 PubMed 36540797

December 15, 2022

Genome-wide investigation and expression pattern of PHR family genes in cotton under low phosphorus stress

Yan Zhao, Peiyu Li, Huarui Wang, Jiping Feng, Yuxin Li, Shanshan Wang, Yuanjie Li, Yanyan Guo, Lin Li, Yao Su, Zhengwen Sun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14584 PubMed 36540806

December 12, 2022

Quantifying the impacts of symbiotic interactions between two invasive species: the tawny crazy ant (Nylanderia fulva) tending the sorghum aphid (Melanaphis sorghi)

Jocelyn R. Holt, Antonino Malacrinò, Raul F. Medina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14448 PubMed 36530409

December 13, 2022

Transcriptomic analyses provide new insights into green and purple color pigmentation in Rheum tanguticum medicinal plants

Haixia Chen, Tsan-Yu Chiu, Sunil Kumar Sahu, Haixi Sun, Jiawen Wen, Jianbo Sun, Qiyuan Li, Yangfan Tang, Hong Jin, Huan Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14265 PubMed 36530396

December 12, 2022

An artificial neural network classification method employing longitudinally monitored immune biomarkers to predict the clinical outcome of critically ill COVID-19 patients

Gustavo Martinez, Alexis Garduno, Abdullah Mahmud-Al-Rafat, Ali Toloue Ostadgavahi, Ann Avery, Scheila de Avila e Silva, Rachael Cusack, Cheryl Cameron, Mark Cameron, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, David Kelvin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14487 PubMed 36530391

December 14, 2022

EcoCountHelper: an R package and analytical pipeline for the analysis of ecological count data using GLMMs, and a case study of bats in Grand Teton National Park

Hunter J. Cole, Dylan GE Gomes, Jesse R. Barber

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14509 PubMed 36536627

December 19, 2022

Palaeoecology of the Hiraiso Formation (Miyagi Prefecture, Japan) and implications for the recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction

William J. Foster, Amanda Godbold, Arnaud Brayard, Anja B. Frank, Stephen E. Grasby, Richard J. Twitchett, Tatsuo Oji

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14357 PubMed 36569998

December 13, 2022

Population development and landscape preference of reintroduced wild ungulates: successful rewilding in Southern Italy

Eleonora Rivieccio, Claudia Troiano, Simona Petrelli, Valeria Maselli, Gabriele de Filippo, Domenico Fulgione, Maria Buglione