Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 6, 2023

On the origin of mitochondria: a multilayer network approach

Dérick Gabriel F. Borges, Daniel S. Carvalho, Gilberto C. Bomfim, Pablo Ivan P. Ramos, Jerzy Brzozowski, Aristóteles Góes-Neto, Roberto F. S. Andrade, Charbel El-Hani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14571 PubMed 36632145

January 25, 2023

Scaling patterns of body plans differ among squirrel ecotypes

Tate J. Linden, Abigail E. Burtner, Johannah Rickman, Annika McFeely, Sharlene E. Santana, Chris J. Law

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14800 PubMed 36718452

January 13, 2023

Occurrence of two myxosporean parasites in the gall bladder of white seabream Diplodus sargus (L.) (Teleostei, Sparidae), with the morphological and molecular description of Ceratomyxa sargus n. sp.

Sónia Rocha, Luís Filipe Rangel, Graça Casal, Ricardo Severino, Florbela Soares, Pedro Rodrigues, Maria João Santos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14599 PubMed 36655052

January 23, 2023

Individuality and stability of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faecal microbiota through time

Raphael Eisenhofer, Kylie L. Brice, Michaela DJ Blyton, Scott E. Bevins, Kellie Leigh, Brajesh K. Singh, Kristofer M. Helgen, Ian Hough, Christopher B. Daniels, Natasha Speight, Ben D. Moore

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14598 PubMed 36710873

January 13, 2023

Chinese striped-neck turtles vocalize underwater and show differences in peak frequency among different age and sex groups

Lu Zhou, Jinhong Lei, Xiaofei Zhai, Haitao Shi, Jichao Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14628 PubMed 36655045

January 31, 2023

Bidirectional effect of vitamin D on brown adipogenesis of C3H10T1/2 fibroblast-like cells

Takako Mukai, Tatsuya Kusudo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14785 PubMed 36815991

January 26, 2023

Next-generation sequencing shows the genomic features of ovarian clear cell cancer and compares the genetic architectures of high-grade serous ovarian cancer and clear cell carcinoma in ovarian and endometrial tissues

Meifu Gan, Zaixian Tai, Yijian Yu, Chao Zhang, Juan Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14653 PubMed 36721777

January 17, 2023

Nitrogen and potassium interactions optimized asynchronous spikelet filling and increased grain yield of japonica rice

Weitao Xu, Jianming Li, Jiancheng Feng, Zhenzhu Shao, Yidan Huang, Wenfeng Hou, Qiang Gao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14710 PubMed 36684678

January 16, 2023

Comparative studies of two AA10 family lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases from Bacillus thuringiensis

Huiyan Zhang, Haichuan Zhou, Yong Zhao, Tang Li, Heng Yin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14670 PubMed 36684673

January 17, 2023

The root enrichment of bacteria is consistent across different stress-resistant plant species

Feng Huang, Congyi Zhu, Minli Huang, Xiaobing Song, Aitian Peng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14683 PubMed 36684671

January 25, 2023

Research on bacterial community characteristics of traditional fermented yak milk in the Tibetan Plateau based on high-throughput sequencing

Shifang Wu, Xiaoli Yang, Haina Gao, Chengrui Shi, Longlin Wang, Deyuan Lu, Yiheng Li, Jinliang Zhang, Weibing Zhang, Pengcheng Wen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14733 PubMed 36718443

January 24, 2023

Verification of the detachment–transport coupling relationship of rill erosion using colluvium material in steep nonerodible slopes

Libo Chen, Pengyu Gao, Xiaolin Li, Qin Zhu, Zumei Wang, Fang Shuai, Yue Zhang, Jinshi Lin, Yanhe Huang, Fangshi Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14766 PubMed 36710866

January 11, 2023

Taxonomic review of Saguinus mystax (Spix, 1823) (Primates, Callitrichidae), and description of a new species

Gerson Paulino Lopes, Fábio Rohe, Fabrício Bertuol, Erico Polo, Ivan Junqueira Lima, João Valsecchi, Tamily Carvalho Melo Santos, Stephen D. Nash, Maria Nazareth Ferreira da Silva, Jean P. Boubli, Izeni Pires Farias, Tomas Hrbek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14526 PubMed 36647446

January 27, 2023

Plain set and stirred yogurt with different additives: implementation of food safety system as quality checkpoints

Aya Allam, Noha Shafik, Ahmed Zayed, Ibrahim Khalifa, Ibrahim A. Bakry, Mohamed A. Farag

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14648 PubMed 36726723

January 6, 2023

A more reliable species richness estimator based on the Gamma–Poisson model

Chun-Huo Chiu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14540 PubMed 36632143

January 25, 2023

Extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: role of conjugative plasmids in transferring resistance

Qutaiba Ababneh, Sara Al Sbei, Ziad Jaradat, Sebawe Syaj, Neda’a Aldaken, Hamza Ababneh, Zeina Inaya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14709 PubMed 36718445

January 26, 2023

Spatiotemporal variability of oxygen concentration in coral reefs of Gorgona Island (Eastern Tropical Pacific) and its effect on the coral Pocillopora capitata

Ana Lucia Castrillón-Cifuentes, Fernando A. Zapata, Alan Giraldo, Christian Wild

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14586 PubMed 36721774

January 23, 2023

Musculoskeletal simulations to examine the effects of accentuated eccentric loading (AEL) on jump height

Eric Yung-Sheng Su, Timothy J. Carroll, Dominic J. Farris, Glen A. Lichtwark

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14687 PubMed 36710857

January 30, 2023

Exploring the mechanisms by which camel lactoferrin can kill Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium and Shigella sonnei

Hussein A. Almehdar, Nawal Abd El-Baky, Ehab H. Mattar, Raed Albiheyri, Atif Bamagoos, Abdullah Aljaddawi, Vladimir N. Uversky, Elrashdy M. Redwan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14809 PubMed 36743956

January 17, 2023

Bacterial incidence and drug resistance from pathogens recovered from blood, cerebrospinal and pleural fluids in 2019–2020. Results of the Invifar network

Elvira Garza-González, Adrian Camacho-Ortiz, Alfredo Ponce-de-Leon, Edgar Ortiz-Brizuela, Luis Esaú López-Jácome, Claudia Colin, Fabian Rojas-Larios, Oscar A. Newton-Sánchez, Gabriela Echaniz-Aviles, Maria Noemi Carnalla-Barajas, Araceli Soto, Paola Bocanegra-Ibarias, Ana María del Rocío Hernández-Dueñas, María del Consuelo Velázquez-Acosta, Laura Karina Avilés-Benítez, Juan Pablo Mena-Ramirez, Daniel Romero, Isela Mora-Jiménez, Margarita Alcaraz-Espejel, José Manuel Feliciano-Guzmán, Maribel López-García, Patricia Rodriguez-Zulueta, María Angelina Quevedo-Ramos, Cecilia Padilla-Ibarra, Carlos Antonio Couoh-May, Maria Carolina Rivera-Ferreira, Cecilia Teresita Morales-de-la-Peña, Hector Zubiate, Raúl Peralta-Catalán, Carlos Miguel Cetina-Umaña, Joaquin Rincón-Zuno, Maria Lucia Perez-Ricardez, Iris Yazmin Hernández-Cordova, Eduardo López-Gutiérrez, Mariana Gil, Efren Aguirre-Burciaga, Guadalupe Soledad Huirache-Villalobos, Scarlett Munoz, Nicolás Rogelio Eric Barlandas-Rendón, Enrique Bolado-Martinez, Luis Javier Quintanilla-Cazares, Abraham C. Gómez-Choel, Laura Lopez, Juan Carlos Tinoco, Rosa Areli Martínez-Gamboa, Alejandro Molina, Samuel Pavel Escalante-Armenta, Lizbeth Duarte, Luis Alberto Ruiz-Gamboa, Dulce Isabel Cobos-Canul, Dulce López, Irma Elena Barroso-Herrera-y-Cairo, Eduardo Rodriguez-Noriega, Rayo Morfin-Otero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14411 PubMed 36684666

January 13, 2023

Change and stasis of distinct sediment microbiomes across Port Everglades Inlet (PEI) and the adjacent coral reefs

Lauren E. Krausfeldt, Jose Victor Lopez, Catherine Margaret Bilodeau, Hyo Won Lee, Shelby L. Casali

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14288 PubMed 36655050

January 11, 2023

Anatomical and physiological responses of Aechmea blanchetiana (Bromeliaceae) induced by silicon and sodium chloride stress during in vitro culture

Rosiane Cipriano, João Paulo Rodrigues Martins, Lorenzo Toscano Conde, Mariela Mattos da Silva, Diolina Moura Silva, Andreia Barcelos Passos Lima Gontijo, Antelmo Ralph Falqueto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14624 PubMed 36647445

January 10, 2023

UHPLC-ESI-QE-Orbitrap-MS based metabolomics reveals the antioxidant mechanism of icaritin on mice with cerebral ischemic reperfusion

Yunfeng Tang, Lixin Sun, Yun Zhao, Jingchun Yao, Zhong Feng, Zhong Liu, Guimin Zhang, Chenghong Sun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14483 PubMed 36643627

January 3, 2023

Influences of oxygen and temperature interaction on the antibacterial activity, antioxidant activity, serum biochemical indices, blood indices and growth performance of crucian carp

Bin Wang, Hanping Mao, Jian Zhao, Yong Liu, Yafei Wang, Xiaoxue Du

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14530 PubMed 36620750

January 25, 2023

Construction of a ceRNA network of regulated ferroptosis in doxorubicin-induced myocardial injury

Hongwei Ye, Yuping Li, Lu Li, Yuhui Huang, Jiahui Wang, Qin Gao