Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 27, 2023

Novel genetic variants in long non-coding RNA MEG3 are associated with the risk of asthma

Kuo-Liang Chiu, Wen-Shin Chang, Chia-Wen Tsai, Mei-Chin Mong, Te-Chun Hsia, Da-Tian Bau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14760 PubMed 36726728

January 12, 2023

Heat treatment-induced autophagy promotes breast cancer cell invasion and metastasis via TGF-β2-mediated epithelial-mesenchymal transitions

Zhennan Li, Cheng Lu, Fengliang Wang, Haowei Guo, Zhipeng Wang, Hong Yin, Jian Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14640 PubMed 36650834

January 25, 2023

Facilitation of a free-roaming apex predator in working lands: evaluating factors that influence leopard spatial dynamics and prey availability in a South African biodiversity hotspot

Eugene Greyling, Jessica Comley, Michael I. Cherry, Alison J. Leslie, Lana Müller

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14575 PubMed 36718440

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 24, 2023

RNAi-based knockdown of candidate gut receptor genes altered the susceptibility of Spodoptera frugiperda and S. litura larvae to a chimeric toxin Cry1AcF

Tushar K. Dutta, Kodhandaraman Santhoshkumar, Arudhimath Veeresh, Chandramani Waghmare, Chetna Mathur, Rohini Sreevathsa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14716 PubMed 36710863

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

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 13, 2023

Immunoexpression of stem cell markers SOX-2, NANOG AND OCT4 in ameloblastoma

Karolyny Martins Balbinot, Felippe José Almeida Loureiro, Giordanna Pereira Chemelo, Ricardo Alves Mesquita, Aline Maria Pereira Cruz Ramos, Rommel Thiago Jucá Ramos, Artur Luiz da Costa da Silva, Sílvio Augusto Fernandes de Menezes, Maria Sueli da Silva Kataoka, Sergio de Melo Alves Junior, João de Jesus Viana Pinheiro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14349 PubMed 36655039

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 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 6, 2023

Stem transcriptome screen for selection in wild and cultivated pitahaya (Selenicereus undatus): an epiphytic cactus with edible fruit

Omar Oltehua-López, Mario A. Arteaga-Vázquez, Victoria Sosa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14581 PubMed 36632141

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 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 16, 2023

A cross-sectional survey of avian influenza knowledge among poultry farmworkers in Indonesia

Saifur Rehman, Aamir Shehzad, Lisa Dyah Andriyani, Mustofa Helmi Effendi, Zain Ul Abadeen, Muhammad Ilyas Khan, Muhammad Bilal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14600 PubMed 36684680

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 27, 2023

Relationship between the roots of Hippophae rhamnoides at different stump heights and the root microenvironment in feldspathic sandstone areas

Lu Liu, Yuefeng Guo, Xiaoyu Liu, Yunfeng Yao, Wei Qi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14819 PubMed 36726726

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 13, 2023

Surviving on the edge: present and future effects of climate warming on the common frog (Rana temporaria) population in the Montseny massif (NE Iberia)

Albert Montori, Fèlix Amat

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14527 PubMed 36655044

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