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February 2023

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

February 2, 2023

Window films increase avoidance of collisions by birds but only when applied to external compared with internal surfaces of windows

John P. Swaddle, Blythe Brewster, Maddie Schuyler, Anjie Su

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14676 PubMed 36751632

February 10, 2023

Rapid growth in Late Cretaceous sea turtles reveals life history strategies similar to extant leatherbacks

Laura E. Wilson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14864 PubMed 36793890

February 15, 2023

New specimens of the early Permian apex predator Varanops brevirostris at Richards Spur, Oklahoma, with histological information about its growth pattern

Tea Maho, Joseph J. Bevitt, Robert R. Reisz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14898 PubMed 36819993

February 28, 2023

Determination of drought tolerance of different strawberry genotypes

Eser Celiktopuz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14972 PubMed 36874961

February 10, 2023

Comparative chloroplast genomics of three species of Bulbophyllum section Cirrhopetalum (Orchidaceae), with an emphasis on the description of a new species from Eastern Himalaya

Mengkai Li, Lu Tang, Jianping Deng, Hanqing Tang, Shicheng Shao, Zhen Xing, Yan Luo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14721 PubMed 36793888

February 24, 2023

Is the middle Cambrian Brooksella a hexactinellid sponge, trace fossil or pseudofossil?

Morrison R. Nolan, Sally E. Walker, Tara Selly, James Schiffbauer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14796 PubMed 36860767

February 1, 2023

Development of a novel mathematical model that explains SARS-CoV-2 infection dynamics in Caco-2 cells

Vladimir Staroverov, Stepan Nersisyan, Alexei Galatenko, Dmitriy Alekseev, Sofya Lukashevich, Fedor Polyakov, Nikita Anisimov, Alexander Tonevitsky

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14828 PubMed 36748087

February 13, 2023

Genetic variation and cryptic lineage among the sergestid shrimp Acetes americanus (Decapoda)

Sabrina Morilhas Simões, Rogério Caetano Costa, Fabricio Lopes Carvalho, Abner Carvalho-Batista, Sarah de Souza Alves Teodoro, Fernando L. Mantelatto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14751 PubMed 36815990

February 1, 2023

Investigation of the hydration process and biological activity of a novel nanosilver incorporated dicalcium silicate based retrograde filling material

Teena Dsouza, Aditya Shetty, Sudarshan Kini, Veena Shetty, Shama Rao, Rajesha Payaradka, Nijil Satheesan, Neevan Dsouza, Heeresh Shetty

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14632 PubMed 36748089

February 17, 2023

Individual and combined effect of organic eutrophication (DOC) and ocean warming on the ecophysiology of the Octocoral Pinnigorgia flava

Edoardo Zelli, Susana Marcela Simancas-Giraldo, Nan Xiang, Claudia Dessì, Nadim Daniel Katzer, Arjen Tilstra, Christian Wild

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14812 PubMed 36814959

February 9, 2023

Bioinformatics prediction and experimental verification of a novel microRNA for myocardial fibrosis after myocardial infarction in rats

Qianqian Guo, Dandan Wu, Dongdong Jia, Xinyue Zhang, Aiming Wu, Lixia Lou, Mingjing Zhao, Mengzhu Zhao, Yijie Gao, Manman Wang, Menghua Liu, Meng Chen, Dongmei Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14851 PubMed 36788811

February 3, 2023

Integrating multi-type aberrations from DNA and RNA through dynamic mapping gene space for subtype-specific breast cancer driver discovery

Jianing Xi, Zhen Deng, Yang Liu, Qian Wang, Wen Shi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14843 PubMed 36755866

February 27, 2023

Stress-induced immunosuppression affecting immune response to Newcastle disease virus vaccine through “miR-155-CTLA-4” pathway in chickens

Jie Wen, Yiru Wu, Jianwei Han, Yufei Tian, Chaolai Man

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14529 PubMed 36874964

February 8, 2023

Complet+: a computationally scalable method to improve completeness of large-scale protein sequence clustering

Rachel Nguyen, Bahrad A. Sokhansanj, Robi Polikar, Gail L. Rosen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14779 PubMed 36785708

February 14, 2023

Asymmetric, biraphid diatoms from the Laurentian Great Lakes

Euan D. Reavie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14887 PubMed 36815983

February 7, 2023

Heat stress does not induce wasting symptoms in the giant California sea cucumber (Apostichopus californicus)

Declan Dawson Taylor, Jonathan J. Farr, Em G. Lim, Jenna L. Fleet, Sara J. Smith, Daniel M. Wuitchik

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14548 PubMed 36778149

February 9, 2023

Growth and shell hardness of the apple snail Pomacea flagellata Say, 1829, reared at three calcium concentrations

Alberto De Jesús-Navarrete, Derian J. C. Aguilar Sanchez, María C. Ortiz-Hernández

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14840 PubMed 36788808

February 9, 2023

Comparison of carbon content between plantation and natural regeneration seedlings in Durango, Mexico

Jesús Alejandro Soto-Cervantes, José Javier Corral-Rivas, Pedro Antonio Domínguez-Calleros, Pablito Marcelo López-Serrano, Eusebio Montiel-Antuna, Emily García-Montiel, Alberto Pérez-Luna

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14774 PubMed 36788810

February 6, 2023

Construction and validation of a fatty acid metabolism-related gene signature for predicting prognosis and therapeutic response in patients with prostate cancer

Hongjun Zhao, Tong Wu, Zehao Luo, Qinyao Huang, Sihua Zhu, Chunling Li, Zubing Zhang, Jiahao Zhang, Jianwen Zeng, Yuying Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14854 PubMed 36778142

February 14, 2023

Implications of altered sirtuins in metabolic regulation and oral cancer

Xu Quan, Ying Xin, He-Ling Wang, Yingjie Sun, Chanchan Chen, Jiangying Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14752 PubMed 36815979

February 23, 2023

Life-cycle traits in the demosponge Hymeniacidon perlevis in a land-based fish farm

Maria Mercurio, Caterina Longo, Cataldo Pierri, Frine Cardone, Giuseppe Corriero, Tamara Lazic, Walter Zupa, Pierluigi Carbonara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14685 PubMed 36855432

February 20, 2023

Five copper homeostasis gene clusters encode the Cu-efflux resistome of the highly copper-tolerant Methylorubrum extorquens AM1

Araceli Dávalos, Alejandro García-de los Santos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14925 PubMed 36846457

February 21, 2023

Population biology of Ellochelon vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Quang Minh Dinh, Ton Huu Duc Nguyen, Ngon Trong Truong, Tien Thi Kieu Nguyen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14901 PubMed 36846463

February 16, 2023

Abundance modulates the ecosystem functional contributions of two sympatric Caribbean sea cucumbers

Rachel Munger, Hannah V. Watkins, Jillian C. Dunic, Isabelle M. Côté

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14823 PubMed 36811006

February 27, 2023

Negative and positive interspecific interactions involving jellyfish polyps in marine sessile communities

Jade Boughton, Andrew G. Hirst, Cathy H. Lucas, Matthew Spencer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14846 PubMed 36874979