Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

March 6, 2023

Reducing options of ammonia volatilization and improving nitrogen use efficiency via organic and inorganic amendments in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Pooja L. Ramalingappa, Manoj Shrivastava, Shiva Dhar, Kalikinkar Bandyopadhyay, Shiv Prasad, Sapna Langyan, Ritu Tomer, Ashish Khandelwal, Sibananda Darjee, Renu Singh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14965 PubMed 36908814

March 21, 2023

New agri-environmental measures have a direct effect on wildlife and economy on conventional agricultural land

Petr Marada, Jan Cukor, Michal Kuběnka, Rostislav Linda, Zdeněk Vacek, Stanislav Vacek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15000 PubMed 36967992

March 8, 2023

Transcriptome analysis and exploration of genes involved in the biosynthesis of secoiridoids in Gentiana rhodantha

Ting Zhang, Miaomiao Wang, Zhaoju Li, Xien Wu, Xiaoli Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14968 PubMed 36915654

March 13, 2023

Sodicity stress differently influences physiological traits and anti-oxidant enzymes in pear and peach cultivars

Anshuman Singh, Ashwani Kumar, Parbodh Chander Sharma, Raj Kumar, Rajender Kumar Yadav

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14947 PubMed 36935921

March 28, 2023

Day and night camera trap videos are effective for identifying individual wild Asian elephants

Sasha Montero-De La Torre, Sarah L. Jacobson, Martin Chodorow, Marnoch Yindee, Joshua M. Plotnik

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15130 PubMed 37009152

March 31, 2023

Predicting the geographic distribution of ancient Amazonian archaeological sites with machine learning

Robert S. Walker, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Angelica Olmeda, Marcus J. Hamilton, Jim Elghammer, Briggs Buchanan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15137 PubMed 37020851

March 9, 2023

Reporting and interpreting non-significant results in animal cognition research

Benjamin G. Farrar, Alizée Vernouillet, Elias Garcia-Pelegrin, Edward W. Legg, Katharina F. Brecht, Poppy J. Lambert, Mahmoud Elsherif, Shannon Francis, Laurie O’Neill, Nicola S. Clayton, Ljerka Ostojić

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14963 PubMed 36919170

March 3, 2023

CYP27A1 deficiency promoted osteoclast differentiation

Ziqi Fang, Guangdong Cheng, Mengting He, Yanliang Lin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15041 PubMed 36890868

March 31, 2023

Assessing arthropod diversity metrics derived from stream environmental DNA: spatiotemporal variation and paired comparisons with manual sampling

Aaron A. Aunins, Sara J. Mueller, Jennifer A. Fike, Robert S. Cornman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15163 PubMed 37020852

March 13, 2023

Acute ventilatory responses to swimming at increasing intensities

Ana Sofia Monteiro, José Francisco Magalhães, Beat Knechtle, Cosme F. Buzzachera, J. Paulo Vilas-Boas, Ricardo J. Fernandes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15042 PubMed 36935930

March 23, 2023

Hydrogels improved parsley (Petroselinium crispum(Mill.) Nyman) growth and development under water deficit stress

M. Zeki Karipçin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15105 PubMed 36987451

March 13, 2023

Characterization of viral pathogens associated with symptomatic upper respiratory tract infection in adults during a low COVID-19 transmission period

Nurlan Sandybayev, Vyacheslav Beloussov, Vitaliy Strochkov, Maxim Solomadin, Joanna Granica, Sergey Yegorov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15008 PubMed 36935913

March 8, 2023

New records and species of deep-sea squat lobsters (Galatheoidea, Munidopsidae) from the Hawaiian Archipelago: an integrative approach using micro-CT and barcodes

Paula C. Rodríguez Flores, Kareen E. Schnabel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14956 PubMed 36915659

March 8, 2023

Annual-scale assessment of mid-20th century anthropogenic impacts on the algal ecology of Crawford Lake, Ontario, Canada

Matthew G. Marshall, Paul B. Hamilton, Krysten M. Lafond, Nawaf A. Nasser, Francine M.G. McCarthy, R. Timothy Patterson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14847 PubMed 36915660

March 29, 2023

Evaluation of a dill (Anethum graveolens L.) gene bank germplasm collection using multivariate analysis of morphological traits, molecular genotyping and chemical composition to identify novel genotypes for plant breeding

Kalliopi Kadoglidou, Catherine Cook, Anastasia Boutsika, Eirini Sarrou, Ifigeneia Mellidou, Christina Aidonidou, Ioannis Grigoriadis, Andrea Angeli, Stefan Martens, Vasiliki Georgiadou, Theodoros Moysiadis, Parthenopi Ralli, Ioannis Mylonas, Nikolaos Tourvas, Michail Michailidis, Apostolos Kalivas, Eleni Maloupa, Ioannis Ganopoulos, Aliki Xanthopoulou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15043 PubMed 37013148

March 8, 2023

Rapid point-of-care detection of BK virus in urine by an HFman probe-based loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay and a finger-driven microfluidic chip

Yongjuan Zhao, Yi Zeng, Renfei Lu, Zhiying Wang, Xiaoling Zhang, Nannan Wu, Tongyu Zhu, Yang Wang, Chiyu Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14943 PubMed 36915661

March 23, 2023

Integrating eDNA and citizen science observations to model distribution of a temperate freshwater turtle near its northern range limit

Wenxi Feng, Stephen C. Lougheed

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15120 PubMed 36987453

March 16, 2023

An in silico approach to the identification of diagnostic and prognostic markers in low-grade gliomas

Melih Özbek, Halil Ibrahim Toy, Yavuz Oktay, Gökhan Karakülah, Aslı Suner, Athanasia Pavlopoulou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15096 PubMed 36945359

March 16, 2023

Structure and characteristics of the plant-frugivore bird network from the Guilin Botanical Garden

Guohai Wang, Yang Huang, Wei Yao, Qiuchan Huang, Yongping Huang, Lijuan Wei, Qihai Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15028 PubMed 36945357

March 29, 2023

Atypical ‘long-tailed’ cockroaches arose during Cretaceous in response to angiosperm terrestrial revolution

Xin-Ran Li, Di-Ying Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15067 PubMed 37013144

March 15, 2023

Minimal effects of ultraviolet light supplementation on egg production, egg and bone quality, and health during early lay of laying hens

Md Sohel Rana, Jonathon Clay, Prafulla Regmi, Dana L.M. Campbell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14997 PubMed 36942000

March 9, 2023

Analysis of Corynebacterium silvaticum genomes from Portugal reveals a single cluster and a clade suggested to produce diphtheria toxin

Marcus Vinicius Canario Viana, José Henrique Galdino, Rodrigo Profeta, Manuela Oliveira, Luís Tavares, Siomar de Castro Soares, Paulo Carneiro, Alice Rebecca Wattam, Vasco Azevedo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14895 PubMed 36919166

March 10, 2023

HNF4G increases cisplatin resistance in lung adenocarcinoma via the MAPK6/Akt pathway

Jiaqi Liang, Guangyin Zhao, Yunyi Bian, Guoshu Bi, Qihai Sui, Huan Zhang, Haochun Shi, Guangyao Shan, Yiwei Huang, Zhencong Chen, Lin Wang, Cheng Zhan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14996 PubMed 36923501

March 1, 2023

Effects of habitat factors on the plant diversity on naturally-restored wind farm slopes

Pengcheng Wang, Hai Yu, Henglin Xiao, Juan Wan, Qiang Ma, Gaoliang Tao, Qin Wang, Weiwei Jiang, Li Ma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14912 PubMed 36879910

March 24, 2023

An epidemiological study of the predictors of multidrug resistance and methicillin resistance among Staphylococcus spp. isolated from canine specimens submitted to a diagnostic laboratory in Tennessee, USA

Jennifer Lord, Nick Millis, Rebekah Duckett Jones, Brian Johnson, Stephen A. Kania, Agricola Odoi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15012 PubMed 36992942