Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 20, 2023

Intensive sea urchin harvest rescales Paracentrotus lividus population structure and threatens self-sustenance

Nicole Ruberti, Gianni Brundu, Giulia Ceccherelli, Daniele Grech, Ivan Guala, Barbara Loi, Simone Farina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16220 PubMed 38025682

November 27, 2023

kakapo: easy extraction and annotation of genes from raw RNA-seq reads

Karolis Ramanauskas, Boris Igić

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16456 PubMed 38034874

November 15, 2023

Profile of the bile acid FXR-FGF15 pathway in the glucolipid metabolism disorder of diabetic mice suffering from chronic stress

Weijia Cai, Canye Li, Zuanjun Su, Jinming Cao, Zhicong Chen, Yitian Chen, Zhijun Guo, Jian Cai, Feng Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16407 PubMed 38025699

November 27, 2023

Sirtuin 1 alleviates alcoholic liver disease by inhibiting HMGB1 acetylation and translocation

Juan Fu, Wei Deng, Jun Ge, Shengqi Fu, Panpan Li, Huazhi Wu, Jiao Wang, Yi Gao, Hui Gao, Tao Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16480 PubMed 38034869

November 14, 2023

Bite and tooth marks on sauropod dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation

Roberto Lei, Emanuel Tschopp, Christophe Hendrickx, Mathew J. Wedel, Mark Norell, David W.E. Hone

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16327 PubMed 38025762

November 3, 2023

Enhancing wheat production and quality in alkaline soil: a study on the effectiveness of foliar and soil applied zinc

Farhat Ullah Khan, Adnan Anwar Khan, Yuanyuan Qu, Qi Zhang, Muhammad Adnan, Shah Fahad, Fatima Gul, Muhammad Ismail, Shah Saud, Shah Hassan, Xuexuan Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16179 PubMed 37941932

November 21, 2023

Effect of various concentrations of common organic solvents on the growth and proliferation ability of Candida glabrata and their permissible limits for addition in drug susceptibility testing

Juan Liu, Hongxin Zhang, Lifang Zhang, Ting Li, Na Liu, Qing Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16444 PubMed 38025727

November 9, 2023

A novel metabolism-related gene signature in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma

Bin Ru, Jiaqi Hu, Nannan Zhang, Quan Wan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16335 PubMed 38025761

November 20, 2023

Genome-wide identification of 2-oxoglutarate and Fe (II)-dependent dioxygenase family genes and their expression profiling under drought and salt stress in potato

Hanny Chauhan, Aiana, Kashmir Singh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16449 PubMed 38025721

November 27, 2023

Predictive value of machine learning for the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) in hospital intensive care units (ICU) patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Yuan Hong Du, Cheng Jing Guan, Lin Yu Li, Ping Gan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16405 PubMed 38034868

November 1, 2023

Trends in soil organic matter and topsoil thickness under regenerative practices at the University of Washington student farm

Julia E. Macray, David R. Montgomery

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16336 PubMed 37927779

November 21, 2023

Sulforaphene suppressed cell proliferation and promoted apoptosis of COV362 cells in endometrioid ovarian cancer

Hui-Yan Yu, Li Yang, Yuan-Cai Liu, Ai-Jun Yu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16308 PubMed 38025760

November 3, 2023

Sperm specificity and potential paternal effects in gynogenesis in the Amazon Molly (Poecilia formosa)

Clarissa Cerepaka, Ingo Schlupp

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16118 PubMed 37941935

November 17, 2023

FTH1 indicates poor prognosis and promotes metastasis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Qingyun Liao, Jing Yang, Zhaoyi Lu, Qingshan Jiang, Yongqian Gong, Lijun Liu, Hong Peng, Qin Wang, Xin Zhang, Zhifeng Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16493 PubMed 38025726

November 8, 2023

BIBR1532 inhibits proliferation and enhances apoptosis in multiple myeloma cells by reducing telomerase activity

Yuefeng Zhang, Xinxin Yang, Hangqun Zhou, Guoli Yao, Li Zhou, Chunyan Qian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16404 PubMed 37953768

November 14, 2023

Tricks of the puppet masters: morphological adaptations to the interaction with nervous system underlying host manipulation by rhizocephalan barnacle Polyascus polygeneus

Anastasia Lianguzova, Natalia Arbuzova, Ekaterina Laskova, Elizaveta Gafarova, Egor Repkin, Dzmitry Matach, Irina Enshina, Aleksei Miroliubov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16348 PubMed 38025701

November 8, 2023

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi alter rhizosphere fungal community characteristics of Acorus calamus to improve Cr resistance

Guodong Xia, Sixi Zhu, Wei Zhao, Xiuqing Yang, Luying Sheng, Huan Mao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15681 PubMed 37953782

November 15, 2023

VGGish-based detection of biological sound components and their spatio-temporal variations in a subtropical forest in eastern China

Mei Wang, Jinjuan Mei, Kevin FA Darras, Fanglin Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16462 PubMed 38025750

November 23, 2023

Genomic analyses indicate resilience of a commercially and culturally important marine gastropod snail to climate change

Matt J. Nimbs, Curtis Champion, Simon E. Lobos, Hamish A. Malcolm, Adam D. Miller, Kate Seinor, Stephen D.A. Smith, Nathan Knott, David Wheeler, Melinda A. Coleman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16498 PubMed 38025735

November 29, 2023

Buried treasure in a public repository: Mining mitochondrial genes of 32 annelid species from sequence reads deposited in the Sequence Read Archive (SRA)

Genki Kobayashi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16446 PubMed 38047014

November 21, 2023

Targeting B4GALT7 suppresses the proliferation, migration and invasion of hepatocellular carcinoma through the Cdc2/CyclinB1 and miR-338-3p/MMP2 pathway

Chang Liu, Yuqi Jia, Xinan Zhao, Zifeng Wang, Xiaoxia Zhu, Chan Zhang, Xiaoning Li, Xuhua Zhao, Tao Gong, Hong Zhao, Dong Zhang, Yuhu Niu, Xiushan Dong, Gaopeng Li, Feng Li, Hongwei Zhang, Li Zhang, Jun Xu, Baofeng Yu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16450 PubMed 38025683

November 3, 2023

Drone images afford more detections of marine wildlife than real-time observers during simultaneous large-scale surveys

Amanda J. Hodgson, Nat Kelly, David Peel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16186 PubMed 37941930

November 7, 2023

A new pseudoscorpion genus (Garypinoidea: Garypinidae) from the Eocene supports extinction and range contraction in the European paleobiota

Nova Stanczak, Mark S. Harvey, Danilo Harms, Jörg U. Hammel, Ulrich Kotthoff, Stephanie F. Loria

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15989 PubMed 37953786

November 23, 2023

Individual and combined ecotoxic effects of water-soluble polymers

Olcay Hisar, Jörg Oehlmann