Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 6, 2023

Isolation of soil bacteria able to degrade the anthelminthic compound albendazole

Stathis Lagos, Kalliopi Koutroutsiou, Dimitrios G. Karpouzas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16127 PubMed 37953781

November 30, 2023

Amlodipine and lufenuron as repurposing drugs against Sporothrix brasiliensis

Vanice Rodrigues Poester, Jéssica Estefania Dávila Hidalgo, Lara Severo Jardim, Mariana Rodrigues Trápaga, Vanessa Brito de Souza Rabello, Rodrigo Almeida-Paes, Rosely Maria Zancope-Oliveira, Melissa Orzechowski Xavier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16443 PubMed 38050607

November 16, 2023

Miocene sponge assemblages in the face of the Messinian Salinity Crisis—new data from the Atlanto-Mediterranean seaway

Magdalena Łukowiak, Gerardo Meiro, Beltrán Peña, Perfecto Villanueva Guimerans, Hugo Corbí

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16277 PubMed 38025719

November 21, 2023

Zooplankton biodiversity and temporal dynamics (2005–2015) in a coastal station in western Portugal (Northeastern Atlantic Ocean)

Antonina Dos Santos, Raquel Marques, Rita F.T. Pires

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16387 PubMed 38025690

November 8, 2023

Dex-Benchmark: datasets and code to evaluate algorithms for transcriptomics data analysis

Zhuorui Xie, Clara Chen, Avi Ma’ayan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16351 PubMed 37953774

November 9, 2023

Manipulating network connectance by altering plant attractiveness

Laura Russo, Jane C. Stout

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16319 PubMed 38025756

November 22, 2023

Metagenomic binning of PacBio HiFi data prior to assembly reveals a complete genome of Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleopterea: Curculionidae, Dryophthorinae) the most damaging arthropod pest of bananas and plantains

Alfredo Rodriguez Ruiz, Alex R. Van Dam

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16276 PubMed 38025758

November 30, 2023

Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Neolentinus in northern China

Lei Yue, Yong-lan Tuo, Zheng-xiang Qi, Jia-jun Hu, Ya-jie Liu, Xue-fei Li, Ming-hao Liu, Bo Zhang, Shu-Yan Liu, Yu Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16470 PubMed 38050612

November 29, 2023

Centre of pressure changes during stance but not during gait in young women after alcohol intoxication

Marta Gimunová, Michal Bozděch, Jan Novák

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16511 PubMed 38047022

November 9, 2023

Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomal microRNA regulates microglial polarization

Xianwei Huang, Xiong Liu, Jiaqi Zeng, Penghui Du, Xiaodong Huang, Jiyan Lin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16359 PubMed 38025715

November 13, 2023

A pyroptosis gene-based prognostic model for predicting survival in low-grade glioma

Hua Wang, Lin Yan, Lixiao Liu, Xianghe Lu, Yingyu Chen, Qian Zhang, Mengyu Chen, Lin Cai, Zhang’an Dai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16412 PubMed 38025749

November 24, 2023

Development of a 5-mRNAsi-related gene signature to predict the prognosis of colon adenocarcinoma

Haifu Huang, Lin Lu, Yaoxuan Li, Xiumei Chen, Meng Li, Meiling Yang, Xuewu Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16477 PubMed 38025763

November 16, 2023

Scrutinising an inscrutable bark-nesting ant: Exploring cryptic diversity in the Rhopalomastix javana (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) complex using DNA barcodes, genome-wide MIG-seq and geometric morphometrics

Wendy Y. Wang, Aiki Yamada

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16416 PubMed 38025712

November 20, 2023

Cloning and functional characterization of porcine AACS revealing the regulative roles for fat deposition in pigs

Pan Zhang, Bo Zhang, Yu Fu, Pan Li, Hao Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16406 PubMed 38025737

November 21, 2023

Osmotic response during kidney perfusion with cryoprotectant in isotonic or hypotonic vehicle solution

Ross M. Warner, Jun Yang, Andrew Drake, Youngjoo Lee, Sarah Nemanic, David Scott, Adam Z. Higgins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16323 PubMed 38025736

November 30, 2023

Water-use characteristics of Syzygium antisepticum and Adinandra integerrima in a secondary forest of Khao Yai National Park in Thailand with implications for environmental management

Ratchanon Ampornpitak, Anuttara Nathalang, Pantana Tor-ngern

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16525 PubMed 38050611

November 10, 2023

Critical re-examination of known purported fossil Bombycoidea (Lepidoptera)

Maria Heikkilä, Joël Minet, Andreas Zwick, Anna Hundsdoerfer, Rodolphe Rougerie, Ian J. Kitching

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16049 PubMed 37965290

November 7, 2023

Molecular signature of the ontogenic development of the prawn Macrobrachium tenellum

Dulce Mateos Guerrero, Margarito Martínez-Cruz, Eduardo Pérez-Campos, Marcelo García-Guerrero, Rodolfo de los Santos-Romero, Carlos Solórzano-Mata, José Luís Sánchez-Salgado, Mohamed Ali Pereyra Morales, Agustin Lugo-Radillo, Anayetzin Torres-Rivera, Juan Alpuche

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16344

November 15, 2023

High variability of perezone content in rhizomes of Acourtia cordata wild plants, environmental factors related, and proteomic analysis

Ma del Carmen García Méndez, Sergio Encarnación-Guevara, Ángel Gabriel Martínez Batallar, Leopoldo Gómez-Caudillo, Roque Bru-Martínez, Ascensión Martínez Márquez, Susana Selles Marchart, Efraín Tovar-Sánchez, Laura Álvarez-Berber, Silvia Marquina Bahena, Irene Perea-Arango, José de Jesús Arellano-García

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16136 PubMed 38025722

November 17, 2023

Microbes within the building envelope—a case study on the patterns of colonization and potential sampling bias

Lucy R. Davies, Aitor Barbero-López, Veli-Matti Lähteenmäki, Antti Salonen, Filip Fedorik, Antti Haapala, Phillip C. Watts

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16355 PubMed 38025723

November 14, 2023

Data mining reveals tissue-specific expression and host lineage-associated forms of Apis mellifera filamentous virus

Robert S. Cornman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16455 PubMed 38025724

November 27, 2023

Amphibian diversity across three adjacent ecosystems in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Alex W. Edwards, Xavier A. Harrison, M. Alex Smith, Maria Marta Chavarría Díaz, Mahmood Sasa, Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, Gerardo Chaves, Roberto Fernández, Caroline Palmer, Chloe Wilson, Alexandra North, Robert Puschendorf

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16185 PubMed 38034867

November 17, 2023

Chicago sky blue gel for better visualization of Demodex in patients with Demodex blepharitis

Lunla Udomwech, Weeratian Tawanwongsri, Auemphon Mordmuang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16378 PubMed 38025681

November 7, 2023

circMSH3 is a potential biomarker for the diagnosis of colorectal cancer and affects the distant metastasis of colorectal cancer

Jian Shen, Yu Min, Jingen Luo, Xingkui Tang, Zeping Han, Wenfeng Luo, Fangmei Xie, Mingrong Cao, Taicheng Zhou, Jinhua He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16297 PubMed 37953794

November 28, 2023

Diversity and ice nucleation activity of Pseudomonas syringae in drone-based water samples from eight lakes in Austria

Regina Hanlon, Celia Jimenez-Sanchez, James Benson, Ken Aho, Cindy Morris, Teresa M. Seifried, Philipp Baloh, Hinrich Grothe, David Schmale