Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 5, 2023

Restudy of shoulder motion in the theropod dinosaur Mononykus olecranus (Alvarezsauridae)

Philip J. Senter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16605 PubMed 38077415

December 6, 2023

Pharmacoscreening, molecular dynamics, and quantum mechanics of inermin from Panax ginseng: a crucial molecule inhibiting exosomal protein target associated with coronary artery disease progression

Janakiraman V, Sudhan M, Abubakar Wani, Sheikh F. Ahmad, Ahmed Nadeem, Ashutosh Sharma, Shiek S. S. J. Ahmed

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16481 PubMed 38077444

December 12, 2023

Involvement of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in p300/p53-mediated age-related atrial fibrosis

Yingyu Lai, Jintao He, Xiaoyan Gao, Dewei Peng, Huishan Zhou, Yuwen Xu, Xueshan Luo, Hui Yang, Mengzhen Zhang, Chunyu Deng, Shulin Wu, Yumei Xue, Feng Zhou, Fang Rao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16545 PubMed 38107584

December 12, 2023

Impact of livestock grazing management on carbon stocks: a case study in sparse elm woodlands of semi-arid lands

Yi Tang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16629 PubMed 38107561

December 19, 2023

Peicheng Jiang, Jin Fan, Shenglin Huang, Luying Liu, Minghua Bai, Quanquan Sun, Jinwen Shen, Na Zhang, Dong Liu, Ning Zhou, Yanru Feng, Jin Jiang, Ji Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16631 PubMed 38144182

December 7, 2023

Understanding fatality patterns and sex ratios of Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) at wind energy facilities in western California and Texas

Sarah T. LiCari, Amanda M. Hale, Sara P. Weaver, Sarah Fritts, Todd Katzner, David M. Nelson, Dean A. Williams

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16580 PubMed 38084143

December 21, 2023

Data science competition for cross-site individual tree species identification from airborne remote sensing data

Sarah J. Graves, Sergio Marconi, Dylan Stewart, Ira Harmon, Ben Weinstein, Yuzi Kanazawa, Victoria M. Scholl, Maxwell B. Joseph, Joseph McGlinchy, Luke Browne, Megan K. Sullivan, Sergio Estrada-Villegas, Daisy Zhe Wang, Aditya Singh, Stephanie Bohlman, Alina Zare, Ethan P. White

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16578 PubMed 38144190

December 14, 2023

Genome-wide identification of the OMT gene family in Cucumis melo L. and expression analysis under abiotic and biotic stress

Shuoshuo Wang, Chuang Wang, Futang Lv, Pengfei Chu, Han Jin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16483 PubMed 38107581

December 1, 2023

Under pressure—exploring partner changes, physiological responses and telomere dynamics in northern gannets across varying breeding conditions

David Pelletier, Pierre U. Blier, François Vézina, France Dufresne, Frédérique Paquin, Felix Christen, Magella Guillemette

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16457 PubMed 38054014

December 19, 2023

Spatial ecology of the Giant Sea Bass, Stereolepis gigas, in a southern California kelp forest as determined by acoustic telemetry

Kayla M. Blincow, Jack T. Elstner, Noah Ben-Aderet, Lyall F. Bellquist, Andrew P. Nosal, Brice X. Semmens

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16551 PubMed 38144197

December 21, 2023

Association between different types of preoperative anemia and tumor characteristics, systemic inflammation, and survival in colorectal cancer

Chaoxi Zhou, Hongqing Ma, Guanglin Wang, Youqiang Liu, Baokun Li, Jian Niu, Yang Zhao, Guiying Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16293 PubMed 38144195

December 6, 2023

Assessment of the effects of transforming growth factor beta1 (TGF-β1)-Smad2/3 on fibrosis in rat myofascial trigger points using point shear wave elastography

Xin Fang, Yalong Yin, Haimei Lun, Shitao Su, Shangyong Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16588 PubMed 38077437

December 1, 2023

Litsea glaucescens Kuth possesses bactericidal activity against Listeria monocytogenes

Carlos David Gress-Antonio, Nallely Rivero-Perez, Silvia Marquina-Bahena, Laura Alvarez, Adrian Zaragoza-Bastida, Víctor Manuel Martínez-Juárez, Carolina G. Sosa-Gutierrez, Juan Ocampo-López, Armando Zepeda-Bastida, Deyanira Ojeda-Ramírez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16522 PubMed 38054017

December 20, 2023

Uneven demographic consequences of the 2022 disease outbreak for the sea urchin Diadema antillarum in Puerto Rico

Ruber Rodríguez-Barreras, Claudia Patricia Ruiz-Diaz, Marcos A. Quiñones-Otero, Carlos Toledo-Hernández

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16675 PubMed 38144189

December 19, 2023

Increased contribution of parasites in microbial eukaryotic communities of different Aegean Sea coastal systems

Alexandra Meziti, Evangelia Smeti, Daniil Daniilides, Sofie Spatharis, George Tsirtsis, Konstantinos A. Kormas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16655 PubMed 38144191

December 6, 2023

Tracking ‘transitional’ diadectomorphs in the earliest Permian of equatorial Pangea

Gabriela Calábková, Daniel Madzia, Vojtěch Nosek, Martin Ivanov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16603 PubMed 38077424

December 14, 2023

Discovering the diversity of tadpoles in the mid-north Brazil: morphological and molecular identification, and characterization of the habitat

Patricia dos Santos Sousa, Carlos Augusto Silva Azevedo, Maria Claudene Barros, Elmary Costa Fraga, Thaís B. Guedes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16640 PubMed 38107564

December 12, 2023

The vegetation of Holocene coastal dunes of the Cape south coast, South Africa

Richard M. Cowling, Hayley Cawthra, Sean Privett, B. Adriaan Grobler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16427 PubMed 38107568

December 19, 2023

Keep the ball rolling: sexual differences in conglobation behavior of a terrestrial isopod under different degrees of perceived predation pressure

Francisco Javier Zamora-Camacho

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16696 PubMed 38144184

December 20, 2023

Shedding light on the Ophel biome: the trans-Tethyan phylogeography of the sulfide shrimp Tethysbaena (Peracarida: Thermosbaenacea) in the Levant

Tamar Guy-Haim, Oren Kolodny, Amos Frumkin, Yair Achituv, Ximena Velasquez, Arseniy R. Morov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16690 PubMed 38144178

December 1, 2023

Body fluids and muscle changes in trail runners of various distances

Álex Cebrián-Ponce, Elisabetta Marini, Silvia Stagi, Jorge Castizo-Olier, Marta Carrasco-Marginet, Manuel Vicente Garnacho-Castaño, Zeasseska Noriega, Javier Espasa-Labrador, Alfredo Irurtia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16563 PubMed 38054016

December 7, 2023

Foxa2 attenuates steatosis and inhibits the NF-κB/IKK signaling pathway in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Li Yang, Qiang Ma, Jiayu Chen, Xiangcai Kong, Xiaohui Yu, Wei Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16466 PubMed 38084145

December 1, 2023

Identification of potential glioma drug resistance target proteins based on ultra-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry differential proteomics

Da Li, Jun Yan, Kang Li, Qingcheng Yang, Liping Bian, Bencheng Lin, Xiaohua Liu, Zhuge Xi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16426 PubMed 38054015

December 18, 2023

Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1 plays a more prominent role than activating transcription factor 4 or the p53 tumour suppressor in thapsigargin-induced G1 arrest

Erin van Zyl, Claire Peneycad, Evan Perehiniak, Bruce C. McKay