Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 19, 2023

Frequency of heterotic hybrids in relation to general combining ability of parents in sweet corn

Vani Praveena Madhunapantula, Sidramappa Channappa Talekar, Rajashekhar Mahantaswami Kachapur, Shiddappa Ramappa Salakinkop, Mohan Lal, Gopalakrishna Naidu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16134 PubMed 38144181

December 4, 2023

Margelopsid species search taxonomic home within Corymorphidae and Boreohydridae

Daria Kupaeva, Tatiana Lebedeva, Zachariah Kobrinsky, Daniel Vanwalleghem, Andrey Prudkovsky, Stanislav Kremnyov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16265 PubMed 38077448

December 18, 2023

Integrated transcriptome and metabolome revealed the drought responsive metabolic pathways in Oriental Lily (Lilium L.)

Zhenkui Cui, Huaming Huang, Tianqing Du, Jianfeng Chen, Shuyan Huang, Qushun Dai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16658 PubMed 38130923

December 15, 2023

Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of growth-regulating factors in Dendrobium officinale and Dendrobium chrysotoxum

Shuying Zhu, Hongman Wang, Qiqian Xue, Huasong Zou, Wei Liu, Qingyun Xue, Xiao-Yu Ding

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16644 PubMed 38111654

December 11, 2023

How mangabey molar form differs under routine vs. fallback hard-object feeding regimes

Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg, Cameron Renteria, Jack R. Grimm, Izabela Maeret Carpenter, Dwayne D. Arola, W. Scott McGraw

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16534 PubMed 38099313

December 14, 2023

Competitive effects of the macroalga Caulerpa taxifolia on key physiological processes in the scleractinian coral Turbinaria peltata under thermal stress

JianRong Fu, Jie Zhou, JiaLi Zhou, YanPing Zhang, Li Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16646 PubMed 38107563

December 8, 2023

Genetic variability and population structure of the Montezuma quail (Cyrtonyx montezumae) in the northern limit of its distribution

Eduardo Sánchez-Murrieta, Alberto Macías-Duarte, Reyna A. Castillo-Gámez, Alejandro Varela-Romero, Angel B. Montoya, James H. Weaver, Nohelia G. Pacheco-Hoyos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16585 PubMed 38089905

December 4, 2023

Cryptic diversity and phylogeographic patterns of Deto echinata (Isopoda: Detonidae) in southern Africa

Carlos A. Santamaria, Charles L. Griffiths

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16529 PubMed 38077409

December 14, 2023

Phar-LSTM: a pharmacological representation-based LSTM network for drug–drug interaction extraction

Mingqing Huang, Zhenchao Jiang, Shun Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16606 PubMed 38107590

December 1, 2023

Ground beetle assemblages inhabiting various age classes of Norway spruce stands in north-eastern Poland

Mariusz Nietupski, Agnieszka Kosewska, Emilia Ludwiczak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16502 PubMed 38054021

December 21, 2023

Initial decomposition of floating leaf blades of Nymphoides peltata (S.G. Gmel.) O. Kuntze (Menyanthaceae): causes, impact and succession

Peter F. Klok, Gerard van der Velde

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16689 PubMed 38144198

December 12, 2023

Moulting behaviour in the trilobite Oryctocephalus indicus (Reed, 1910) from the Cambrian Miaolingian Series (Wuliuan Stage) of Jianhe, South China

Shengguang Chen, Xinglian Yang, Xiong Liu, Zhengpeng Chen, Zhixin Sun, Fangchen Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16440 PubMed 38107583

December 13, 2023

Auditory brainstem responses in the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)

Thomas Brad Moffitt, Samuel Atcherson, Jeffrey Padberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16602 PubMed 38107579

December 6, 2023

Phylogenetic diversity and North Andean block conservation

Omar Daniel Leon-Alvarado, Daniel R. Miranda-Esquivel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16565 PubMed 38077412

December 11, 2023

Identifying CD1c as a potential biomarker by the comprehensive exploration of tumor mutational burden and immune infiltration in diffuse large B cell lymphoma

Xiaoyu Xiang, Li-Min Gao, Yuehua Zhang, Qiqi Zhu, Sha Zhao, Weiping Liu, Yunxia Ye, Yuan Tang, Wenyan Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16618 PubMed 38099311

December 7, 2023

Whole-transcriptome analysis reveals mechanisms underlying antibacterial activity and biofilm inhibition by a malic acid combination (MAC) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Kunping Song, Li Chen, Nanhua Suo, Xinyi Kong, Juexi Li, Tianyu Wang, Lanni Song, Mengwei Cheng, Xindian Guo, Zhenghe Huang, Zichen Huang, Yixin Yang, Xuechen Tian, Siew Woh Choo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16476 PubMed 38084141

December 6, 2023

Proximal tubule cells in blood and urine as potential biomarkers for kidney disease biopsy

Minwa Lin, Yingxue Zhong, Dan Zhou, Baozhang Guan, Bo Hu, Panpan Wang, Fanna Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16499 PubMed 38077419

December 19, 2023

Digestive glycosidases from cannonball jellyfish (Stomolophus sp. 2): identification and temporal-spatial variability

Raul Balam Martinez-Perez, Jorge A. Rodriguez, Miguel A. Cisneros-Mata, Luis Alonso Leyva Soto, Pablo Gortáres-Moroyoqui, Ana Renteria-Mexia, Edna Abigail Hernandez Corral, Lourdes M. Diaz-Tenorio

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16417 PubMed 38144177

December 6, 2023

Cleaning symbiosis in coral reefs of Jardines de la Reina National Park

Andy Joel Corso, Fabián Pina-Amargós, Leandro Rodriguez-Viera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16524 PubMed 38077429

December 6, 2023

Enhancing restoration success of rare plants in an arid-tropical climate through water-saving technologies: a case study of Scalesia affinis ssp. brachyloba in the Galapagos Islands

Esme Plunkett, Luka Negoita, Christian Sevilla, Nicolás Velasco, Patricia Jaramillo Díaz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16367 PubMed 38077418

December 8, 2023

Identification and characterization of the karrikins signaling gene SsSMAX1 in Sapium sebiferum

Fang Ni, Faheem Afzal Shah, Jie Ren