Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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

Population-level call properties of endangered Dryophytes suweonensissensu lato (Anura: Amphibia) in South Korea

Md Mizanur Rahman, Jiyoung Yun, KaHyun Lee, Seung-Ha Lee, Seung-Min Park, Choong-Ho Ham, Ha-Cheol Sung

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16492 PubMed 38054023

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 8, 2023

The effect of icotinib or apatinib on the pharmacokinetic profile of oxycodone in rats and the underlying mechanism

Qi Zhou, Feng Ye, Zhize Ye, Nanyong Gao, Qihui Kong, Xiaoqin Hu, Jianchang Qian, Bin Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16601 PubMed 38089912

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 4, 2023

Electric organ discharge from electric eel facilitates DNA transformation into teleost larvae in laboratory conditions

Shintaro Sakaki, Reo Ito, Hideki Abe, Masato Kinoshita, Eiichi Hondo, Atsuo Iida

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16596 PubMed 38077423

December 20, 2023

A new species and new records of Hymenopellis and Xerula (Agaricales, Physalacriaceae) from China

Ya-jie Liu, Zheng-xiang Qi, You Li, Lei Yue, Gui-ping Zhao, Xin-yue Gui, Peng Dong, Yang Wang, Bo Zhang, Xiao Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16681 PubMed 38144183

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 6, 2023

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

Gabriela Calábková, Daniel Madzia, Vojtěch Nosek, Martin Ivanov