Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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 5, 2023

Dark kinase annotation, mining, and visualization using the Protein Kinase Ontology

Saber Soleymani, Nathan Gravel, Liang-Chin Huang, Wayland Yeung, Elika Bozorgi, Nathaniel G. Bendzunas, Krzysztof J. Kochut, Natarajan Kannan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16087 PubMed 38077442

December 18, 2023

Benchmarking long-read genome sequence alignment tools for human genomics applications

Jonathan LoTempio, Emmanuele Delot, Eric Vilain

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16515 PubMed 38130927

December 19, 2023

Impacts of tilapia aquaculture on native fish diversity at an ecologically important reservoir

Muzzalifah Abd Hamid, Amir Shah Ruddin Md Sah, Izwandy Idris, Siti Azizah Mohd Nor, Mashhor Mansor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15986 PubMed 38144186

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 12, 2023

Transcriptomic and metabolomic differences between banana varieties which are resistant or susceptible to Fusarium wilt

Dandan Tian, Liuyan Qin, Krishan K. Verma, Liping Wei, Jialin Li, Baoshen Li, Wei Zhou, Zhangfei He, Di Wei, Sumei Huang, Shengfeng Long, Quyan Huang, Chaosheng Li, Shaolong Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16549 PubMed 38107578

December 18, 2023

Dose-response effect of L-citrulline on skeletal muscle damage after acute eccentric exercise: an in vivo study in mice

Dhoni Akbar Ghozali, Muchsin Doewes, Soetrisno Soetrisno, Dono Indarto, Muhana Fawwazy Ilyas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16684 PubMed 38130917

December 4, 2023

taxalogue: a toolkit to create comprehensive CO1 reference databases

Niklas W. Noll, Christoph Scherber, Livia Schäffler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16253 PubMed 38077427

December 19, 2023

Progress of circRNA/lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA axis in atrial fibrillation

Jia-le Wen, Zhong-bao Ruan, Fei Wang, Yuhua Hu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16604 PubMed 38144204

December 6, 2023

The development and application of pseudoviruses: assessment of SARS-CoV-2 pseudoviruses

Conglian Tan, Nian Wang, Shanshan Deng, Xiaoheng Wu, Changwu Yue, Xu Jia, Yuhong Lyu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16234 PubMed 38077431

December 6, 2023

Anabolic metabolism of autotoxic substance coumarins in plants

Bei Wu, Shangli Shi, Huihui Zhang, Baofu Lu, Pan Nan, Yun A

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16508 PubMed 38077428

December 7, 2023

LINC01936 inhibits the proliferation and metastasis of lung squamous cell carcinoma probably by EMT signaling and immune infiltration

Qinqin Tian, Xiyao Liu, Ang Li, Hongjiao Wu, Yuning Xie, Hongmei Zhang, Fengjun Wu, Yating Chen, Congcong Bai, Xuemei Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16447 PubMed 38084139

December 19, 2023

A review of sebum in mammals in relation to skin diseases, skin function, and the skin microbiome

Karen Vanderwolf, Christopher Kyle, Christina Davy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16680 PubMed 38144187

December 12, 2023

New insights into the role of GSK-3β in the brain: from neurodegenerative disease to tumorigenesis

Shenjin Lai, Peng Wang, Jingru Gong, Shuaishuai Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16635 PubMed 38107562

December 13, 2023

Landscape predictors influencing livestock depredation by leopards in and around Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal

Saurav Lamichhane, Divya Bhattarai, Tek Maraseni, Kyle J. Shaney, Jhamak Bahadur Karki, Binaya Adhikari, Pratik Pandeya, Bikram Shrestha, Hari Adhikari

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16516 PubMed 38107575

December 5, 2023

Fascin actin-bundling protein 1 regulates non-small cell lung cancer progression by influencing the transcription and splicing of tumorigenesis-related genes

Qingchao Sun, Ruixue Liu, Haiping Zhang, Liang Zong, Xiaoliang Jing, Long Ma, Jie Li, Liwei Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16526 PubMed 38077434

December 1, 2023

Temporal and spatial differences in the vaginal microbiome of Chinese healthy women

Limin Du, Xue Dong, Jiarong Song, Tingting Lei, Xianming Liu, Yue Lan, Xu Liu, Jiao Wang, Bisong Yue, Miao He, Zhenxin Fan, Tao Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16438 PubMed 38054020

December 1, 2023

Identification of cytokine-induced cell communications by pan-cancer meta-analysis

Yining Liu, Min Zhao, Hong Qu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16221 PubMed 38054018

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

Validating osteological correlates for the hepatic piston in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

Clinton A. Grand Pré, William Thielicke, Raul E. Diaz Jr, Brandon P. Hedrick, Ruth M. Elsey, Emma R. Schachner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16542 PubMed 38144194

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 5, 2023

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

Philip J. Senter