Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 31, 2024

Insulin signaling and pharmacology in humans and in corals

Meghana Hosahalli Shivananda Murthy, Paniz Jasbi, Whitney Lowe, Lokender Kumar, Monsurat Olaosebikan, Liza Roger, Jinkyu Yang, Nastassja Lewinski, Noah Daniels, Lenore Cowen, Judith Klein-Seetharaman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16804 PubMed 38313028

January 15, 2024

Biochemical, anatomical, and histochemical characterization of cachichín (Oecopetalum mexicanum Greenm. & C.H. Thomps: Metteniusaceae) seeds exposed to different thermal treatments

Alejandro Esli Hernández-Mora, Libia Iris Trejo-Téllez, Hilda Araceli Zavaleta-Mancera, José Andrés Herrera-Corredor, María Magdalena Crosby-Galván, Fernando Carlos Gómez-Merino

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16663

January 9, 2024

Classification and selection of the main features for the identification of toxicity in Agaricus and Lepiota with machine learning algorithms

Jacqueline S. Ortiz-Letechipia, Carlos E. Galvan-Tejada, Jorge I. Galván-Tejada, Manuel A. Soto-Murillo, Erika Acosta-Cruz, Hamurabi Gamboa-Rosales, José María Celaya Padilla, Huizilopoztli Luna-García

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16501 PubMed 38223762

January 3, 2024

Description of a new fossil Thelyphonida (Arachnida, Uropygi) and further record of Cratosolpuga wunderlichi Selden, in Selden and Shear, 1996 (Arachnida, Solifugae) from Crato Formation (Aptian/Albian), Araripe Basin, Brazil

William Santana, Allysson P. Pinheiro, Thiago Andrade Silva, Daniel Lima

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16670 PubMed 38188171

January 26, 2024

Collecting whales: processes and biases in Nordic museum collections

Lene Liebe Delsett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16794 PubMed 38288462

January 31, 2024

Azoramide ameliorates cadmium-induced cytotoxicity by inhibiting endoplasmic reticulum stress and suppressing oxidative stress

Lingmin Zhang, Jianguo Zhang, Yingying Zhou, Qingqing Xia, Jing Xie, Bihong Zhu, Yang Wang, Zaixing Yang, Jie Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16844 PubMed 38313032

January 8, 2024

Identification of a necroptosis-related gene signature for making clinical predictions of the survival of patients with lung adenocarcinoma

Xiaoping Zhou, Ming Zhao, Yingzi Fan, Ying Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16616 PubMed 38213773

January 31, 2024

Static versus dynamic muscle modelling in extinct species: a biomechanical case study of the Australopithecus afarensis pelvis and lower extremity

Ashleigh L.A. Wiseman, James P. Charles, John R. Hutchinson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16821 PubMed 38313026

January 18, 2024

Resource partitioning among bat species in Peninsular Malaysia rice fields

Nur-Izzati Abdullah, Nurul-Ain Elias, Nobuhito Ohte, Christian Vincenot

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16657 PubMed 38250723

January 30, 2024

Identification of fungi isolated from commercial bumblebee colonies

Lui Julie Chow, Miles L. Nesbit, Tom Hill, Christopher Tranter, Sophie E.F. Evison, William O.H. Hughes, Peter Graystock

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16713 PubMed 38313023

January 29, 2024

A fish can change its stripes: investigating the role of body colour and pattern in the bluelined goatfish

Louise Tosetto, Nathan S. Hart, Jane E. Williamson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16645 PubMed 38304190

January 25, 2024

A vertebra of a small species of Pachycetus from the North Sea and its inner structure and vascularity compared with other basilosaurid vertebrae from the same site

Henk Jan van Vliet, Mark E.J. Bosselaers, Dirk K. Munsterman, Marcel L. Dijkshoorn, Jeffrey Joël de Groen, Klaas Post

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16541 PubMed 38774542

January 18, 2024

DoAP2/ERF89 activated the terpene synthase gene DoPAES in Dendrobium officinale and participated in the synthesis of β-patchoulene

Decong Li, Lin Liu, Xiaohong Li, Guo Wei, Yongping Cai, Xu Sun, Honghong Fan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16760 PubMed 38250724

January 30, 2024

Resequencing and characterization of the first Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis genome isolated from camel

Enrico Giovanelli Tacconi Gimenez, Marcus Vinicius Canário Viana, Thiago de Jesus Sousa, Flávia Aburjaile, Bertram Brenig, Artur Silva, Vasco Azevedo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16513 PubMed 38313017

January 2, 2024

Niche conservatism and convergence in birds of three cenocrons in the Mexican Transition Zone

Viridiana Lizardo, Erick Alejandro García Trejo, Juan J. Morrone

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16664 PubMed 38188173

January 15, 2024

Proteomic detection of COX-2 pathway-related factors in patients with adenomyosis

Jihua Zhang, Luying Shi, Jingya Duan, Minmin Li, Canyu Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16784 PubMed 38239300

January 25, 2024

Evaluation of P5CS and ProDH activity in Paulownia tomentosa (Steud.) as an indicator of oxidative changes induced by drought stress

Joanna Kijowska-Oberc, Mikołaj K. Wawrzyniak, Liliana Ciszewska, Ewelina Ratajczak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16697 PubMed 38282856

January 30, 2024

Characterizing transcriptomic responses to sediment stress across location and morphology in reef-building corals

Jill Ashey, Hailey McKelvie, John Freeman, Polina Shpilker, Lauren H. Zane, Danielle M. Becker, Lenore Cowen, Robert H. Richmond, Valerie J. Paul, Francois O. Seneca, Hollie M. Putnam

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16654 PubMed 38313033

January 25, 2024

Numerical and biomass growth study of Bulimulus bonariensis (Rafinesque, 1833) (Gastropoda: Bulimulidae) under laboratory conditions

Ana Carolina Díaz, Stella Maris Martin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16803 PubMed 38282866

January 31, 2024

Using molecular characteristics to distinguish multiple primary lung cancers and intrapulmonary metastases

Zhenhua Li, Huilai Lv, Fan Zhang, Ziming Zhu, Qiang Guo, Mingbo Wang, Chao Huang, Lijie Guo, Fanfei Meng, Ziqiang Tian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16808 PubMed 38313018

January 26, 2024

Immortalization of American miniature horse-derived fibroblast by cell cycle regulator with normal karyotype

Tetsuya Tani