Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 4, 2024

Metagenomic assembly is the main bottleneck in the identification of mobile genetic elements

Jesse J. Kerkvliet, Alex Bossers, Jannigje G. Kers, Rodrigo Meneses, Rob Willems, Anita C. Schürch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16695 PubMed 38188174

January 9, 2024

Biocontrol potential of endophytic bacterium Bacillus altitudinis GS-16 against tea anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides

Youzhen Wu, Yumei Tan, Qiuju Peng, Yang Xiao, Jiaofu Xie, Zhu Li, Haixia Ding, Hang Pan, Longfeng Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16761 PubMed 38223761

January 3, 2024

Combined microbiome and metabolomics analysis of Taorong-type baijiu high-temperature Daqu and medium-temperature Daqu

Yanbo Liu, Junyi Wu, Haideng Li, Wenxi Liu, Zhenke Zhang, Suna Han, Jianguang Hou, Chunmei Pan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16621 PubMed 38188181

January 4, 2024

Effects of nanoplastics on the gut microbiota of Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei

Chenxi Zhu, Yiming Li, Guoxing Liu, Anisah Lee Abdullah, Qichen Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16743 PubMed 38188162

January 16, 2024

Reversal of cholestatic liver disease by the inhibition of sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 2 signaling

Huiling Cao, Lin Chen, Ziyang Zeng, Xianfeng Wu, Yuhao Lei, Wen Jia, Guang Yue, Bin Yi, Yu-jie Li, Yuan Shi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16744 PubMed 38250717

January 3, 2024

End-point rapid detection of total and pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus (tdh⁺ and/or trh1⁺ and/or trh2⁺) in raw seafood using a colorimetric loop-mediated isothermal amplification-xylenol orange technique

Aekarin Lamalee, Soithong Saiyudthong, Chartchai Changsen, Wansika Kiatpathomchai, Jitra Limthongkul, Chanita Naparswad, Charanyarut Sukphattanaudomchoke, Jarinya Chaopreecha, Saengchan Senapin, Wansadaj Jaroenram, Sureemas Buates

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16422 PubMed 38188160

January 3, 2024

Enrichment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolizing microorganisms on the oral mucosa of tobacco users

Lin Tao, M Paul Chiarelli, Sylvia Pavlova, Antonia Kolokythas, Joel Schwartz, James DeFrancesco, Benjamin Salameh, Stefan J. Green, Guy Adami

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16626 PubMed 38188172

January 11, 2024

Investigating Escherichia coli habitat transition from sediments to water in tropical urban lakes

Boyu Liu, Choon Weng Lee, Chui Wei Bong, Ai-Jun Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16556 PubMed 38223759

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 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 16, 2024

Carotenoid-dependent singlet oxygen photogeneration in light-harvesting complex 2 of Ectothiorhodospira haloalkaliphila leads to the formation of organic hydroperoxides and damage to both pigments and protein matrix

Denis Yanykin, Mark Paskhin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Ashikhmin, Maxim Alexandrovich Bolshakov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16615 PubMed 38250719

January 15, 2024

Antimalarial target vulnerability of the putative Plasmodium falciparum methionine synthase

Nirut Leela, Parichat Prommana, Sumalee Kamchonwongpaisan, Tana Taechalertpaisarn, Philip J. Shaw