Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

August 11, 2025

Bioinformatics analysis of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma based on the high infection rate of HPV in Northwest China

Fan Guo, Shurong Li, Shiqi Yan, Yuqiao Zhang, Guangke Wang, Ruixia Ma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19851 PubMed 40821990

August 11, 2025

Development of a relapse-related RiskScore model to predict the drug sensitivity and prognosis for patients with ovarian cancer

Zhixin Jin, Xuegu Wang, Xiang Li, Shasha Yang, Biao Ding, Jiaojiao Fei, Xiaojing Wang, Chengli Dou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19764 PubMed 40821986

August 11, 2025

Urate-lowering effects of polyphenolic compounds in animal models: systematic review and meta-analysis

Jianhong Chen, Boye Zhang, Zhongzhi Cao, Li Yang, Ye Yuan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19731 PubMed 40821993

August 11, 2025

Influence of the Great Amazon Reef System and Pleistocene sea-level drops on the phylogeography of Haemulon aurolineatum (Haemulidae)

A. Karim Awhida-Robinson, Eloísa Torres-Hernández, Rodolfo Pérez-Rodríguez, Víctor Julio Piñeros, María Gloria Solís-Guzmán, Arturo Angulo, Nuno Simões, Oscar M. Lasso-Alcalá, Mario Monroy, Omar Domínguez-Domínguez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19415 PubMed 40821974

August 11, 2025

Kinetic parameters of Scenedesmus obliquus (Chlorophyceae) growth and yield under different cultivation conditions in vitro

Arialdo M. Silveira Júnior, Silvia Maria Mathes Faustino, Fabrício Holanda e Holanda, Irlon Maciel Ferreira, Alan Cavalcanti da Cunha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17879 PubMed 40821995

August 8, 2025

Transcriptomic insights into grain size development in naked barley (Hordeum vulgare L. var. nudum Hook. f): based on weighted gene co-expression network analysis

Yan Wang, Jiahao Zhou, Mingqi Yang, Youhua Yao, Yongmei Cui, Xin Li, Baojun Ding, Xiaohua Yao, Kunlun Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19856 PubMed 40792006

August 8, 2025

Effect of ecological restoration on carbon storage of damaged mountain slope in China’s East Ussuri River Basin

Jianjun Zhu, Shilei Zhang, Chen Chen, Chunlin Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19854 PubMed 40792008

August 8, 2025

Molecular profiling and sex determination of Cannabis sativa germplasm collection: Exploring microsatellite markers and high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis

Anastasia Boutsika, Eleftheria Deligiannidou, Theodoros Moysiadis, Nikolaos Tourvas, Panagiotis Karnoutsos, Marios Karagiovanidis, Dimitrios Magalios, Christos Nanos, Vangelis Mitsis, Eleni Tsaliki, Eirini Sarrou, Apostolos Kalivas, Ioannis Ganopoulos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19770 PubMed 40792012

August 8, 2025

Variability of bulb morpho-geometrical properties in onion (Allium cepa L.) germplasm collections, using digital imaging tools

Seong-Hoon Kim, Kanivalan Iwar, JiWon Han, Inchan Choi, Jaesu Lee, Kingsley Ochar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19583 PubMed 40792011

August 7, 2025

Silver-spoon effect in agricultural crop consumers: crop consumption enhances skeletal growth in sika deer

Ayaka Hata, Midori Saeki, Chinatsu Kozakai, Rumiko Nakashita, Keita Fukasawa, Yasuhiro Nakajima, Ryodai Murata, Yuki Harada, Mayura B. Takada

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19836 PubMed 40786109

August 7, 2025

Exposure to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis metabolites altered ghost shrimp behavior and reduced mortality

Ellisa Carla Parker-Athill, Liam C. Muldro, Aiza J. Malinias, Taegan A. McMahon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19815 PubMed 40786113

August 7, 2025

Insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying the function of lysyl oxidase like 1 in cancers

Xinmeng Wang, Xiaoyi Wang, Yihan Li, Dan Zhao, Jintao He, Lin Wang, Zhengliang Li, Wei Xiong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19628 PubMed 40786111

August 6, 2025

Habituation but not classical conditioning of the disturbance hiss of the hissing cockroach (Gromphadorhina portentosa)

Christopher A. Varnon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19805 PubMed 40786105

August 6, 2025

High cyclic GMP-AMP synthase and stimulator of interferon genes in cholangiocarcinoma suggest their potential as targets for treatment

Han Ni Zin Myint, Paksiree Saranaruk, Natnicha Paungpan, Sakda Waraasawapati, Chawalit Pairojkul, Saowaluk Saisomboon, Nutsara Settha, Jatuporn Pattanachot, Seiji Okada, Wunchana Seubwai, Amnat Kitkhuandee, Kanlayanee Sawanyawisuth, Kulthida Vaeteewoottacharn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19800 PubMed 40786100

August 6, 2025

Physiological effects and technical strategies of LED supplemental lighting for pitaya cultivation: a review

Ren Chen, Yiming Ding, Wenke Liu, Xianwei Zhan, Kexin Lin, Kaifeng Lian, Weilong Chen, Keyu Wang, Shangfei Lin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19720 PubMed 40786098

August 6, 2025

Lead and cadmium toxicity effects on the Pinus roxburghii seed germination and early seedling growth in different environments

Shabana Bibi, Tour Jan, Nasrullah Khan, Muhammad Wahab, Mohammad K. Okla, Bandar M. Almunqedhi, Ibrahim A. Saleh, Yasmeen A. Alwasel, Saud Alamri, Hayat Ullah, Mostafa A. Abdel-Maksoud

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19593 PubMed 40786108

August 5, 2025

Characteristics of soil microbial phospholipid fatty acids in artificial, black-soil mountain degraded, and natural grasslands in the source region of the Three Rivers

Lele Xie, Yushou Ma, Yanlong Wang, Yuan Ma, Xiaoli Wang, Ying Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19837 PubMed 40786110

August 5, 2025

Harnessing citizen science for marine conservation in Malta: a comparative analysis of GAM and MaxEnt models in bottlenose dolphin habitat mapping

Francesca Soster, Tim Awbery, Nina Vérité–Taulet, Timothy Zammit, Kimberly Terribile

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19804 PubMed 40786106

August 5, 2025

Phosphite effects on sugarcane growth and biochemicals under in vitro osmotic stress

Jennifer Martínez-Ballesteros, Karina P. Bañuelos-Hernández, Daniel A. Rodríguez-Lagunes, Juan V. Hidalgo-Contreras, Miriam C. Pastelín-Solano, Guadalupe Vivar-Vera, Javier E. Bulbarela-Marini, Odon Castañeda-Castro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19763 PubMed 40786103

August 5, 2025

Measurement of bovine (Bos taurus) serum albumin by different methods and the comparison of protein fractions determined by capillary zone electrophoresis and agarose gel electrophoresis

Leandro Abreu da Fonseca, Fabiano Montiani-Ferreira, Marilyn Rodriguez, Joao Henrique Jabur Bittar, Fabricia Modolo Girardi, Theo Matos Arantes Moraes, Carolyn Cray

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19685 PubMed 40786102

August 5, 2025

Prediction of microbe-drug associations using a CNN-Bernoulli random forest model

Zihao Song, Qingnuo Li, Jincheng Zhao, Qinggang Bu, Zekang Bian, Jia Qu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19637 PubMed 40786104

August 4, 2025

Response surface optimization for cadmium biosorption onto the pre-treated biomass of red algae Digenia simplex as a sustainable indigenous biosorbent

Sedky H.A. Hassan, Maryam M. Alomran, Nada I.A. Alsugiran, Mostafa Koutb, Hassan Ahmed, Mustafa A. Fawzy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19776 PubMed 40777079

August 4, 2025

An unusual early-diverging plesiosauroid from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Holzmaden, Germany

Sven Sachs, Daniel Madzia