Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Dale F. Taylor, Jia Li, Nicholas J. Saner, Jia Wei, Xu Yan, Elizabeth G. Reisman, Hanzhe Li, Matthew J-C Lee, Navabeh Zare, Andrew Garnham, Jujiao Kuang, David J. Bishop

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19879 PubMed 40827203

August 14, 2025

The role of T cells in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease

Zhuomiao Lin, Xihui Yu, Yunming Zhong, Guozhu Tan, Jiahong Zhong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19818 PubMed 40827205

August 13, 2025

The effects of biotic stress on the sexual reproduction process of flowering plants

Zhenzhen Li, Shuo Wang, Yike Wang, Hongxia Zhang, Lu Liu, Shiwen Su, Sue Lin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19880 PubMed 40821982

August 13, 2025

Genetic variants of Toll-like receptor 9 are associated with susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus in Han Chinese female patients

Lili Zhao, Shushu Du, Wenqi Xu, Xiaofei Shi, Rongzeng Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19847 PubMed 40821978

August 13, 2025

Use ATCCfinder to identify commercially available American Type Culture Collection strains based on sequence queries

Samuel I. Koehler, Earl A. Middlebrook, Blake T. Hovde, Erik R. Hanschen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19832 PubMed 40821988

August 13, 2025

Chaetomium globosum from Alisma orientale (Sam.) Juzep. enhances the antioxidative stress capacity of Caenorhabditis elegans

Nayu Shen, Zhao Chen, Siyu Wang, Mingqi Zhang, Yujie Jia, Xinyu Zhang, Yirong Xiao, Zizhong Tang, Qingfeng Li, Ming Yuan, Tongliang Bu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19827 PubMed 40821996

August 13, 2025

Sampling strategies for digestive system flora studies: current research and perspectives

Xiaobo Liu, Xia Cheng, Ziye Gao, Jun Pan, Shizhen Luo, Pei Liu, Hui Wen, Shu Jin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19810 PubMed 40821994

August 13, 2025

The concentration of single-stranded DNA-binding proteins is a critical factor in recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA), as revealed by insights from an open-source system

Francisco Cordoba-Andrade, Antolin Peralta-Castro, Paola L. García-Medel, Eduardo Castro-Torres, Rogelio Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Atzimba Y. Castro-Lara, Josue D. Mora Garduño, Claudia D. Raygoza, Noe Baruch-Torres, Alejandro Peñafiel-Ayala, Corina Diaz-Quezada, Cesar S. Cardona-Felix, Fernando Guzman Chavez, Carlos H. Trasviña-Arenas, Rogerio R. Sotelo-Mundo, Beatriz Xoconostle-Cazares, Agustino Martínez-Antonio, Luis Gabriel Brieba de Castro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19758 PubMed 40821985

August 13, 2025

The importance of individuals of different sizes in the population maintenance of a palm species used by the Fulni-ô Indigenous People in northeast Brazil

Juliana Loureiro Almeida Campos, Elcida de Lima Araújo, Aldicir Scariot, Eduardo Teles Barbosa Mendes, Rita de Cássia Quitete Portela, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19739 PubMed 40821984

August 13, 2025

Identification of hub genes and prediction of the ceRNA network in adult sepsis

Kangyi Xue, Kan Wu, Haoxian Luo, Haihua Luo, Zhaoqian Zhong, Fen Li, Lei Li, Li Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19619 PubMed 40821971

August 12, 2025

Road ecology of a Chihuahuan Desert snake community: size-based mortality sets the stage for evolutionary change in a widespread pitviper

Daniel F. Hughes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19871 PubMed 40821980

August 12, 2025

RpNGS: an automated platform for pathogen identification and monitoring in clinical metagenomics data

Jing Zhou, Yao Tian, Min Yang, Ting Hao, Jun Ma, Shengyu Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19849 PubMed 40821992

August 12, 2025

Ecotoxicological effects of CuO and TiO₂ nanoparticles dietary exposure on the marine gastropod Littorina brevicula

Sergey Kukla, Victor Chelomin, Andrey Mazur, Nadezhda Dovzhenko, Valentina Slobodskova, Evgeniy Elovskiy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19838 PubMed 40821979

August 12, 2025

Antigenic and mutational insights into the Nipah virus G glycoprotein: implications for viral entry, host specificity, therapeutics, and vaccine development

Nur Syafiqah Mohamad Nasir, Yasmin Khairani Muhammad Ismadi, Noreafifah Semail, Wan Alif Syazwani Wan Alias, Nik Mohd Noor Nik Zuraina, Nik Yusnoraini Yusof, Zakuan Zainy Deris, Mohd Zulkifli Salleh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19835 PubMed 40852381

August 12, 2025

A workflow of open-source tools for drone-based photogrammetry of marine megafauna

K.C. Bierlich, Josh Hewitt, Clara N. Bird, David W. Johnston, Julian Dale, Enrico Pirotta, Robert S. Schick, Joshua D. Stewart, Leslie New, Elliott Chimienti, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Ari S. Friedlaender, Mauricio Cantor, Leigh G. Torres

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19768 PubMed 40821991

August 12, 2025

Substrate type and light intensity determine lampenflora concentration on paleontological remains in show caves

Elena Piano, Marta Zunino, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Isabella Nicole Pisoni, Alice Cimenti, Alberto Cina, Marco Isaia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19622 PubMed 40821970

August 12, 2025

On Dracograllus miguelitus sp. nov. (Nematoda: Draconematidae) from an inactive structure: insights into its taxonomy, biodiversity and ecology at hydrothermal vents

William Johnson da Silva, Daniela Zeppilli, Valentin Foulon, Pierre-Antoine Dessandier, Marjolaine Matabos, Jozee Sarrazin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19585 PubMed 40821998