Local villagers' perceptions of wolves in Jiuzhaigou County, western China.

abstract：:Mutations that cause an error in the splicing of a messenger RNA (mRNA) can lead to diseases in humans. Various computational models have been developed to recognize the sequence pattern of the splice sites. In recent studies, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures were shown to outperform other existing mod...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Thanapattheerakul T,Engchuan W,Chan JH

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of fatigue has been shown to modify running biomechanics. Overall in terms of gender, women are at lower risk than men for sustaining running-related injuries, although it depends on the factors taken into account. One possible reason for these differences in the injury rate and location might be the diss...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bazuelo-Ruiz B,Durá-Gil JV,Palomares N,Medina E,Llana-Belloch S

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating the depth of anaesthesia (DoA) in operations has always been a challenging issue due to the underlying complexity of the brain mechanisms. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are undoubtedly the most widely used signals for measuring DoA. In this paper, a novel EEG-based index is proposed to evaluate DoA for...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liu Q,Ma L,Fan SZ,Abbod MF,Shieh JS

更新日期：2018-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The Chinese Natural Forest Protection program has been conducted nationwide and has achieved resounding success. However, timber importation has increased; therefore, producing more domestic timber is critical to meet the demand for raw materials. Fertilization is one of the most effective silviculture pract...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hou L,Dong Z,Yang Y,Zhang D,Zhang S,Zhang S

更新日期：2018-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Conserving both biodiversity and ecosystem services is a major goal of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Hotspots for biodiversity in the Andes significantly overlap with areas with dense human populations that sustain their economy through agricultural production. Therefore, developing management form...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Quintana C,Girardello M,Balslev H

更新日期：2019-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The WRKY transcription factor family plays crucial roles in many aspects of physiological processes and adaption to environment. Although the WRKY genes have been widely identified in various plant species, the structure and function of the WRKY family in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) remains unknown. Metho...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wu GQ,Li ZQ,Cao H,Wang JL

更新日期：2019-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Ortleppascaris sinensis is the dominant nematode species infecting the gastrointestinal tract of the captive Chinese alligator, a critically endangered species. Gastrointestinal nematode infection may cause a loss of appetite, growth, a development disorder, and even mortality in alligators, especially young ones. Thi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhao J,Xu W,Tu G,Zhou Y,Wu X

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:As other spiny lobsters, Panulirus argus is supposed to use preferentially proteins and lipids in energy metabolism, while carbohydrates are well digested but poorly utilized. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of dietary carbohydrate level on digestion and metabolism in the spiny lobster P. argus. We us...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rodríguez-Viera L,Perera E,Montero-Alejo V,Perdomo-Morales R,García-Galano T,Martínez-Rodríguez G,Mancera JM

更新日期：2017-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a common cause of low back pain with degenerative spinal change in older adults. Telomeres are repetitive nucleoprotein DNA sequences of TTAGGG at the ends of chromosomes. Oxidative stress originates from an imbalance in pro-oxidant and antioxidant homeostasis that results in ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Dechsupa S,Yingsakmongkol W,Limthongkul W,Singhatanadgige W,Honsawek S

更新日期：2018-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-invasive measurements of glucocorticoid (GC) concentrations, including cortisol and corticosterone, serve as reliable indicators of adrenocortical activities and physiological stress loads in a variety of species. As an alternative to invasive analyses based on plasma, GC concentrations in saliva still represent s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Nemeth M,Pschernig E,Wallner B,Millesi E

更新日期：2016-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Large and complex mounds built by termites of the genus Macrotermes characterize many dry African landscapes, including the savannas, bushlands, and dry forests of the Tsavo Ecosystem in southern Kenya. The termites live in obligate symbiosis with filamentous fungi of the genus Termitomyces. The insects coll...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Vesala R,Harjuntausta A,Hakkarainen A,Rönnholm P,Pellikka P,Rikkinen J

更新日期：2019-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The objective of the present study was to compare the effects of equal-volume resistance training (RT) performed with different training frequencies on muscle size and strength in trained young men. Methods:Sixteen men with at least one year of RT experience were divided into two groups, G1 and G2, that tra...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gentil P,Fisher J,Steele J,Campos MH,Silva MH,Paoli A,Giessing J,Bottaro M

更新日期：2018-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural complexity of coral reefs plays a major role in the biodiversity, productivity, and overall functionality of reef ecosystems. Conventional metrics with 2-dimensional properties are inadequate for characterization of reef structural complexity. A 3-dimensional (3D) approach can better quantify topography...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Burns J,Delparte D,Gates RD,Takabayashi M

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We used qingbo (Spinibarbus sinensis) and Chinese crucian carp (Carassius auratus) to test whether numerical discrimination could be improved by the coexistence and possible cooperation of conspecies or heterospecies. We conducted a spontaneous shoal choice test of singletons, conspecific dyads and heterospecific dyad...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Xiong W,Yi LC,Tang ZH,Fu SJ

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A period of starvation is regarded as a sound practice in aquaculture prior to handling, transportation and harvest, to minimise impacts on welfare and ensure proper hygiene after harvest. However, documentation of welfare issues such as stress following starvation and handling in adult Atlantic salmon are lacking. Th...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Waagbø R,Jørgensen SM,Timmerhaus G,Breck O,Olsvik PA

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) and dopamine receptor 2 (DRD2) play important roles in ovarian follicular development. In this study, we analyzed tissue-specific expression of the Muscovy duck IGF2 and DRD2 genes and cloned those genes transcripts. Polymorphisms in these genes were tightly linked with egg producti...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ye Q,Xu J,Gao X,Ouyang H,Luo W,Nie Q

更新日期：2017-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Histopathological images contain rich phenotypic descriptions of the molecular processes underlying disease progression. Convolutional neural networks, state-of-the-art image analysis techniques in computer vision, automatically learn representative features from such images which can be useful for disease diagnosis, ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lu L,Daigle BJ Jr

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas syringae is the most widespread bacterial pathogen in plants. Several strains of P. syringae produce a phytotoxin, coronatine (COR), which acts as a jasmonic acid mimic and inhibits plant defense responses and contributes to disease symptom development. In this study, we found that COR inhibits early defen...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lee S,Ishiga Y,Clermont K,Mysore KS

更新日期：2013-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Assessing psychological pain has been recommended as an integral part of a comprehensive suicide risk assessment. The Psychache Scale, an established measure of psychological pain, does not specify a time frame for when pain is experienced, which may inadvertently increase the likelihood of identifying indiv...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Meerwijk EL,Weiss SJ

更新日期：2017-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenerational effects are important for phenotypic plasticity and adaptation of marine invertebrates in the changing ocean. Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation is an increasing threat to marine invertebrates. For the first time, we reported positive and negative transgenerational effects of UV-B radiation on egg size, ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ding J,Zhang L,Sun J,Shi D,Chi X,Yang M,Chang Y,Zhao C

更新日期：2019-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The canopy-forming, intertidal brown (Phaeophyceae) seaweed Fucus guiryi is distributed along the cold-temperate and warm-temperate coasts of Europe and North Africa. Curiously, an isolated population develops at Punta Calaburras (Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean) but thalli are not present in midsummer every year, ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Melero-Jiménez IJ,Salvo AE,Báez JC,Bañares-España E,Reul A,Flores-Moya A

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:For the past several centuries, millipede taxonomists have used the morphology of male copulatory structures (modified legs called gonopods), which are strongly variable and suggestive of species-level differences, as a source to understand taxon relationships. Millipedes in the family Xystodesmidae are blind, dispers...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Means JC,Marek PE

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies of low prevalence disease problems are often hindered by the high cost of diagnostic testing. The objective of this study was to evaluate PCR screening of both individual and pooled fecal samples from culled dairy cows for the invA gene of Salmonella followed by culture to determine if the sens...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Adaska JM,Ekong PS,Clothier KA,Williams DR,Rossitto PV,Lehenbauer TW,Atwill ER,Li X,Aly SS

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ichthyoplankton assemblage structure in the Yangtze Estuary was analyzed based on four springs in 1999, 2001, 2004 and 2007 in order to provide detailed characterizations of the ichthyoplankton assemblage in springs, examine the long-term dynamics of spring ichthyoplankton assemblages, and evaluate the influence o...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang H,Xian W,Liu S

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing cross-border trade of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) has put heavy pressure on a considerable number of species in the Himalayas. One of the threatened species in Nepal is Aconitum spicatum. Unfortunately for this species and for many others, our knowledge on population ecology and performance across ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chapagain DJ,Meilby H,Ghimire SK

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:White-handed gibbons produce loud and acoustically complex songs when interacting with their neighbours or when encountering predators. In both contexts, songs are assembled from a small number of units although their composition differs in context-specific ways. Here, we investigated whether wild gibbons could infer ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Andrieu J,Penny SG,Bouchet H,Malaivijitnond S,Reichard UH,Zuberbühler K

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Eocene history of cetacean evolution is now represented by the expansive fossil record of archaeocetes elucidating major morphofunctional shifts relating to the land to sea transition, but the change from archaeocetes to modern cetaceans is poorly established. New fossil material of the recently recognized family ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Boessenecker RW,Fordyce RE

更新日期：2015-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Algae encompass a wide array of photosynthetic organisms that are ubiquitously distributed in aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Algal species often bloom in aquatic ecosystems, providing a significant autochthonous carbon input to the deeper anoxic layers in stratified water bodies. In addition, various alga...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Morrison JM,Murphy CL,Baker K,Zamor RM,Nikolai SJ,Wilder S,Elshahed MS,Youssef NH

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is one of most common vaginal infections. However, its diagnosis by classical methods reveals low specificity. Our goal was to evaluate the accuracy diagnosis of 150 vaginal samples with research gold standard methods and our Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) probes by Fluorescence in situ Hybridizat...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Machado A,Castro J,Cereija T,Almeida C,Cerca N

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity for aerial maneuvering was likely a major influence on the evolution of flying animals. Here we evaluate consequences of paravian morphology for aerial performance by quantifying static stability and control effectiveness of physical models for numerous taxa sampled from within the lineage leading to bird...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Evangelista D,Cam S,Huynh T,Kwong A,Mehrabani H,Tse K,Dudley R

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00