Early prediction of language and literacy problems: is 18 months too early?

abstract：Purpose:Yes associated protein 1 (YAP1), which is a standout amongst the most essential effectors of the Hippo pathway, assumes a vital part in a few kinds of cancer. However, whether YAP1 is an oncogene in CRC (colorectal cancer) remains controversial, and the association between the subcellular localization of YAP1 a...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Dong T,Yuan Y,Xiang X,Sang S,Shen H,Wang L,Yang C,Li F,Li H,Zheng S

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Exclosures that exclude large herbivores are effective tools for the protection and restoration of grazed plant communities. However, previous studies have shown that the installation of an exclosure does not ensure plant community recovery. Our study aimed to determine the effects of the domination of unpalatable pla...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Otsu C,Iijima H,Nagaike T

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several aspects of an individual's appearance have been shown to predict personality and related behaviour. While some of these cues are grounded in biology (e.g., the human face), other aspects of a person's appearance can be actively controlled (e.g., clothing). In this paper, we consider a common fashion accessory,...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ellis DA,Jenkins R

更新日期：2015-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Hepatitis B infection is one of the most severe hepatic diseases in China. Thus, understanding the genetic pathogenesis of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infected individuals is important. Although no consistent result is obtained in different populations, HBV treatment effect is reportedly associated with the IL28...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Song Y,Shen Y,Xia X,Zhang AM

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Weaning is an important event for all mammals, including young forest musk deer. However, weaning stress may cause intestinal microbiota-related disorders. Therefore, high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing was applied to study the dynamic changes in intestinal microbiota during pre-weaning (10 days before weaning) a...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Li Y,Shi M,Zhang T,Hu X,Zhang B,Xu S,Ding J,Hu D,Liu S

更新日期：2020-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Rao's quadratic diversity index is one of the most widely applied diversity indices in functional and phylogenetic ecology. The standard way of computing Rao's quadratic diversity index for an ecological assemblage with a group of species with varying abundances is to sum the functional or phylogenetic distances betwe...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chen Y,Wu Y,Shen TJ

更新日期：2018-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of acute phase proteins and proinflammatory cytokines in sheep with pneumonic pasteurellosis. Blood samples were collected from 56 sheep (36 naturally infected with Pasteurella multocida and 20 healthy controls) belonging to one farm in Eastern region, Saudi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： El-Deeb WM,Elmoslemany AM

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The primary objective of this cross-sectional study was to estimate the crude, seasonal and cull-reason stratified prevalence of Salmonella fecal shedding in cull dairy cattle on seven California dairies. A secondary objective was to estimate and compare the relative sensitivity (Se) and specificity (Sp) for...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Abu Aboud OA,Adaska JM,Williams DR,Rossitto PV,Champagne JD,Lehenbauer TW,Atwill R,Li X,Aly SS

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The current cultivation and plant breeding of Honeybush tea (produced from members of Cyclopia Vent.) do not consider the genetic diversity nor structuring of wild populations. Thus, wild populations may be at risk of genetic contamination if cultivated plants are grown in the same landscape. Here, we invest...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Galuszynski NC,Potts AJ

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A new species of the genus Mesacanthion Filipjev, 1927 was discovered during a survey of natural beaches of Jeju Island in South Korea. The new species Mesacanthion jejuensissp. nov. shares general morphology of the genus such as the outer labial and cephalic setae being situated at the middle of cephalic capsule, wel...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jeong R,Tchesunov AV,Lee W

更新日期：2019-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior work in our lab has shown that an expanding image on a computer screen elicits a hiding response in the Caribbean terrestrial hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus). We conducted two experiments to identify what properties of the expanding stimulus contribute to its effectiveness as a visual threat. First we found th...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Shragai T,Ping X,Arakaki C,Garlick D,Blumstein DT,Blaisdell AP

更新日期：2017-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovine footrot is a degenerative disease of sheep feet leading to the separation of hoof-horn from the underlying skin and lameness. This study quantitatively examined histological features of the ovine interdigital skin as well as their relationship with pro-inflammatory cytokine (IL-1β) and virulent Dichelobacter nod...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Agbaje M,Rutland CS,Maboni G,Blanchard A,Bexon M,Stewart C,Jones MA,Totemeyer S

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Wing pigmentation in Calopteryx damselflies, caused by the deposition of melanin, is energetically expensive to produce and enhances predation risk. However, patterns of melanisation are used in species identification, greater pigmentation is an accurate signal of male immune function in at least some species, and the...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hassall C

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Consumer-grade GPS units are a staple of modern field ecology, but the relatively large error radii reported by manufacturers (up to 10 m) ostensibly precludes their utility in measuring fine-scale movement of small animals such as insects. Here we demonstrate that for data collected at fine spatio-temporal scales, th...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Breed GA,Severns PM

更新日期：2015-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Methionine (Met) is an essential sulfur-containing amino acid in animals. Cereal and legume crops with limiting levels of Met represent the major food and feed sources for animals. In plants, cystathionine gamma-synthase (CGS), methionine methyltransferase (MMT) and homocysteine methyltransferase (HMT) are committing ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhao M,Wang W,Wei L,Chen P,Yuan F,Wang Z,Ying X

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective fishery management strategies should be based on stock delimitation and knowledge of the spatial scale at which species are distributed. However, a mismatch often occurs between biological and management units of fishery resources. The green abalone (Haliotis fulgens) supports an important artisanal fishery ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mejía-Ruíz P,Perez-Enriquez R,Mares-Mayagoitia JA,Valenzuela-Quiñonez F

更新日期：2020-08-19 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:Plums are a kind of stone fruit, a category that includes peaches, cherries, apricots, and almonds. In Korea, Japanese plum trees are usually cultivated as they best suit the climate. To date, there have been few studies in Korea on viruses infecting plum trees compared to those infecting peach trees. Metho...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jo Y,Choi H,Lian S,Cho JK,Chu H,Cho WK

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cinnamoyl-CoA reductase (CCR) is the first enzyme in the monolignol-specific branch of the lignin biosynthetic pathway. In this research, three sorghum CCR genes including SbCCR1, SbCCR2-1 and SbCCR2-2 were cloned and characterized. Analyses of the structure and phylogeny of the three CCR genes showed evolutionary con...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Li J,Fan F,Wang L,Zhan Q,Wu P,Du J,Yang X,Liu Y

更新日期：2016-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The archaellum, the rotating motility structure of archaea, is best studied in the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. To better understand how assembly and rotation of this structure is driven, two ATP-binding proteins, FlaI and FlaH of the motor complex of the archaellum of the euryarchaeon Pyrococcus furiosus, ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chaudhury P,van der Does C,Albers SV

更新日期：2018-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sturnira is one of the most species-rich genera in the Neotropics, and it is found from Mexico and the Lesser Antilles to Argentina. This genus forms a well-supported monophyletic clade with at least twenty-one recognized species, as well as several others under taxonomic review. Sturnira parvidens is a wide...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gutiérrez EG,Hernández Canchola G,León Paniagua LS,Martínez Méndez N,Ortega J

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Many Long-Term Care (LTC) institutionalized patients are the most frail and functionally dependent among the geriatric population and have significant oral health disparities.They often suffer from dental neglect due to limited access to appropriate professional dental care. These patients have chronic hea...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bilder L,Yavnai N,Zini A

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on concordant differences in male advertisement call, tadpole morphology, and absence of haplotype sharing in the barcoding 16S mitochondrial DNA, we describe here a new species of spotted leaf frog of the genus Phasmahyla from Atlantic Forest, State of Rio de Janeiro, Southeast Brazil. The new species is most s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pereira EA,Rocha LCL,Folly H,da Silva HR,Santana DJ

更新日期：2018-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Liolaemus is one of the most ecologically diverse and species-rich genera of lizards worldwide. It currently includes more than 250 recognized species, which have been subject to many ecological and evolutionary studies. Nevertheless, Liolaemus lizards have a complex taxonomic history, mainly due to the inco...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Panzera A,Leaché AD,D'Elía G,Victoriano PF

更新日期：2017-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products from the unique environments of sea water and oceans represent a largely unfamiliar source for isolation of new microbes, which are potent producers of secondary bioactive metabolites. These unique life-forms from the marine ecosphere have served as an important source of drugs since ancient times and...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Adnan M,Alshammari E,Patel M,Amir Ashraf S,Khan S,Hadi S

更新日期：2018-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Philodendron is the second most diverse genus of the Araceae, a tropical monocot family with significant morphological diversity along its wide geographic distribution in the Neotropics. Although evolutionary studies of Philodendron were conducted in recent years, the phylogenetic relationship among its species remain...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Loss-Oliveira L,Sakuragui C,Soares Mde L,Schrago CG

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a major lethal malignant cancer of the head and neck region, yet its molecular mechanisms of tumourigenesis are still unclear. Patients and methods:We performed weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) on RNA-sequencing data with clinical information obtain...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hu X,Sun G,Shi Z,Ni H,Jiang S

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are small, energy-producing structures vital to the energy needs of the body. Genetic mutations cause mitochondria to fail to produce the energy needed by cells and organs which can cause severe disease and death. These genetic mutations are likely to be in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), or possibly in th...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ahuja AS

更新日期：2018-05-21 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：Background:This study was performed to determine the characteristics of community cats that were admitted to trap-neuter-return(TNR) programs and the feasibility of the high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter (HQHVSN) model in Seoul, Korea. Methods:TNR programs were performed eight times from 2017 to 2018, and a total o...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cho Y,Kim K,Kim MS,Lee I

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00