To beat or not to beat a tick: comparison of DNA extraction methods for ticks (Ixodes scapularis).

abstract：:This paper investigates the capabilities of the evolutionary fuzzy genetic (FG) approach and compares it with three neuro-fuzzy methods-neuro-fuzzy with grid partitioning (ANFIS-GP), neuro-fuzzy with subtractive clustering (ANFIS-SC), and neuro-fuzzy with fuzzy c-means clustering (ANFIS-FCM)-in terms of modeling long-...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sadeghi-Niaraki A,Kisi O,Choi SM

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：Background:High heel shoes (HHS) can affect human postural control because elevated heel height (HH) may result in plantar flexed foot and limit ankle joint range of motion during walking. Effects of HH and HHS wearing experience on postural stability during self-initiated and externally triggered perturbations are les...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chen Y,Li JX,Wang L

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Panulirus argus is an ecologically relevant species in shallow water hard-bottom environments and coral reefs and target of the most lucrative fishery in the greater Caribbean region. Methods:This study reports, for the first time, the genome size and nuclear repetitive elements, including the 45S ribosomal...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Baeza JA

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial learning skills of high and low stress juvenile mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus) were tested in a dichotomous choice apparatus. Groups of fish were formed based on background blood cortisol levels and required to learn the location of a food reward hidden in one of two compartments. Low stress fish charact...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Raoult V,Trompf L,Williamson JE,Brown C

更新日期：2017-06-08 00:00:00

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：:Purpose. People with stroke living in the community have an increased prevalence of depression and lower quality of life than healthy older adults. This cross-sectional observational study investigated whether participation in regular exercise was associated with improved mood and quality of life. Methods. We recruite...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： McDonnell MN,Mackintosh SF,Hillier SL,Bryan J

更新日期：2014-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance in our pathogens is medicine's climate change: caused by human activity, and resulting in more extreme outcomes. Resistance emerges in microbial populations when antibiotics act on phenotypic variance within the population. This can arise from either genotypic diversity (resulting from a mutation...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kurenbach B,Hill AM,Godsoe W,van Hamelsveld S,Heinemann JA

更新日期：2018-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) is a widely accepted technique of non-invasive respiratory support in premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome due to lack of lung surfactant. If this approach fails, the next step is often intubation, mechanical ventilation (MV) and intratrache...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Walther FJ,Hernández-Juviel JM,Waring AJ

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of our study was to identify barriers and enablers to implementation of the Xpert MTB/RIF test within Mongolia's National Tuberculosis Program. METHODS:Twenty-foursemi-structured interviews were conducted between June and September 2015 with laboratory staff and tuberculosis physicians in Mongolia's ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rendell NL,Bekhbat S,Ganbaatar G,Dorjravdan M,Pai M,Dobler CC

更新日期：2017-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Movement is one of the most important epigenetic factors for normal development of the musculoskeletal system, particularly during genesis and joint development. Studies regarding alterations to embryonic mobility, performed on anurans, chickens and mammals, report important phenotypical similarities as a result of th...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ponssa ML,Abdala V

更新日期：2016-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) stoichiometric ratios are important indicators of ecosystem function and productivity. However, few studies have assessed the nutrient relationship between plant, litter and soil, and the nutrient stock in different secondary mixed forest types. Methods:We investi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pang Y,Tian J,Zhao X,Chao Z,Wang Y,Zhang X,Wang D

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD), the most common subtype of pancreatic cancer, is a highly lethal disease. In this study, we integrated the expression profiles of splicing factors (SFs) of PAAD from RNA-sequencing data to provide a comprehensive view of the clinical significance of SFs. A prognostic index (PI) based ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rong MH,Zhu ZH,Guan Y,Li MW,Zheng JS,Huang YQ,Wei DM,Li YM,Wu XJ,Bu HP,Peng HL,Wei XL,Li GS,Li MX,Chen MH,Huang SN

更新日期：2020-02-11 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：:In the field of invasion ecology, the determination of a species' environmental tolerance, is a key parameter in the prediction of its potential distribution, particularly in the context of global warming. In poikilothermic species such as insects, temperature is often considered the most important abiotic factor that...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lefort MC,Brown S,Boyer S,Worner S,Armstrong K

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Lead (Pb) is a ubiquitous pollutant which poses serious threats to plants, animals and humans once entered into the food chain via contaminated industrial effluents on their discharge into the surface of water bodies and/or geological materials. This study aimed to examine and compare the biosorption potential of natu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Shah GM,Nasir M,Imran M,Bakhat HF,Rabbani F,Sajjad M,Umer Farooq AB,Ahmad S,Song L

更新日期：2018-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In agricultural landscape, there are thousands of young wild animals killed every year. Their deaths are caused mostly by agricultural fieldworks during spring harvest. Among the affected animals there are also fawns of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), which react to danger by pressing themselves against the ground in ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cukor J,Bartoška J,Rohla J,Sova J,Machálek A

更新日期：2019-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cordycepin is a component of the extract obtained from Cordyceps militaris and has many biological activities, including anti-cancer, anti-metastatic and anti-inflammatory effects. Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) is a degenerative disease that is closely related to the inflammation of nucleus pulposus (NP) cell...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Li Y,Li K,Mao L,Han X,Zhang K,Zhao C,Zhao J

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The table tennis serve involves complex spatial movements combined with biomechanial characteristics. Although the differences in lower-limb biomechanial characteristics to a great extent influence the translational and spinning velocity of the ball when using the different styles of table tennis serve, few ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yu C,Shao S,Baker JS,Gu Y

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:To reduce bird fatalities from millions of window collisions each year in North America, it is important to understand how design and landscape elements relate to collision risk. The current study extends prior research that found that buildings near ornamental pear trees (Prunus calleryana) and buildings wi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Brown BB,Hunter L,Santos S

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportion of females calving (PFC) each year has been employed as an indicator of population reproductive performance in ungulates, especially for species that breed annually, because it requires less detailed population data than inter-birthing intervals and age at first reproduction. For asynchronous breeders w...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Law PR,Fike B

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemic of mass mortality of oak trees by Japanese oak wilt has affected secondary deciduous broadleaved forests that have been used as coppices in Japan. The dieback of oak trees formed gaps in the crown that would be expected to enhance the regeneration of shade-intolerant pioneer species. However, foraging by ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Itô H

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of smoking habits and other possibly relevant factors on dental implant survival. The study population included all patients who underwent dental implants between the years 1999 and 2008 at a large military dental clinic and were examined in the periodic medical exami...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Twito D,Sade P

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of low-volume high-intensity interval training and continuous low to moderate intensity training on quality of life, functional capacity and cardiovascular disease risk factors in cancer survivors. METHODS:Cancer survivors within 24 months post-diagnosis were r...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Toohey K,Pumpa KL,Arnolda L,Cooke J,Yip D,Craft PS,Semple S

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Physical, visual, chemical, and auditory cues signalling fighting ability have independently evolved in many animal taxa as a means to resolve conflicts without escalating to physical aggression. Facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR, i.e., the relative width to height of the face) has been associated with do...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Borgi M,Majolo B

更新日期：2016-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge on the precise identification of fish resources is critical for sustainable fisheries management. This study employs the DNA barcoding approach to generate a molecular taxonomic catalogue of commercially important reef fishes in the waters of Weh Island (Aceh Province), the most northerly inhabited island in...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Fadli N,Mohd Nor SA,Othman AS,Sofyan H,Muchlisin ZA

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) had been reported to be associated with tendinopathy. However, the underlying mechanisms of diabetic tendinopathy still remain largely to be discovered. The purpose of this study was to develop insulin resistance (IR) model on primary human tenocytes (hTeno) culture with tumou...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tan HY,Tan SL,Teo SH,Roebuck MM,Frostick SP,Kamarul T

更新日期：2020-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Sepsis represents a significant healthcare problem worldwide and causes a high number of deaths every year but remains to be fully understood. During and after sepsis, the host immune response is complex and involves an initial excessive host inflammatory response to infection that is closely related to tiss...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wan R,Li L,Xing C,Peng R,Gao L

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy serves as a turnover mechanism for the recycling of redundant and/or damaged macromolecules present in eukaryotic cells to re-use them under starvation conditions via a double-membrane structure known as autophagosome. A set of eukaryotic genes called autophagy-related genes (ATGs) orchestrate this highly el...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Aslan E,Küçükoğlu N,Arslanyolu M

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Network motifs play an important role in the structural analysis of biological networks. Identification of such network motifs leads to many important applications such as understanding the modularity and the large-scale structure of biological networks, classification of networks into super-families, and protein func...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Patra S,Mohapatra A

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Rearing coral fragments in nurseries and subsequent transplantation onto a degraded reef is a common approach for coral reef restoration. However, if barnacles and other biofouling organisms are not removed prior to transplantation, fish will dislodge newly cemented corals when feeding on biofouling organisms. This be...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Frias-Torres S,van de Geer C

更新日期：2015-09-29 00:00:00