Low relative error in consumer-grade GPS units make them ideal for measuring small-scale animal movement patterns.

abstract：:Dung beetles of the subfamily Scarabaeinae are widely recognised as important providers of multiple ecosystem services and are currently experiencing revisions that have improved our understanding of higher-level relationships in the subfamily. However, the study of phylogenetic relationships at the level of genus or ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pardo-Diaz C,Lopera Toro A,Peña Tovar SA,Sarmiento-Garcés R,Sanchez Herrera M,Salazar C

更新日期：2019-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Plant reproduction is influenced by the net outcome of plant-herbivore and plant-pollinator interactions. While both herbivore impacts and pollinator impacts on plant reproduction have been widely studied, few studies examine them in concert. Methodology:Here, we review the contemporary literature that exam...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Haas SM,Lortie CJ

更新日期：2020-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to quantify consumption of clothianidin-treated corn seed by birds following standard planting practices. Based on post-planting seed counts on 21 fields in southwestern Ontario, Canada, between 29 and 813 seeds/ha (mean of 224 ± 167 (SD)) were estimated to remain on the soil surface im...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： McGee S,Whitfield-Aslund M,Duca D,Kopysh N,Dan T,Knopper L,Brewer L

更新日期：2018-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In 2020, to limit the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), many countries, including Italy, have issued a lengthy quarantine period for the entire population. For this reason lifestyle has changed, bringing inevitable repercussions to the Quality of Life (QoL). The present study aims to identify which psychosoc...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lardone A,Sorrentino P,Giancamilli F,Palombi T,Simper T,Mandolesi L,Lucidi F,Chirico A,Galli F

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection of honey bees is of great economic importance because of their role in pollination. Crucial steps towards this goal are epidemiological surveys of pathogens connected with honey bee losses. In this study deformed wing virus (DWV), chronic bee paralysis virus (CBPV), acute bee paralysis virus (ABPV) and sacb...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cirkovic D,Stevanovic J,Glavinic U,Aleksic N,Djuric S,Aleksic J,Stanimirovic Z

更新日期：2018-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2014, Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) has led to mass mortality of the majority of hard coral species on the Florida Reef Tract. Following the successful treatment of SCTLD lesions on laboratory corals using water dosed with antibiotics, two topical pastes were developed as vehicles to directly apply ant...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Neely KL,Macaulay KA,Hower EK,Dobler MA

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Dye wastewater increases cancer risk in humans. For the treatment of dyestuffs, biodegradation has the advantages of economy, high efficiency, and environmental protection compared with traditional physical and chemical methods. Laccase is the best candidate for dye degradation because of its multiple substr...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bu T,Yang R,Zhang Y,Cai Y,Tang Z,Li C,Wu Q,Chen H

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabarcoding can rapidly determine the species composition of bulk samples and thus aids biodiversity and ecosystem assessment. However, it is essential to use primer sets that minimize amplification bias among taxa to maximize species recovery. Despite this fact, the performance of primer sets employed for metabarco...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Elbrecht V,Braukmann TWA,Ivanova NV,Prosser SWJ,Hajibabaei M,Wright M,Zakharov EV,Hebert PDN,Steinke D

更新日期：2019-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders that affect humans and animals. They are characterized by the accumulation in the central nervous system of a pathological form of the host-encoded prion protein (PrP(C)). The prion protein is a membrane glycoprotein that consists of two domains: a globul...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Didonna A,Venturini AC,Hartman K,Vranac T,Čurin Šerbec V,Legname G

更新日期：2015-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The NDUFS4 gene encodes an 18-kD subunit of mitochondria complex I, and mutations in this gene lead to the development of a severe neurodegenerative disease called Leigh syndrome (LS) in humans. To investigate the disease phenotypes and molecular mechanisms of Leigh syndrome, the Ndufs4 knockout (KO) mouse h...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wang M,Huang YP,Wu H,Song K,Wan C,Chi AN,Xiao YM,Zhao XY

更新日期：2017-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently there are 21 shrimp species in the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea which are considered to belong to the superfamily Oplophoroidea, but the larval development is unknown for most of them. The complete larval development of Systellaspis debilis (Milne-Edwards, 1881), here described and illustrated...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bartilotti C,Dos Santos A

更新日期：2019-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Gelatin hydrogel crosslinked by microbial transglutaminase (mTG) exhibits excellent performance in cell adhesion, proliferation, and differentiation. We examined the gelation time and gel strength of gelatin/mTG hydrogels in various proportions to investigate their physical properties and tested their degradation perf...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yang G,Xiao Z,Ren X,Long H,Qian H,Ma K,Guo Y

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic fertilizer application could have an impact on the nitrogen cycle mediated by microorganisms in arable soils. However, the dynamics of soil ammonia oxidizers and denitrifiers in response to compost addition are less understood. In this study, we examined the effect of four compost application rates (0, 11.25, ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yang Z,Guan Y,Bello A,Wu Y,Ding J,Wang L,Ren Y,Chen G,Yang W

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial populations present in Hg-rich environments have evolved biological mechanisms to detoxify methylmercury and other organometallic mercury compounds. The most common resistance mechanism relies on the H(+)-assisted cleavage of the Hg-C bond of methylmercury by the organomercurial lyase MerB. Although the init...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Silva PJ,Rodrigues V

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Mollusc shells are an abundant resource that have been long used to predict the structures of ancient ecological communities, examine evolutionary processes, reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions, track and predict responses to climatic change, and explore the movement of hominids across the globe. Despite the ubi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ferreira S,Ashby R,Jeunen GJ,Rutherford K,Collins C,Todd EV,Gemmell NJ

更新日期：2020-07-30 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：:The fight against the emergence of mutant influenza strains has led to the screening of an increasing number of compounds for inhibitory activity against influenza neuraminidase. This study explores the chemical space of neuraminidase inhibitors (NAIs), which provides an opportunity to obtain further molecular insight...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Anuwongcharoen N,Shoombuatong W,Tantimongcolwat T,Prachayasittikul V,Nantasenamat C

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether chemically mediated risk perception by prey and the effects of changes in prey behavior on basal resources vary as a function of the amount of prey biomass consumed by the predator. We studied these issues using a tritrophic system composed of blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus (top predator), mud cra...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Weissburg M,Beauvais J

更新日期：2015-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Supplemental feeding of free-roaming animals, including wildlife and feral or stray animals, is well known to have a substantial impact on various aspects of animal ecology including habitat use, activity patterns, and host-pathogen interactions. Among them, an increased population density (PD) of animals re...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hwang J,Gottdenker NL,Oh DH,Nam HW,Lee H,Chun MS

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Majority legumes in the temperate and arctic zones have water-impermeable seeds (physical dormancy, PY). However, various authors have reported that seeds of some Caragana species are water-permeable and thus non-dormant. We (1) tested seeds of 15 species of Caragana matured in the same site in 2014, 2016 and/or 2017 ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chen D,Zhang R,Baskin CC,Hu X

更新日期：2019-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Root hairs are unicellular elongations of certain rhizodermal cells that improve the uptake of sparingly soluble and immobile soil nutrients. Among different Arabidopsis thaliana genotypes, root hair density, length and the local acclimation to low inorganic phosphate (Pi) differs considerably, when analyzed on split ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Stetter MG,Benz M,Ludewig U

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB) serves primarily as a regulator of alternative splicing of messenger RNA, but is also co-opted to other roles such as RNA localisation and translation initiation from internal ribosome entry sites. The neuronal paralogue of PTB (nPTB) is 75% identical in amino ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Joshi A,Esteve V,Buckroyd AN,Blatter M,Allain FH,Curry S

更新日期：2014-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is one of the highly expressed cancer cell efflux transporters that cause the failure of chemotherapy. To reverse P-gp induced multidrug resistance, we employed a flaxseed-derived lignan; secoisolariciresinol (SECO) that acts as an inhibitor of breast cancer resistance protein; another efflux tra...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Morsy MA,El-Sheikh AAK,Ibrahim ARN,Venugopala KN,Kandeel M

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-diversity, defined as spatial replacement in species composition, is crucial to the understanding of how local communities assemble. These changes can be driven by environmental or geographic factors (such as geographic distance), or a combination of the two. Spiders have been shown to be good indicators of envir...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rodriguez-Artigas SM,Ballester R,Corronca JA

更新日期：2016-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent field trips to Member III of the Naobaogou Formation, Nei Mongol, China yielded new fossil discoveries, increasing our knowledge of the late Permian continental fauna from China. We present here a new large therocephalian, Jiufengia jiai gen. et sp. nov., represented by a partial skull with mandibles and part o...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liu J,Abdala F

更新日期：2019-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed (i) to explore the relationship between vertical (jumping) and horizontal (sprinting) force-velocity-power (FVP) mechanical profiles in a large range of sports and levels of practice, and (ii) to provide a large database to serve as a reference of the FVP profile for all sports and levels tested. A to...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jiménez-Reyes P,Samozino P,García-Ramos A,Cuadrado-Peñafiel V,Brughelli M,Morin JB

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Zoigê Plateau, China's largest plateau marsh wetland, has experienced large-scale degradation of the marsh wetland and evolution of the wetland landscape pattern over the past 40 years due to climate warming and human activities. How exactly do the wetland landscape pattern characteristics change? How do climatic chan...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Dong L,Yang W,Zhang K,Zhen S,Cheng X,Wu L

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Background.Chinese fir [Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook.] is one of the most important native tree species for timber production in southern China. An understanding of overall fast growing stage, stem growth stage and senescence stage cambium transcriptome variation is lacking. We used transcriptome sequencing to...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang Y,Han X,Sang J,He X,Liu M,Qiao G,Zhuo R,He G,Hu J

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The ongoing change in climate is predicted to exert unprecedented effects on Earth's biodiversity at all levels of organization. Biological conservation is important to prevent biodiversity loss, especially for species facing a high risk of extinction. Understanding the past responses of species to climate c...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bai Y,Wei X,Li X

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Many marine biology studies depend on field work on ships or remote sampling locations where sophisticated sample preservation techniques (e.g., high-pressure freezing) are often limited or unavailable. Our aim was to optimize the ultrastructural preservation of marine invertebrates, especially when working in the fie...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Montanaro J,Gruber D,Leisch N

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00