Complete genome sequencing of Pandoraea pnomenusa RB38 and Molecular Characterization of Its N-acyl homoserine lactone synthase gene ppnI.

abstract：:Equine Herpesviruses (EHV) are common and often latent pathogens of equids which can cause fatalities when transmitted to non-equids. Stress and elevated glucocorticoids have been associated with EHV reactivation in domestic horses, but little is known about the correlation between stress and viral reactivation in wil...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Seeber PA,Quintard B,Sicks F,Dehnhard M,Greenwood AD,Franz M

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone microstructure has long been known as a powerful tool to investigate lifestyle-related biomechanical constraints, and many studies have focused on identifying such constraints in the limb bones of aquatic or arboreal mammals in recent years. The limb bone microstructure of fossorial mammals, however, has not been...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Legendre LJ,Botha-Brink J

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：Background:High throughput DNA sequencing of bulk invertebrate samples or metabarcoding is becoming increasingly used to provide profiles of biological communities for environmental monitoring. As metabarcoding becomes more widely applied, new reference DNA barcodes linked to individual specimens identified by taxonomi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Carew ME,Coleman RA,Hoffmann AA

更新日期：2018-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative gene expression data obtained from quantitative RT-PCR (RT-qPCR) experiments are dependent on appropriate normalization to represent true values. It is common to use constitutively expressed endogenous reference genes (RGs) for normalization, but for this strategy to be valid the RGs must be stably expressed ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ramhøj L,Axelstad M,Svingen T

更新日期：2019-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Climate change concurrent with anthropogenic disturbances can initiate serial changes that reverberate up the food chain with repercussions for fisheries. To date, there is no information available concerning the combined effects of global warming and human impacts on tropical marine food webs. While tempe...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chew LL,Chong VC

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The meat quality of yellow feathered broilers is better than the quality of its production. Growth traits are important in the broiler industry. The exploration of regulation mechanisms for the skeletal muscle would help to increase the growth performance of chickens. At present, some progress has been made ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wu P,Zhang X,Zhang G,Chen F,He M,Zhang T,Wang J,Xie K,Dai G

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. The relative efficacy and safety of lacosamide as adjunctive therapy compared to other antiepileptic drugs has not been well established. Objective. To determine if lacosamide provides improved efficacy and safety, reduced length of hospital stay and improved quality of life compared with other anti-epilep...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sawh SC,Newman JJ,Deshpande S,Jones PM

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome sequencing is rapidly being adopted in reference labs and hospitals for bacterial outbreak investigation and diagnostics where time is critical. Seven gene multi-locus sequence typing is a standard tool for broadly classifying samples into sequence types (STs), allowing, in many cases, to rule a sample out of a...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Page AJ,Keane JA

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of age, body condition score (BCS) and muscle condition score (MCS) on indirect radial and coccygeal Doppler systolic arterial blood pressure (SAP) measurements in dogs. METHODS:Sixty-two privately-owned dogs were enrolled between June and July 2016. The BC...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mooney AP,Mawby DI,Price JM,Whittemore JC

更新日期：2017-03-22 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：Background:Despite clinical trials with antioxidant supplementation, few studies have been conducted to evaluate the nutritional status of antioxidant vitamins and minerals, and none have reported on the status of these serum antioxidants associated with the dietary intake of antioxidants by non-alcoholic fatty liver d...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Coelho JM,Cansanção K,Perez RM,Leite NC,Padilha P,Ramalho A,Peres W

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the profile of 14 polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and 23 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in serum of domestic canines and whether this was predictive of thyroid hormone status. SAMPLES:Serum samples were collected from 51 client-owned dogs visiting the University of California Davis Will...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lau G,Walter K,Kass P,Puschner B

更新日期：2017-09-12 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：: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：:Deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific are increasingly being assessed for their potential mineral wealth. To anticipate the potential impacts on biodiversity and connectivity among populations at these vents, environmental baselines need to be established. Bathymodiolus manusensis is a deep-sea mussel fou...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Thaler AD,Saleu W,Carlsson J,Schultz TF,Van Dover CL

更新日期：2017-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Jatropha curcas L. belongs to Euphorbiaceae family, and it synthesizes flavonoid and diterpene compounds that have showed antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antiviral, antimicrobial, antifungal and insecticide activity. Seeds of this plant accumulate phorbol esters, which are tigliane type diterpenes, reporte...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Leyva-Padrón G,Vanegas-Espinoza PE,Evangelista-Lozano S,Del Villar-Martínez AA,Bazaldúa C

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Because cancer evolution underlies the therapeutic difficulties of cancer, it is clinically important to understand the evolutionary dynamics of cancer. Thus far, a number of evolutionary processes have been proposed to be working in cancer evolution. However, there exists no simulation model that can describe the dif...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Niida A,Hasegawa T,Innan H,Shibata T,Mimori K,Miyano S

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A striking and unexpected biochemical phenotype was found in an insertion mutant line in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. One of two investigated insertion mutant lines in the gene encoding the phosphate transporter PHT4;1 demonstrated a prominent loss of trienoic fatty acids, whereas the other insertion line was...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Nilsson AK,Andersson MX

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal behaviors in captive animals are generally defined as behaviors that are atypical for the species and are often considered to be indicators of poor welfare. Although some abnormal behaviors have been empirically linked to conditions related to elevated stress and compromised welfare in primates, others have l...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jacobson SL,Ross SR,Bloomsmith MA

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A new species of Scutalus Albers, 1850 (Gastropoda: Bulimulidae), Scutalus chango sp. n., is described from a coastal area of northern Chile. Empty shells of this new species were found buried in sand and under boulders and rocks in the foothills of the Chilean Coastal Range at Paposo, Región de Antofagasta. This new ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Araya JF,Breure ASH

更新日期：2017-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The Mini-IPIP scales (Donellan et al., 2006) are possibly one of the most commonly used short inventories for measuring the Big Five Factors of personality. In this study, we aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of two Mini-IPIP Spanish short forms, one balanced and one positively wording (PW). ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Martínez-Molina A,Arias VB

更新日期：2018-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we studied the main characteristics of flowering, reproductive system and diversity of pollinators for the biofuel plant Jatropha curcas (L.) in a site of tropical southeastern Mexico, within its center of origin. The plants were monoecious with inflorescences of unisexual flowers. The male flowers produ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rincón-Rabanales M,Vargas-López LI,Adriano-Anaya L,Vázquez-Ovando A,Salvador-Figueroa M,Ovando-Medina I

更新日期：2016-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estimating volumes and masses of total body components is important for the study and treatment monitoring of nutrition and nutrition-related disorders, cancer, joint replacement, energy-expenditure and exercise physiology. While several equations have been offered for estimating total body components from M...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lacoste Jeanson A,Dupej J,Villa C,Brůžek J

更新日期：2017-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean acidification threatens the foundation of tropical coral reefs. This study investigated three aspects of ocean acidification: (i) the rates at which perforate and imperforate coral-colony skeletons passively dissolve when pH is 7.8, which is predicted to occur globally by 2100, (ii) the rates of passive dissolut...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： van Woesik R,van Woesik K,van Woesik L,van Woesik S

更新日期：2013-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Two non-tuberculous mycobacterial strains, UM_3 and UM_11, were isolated from the trunk wash of captive elephants in Malaysia. As they appeared to be identical phenotypes, they were investigated further by conventional and whole genome sequence-based methods of strain differentiation. Methods. Multiphasic ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chan KG,Loke MF,Ong BL,Wong YL,Hong KW,Tan KH,Kaur S,Ng HF,Abdul Razak M,Ngeow YF

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. In addition to its highly debilitating motor symptoms, non-motor symptoms may precede their motor counterparts by many years, which may characterize a prodromal phase of PD. A potential pharmacological strategy is to introduce neu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Benvenutti R,Marcon M,Reis CG,Nery LR,Miguel C,Herrmann AP,Vianna MRM,Piato A

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：Aims:The study aimed to explore factors contributing to body weight change over time in gastric cancer patients after gastrectomy, in order to find risk factors to implement nutritional intervention beforehand. Methods:A cohort of gastric cancer patients who were treated with gastrectomy from January to March 2019 at ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tian Q,Qin L,Zhu W,Xiong S,Wu B

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae remains the leading causative pathogen in pediatric pneumonia and bacteremia throughout the world. The invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) is known as isolation of S. pneumoniae from a normally sterile site (e.g., blood, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, pericardial fluid, pleural fluid, or...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chiu NC,Chi H,Peng CC,Chang HY,Huang DT,Chang L,Lei WT,Lin CY

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Deposits spanning the Radotruncana calcarata Taxon Range Zone at the Postalm section, Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria) are examined quantitatively for foraminiferal assemblages, especially the planktonic group. This study focuses on establishing a high resolution record spanning an 800 ka long stratigraphic interval...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wolfgring E,Wagreich M

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00