Occurrence of Terranova larval types (Nematoda: Anisakidae) in Australian marine fish with comments on their specific identities.

abstract：:Following dramatic range and population declines, the cheetah is Africa's most endangered large felid. In Namibia, private land managers still trap cheetahs but increasingly consider moving animals instead of killing them. Across Africa, managers have translocated perceived conflict carnivores for decades, but rarely ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Weise FJ,Lemeris JR Jr,Munro SJ,Bowden A,Venter C,van Vuuren M,van Vuuren RJ

更新日期：2015-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Schemes to reduce road impacts on amphibians have been implemented for decades in Europe, yet, several aspects on the effectiveness of such schemes remain poorly understood. Particularly in northern Europe, including Sweden, there is a lack of available information on road mitigation for amphibians, which is hampering...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Helldin JO,Petrovan SO

更新日期：2019-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing a diverse gut microbiota after birth is being increasingly recognised as important for preventing illnesses later in life. It is well established that bacterial diversity rapidly increases post-partum; however, few studies have examined the infant gut virome/phageome during this developmental period. We p...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： McCann A,Ryan FJ,Stockdale SR,Dalmasso M,Blake T,Ryan CA,Stanton C,Mills S,Ross PR,Hill C

更新日期：2018-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated pollution levels in water and sediments of Península de Paraguaná and related these levels with benthic macrofauna along a coastal area where the largest Venezuelan oil refineries have operated over the past 60 years. For this, the concentration of heavy metals, of hydrocarbon compounds and the co...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Croquer A,Bone D,Bastidas C,Ramos R,García E

更新日期：2016-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:It can be challenging to identify scleractinian corals from the genus Pocillopora Lamarck 1816 in the field because of their large range of inter- and intra-specific morphological variation that co-occur with changes in the physical environment. This task is made more arduous in the context of a depth gradient, where ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： De Palmas S,Soto D,Denis V,Ho MJ,Chen CA

更新日期：2018-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：Aim:We aimed to translate and cross-culturally adapt the International Knee Documentation Committee-subjective knee form (IKDC) in Romanian. Method:The original (US) IKDC-subjective knee form was translated according to recommended guidelines. Validity was tested using Spearmans's correlation coefficient between score...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Todor A,Vermesan D,Haragus H,Patrascu JM Jr,Timar B,Cosma DI

更新日期：2020-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of low-mobility or benthic fisheries is a difficult task because variation in the spatial distribution and population dynamics of the resources make the monitoring and assessment of these fisheries challenging. We assumed that environmental, spatial, and temporal factors can contribute to the variability of...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Murillo-Posada JC,Salas S,Velázquez-Abunader I

更新日期：2019-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several recent studies have shown that total scores on depressive symptom measures in a general population approximate an exponential pattern except for the lower end of the distribution. Furthermore, we confirmed that the exponential pattern is present for the individual item responses on the Center for Epi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tomitaka S,Kawasaki Y,Ide K,Akutagawa M,Yamada H,Yutaka O,Furukawa TA

更新日期：2017-02-09 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：:The ability to accurately identify and label emotions in the self and others is crucial for successful social interactions and good mental health. In the current study we tested the longitudinal relationship between early language skills and recognition of facial and vocal emotion cues in a representative UK populatio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Griffiths S,Goh SKY,Norbury CF,the SCALES team.

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A strong argument can be made that the European Union has the most rigorous regulatory system for pesticides in the world, and that modern pesticide use poses fewer environmental threats than older regimes. Nevertheless, the impacts of pesticides on bees and other non-target organisms are much debated in Europe as els...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Goulson D,Thompson J,Croombs A

更新日期：2018-07-19 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:Amoebiasis is the third most common parasitic cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in countries with poor hygienic settings. There exists an ambiguity in the diagnosis of amoebiasis, and hence there arises a necessity for a better diagnostic approach. Serine-rich Entamoeba histolyticaprotein (SREHP...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Manochitra K,Parija SC

更新日期：2017-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The threatened status (both ecologically and legally) of Caribbean staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis, has prompted rapidly expanding efforts in culture and restocking, although tissue loss diseases continue to affect populations. In this study, disease surveillance and histopathological characterization were used t...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Miller MW,Lohr KE,Cameron CM,Williams DE,Peters EC

更新日期：2014-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Recent studies have determined that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are potential prognostic biomarkers for non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs). The purpose of this study was to analyze the function and associated pathways of zinc finger protein multitype 2 antisense RNA 1 (ZFPM2-AS1) in NSCLC cells. Methods:W...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wang X,Tang J,Zhao J,Lou B,Li L

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Due to intensive sluice construction and other human disturbances, lakeshore vegetation has been destroyed and ecosystems greatly changed. Rhizospheric microbiota constitute a key part of a functioning rhizosphere ecosystem. Maintaining rhizosphere microbial diversity is a central, critical issue for sustain...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang X,Wang H,Li Z,Xie J,Ni J

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The spread of maize cultivation to the highlands of central Mexico was accompanied by substantial introgression from the endemic wild teosinte Zea mays ssp. mexicana, prompting the hypothesis that the transfer of beneficial variation facilitated local adaptation. Methods:We used whole-genome sequence data t...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gonzalez-Segovia E,Pérez-Limon S,Cíntora-Martínez GC,Guerrero-Zavala A,Janzen GM,Hufford MB,Ross-Ibarra J,Sawers RJH

更新日期：2019-05-03 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：:Synaptic exocytosis requires the assembly of syntaxin 1A and SNAP-25 on the plasma membrane and synaptobrevin 2 (VAMP2) on the vesicular membrane to bridge the two opposite membranes. It is believed that the three SNARE proteins assemble in steps along the dynamic assembly pathway. The C-terminus of SNAP-25 is known t...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lu B

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The expansion of moose into southern British Columbia caused the decline and extirpation of woodland caribou due to their shared predators, a process commonly referred to as apparent competition. Using an adaptive management experiment, we tested the hypothesis that reducing moose to historic levels would reduce appar...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Serrouya R,McLellan BN,van Oort H,Mowat G,Boutin S

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Supertree methods enable the reconstruction of large phylogenies. The supertree problem can be formalized in different ways in order to cope with contradictory information in the input. Some supertree methods are based on encoding the input trees in a matrix; other methods try to find minimum cuts in some graph. Recen...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Fleischauer M,Böcker S

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Müller glia in the zebrafish retina respond to retinal damage by re-entering the cell cycle, which generates large numbers of retinal progenitors that ultimately replace the lost neurons. In this study we compared the regenerative outcomes of adult zebrafish exposed to one round of phototoxic treatment with adult zebr...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ranski AH,Kramer AC,Morgan GW,Perez JL,Thummel R

更新日期：2018-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：Background:This study postulates that underlying environmental conditions and a susceptible population's socio-economic status should be explored simultaneously to adequately understand a vector borne disease infection risk. Here we focus on West Nile Virus (WNV), a mosquito borne pathogen, as a case study for spatial ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kala AK,Atkinson SF,Tiwari C

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Somali Sengi or Somali Elephant-shrew ('Elephantulus' revoilii, Macroscelidea, Mammalia) has been considered a "lost species" and is primarily known from about 39 museum specimens, with no new vouchered occurrence records since the early 1970s. The scientific literature contains no data concerning living Somali Se...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Heritage S,Rayaleh H,Awaleh DG,Rathbun GB

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual differences in size and shape are common across the animal kingdom. The study of sexual dimorphism (SD) can provide insight into the sexual- and natural-selection pressures experienced by males and females in different species. Arachnids are diverse, comprising over 100,000 species, and exhibit some of the more...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： McLean CJ,Garwood RJ,Brassey CA

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quercus infectoria G. Olivier (Fagaceae) nutgalls have been widely employed in traditional Asian medicine for several treatments, especially wounds and skin disorders. However, the effects of this plant on wound healing have not yet been clearly elucidated. This present work was focused on utilization of Que...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chokpaisarn J,Chusri S,Amnuaikit T,Udomuksorn W,Voravuthikunchai SP

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) method, typically used for polytomous logistic regression, is prone to bias due to both misclassification in outcome and contamination in the design matrix. Hence, robust estimators are needed. In this study, we propose such a method for nominal response data with continuous cov...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wang X

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent climatic history has strongly impacted plant populations, but little is known about its effect on microbes. Alders, which host few and specific symbionts, have high genetic diversity in glacial refugia. Here, we tested the prediction that communities of root symbionts survived in refugia with their ho...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Roy M,Pozzi AC,Gareil R,Nagati M,Manzi S,Nouioui I,Sharikadze N,Jargeat P,Gryta H,Moreau PA,Fernandez MP,Gardes M

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Pico and nanoplankton communities from the Southwest Atlantic Ocean along the Brazilian Bight are poorly described. The hydrography in this region is dominated by a complex system of layered water masses, which includes the warm and oligotrophic Tropical Water (TW), the cold and nutrient rich South Atlantic Central Wa...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gérikas Ribeiro C,Lopes Dos Santos A,Marie D,Helena Pellizari V,Pereira Brandini F,Vaulot D

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The cryptic species that make up the Euwallacea fornicatus species complex can be readily distinguished via their DNA sequences. Until recently, it was believed that the Hawaiian Islands had been invaded by only one of these cryptic species, E. perbrevis (tea shot hole borer; TSHB). However, following the 2016 deposit...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rugman-Jones PF,Au M,Ebrahimi V,Eskalen A,Gillett CPDT,Honsberger D,Husein D,Wright MG,Yousuf F,Stouthamer R

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00