Potential spawn induction and suppression agents in Caribbean Acropora cervicornis corals of the Florida Keys.

abstract：:Seasonality impacts species distributions through changes of the environmental conditions that affect the presence of individuals at a given place. Although the dynamics of cave microclimates are well known, only a few studies have evaluated the effects of such dynamics on non-strictly cave species. Here we assessed i...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lunghi E,Manenti R,Ficetola GF

更新日期：2017-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) colonization, sampled at 32-50 days post-inoculation (dpi), was significantly reduced in suppressor of prosystemin-mediated responses2 (spr2) mutant tomato plants impaired in the ω-3 FATTY ACID DESATURASE7 (FAD7) gene that limits the generation of linolenic acid and, consequently, th...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Casarrubias-Castillo K,Montero-Vargas JM,Dabdoub-González N,Winkler R,Martinez-Gallardo NA,Zañudo-Hernández J,Avilés-Arnaut H,Délano-Frier JP

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrhea is a syndrome of digestive disorders in young rabbits and may lead to secondary infections resulting in reduced immunity and higher mortality in baby rabbits, with serious impacts on rabbit farming. In this study, we investigated the effects of diarrhea on the health of baby rabbits in terms of intestinal muc...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chen Y,Zhao B,Wu Y,Hu S,Mu L,Zhu C,Pan Y,Wu X

更新日期：2017-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human microbiota plays a key role in health and disease, and bacteriocins, which are small, bacterially produced, antimicrobial peptides, are likely to have an important function in the stability and dynamics of this community. Here we examined the density and distribution of the subclass I lantibiotic m...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Walsh CJ,Guinane CM,O' Toole PW,Cotter PD

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. The gram-negative Neisseria is associated with two of the most potent human epidemic diseases: meningococcal meningitis and gonorrhoea. In both cases, disease is caused by bacteria colonizing human mucosal membrane surfaces. Overall, the genus shows great diversity and genetic variation mainly due to its a...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zheng W,Mutha NV,Heydari H,Dutta A,Siow CC,Jakubovics NS,Wee WY,Tan SY,Ang MY,Wong GJ,Choo SW

更新日期：2016-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The family Pseudopimelodidae is widely distributed in South America and includes 51 described species organized in seven genera. Only two of four species of the genus Pseudopimelodus have been recorded for the trans-Andean basins of Colombia, Pseudopimelodus bufonius and P. schultzi, whose similarity in external morph...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Restrepo-Gómez AM,Rangel-Medrano JD,Márquez EJ,Ortega-Lara A

更新日期：2020-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：Background:This study assessed whether serum lipid levels are associated with the risk of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH) and functional outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke after receiving intravenous thrombolysis. Methods:We retrospectively analyzed consecutive ischemic stroke patients who wer...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lin TC,Lin YK,Chen CI,Chan L,Chi NF,Yuan RY,Sheu JJ,Wei CR,Tsai JP,Yeh TH

更新日期：2018-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Staphylococcus aureus is a human colonizer with high potential for virulence, and the spread of the virulent strains from the colonized hosts to non-carriers in the community is on the increase. However, there are few reports on comprehensive analysis of staphylococcal enterotoxin (SE) genes with clonal line...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ayeni FA,Ruppitsch W,Allerberger F

更新日期：2018-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. The ReproQuestionnaire (ReproQ) measures the client's experience with maternity care, following the WHO responsiveness model. In 2015, the ReproQ was appointed as national client experience questionnaire and will be added to the national list of indicators in maternity care. For using the ReproQ in quality...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Scheerhagen M,van Stel HF,Tholhuijsen DJ,Birnie E,Franx A,Bonsel GJ

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of recent parallel outbreaks of the high pathogenicity H5N8 avian flu virus in Europe and in Japan can be traced to a single source population, which has most likely been spread by migratory birds. By using Bayesian coalescent methods to analyze the DNA sequences of the virus to find the times for divergenc...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Dalby AR,Iqbal M

更新日期：2015-04-30 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：:The shifting baseline syndrome describes a gradual lowering of human cognitive baselines, as each generation accepts a lower standard of resource abundance or size as the new norm. There is strong empirical evidence of declining trends of abundance and body sizes of marine fish species reported from docks and markets....

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Francis FT,Howard BR,Berchtold AE,Branch TA,Chaves LCT,Dunic JC,Favaro B,Jeffrey KM,Malpica-Cruz L,Maslowski N,Schultz JA,Smith NS,Côté IM

更新日期：2019-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of population genetic structure in Dissostichus eleginoides have shown that oceanographic and geographic discontinuities drive in this species population differentiation. Studies have focused on the genetics of D. eleginoides in the Southern Ocean; however, there is little knowledge of their genetic v...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Canales-Aguirre CB,Ferrada-Fuentes S,Galleguillos R,Oyarzun FX,Hernández CE

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Begomoviruses are widely distributed and causing devastating diseases in many crops. According to the number of genomic components, a begomovirus is known as either monopartite or bipartite begomovirus. Both the monopartite and bipartite begomoviruses have the DNA-A component which encodes all essential prot...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pei S,Dong R,Bao Y,He RL,Yau SS

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) represent one of the most diverse groups of organisms on Earth; interactions with their host plants have been recognized to play a central role in their remarkable diversity, yet the exact mechanisms and factors still remain poorly understood. Using phylogenetic comparative analyse...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hernández-Vera G,Toševski I,Caldara R,Emerson BC

更新日期：2019-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection and validation of proper distinguishing characters are of crucial importance in taxonomic revisions. The modern classifications of orchids utilize the molecular tools, but still the selection and identification of the material used in these studies is for the most part related to general species morpholo...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jakubska-Busse A,Żołubak E,Łobas Z,Gola EM

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A new Primulina species from Guangdong, China with an unusual inflorescence is described here. Primulina anisocymosa is vegetatively most similar to P. bobaiensis. It can be distinguished from all species within Primulina morphologically by its unique zigzag monochasial cyme and infructescence. To confirm the phylogen...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hong X,Keene J,Qiu ZJ,Wen F

更新日期：2019-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The MYB transcription factor family is one of the largest gene families playing regulatory roles in plant growth and development. The MYB family has been studied in a variety of plant species but has not been reported in Taxus chinensis. Here we identified 72 putative R2R3-MYB genes in T. chinensis using a comprehensi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hu X,Zhang L,Wilson I,Shao F,Qiu D

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:It is assumed that the sequencing of ribosomes better reflects the active microbial community than the sequencing of the ribosomal RNA encoding genes. Yet, many studies exploring microbial communities in various environments, ranging from the human gut to deep oceans, questioned the validity of this paradigm due to th...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Šťovíček A,Cohen-Chalamish S,Gillor O

更新日期：2019-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between different exercise modes and visuospatial working memory in healthy older adults. A cross-sectional design was adopted. A total of 111 healthy older adults were enrolled in the study. They were classified by the exercise-related questionnaire to be i...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Guo W,Wang B,Lu Y,Zhu Q,Shi Z,Ren J

更新日期：2016-07-20 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: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：:The evolution of the modern human (Homo sapiens) cranium is characterized by a reduction in the size of the feeding system, including reductions in the size of the facial skeleton, postcanine teeth, and the muscles involved in biting and chewing. The conventional view hypothesizes that gracilization of the human feedi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ledogar JA,Dechow PC,Wang Q,Gharpure PH,Gordon AD,Baab KL,Smith AL,Weber GW,Grosse IR,Ross CF,Richmond BG,Wright BW,Byron C,Wroe S,Strait DS

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Pterygium results from a variety of biological pathways that are involved in the formation of ocular surface diseases. However, the exact pathogenesis of pterygium is still unclear. Our study focused on gene expression profiles to better understand the potential mechanisms of pterygium. Methods:RNA sequencing ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chen Y,Wang H,Jiang Y,Zhang X,Wang Q

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Guanylurea is the main transformation product of the antidiabetic drug metformin, which is one of the most prescribed pharmaceuticals worldwide. Due to the high rate of microbial degradation of metformin in sewage treatment plants, guanylurea occurs in higher concentrations in surface waters than its parent ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jacob S,Knoll S,Huhn C,Köhler HR,Tisler S,Zwiener C,Triebskorn R

更新日期：2019-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：Background:SHOX mutations have previously been described as causes of Léri-Weill dyschondrosteosis (LWD), Langer mesomelic dysplasia (LMD), and idiopathic short stature. The loss of X chromosome-Turner syndrome or mosaic 45,X/46,XX or 46,XY-also leads to the heterozygous loss of SHOX in patients with short stature only...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Capkova P,Capkova Z,Rohon P,Adamová K,Zapletalova J

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of mobile sensors brings new opportunities to medical research. In particular, mobile electroencephalography (EEG) devices can be potentially used in low cost screening for epilepsy and other neurological and psychiatric disorders. The necessary condition for such applications is thoughtful validation in t...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kutafina E,Brenner A,Titgemeyer Y,Surges R,Jonas S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a semi-empirical (PM6-based) computational method for systematically estimating the effect of all possible single mutants, within a certain radius of the active site, on the barrier height of an enzymatic reaction. The intent of this method is not a quantitative prediction of the barrier heights, but rather...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hediger MR,Steinmann C,De Vico L,Jensen JH

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate community shelter effects of two invasive decapod species, Hemigrapsus sanguineus and Carcinus maenas, in the Long Island Sound (LIS), we deployed artificial shelters in the intertidal and immediate subtidal zones. These consisted of five groups during the summer: a control, a resident H. sanguineus mal...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hudson DM,Reagan D,Crivello JF

更新日期：2016-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Grouping large genomic fragments assembled from shotgun metagenomic sequences to deconvolute complex microbial communities, or metagenome binning, enables the study of individual organisms and their interactions. Because of the complex nature of these communities, existing metagenome binning methods often miss a large...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kang DD,Froula J,Egan R,Wang Z

更新日期：2015-08-27 00:00:00