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

abstract：:Tandem-repeat protein domains, composed of repeated units of conserved stretches of 20-40 amino acids, are required for a wide array of biological functions. Despite their diverse and fundamental functions, there has been no comprehensive assessment of their taxonomic distribution, incidence, and associations with org...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jernigan KK,Bordenstein SR

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcl-2 (B-cell lymphoma 2) protein is localized in the outer membrane of mitochondria, where it plays an important role in promoting cellular survival and inhibiting the actions of pro-apoptotic proteins. PRDM10 is a member of the PR/SET family of epigenetic regulators and may play a role in development and cell differ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chen N,Hu T,Gui Y,Gao J,Li Z,Huang S

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Motile cryptofauna inhabiting coral reefs are complex assemblages that utilize the space available among dead coral stands and the surrounding coral rubble substrate. They comprise a group of organisms largely overlooked in biodiversity estimates because they are hard to collect and identify, and their collection caus...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Monroy-Velázquez LV,Rodríguez-Martínez RE,Blanchon P,Alvarez F

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutant form GGBP/H152C of the D-glucose/D-galactose-binding protein with the solvatochromic dye BADAN linked to cysteine residue Cys 152 can be used as a potential base for a sensitive element of glucose biosensor system. We investigated the influence of various external factors on the physical-chemical properties...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Fonin AV,Stepanenko OV,Povarova OI,Volova CA,Philippova EM,Bublikov GS,Kuznetsova IM,Demchenko AP,Turoverov KK

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mega-journals are a new kind of scholarly journal made possible by electronic publishing. They are open access (OA) and funded by charges, which authors pay for the publishing services. What distinguishes mega-journals from other OA journals is, in particular, a peer review focusing only on scientific trustworthiness....

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Björk BC

更新日期：2018-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The practice of feeding of diets containing raw animal products (RAP) to pets (dogs and cats) is discouraged by veterinary organizations and governmental public health organizations. Nevertheless, the practice of feeding RAP to pets is increasing in popularity. Pet owner motivations for feeding RAP diets to ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Morgan SK,Willis S,Shepherd ML

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Proper glycemic control is an important goal of critical care medicine, including perioperative patient care that can influence patients' prognosis. Insulin secretion from pancreatic β-cells is generally assumed to play a critical role in glycemic control in response to an elevated blood glucose concentratio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kusunoki M,Hayashi M,Shoji T,Uba T,Tanaka H,Sumi C,Matsuo Y,Hirota K

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Banteng (Bos javanicus d'Alton 1823) are an endangered species, highly sensitive to habitat structure and quality. In many areas, banteng were extinct and needed to be reintroduced to restore their population. Thus, understanding the responses of body condition of reintroduced banteng to their habitat was im...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kongsurakan P,Chaiyarat R,Nakbun S,Thongthip N,Anuracpreeda P

更新日期：2020-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This article aimed to give the visibility of Latin American researchers' contributions to the comprehension of COVID-19; our method was a literature review. Currently, the world is facing a health and socioeconomic crisis caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and its disease COVID-19. Therefore, in less than 4 ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Fiesco-Sepúlveda KY,Serrano-Bermúdez LM

更新日期：2020-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of the processionary moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775), a forest pest from the Palearctic, are thought to induce a behavioral response of bats, but up to now the moth has been seldom identified as bats' prey. Studies on bat diets suggest moths with cyclical outbreaks attract a wide ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Garin I,Aihartza J,Goiti U,Arrizabalaga-Escudero A,Nogueras J,Ibáñez C

更新日期：2019-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses encoding a replication-associated protein (Rep) within a covalently closed, single-stranded (ss)DNA genome are among the smallest viruses known to infect eukaryotic organisms, including economically valuable agricultural crops and livestock. Although circular Rep-encoding ssDNA (CRESS DNA) viruses are a widesp...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rosario K,Mettel KA,Benner BE,Johnson R,Scott C,Yusseff-Vanegas SZ,Baker CCM,Cassill DL,Storer C,Varsani A,Breitbart M

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The Chinese Natural Forest Protection program has been conducted nationwide and has achieved resounding success. However, timber importation has increased; therefore, producing more domestic timber is critical to meet the demand for raw materials. Fertilization is one of the most effective silviculture pract...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hou L,Dong Z,Yang Y,Zhang D,Zhang S,Zhang S

更新日期：2018-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the major locomotor transitions during the evolution of Archosauria, the lineage including crocodiles and birds as well as extinct Dinosauria, were shifts from quadrupedalism to bipedalism (and vice versa). Those occurred within a continuum between more sprawling and erect modes of locomotion and involved dras...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Otero A,Allen V,Pol D,Hutchinson JR

更新日期：2017-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Coastal habitats in Chile are hypothesized to support a number of diadromous fish species. The objective of this study was to document migratory life histories of native galaxiids and introduced salmonids from a wide latitudinal range in Chilean Patagonia (39-48°S). Otolith microchemistry data were analysed using a re...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Alò D,Correa C,Samaniego H,Krabbenhoft CA,Turner TF

更新日期：2019-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated population dynamics, breeding pairs, breeding habitat selection, nest density, distance between neighboring nests, nest survival, reproductive success, and recruitment rate for Black-necked Cranes (BNC, Grus nigricollis) during 2013-2015 in Yanchiwan National Nature Reserve (YCW), Gansu, China. Numbers...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang L,An B,Shu M,Yang X

更新日期：2017-01-31 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：:Synechocystis gathered momentum in modelling studies and biotechnological applications owing to multiple factors like fast growth, ability to fix carbon dioxide into valuable products, and the relative ease of genetic manipulation. Synechocystis physiology and metabolism, and consequently, the productivity of Synechoc...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cordara A,Re A,Pagliano C,Van Alphen P,Pirone R,Saracco G,Branco Dos Santos F,Hellingwerf K,Vasile N

更新日期：2018-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Species distribution models (SDMs) have become an essential tool in ecology, biogeography, evolution and, more recently, in conservation biology. How to generalize species distributions in large undersampled areas, especially with few samples, is a fundamental issue of SDMs. In order to explore this issue, we used the...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mi C,Huettmann F,Guo Y,Han X,Wen L

更新日期：2017-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioluminescent reporter genes, such as those from fireflies and bacteria, let researchers use light production as a non-invasive and non-destructive surrogate measure of microbial numbers in a wide variety of environments. As bioluminescence needs microbial metabolites, tagging microorganisms with luciferases means on...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Read HM,Mills G,Johnson S,Tsai P,Dalton J,Barquist L,Print CG,Patrick WM,Wiles S

更新日期：2016-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:White-handed gibbons produce loud and acoustically complex songs when interacting with their neighbours or when encountering predators. In both contexts, songs are assembled from a small number of units although their composition differs in context-specific ways. Here, we investigated whether wild gibbons could infer ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Andrieu J,Penny SG,Bouchet H,Malaivijitnond S,Reichard UH,Zuberbühler K

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of glial cells in pain modulation has recently gathered attention. The objective of this study was to determine healthy spinal microglia and astrocyte morphology and disposition in equine spinal cord dorsal horns using Iba-1 and GFAP/Cx-43 immunofluorescence labeling, respectively. Five adult horses without v...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Meneses CS,Müller HY,Herzberg DE,Uberti B,Bustamante HA,Werner MP

更新日期：2017-10-27 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：:The loss of roost sites is one of the major drivers of the worldwide decline in bat populations and roost site preferences, either natural or artificially provided, are not well known for African bat species specifically. In this study we focus on the preference for different artificial roost sites by insectivorous ba...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Weier SM,Linden VMG,Grass I,Tscharntke T,Taylor PJ

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian pelvis is thought to exhibit adaptations to the functional demands of locomotor behaviors. Previous work in primates has identified form-function relationships between pelvic shape and locomotor behavior; few studies have documented such relationships in carnivorans, instead focusing on long bones. Most ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lewton KL,Brankovic R,Byrd WA,Cruz D,Morales J,Shin S

更新日期：2020-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, numerous studies have observed changes in bird vocalizations-especially song-in urban habitats. These changes are often interpreted as adaptive, since they increase the active space of the signal in its environment. However, the proximate mechanisms driving cross-generational changes in song are still unknow...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Potvin DA,Curcio MT,Swaddle JP,MacDougall-Shackleton SA

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Modern advances in sequencing technology have enabled the census of microbial members of many natural ecosystems. Recently, attention is increasingly being paid to the microbial residents of human-made, built ecosystems, both private (homes) and public (subways, office buildings, and hospitals). Here, we rep...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lang JM,Coil DA,Neches RY,Brown WE,Cavalier D,Severance M,Hampton-Marcell JT,Gilbert JA,Eisen JA

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we sequenced the genome of Pandoraea pnomenusa RB38 using Pacific Biosciences RSII (PacBio) Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT) sequencing technology. A pair of cognate luxI/R homologs was identified where the luxI homolog, ppnI, was found adjacent to a luxR homolog, ppnR1. An additional orphan luxR homolo...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lim YL,Ee R,How KY,Lee SK,Yong D,Tee KK,Yin WF,Chan KG

更新日期：2015-08-27 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：:The Eocene history of cetacean evolution is now represented by the expansive fossil record of archaeocetes elucidating major morphofunctional shifts relating to the land to sea transition, but the change from archaeocetes to modern cetaceans is poorly established. New fossil material of the recently recognized family ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Boessenecker RW,Fordyce RE

更新日期：2015-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the impact of simulated global change on a high alpine meadow plant community. Specifically, we examined whether short-term (5 years) responses are good predictors for medium-term (7 years) changes in the system by applying a factorial warming and nutrient manipulation to 20 plots in Latnjajaure, subarctic ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Alatalo JM,Little CJ,Jägerbrand AK,Molau U

更新日期：2014-05-22 00:00:00