Leaf arrangements are invalid in the taxonomy of orchid species.

abstract：Background:Plums are a kind of stone fruit, a category that includes peaches, cherries, apricots, and almonds. In Korea, Japanese plum trees are usually cultivated as they best suit the climate. To date, there have been few studies in Korea on viruses infecting plum trees compared to those infecting peach trees. Metho...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jo Y,Choi H,Lian S,Cho JK,Chu H,Cho WK

更新日期：2020-07-29 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：:Background. Eucryptodiran turtles from the Late Jurassic (mainly Kimmeridgian) deposits of the Jura Mountains (Switzerland and France) are among the earliest named species traditionally referred to the Plesiochelyidae, Thalassemydidae, and Eurysternidae. As such, they are a reference for the study of Late Jurassic euc...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Anquetin J,Püntener C,Billon-Bruyat JP

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil moisture content (SMC) is an important factor that affects agricultural development in arid regions. Compared with the space-borne remote sensing system, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been widely used because of its stronger controllability and higher resolution. It also provides a more convenient method ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ge X,Wang J,Ding J,Cao X,Zhang Z,Liu J,Li X

更新日期：2019-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Purple Broccoli (Brassica oleracea L. var italica) attracts growing attention as a functional food. Its purple coloration is due to high anthocyanin amounts. Light represents a critical parameter affecting anthocyanins biosynthesis. In this study, 'Purple Broccoli', a light-responding pigmentation cultivar, was assess...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liu C,Yao X,Li G,Huang L,Xie Z

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is one of the most common malignant tumors in the world, and it has become the leading cause of death of malignant tumors. However, its mechanisms are not fully clear. The aim of this study is to investigate the key genes and explore their potential mechanisms involving in ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang L,Peng R,Sun Y,Wang J,Chong X,Zhang Z

更新日期：2019-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of low-volume high-intensity interval training and continuous low to moderate intensity training on quality of life, functional capacity and cardiovascular disease risk factors in cancer survivors. METHODS:Cancer survivors within 24 months post-diagnosis were r...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Toohey K,Pumpa KL,Arnolda L,Cooke J,Yip D,Craft PS,Semple S

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Wildlife biologists often use grid-based designs to sample animals and generate abundance estimates. Although sampling in grids is theoretically sound, in application, the method can be logistically difficult and expensive when sampling elusive species inhabiting extensive areas. These factors make it challenging to s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Harris G,Farley S,Russell GJ,Butler MJ,Selinger J

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The species of poorly known but charismatic genera Haematodes Laporte, 1835 and Weiserianum Bernhauer, 1927 are revised. Weiserianumsyn. nov. is considered a junior synonym of Haematodes, with Haematodes kuntzeni (Scheerpeltz, 1936) comb. nov.Weiserianum woltersi Bernhauer, 1927 syn. nov. is treated as a synonym of Ha...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Brunke AJ,Chatzimanolis S

更新日期：2018-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the effects of Clostridium butyricum as a dietary probiotic supplement in fishmeal based diet on growth, gut microbiota and immune performance of marron (Cherax cainii). Marron were randomly distributed into two different treatment groups, control and probiotic fed group. After 42 days ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Foysal MJ,Nguyen TTT,Chaklader MR,Siddik MAB,Tay CY,Fotedar R,Gupta SK

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Metoposaurids are representatives of the extinct amphibian clade Temnospondyli, found on almost every continent exclusively in the Late Triassic deposits. Osteohistologically, it is one of the best-known temnospondyl groups, analyzed with a wide spectrum of methods, such as morphology, morphometry, bone histology or c...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Teschner EM,Chakravorti S,Sengupta DP,Konietzko-Meier D

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Trees in the Morus genera belong to the Moraceae family. To better understand the species status of genus Morus and to provide information for studies on evolutionary biology within the genus, the complete chloroplast (cp) genomes of M. cathayana and M. multicaulis were sequenced. The plastomes of the two species are ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kong WQ,Yang JH

更新日期：2017-03-08 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：Background:This study sought to better understand the psychometric properties of the SARC-F, by examining the baseline and training-related relationships between the five SARC-F items and objective measures of muscle function. Each of the five items of the SARC-F are scored from 0 to 2, with total score of four or more...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Keogh JWL,Henwood T,Gardiner PA,Tuckett AG,Hetherington S,Rouse K,Swinton P

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, is one of the most serious citrus pests worldwide due to its role as vector of huanglongbing or citrus greening disease. While some optimal plant species for ACP oviposition and development have been identified, little is known of the influence of host plants ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Paris TM,Allan SA,Hall DG,Hentz MG,Hetesy G,Stansly PA

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost all extant testudinids are highly associated with terrestrial habitats and the few tortoises with high affinity to aquatic environments are found within the genus Manouria. Manouria belongs to a clade which forms a sister taxon to all remaining tortoises and is suitable as a model for studying evolutionary tran...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Natchev N,Tzankov N,Werneburg I,Heiss E

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplasts are typically inherited from the female parent and are haploid in most angiosperms, but rare intra-individual heteroplasmy in plastid genomes has been reported in plants. Here, we report an example of plastome heteroplasmy and its characteristics in Gentiana tongolensis (Gentianaceae). The plastid genome ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sun SS,Zhou XJ,Li ZZ,Song HY,Long ZC,Fu PC

更新日期：2019-11-27 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：BACKGROUND:The present study investigated differences in reading and spelling outcomes in Dutch and English as a second language (ESL) in adolescents with a high familial risk of dyslexia, of whom some have developed dyslexia (HRDys) while others have not (HRnonDys), in comparison to a low familial risk control group w...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： van Setten ERH,Tops W,Hakvoort BE,van der Leij A,Maurits NM,Maassen BAM

更新日期：2017-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Molt summary tables reveal the sequence and mode of flight-feather replacement and how these feathers are divided into independent replacement series. Tables for summarizing molt are relatively new, and the rules for generating them were first formally illustrated using data from a temperate passerine. However, this f...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rohwer S,Rohwer VG

更新日期：2018-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Pollinators, which provide the agriculturally and ecologically essential service of pollination, are under threat at a global scale. Habitat loss and homogenisation, pesticides, parasites and pathogens, invasive species, and climate change have been identified as past and current threats to pollinators. Ac...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Brown MJ,Dicks LV,Paxton RJ,Baldock KC,Barron AB,Chauzat MP,Freitas BM,Goulson D,Jepsen S,Kremen C,Li J,Neumann P,Pattemore DE,Potts SG,Schweiger O,Seymour CL,Stout JC

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：Background:RNA sequencing is an indispensable research tool used in a broad range of transcriptome analysis studies. The most common application of RNA Sequencing is differential expression analysis and it is used to determine genetic loci with distinct expression across different conditions. An emerging field called s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Dimitrov D,Gu Q

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Solanum lycopersicum, belonging to Solanaceae, is one of the commonly used model plants. The GRAS genes are transcriptional regulators, which play a significant role in plant growth and development, and the functions of several GRAS genes have been recognized, such as, axillary shoot meristem formation, radial root pa...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Niu Y,Zhao T,Xu X,Li J

更新日期：2017-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Among Buddhist or Taoist Taiwanese residents, burning incense is a common source of indoor particulate matter (PM), including PM10 and PM2.5, and can adversely affect the health status of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD). However, few studies have focused on the effects of intermit...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Guo SE,Chi MC,Lin CM,Yang TM

更新日期：2020-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In summer 2012, we initiated a large-scale field experiment in southern Ontario, Canada, to determine whether exposure to clothianidin seed-treated canola (oil seed rape) has any adverse impacts on honey bees. Colonies were placed in clothianidin seed-treated or control canola fields during bloom, and thereafter were ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cutler GC,Scott-Dupree CD,Sultan M,McFarlane AD,Brewer L

更新日期：2014-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aspergillus niger, along with many other lignocellulolytic fungi, has been widely used as a commercial workhorse for cellulase production. A fungal cellulase system generally includes three major classes of enzymes i.e., β-glucosidases, endoglucanases and cellobiohydrolases. Cellobiohydrolases (CBH) are vita...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Woon JS,Mackeen MM,Illias RM,Mahadi NM,Broughton WJ,Murad AMA,Abu Bakar FD

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A new genus with a new species of the tribe Hoplocampini of Hoplocampinae was described from China: Analcellicampa xanthosoma Wei & Niu, gen. et sp. nov.Hoplocampa danfengensis G. Xiao 1994 was designated as the type species of the new genus. The characters of Analcellicampa danfengensis (G. Xiao) comb. nov. were brie...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Niu G,Zhang Y,Li Z,Wei M

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural variants (SVs) are an important class of genetic variation implicated in a wide array of genetic diseases including cancer. Despite the advances in whole genome sequencing, comprehensive and accurate detection of SVs in short-read data still poses some practical and computational challenges. We present sv-c...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kuzniar A,Maassen J,Verhoeven S,Santuari L,Shneider C,Kloosterman WP,de Ridder J

更新日期：2020-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Current and future changes in rainfall amount and frequency may particularly impact annual plants in desert ecosystems. The winter annual Echinops gmelinii Turcz. is widely distributed in the desert habitats of northern China and is a dominant pioneer annual plant following sand stabilization in the Tengger ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wang Y,Li X,Liu L,Zhao J,Sun J

更新日期：2019-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new iguanodontian ornithopod, Choyrodon barsboldi gen. et sp. nov. from the Albian-aged Khuren Dukh Formation of Mongolia based on several partial skeletons interpreted to represent a subadult growth stage based on osteohistological features. This new taxon is diagnosed by many autapomorphies of the maxi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gates TA,Tsogtbaatar K,Zanno LE,Chinzorig T,Watabe M

更新日期：2018-08-03 00:00:00