Variance component testing for identifying differentially expressed genes in RNA-seq data.

abstract：:The taxon Beloniformes represents a heterogeneous group of teleost fishes that show an extraordinary diversity of jaw morphology. I present new anatomical descriptions of the jaw musculature in six selected beloniforms and four closely related species. A reduction of the external jaw adductor (A1) and a changed morpho...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Werneburg I

更新日期：2015-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a new supertree method that enables rapid estimation of a summary tree on the scale of millions of leaves. This supertree method summarizes a collection of input phylogenies and an input taxonomy. We introduce formal goals and criteria for such a supertree to satisfy in order to transparently and justifiabl...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Redelings BD,Holder MT

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Pandi's mushroom-tongue salamander (Bolitoglossa pandi) is one of the threatened amphibians in South America, as well as a flagship species for the Colombian conservation agenda. This species is endemic to the Andean cloud forests of the western slope of the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia, occurring only in...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Angarita-Sierra T,Bonilla-Gómez MA,Sánchez DA,Acosta-Galvis AR,Medina-Ovalle H,Solano-Moreno A,Ulloa-Rengifo S,Guevara-Guevara D,Torres-Ramirez JJ,Curaca-Fierro S,Cabrera-Amaya DM,Infante-Betancour JA,Londoño-Montaño LF,Albarán

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:There is much literature devoted to the problem of drug resistance and decreased susceptibility of fungi to commonly used antifungals. AIM:To analyze drug susceptibility of Candida albicans and non-Candida albicans strains isolated from the hands of people without any symptoms of disease over a 16-year pe...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Łukaszuk C,Krajewska-Kułak E,Kułak W

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Garden Warblers Sylvia borin were studied during autumn stopover in Crete before crossing the barrier of the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara Desert. Birds followed with transmitters show extensive stopover periods, which were longer in first-year birds, 16 days, compared with adult birds, 14 days. The distribution of...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Barboutis C,Henshaw I,Kullberg C,Nikolopoulou S,Fransson T

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Geriatric syndromes (GS) exhibit high prevalence in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) under chronic dialysis irrespective of age. We sought to determine whether GS influences medication adherence in ESRD patients. Methods. A prospective cohort of chronic dialysis patients was assembled. The pres...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chao CT,Huang JW,COGENT (COhort of GEriatric Nephrology in NTUH) study group.

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is a common cancer in the oral salivary gland malignancy, which mainly occurs in the parotid gland. The aim of this study is to identify independent prognostic factors and establish a nomogram model for parotid gland mucoepidermoid carcinoma (P-MEC) patients using the National ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sun J,Sun Y,Yang F,Zhou Q,Liu W,Cheng Y,Wu X,Chen T,Li R,Huang B,Att W,Yu Y,Bi W

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：:The Hydroporus memnonius species group includes both widespread and range restricted diving beetle taxa in the western Palaearctic, some of which have been divided into a number of geographical subspecies. Of these, Hydroporus necopinatus is distributed in the far west of Europe, from central Spain to southern Britain...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bilton DT,Turner L,Foster GN

更新日期：2017-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：Background:During their long evolution, Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 developed a remarkable capacity to acclimate to diverse environmental conditions. In this study, Raman spectroscopy and Raman chemometrics tools (RametrixTM) were employed to investigate the phenotypic changes in response to external stressors and correl...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tanniche I,Collakova E,Denbow C,Senger RS

更新日期：2020-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation into highly-structured amyloid fibrils is linked to several neurodegenerative diseases. Such fibril formation by superoxide dismutase I (SOD1) is considered to be related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a late-onset and fatal disorder. Despite much effort and the discovery of numerous anti-amyloi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Musteikyte G,Ziaunys M,Smirnovas V

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Live trapping is a common tool used to assess demography of small mammals. However, live-trapping is often expensive and stressful to captured individuals. Thus, assessing the relative tradeoffs among study goals, project expenses, and animal well-being is necessary. Here, we evaluated how apparent bias and precision ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Weldy MJ,Wilson TM,Lesmeister DB,Epps CW

更新日期：2019-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Partible paternity refers to the conception belief that children can have multiple fathers ("co-fathers") and is common to indigenous cultures of lowland South America. The nature of social relationships observed between co-fathers reveals information about the reproductive strategies underlying partible paternity. He...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Walker RS,Yvinec C,Ellsworth RM,Bailey DH

更新日期：2015-04-14 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：Objective:The N-methyl-D-aspartate subtype glutamate receptor antagonist ketamine has rapid antidepressant and antisuicidal effects in treating treatment-resistant bipolar depression (TRBD). The neurocognitive effects of repeated ketamine infusions in TRBD are not known. Methods:Six intravenous infusions of ketamine (...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zheng W,Zhou YL,Wang CY,Lan XF,Zhang B,Yang MZ,Nie S,Ning YP

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The Mountain Pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus) is a critically endangered marsupial, endemic to alpine regions of southern Australia. We investigated the diet of a recently discovered population of the possum in northern Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, Australia. This new population occurs at elevations well bel...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hawke T,Bates H,Hand S,Archer M,Broome L

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities in mitochondrial function have previously been shown in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients, implying that mitochondrial dysfunction may contribute to the pathogenesis of disease. This study builds on previous work showing that mitochondrial respiratory parameters are impaired in whole cells from CFS...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tomas C,Brown AE,Newton JL,Elson JL

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold-water corals provide an important habitat for a rich fauna along the continental margins and slopes. Although these azooxanthellate corals are considered particularly sensitive to ocean acidification, their responses to natural variations in pH and aragonite saturation are largely unknown due to the difficulty of...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Fillinger L,Richter C

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In a number of recent studies we used computer modeling to investigate the evolution of muscle leverage (moment arms) and function in extant and extinct archosaur lineages (crocodilians, dinosaurs including birds and pterosaurs). These studies sought to quantify the level of disparity and convergence in muscle moment ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bates K,Maidment SC,Schachner ER,Barrett PM

更新日期：2015-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has shown that odorants consistently evoke associations with textures and their tactile properties like smoothness and roughness. Also, it has been observed that olfaction can modulate tactile perception. We therefore hypothesized that tactile roughness perception may be biased towards the somatosens...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Koijck LA,Toet A,Van Erp JB

更新日期：2015-05-12 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：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: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：:The structural and material properties of insect cuticle remain largely unexplored, even though they comprise the majority (approximately 80%) of animals. Insect cuticle serves many functions, including protection against predatory attacks, which is especially beneficial to species failing to employ effective running ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Clark AJ,Triblehorn JD

更新日期：2014-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the synthesis of 30 years of multidisciplinary studies, parthenogenetic species of rock lizards of genus Darevskia were formed as a result of different combination patterns of interspecific hybridization of the four bisexual parental species: Darevskia raddei, D. mixta, D. valentini, and D. portschinskii....

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Spangenberg V,Arakelyan M,Galoyan E,Pankin M,Petrosyan R,Stepanyan I,Grishaeva T,Danielyan F,Kolomiets O

更新日期：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal thyroid hormones (THs) are known to be crucial in embryonic development in humans, but their influence on other, especially wild, animals remains poorly understood. So far, the studies that experimentally investigated the consequences of maternal THs focused on short-term effects, while early organisational e...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sarraude T,Hsu BY,Groothuis T,Ruuskanen S

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We documented significantly increasing trends in atmospheric loading of ammonium (NH4) and nitrate/nitrite (NO2/3) and decreasing trends in total phosphorus (P) and sulfate (SO4) to Flathead Lake, Montana, from 1985 to 2004. Atmospheric loading of NO2/3 and NH4 increased by 48 and 198% and total P and SO4 decreased by...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ellis BK,Craft JA,Stanford JA

更新日期：2015-03-19 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：:Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) populations have experienced dramatic declines since the mid-19th century along the southern portion of the species range, leading citizen groups to petition the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to list the species as endangered in the contiguous US. While there remai...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hart CJ,Kelly RP,Pearson SF

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Four species of true crocodile (genus Crocodylus) have been described from the Americas. Three of these crocodile species exhibit non-overlapping distributions-Crocodylus intermedius in South America, C. moreletii along the Caribbean coast of Mesoamerica, and C. rhombifer confined to Cuba. The fourth, C. acutus, is na...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Milián-García Y,Russello MA,Castellanos-Labarcena J,Cichon M,Kumar V,Espinosa G,Rossi N,Mazzotti F,Hekkala E,Amato G,Janke A

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00