Ants of the Monomorium monomorium species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Arabian Peninsula with description of a new species from southwestern Saudi Arabia.

abstract：:Healthy, older adults are widely reported to experience cognitive decline, including impairments in inhibitory control. However, this general proposition has recently come under scrutiny because ageing effects are highly variable between individuals, are task dependent, and are sometimes not distinguished from general...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Knox PC,Pasunuru N

更新日期：2020-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increased availability of genome sequences for bacteria, it has become routine practice to construct genome-based phylogenies. These phylogenies have formed the basis for various taxonomic decisions, especially for resolving problematic relationships between taxa. Despite the popularity of concatenating share...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Palmer M,Venter SN,McTaggart AR,Coetzee MPA,Van Wyk S,Avontuur JR,Beukes CW,Fourie G,Santana QC,Van Der Nest MA,Blom J,Steenkamp ET

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：Background:To ensure the safety of trees, two NDT (nondestructive testing) techniques, electric resistance tomography and stress wave tomography, were employed to quantitatively detect and characterize the internal decay of standing trees. Comparisons between those two techniques were done to make full use of the indiv...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yue X,Wang L,Wacker JP,Zhu Z

更新日期：2019-03-05 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：Background:Conserved nucleic acid sequences play an essential role in transcriptional regulation. The motifs/templates derived from nucleic acid sequence datasets are usually used as biomarkers to predict biochemical properties such as protein binding sites or to identify specific non-coding RNAs. In many cases, templa...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Peng H

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Female adders (Vipera berus) are "capital breeders" that exhibit delayed maturity and intermittent reproductive frequency. We studied the attainment of sexual maturity, the initiation of annual breeding in mature females, the energy and mortality costs associated with breeding, the length of the reproductive cycle and...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bauwens D,Claus K

更新日期：2019-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Variation in management across elephant camps likely has differential effects on the well-being of elephants. Methods:This study calculated body condition, foot health and skin wound scores (WSs) for 122 elephants from 15 elephant camps in Chiang Mai province, and examined relationships to management factor...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bansiddhi P,Nganvongpanit K,Brown JL,Punyapornwithaya V,Pongsopawijit P,Thitaram C

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a genetic disorder that is usually caused by disturbed production of collagen type I. Depending on its severity in the patient, this disorder may create difficulties and challenges for the dental practitioner. The goal of this article is to provide guidelines based on scientific evidenc...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rousseau M,Retrouvey JM,Members of the Brittle Bone Disease Consortium.

更新日期：2018-08-17 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：:There has been an increase in the mortality rate and morbidity of kidney cancer (KC) with kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) being the most common subtype of KC. GRAMD1C (GRAM Domain Containing 1C) has not been reported to relate to prognosis and immunotherapy in any cancers. Using bioinformatics methods, we jud...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hao H,Wang Z,Ren S,Shen H,Xian H,Ge W,Wang W

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are among the most widely prescribed class of drugs in the practice of psychiatry. Cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2C19 and CYP2D6 are established as clinically relevant drug metabolizing enzymes (DMEs) that influence the pharmacokinetics of SSRIs and may either be group...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Eugene AR

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial evidence has shown that most exogenous substances are metabolized by multiple cytochrome P450 (P450) enzymes instead of by merely one P450 isoform. Thus, multi-P450 inhibition leads to greater drug-drug interaction risk than specific P450 inhibition. Herein, we innovatively established an artificial neural...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Li Z,Li Y,Sun L,Tang Y,Liu L,Zhu W

更新日期：2015-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the environmental sensitivity of the Black Sea, as a semi-enclosed sea, any subsea oil spill can cause destructive impacts on the marine environment and beaches. Employing numerical modeling as a prediction tool is one of the most efficient methods to understand oil spill behavior under various environmenta...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Korotenko KA

更新日期：2018-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Okinawa is the largest and most populated island of the Ryukyu Archipelago in southern Japan and is renowned for its natural resources and beauty. Similar as to what has been happening in the rest of the country, Okinawa Island has been affected by an increasing amount of development and construction work. The trend h...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Masucci GD,Reimer JD

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. "Health is wealth" is a time tested adage. Health becomes more relevant when it comes to professionals whose job is to provide people with services that maintain an optimum state of mental, physical and social well-being. Healthcare professionals (HCP) differ from general population in regards to the natur...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ahmad W,Taggart F,Shafique MS,Muzafar Y,Abidi S,Ghani N,Malik Z,Zahid T,Waqas A,Ghaffar N

更新日期：2015-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The distribution and use of camphor (Cinnamomum camphora L.) trees are constrained by increasing soil salinity in south-eastern China along the Yangtze River. However, the response mechanism of this species to salinity, especially in team of photosynthesis, are unknown. Methods:Here, we analysed themorpholo...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yue J,Shi D,Zhang L,Zhang Z,Fu Z,Ren Q,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to dominant mode of ecological transition in the evolution of marine mammals, different lineages of toothed whales (Odontoceti) have repeatedly invaded freshwater ecosystems during the Cenozoic era. The so-called 'river dolphins' are now recognized as independent lineages that converged on similar morpholo...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pyenson ND,Vélez-Juarbe J,Gutstein CS,Little H,Vigil D,O'Dea A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrolysis of ATP by Na+/K+-ATPase, a P-Type ATPase, catalyzing active Na+ and K+ transport through cellular membranes leads transiently to a phosphorylation of its catalytical α-subunit. Surprisingly, three-dimensional molecular structure analysis of P-type ATPases reveals that binding of ATP to the N-domain connecte...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tejral G,Sopko B,Necas A,Schoner W,Amler E

更新日期：2017-03-14 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：: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：:Muscle mass loss and wasting are characteristic features of patients with chronic conditions including cancer. Therapeutic options are still scarce. We hypothesized that cachexia-induced muscle oxidative stress may be attenuated in response to treatment with beta2-adrenoceptor-selective agonist formoterol in rats. In ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Salazar-Degracia A,Busquets S,Argilés JM,López-Soriano FJ,Barreiro E

更新日期：2017-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Child undernutrition and flooding are highly prevalent public health issues in many developing countries, yet we have little understanding of preventive strategies for effective coping in these circumstances. Education has been recently highlighted as key to reduce the societal impacts of extreme weather e...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rodriguez-Llanes JM,Ranjan-Dash S,Mukhopadhyay A,Guha-Sapir D

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：Purpose:This study aimed to examine differences between track and field (T&F) runners and foot-orienteers (Foot-O) in the walking and running tests in the absence of vision and hearing. We attempted to determine whether experienced foot orienteers show better ability to maintain the indicated direction compared to trac...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Machowska W,Cych P,Siemieński A,Migasiewicz J

更新日期：2019-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Earthworms enrich the soil and protect the health of their ecological environment. Previous studies on these invertebrates determined their protein content, hormone secretions, medicinal value, and ecological habits, but their whole genomic sequence remains incomplete. We performed whole genome sequencing of Metaphire...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jin F,Zhou Z,Guo Q,Liang Z,Yang R,Jiang J,He Y,Zhao Q,Zhao Q

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. India accounts for 24% to all under-five mortality in the world. Residence in rural area, poverty and low levels of mother's education are known confounders of under-five mortality. Since two-thirds of India's population lives in rural areas, mothers employed in agriculture present a particularly vulnerabl...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Singh R,Tripathi V

更新日期：2015-01-08 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：:Afrotheria is a strongly supported clade within placental mammals, but morphological synapomorphies for the entire group have only recently come to light. Soft tissue characters represent an underutilized source of data for phylogenetic analysis, but nonetheless provide features shared by some or all members of Afroth...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Brocklehurst RJ,Crumpton N,Button E,Asher RJ

更新日期：2016-04-12 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：Background:During a preliminary study, effects of 0, 20, 40, and 60 mM NaCl salinity were assessed on germination rate in relation to electrolyte leakage (EL) in sweet pepper. Results explored significant rises in ethylene evolution from seeds having more EL. It was, therefore, hypothesized that excessive ethylene bios...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ahmed W,Imran M,Yaseen M,Haq TU,Jamshaid MU,Rukh S,Ikram RM,Ali M,Ali A,Maqbool M,Arif M,Khan MA

更新日期：2020-03-27 00:00:00