Genome rearrangements and phylogeny reconstruction in Yersinia pestis.

abstract：:This article describes or redescribes four hexactinellid sponges, namely Poliopogon amadou, Euplectella sanctipauli sp. nov., Bolosoma perezi sp. nov. and Advhena magnifica gen. et sp. nov. P. amadou, E. sanctipauli sp. nov. and B. perezi sp. nov. represent new findings for the South Atlantic deep-sea fauna, including...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Castello-Branco C,Collins AG,Hajdu E

更新日期：2020-07-09 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：Background:Silkworm pupae is the main by-product of the sericulture industry with an interesting nutritional profile, especially in terms of proteins. In consideration of its possible use as a food or food ingredient in Western countries, a comparative proteomic experiment has been performed to investigate the differen...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lamberti C,Gai F,Cirrincione S,Giribaldi M,Purrotti M,Manfredi M,Marengo E,Sicuro B,Saviane A,Cappellozza S,Giuffrida MG,Cavallarin L

更新日期：2019-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Dengue is a major and rapidly increasing public health problem. In Argentina, the southern extreme of its distribution in the Americas, epidemic transmission takes place during the warm season. Since its re-emergence in 1998 two major outbreaks have occurred, the biggest during 2016. To identify the environm...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Carbajo AE,Cardo MV,Guimarey PC,Lizuain AA,Buyayisqui MP,Varela T,Utgés ME,Giovacchini CM,Santini MS

更新日期：2018-07-17 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：:Mollusc shells are an abundant resource that have been long used to predict the structures of ancient ecological communities, examine evolutionary processes, reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions, track and predict responses to climatic change, and explore the movement of hominids across the globe. Despite the ubi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ferreira S,Ashby R,Jeunen GJ,Rutherford K,Collins C,Todd EV,Gemmell NJ

更新日期：2020-07-30 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：:In this study, we propose and test a novel ensemble method for improving the accuracy of each method in flood susceptibility mapping using evidential belief function (EBF) and support vector machine (SVM). The outcome of the proposed method was compared with the results of each method. The proposed method was implemen...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Shafapour Tehrany M,Kumar L,Shabani F

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The mature spermatozoa of Stephanostomum murielae and Stephanostomoides tenuis are described by transmission electron microscopy. They present several ultrastructural features previously reported in other digeneans. Their spermatozoa possess two axonemes of different length showing the 9 + '1' trepaxonematan pattern, ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bakhoum AJ,Quilichini Y,Justine JL,Bray RA,Bâ CT,Marchand B

更新日期：2015-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary biology has entered an era of unprecedented amounts of DNA sequence data, as new sequencing technologies such as Massive Parallel Sequencing (MPS) can generate billions of nucleotides within less than a day. The current bottleneck is how to efficiently handle, process, and analyze such large amounts of da...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Andermann T,Cano Á,Zizka A,Bacon C,Antonelli A

更新日期：2018-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual movement influences the spatial and social structuring of a population. Animals regularly use the same paths to move efficiently to familiar places, or to patrol and mark home ranges. We found that Australian sleepy lizards (Tiliqua rugosa), a monogamous species with stable pair-bonds, repeatedly used the s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Leu ST,Jackson G,Roddick JF,Bull CM

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Species interactions are a key component of ecosystems but we generally have an incomplete picture of who-eats-who in a given community. Different techniques have been devised to predict species interactions using theoretical models or abundances. Here, we explore the K nearest neighbour approach, with a special empha...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Desjardins-Proulx P,Laigle I,Poisot T,Gravel D

更新日期：2017-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Fruit consumption is currently considered beyond the nutritional aspects because of the important roles in disease prevention and benefits to health. The objective of this study was to characterize the chemical profile and evaluate the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of different fractions obtained ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Nonato CFA,Leite DOD,Pereira RC,Boligon AA,Ribeiro-Filho J,Rodrigues FFG,da Costa JGM

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to reports of wild primates, studies of captive primates' flexibility often reveal conservatism: individuals are unable to switch to new and more efficient strategies when task demands change. We propose that such conservatism might be a result of task design and hypothesize that conservatism might be link...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jacobson SL,Hopper LM

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, four experimental assays were conducted to evaluate the use of a new silver nanoparticle formulation named Argovit-4, which was prepared with slight modifications to enhance its biological activity against white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) in shrimp culture. The goals of these assays were to (1) determin...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Romo-Quiñonez CR,Álvarez-Sánchez AR,Álvarez-Ruiz P,Chávez-Sánchez MC,Bogdanchikova N,Pestryakov A,Mejia-Ruiz CH

更新日期：2020-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Biopesticides based on strains of the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are used globally for effective and environmentally friendly pest control. The most serious threat to the sustainable use of these microbial pesticides is the development of resistance on targeted pests. Populations of Plutella xylos...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Baragamaarachchi RY,Samarasekera JKRR,Weerasena OVDSJ,Lamour K,Jurat-Fuentes JL

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. A large proportion of natural grasslands around the world is exposed to overgrazing resulting in land degradation and biodiversity loss. Although there is an increasing effort in the promotion of sustainable livestock management, rangeland degradation still occurs because animals' foraging behaviour is hig...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： di Virgilio A,Morales JM

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-cell analysis has the potential to provide us with a host of new knowledge about biological systems, but it comes with the challenge of correctly interpreting the biological information. While emerging techniques have made it possible to measure inter-cellular variability at the transcriptome level, no consensu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kippner LE,Kim J,Gibson G,Kemp ML

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The ichthyoplankton assemblage structure in the Yangtze Estuary was analyzed based on four springs in 1999, 2001, 2004 and 2007 in order to provide detailed characterizations of the ichthyoplankton assemblage in springs, examine the long-term dynamics of spring ichthyoplankton assemblages, and evaluate the influence o...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang H,Xian W,Liu S

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (HB) may cause severe neurological damage, but serious consequences are effectively controlled by phototherapy and blood exchange transfusion. HB is still a serious health problem in economically compromised parts of the world. The long term outcome has been regarded favorable b...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hokkanen L,Launes J,Michelsson K

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Circadian genes have been suggested to play an important role in lung pathology. However, it remains unknown whether polymorphisms of these genes are associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Here, we aimed to investigate the association of circadian genes polymorphisms with COPD in a cas...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chen G,Zhang J,Zhang L,Xiong X,Yu D,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The meat quality of yellow feathered broilers is better than the quality of its production. Growth traits are important in the broiler industry. The exploration of regulation mechanisms for the skeletal muscle would help to increase the growth performance of chickens. At present, some progress has been made ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wu P,Zhang X,Zhang G,Chen F,He M,Zhang T,Wang J,Xie K,Dai G

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study was to determine the incidence rates of endometrial hyperplasia (EH) and endometrial cancer (EC) in the Republic of Korea using national insurance claim data generated from 2009 to 2012. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Data that were generated from 2009 to 2012 were sourced from the Korean Hea...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yuk JS

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Dry eye disease (DED), a chronic ocular disease, is associated with numerous medical issues, including asthma. However, studies on these associations are limited. In this study, we investigated the incidence of DED among patients with asthma and its correlation with other allergic comorbidities. Methods:We ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Huang YC,Chan WC,Wang JD,Fu LS,Tsan YT

更新日期：2018-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the survivorship, growth and diet preferences of hatchery-raised juvenile urchins, Tripneustes gratilla, to evaluate the efficacy of their use as biocontrol agents in the efforts to reduce alien invasive algae. In flow-through tanks, we measured urchin growth rates, feeding rates and feeding preferences...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Westbrook CE,Ringang RR,Cantero SM,HDAR & TNC Urchin Team.,Toonen RJ

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that fermented products (FPs) prepared from sweet potato-shochu distillery by-product suppressed weight gain and decreased serum cholesterol levels in mice under normal dietary conditions. Furthermore, from the information gained from the above data regarding health benefits of the FPs, the aim of...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kosakai T,Kato H,Sho C,Kawano K,Iwai KI,Takase Y,Ogawa K,Nishiyama K,Yamasaki M

更新日期：2019-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular RNA (circRNA) is an endogenous noncoding RNA with a covalently closed cyclic structure. Based on their components, circRNAs are divided into exonic circRNAs, intronic circRNAs, and exon-intron circRNAs. CircRNAs have well-conserved sequences and often have high stability due to their resistance to exonuclease...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Xu S,Zhou L,Ponnusamy M,Zhang L,Dong Y,Zhang Y,Wang Q,Liu J,Wang K

更新日期：2018-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) method, typically used for polytomous logistic regression, is prone to bias due to both misclassification in outcome and contamination in the design matrix. Hence, robust estimators are needed. In this study, we propose such a method for nominal response data with continuous cov...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wang X

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Aims:The link between gut microbiota and type 2 diabetes (T2D) has been addressed by numerous studies. Streptococcus thermophilus from fermented milk products, has been used as a probiotic in previous research. However, whether heat-killed S. thermophilus can improve the glycemic parameters of diabetic r...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gao X,Wang F,Zhao P,Zhang R,Zeng Q

更新日期：2019-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Several data loggers deployed to monitor temperature and humidity of Crocodylus acutus (American crocodile) nests in South Florida could not be located after hatching. One badly damaged data logger was retrieved, providing insight into the possible fate of the others. Using a taphonomic approach, we identified numerou...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Drumheller SK,Nestler JH,Hackett Farris CE,Farris SC,Mazzotti FJ

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00