Viromes of one year old infants reveal the impact of birth mode on microbiome diversity.

abstract：:Background. Many Long-Term Care (LTC) institutionalized patients are the most frail and functionally dependent among the geriatric population and have significant oral health disparities.They often suffer from dental neglect due to limited access to appropriate professional dental care. These patients have chronic hea...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bilder L,Yavnai N,Zini A

更新日期：2014-06-10 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：:In most electric fish species, the electric organ (EO) derives from striated muscle cells that suppress many muscle properties. In the gymnotiform Sternopygus macrurus, mature electrocytes, the current-producing cells of the EO, do not contain sarcomeres, yet they continue to make some cytoskeletal and sarcomeric prot...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pinch M,Güth R,Samanta MP,Chaidez A,Unguez GA

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) had been reported to be associated with tendinopathy. However, the underlying mechanisms of diabetic tendinopathy still remain largely to be discovered. The purpose of this study was to develop insulin resistance (IR) model on primary human tenocytes (hTeno) culture with tumou...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tan HY,Tan SL,Teo SH,Roebuck MM,Frostick SP,Kamarul T

更新日期：2020-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The circadian clock not only participates in regulating various stages of plant growth, development and metabolism, but confers plant environmental adaptability to stress such as drought. Pseudo-Response Regulators (PRRs) are important component of the central oscillator (the core of circadian clock) and pla...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wang J,Du Z,Huo X,Zhou J,Chen Y,Zhang J,Pan A,Wang X,Wang F,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-09-25 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：: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：:Teeth have been a focus of research in both extinct and extant taxa alike; a significant portion of dental literature is concerned with dental patterning and replacement. Most non-mammalian vertebrates continuously replace their dentition but an anomalous group of squamates has forgone this process in only having one ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Haridy Y

更新日期：2018-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the greatest sizes that the largest marine megafauna obtain? This is a simple question with a difficult and complex answer. Many of the largest-sized species occur in the world's oceans. For many of these, rarity, remoteness, and quite simply the logistics of measuring these giants has made obtaining accurate...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： McClain CR,Balk MA,Benfield MC,Branch TA,Chen C,Cosgrove J,Dove AD,Gaskins LC,Helm RR,Hochberg FG,Lee FB,Marshall A,McMurray SE,Schanche C,Stone SN,Thaler AD

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) colonization, sampled at 32-50 days post-inoculation (dpi), was significantly reduced in suppressor of prosystemin-mediated responses2 (spr2) mutant tomato plants impaired in the ω-3 FATTY ACID DESATURASE7 (FAD7) gene that limits the generation of linolenic acid and, consequently, th...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Casarrubias-Castillo K,Montero-Vargas JM,Dabdoub-González N,Winkler R,Martinez-Gallardo NA,Zañudo-Hernández J,Avilés-Arnaut H,Délano-Frier JP

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing cross-border trade of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) has put heavy pressure on a considerable number of species in the Himalayas. One of the threatened species in Nepal is Aconitum spicatum. Unfortunately for this species and for many others, our knowledge on population ecology and performance across ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chapagain DJ,Meilby H,Ghimire SK

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The octopus fauna from the southern Caribbean is an understudied field. However, recent taxonomic work in the Colombian Caribbean has led to the discovery of several new species in the family Octopodidae. To provide molecular evidence for recent descriptions in the area (i.e., Octopus taganga, O. tayrona and Macrotrit...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ritschard EA,Guerrero-Kommritz J,Sanchez JA

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of mobile sensors brings new opportunities to medical research. In particular, mobile electroencephalography (EEG) devices can be potentially used in low cost screening for epilepsy and other neurological and psychiatric disorders. The necessary condition for such applications is thoughtful validation in t...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kutafina E,Brenner A,Titgemeyer Y,Surges R,Jonas S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Oil spills can cause severe damage within a marine ecosystem. Following a spill, the soluble fraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is rapidly released into the water column. These remain dissolved in seawater over an extended period of time, even should the insoluble fraction be removed. The vertical ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kryzevicius Z,Mickuviene K,Bucas M,Vilkiene M,Zukauskaite A

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Avoidance behavior involves learning responses that prevent upcoming aversive events; these responses typically extinguish when the aversive events stop materializing. Stimuli that signal safety from aversive events can paradoxically inhibit extinction of avoidance behavior. In animals, males and females process safet...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Radell ML,Beck KD,Pang KC,Myers CE

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Gymnosperms such as ginkgo, conifers, cycads, and gnetophytes are vital components of land ecosystems, and they have significant economic and ecologic value, as well as important roles as forest vegetation. In this study, we investigated the structural variation and evolution of chloroplast transfer RNAs (tRNAs) in gy...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang TT,Hou YK,Yang T,Zhang SY,Yue M,Liu J,Li Z

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical models of collective cell movement often neglect the effects of spatial structure, such as clustering, on the population dynamics. Typically, they assume that individuals interact with one another in proportion to their average density (the mean-field assumption) which means that cell-cell interactions oc...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Binny RN,Haridas P,James A,Law R,Simpson MJ,Plank MJ

更新日期：2016-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Low use of maternal healthcare services is one of the reasons why maternal mortality is still considerably high among adolescents mothers in India. To increase the utilization of these services, it is necessary to identify factors that affect service utilization. To our knowledge, no national level study i...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Singh A,Kumar A,Pranjali P

更新日期：2014-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:China has experienced intensive urbanization over the past decades. However, it is still unclear about the influence of urbanization on urban thermal comfort and how the effect varies with climate condition. Based on long-term daily meteorological data from 1990 to 2015 in four Chinese cities undergoing rapid urbaniza...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Fu Y,Ren Z,Yu Q,He X,Xiao L,Wang Q,Liu C

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:The study aimed to explore factors contributing to body weight change over time in gastric cancer patients after gastrectomy, in order to find risk factors to implement nutritional intervention beforehand. Methods:A cohort of gastric cancer patients who were treated with gastrectomy from January to March 2019 at ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tian Q,Qin L,Zhu W,Xiong S,Wu B

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial additive triclosan has been used in personal care products widely across the globe for decades. Triclosan resistance has been noted among Vibrio spp., but reports have been anecdotal and the extent of phenotypic triclosan resistance across the Vibrionaceae family has not been established. Here, tricl...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lydon KA,Robertson MJ,Lipp EK

更新日期：2018-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of our study was to identify barriers and enablers to implementation of the Xpert MTB/RIF test within Mongolia's National Tuberculosis Program. METHODS:Twenty-foursemi-structured interviews were conducted between June and September 2015 with laboratory staff and tuberculosis physicians in Mongolia's ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rendell NL,Bekhbat S,Ganbaatar G,Dorjravdan M,Pai M,Dobler CC

更新日期：2017-07-14 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：: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：:Rearing coral fragments in nurseries and subsequent transplantation onto a degraded reef is a common approach for coral reef restoration. However, if barnacles and other biofouling organisms are not removed prior to transplantation, fish will dislodge newly cemented corals when feeding on biofouling organisms. This be...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Frias-Torres S,van de Geer C

更新日期：2015-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Medicare is one of the world's largest health insurance programs. It provides health insurance to nearly 44 million beneficiaries whose entitlements are based on age, disability, or end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Data of these ESRD beneficiaries are collected in the US Renal Data System (USRDS), which inclu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mu Y,Chin AI,Kshirsagar AV,Bang H

更新日期：2018-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Whole-metagenome sequencing can be a rich source of information about the structure and function of entire metagenomic communities, but getting accurate and reliable results from these datasets can be challenging. Analysis of these datasets is founded on the mapping of sequencing reads onto known genomic r...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Greenfield P,Tran-Dinh N,Midgley D

更新日期：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Community decline is often linked to anthropogenic activities. Coral reef declines, for example, have been linked to overfishing and climate change, but impacts of coastal development, pollution, and tourism have received increasing attention. Here, we isolated the impact of one little-studied aspect of recreational a...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Flynn RL,Forrester GE

更新日期：2019-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The fates of genetic polymorphisms maintained by balancing selection depend on evolutionary dynamics at linked sites. While coevolution across linked, epigenetically-interacting loci has been extensively explored, such supergenes may be relatively rare. However, genes harboring adaptive variation can occur in close ph...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tennessen JA

更新日期：2018-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently there are 21 shrimp species in the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea which are considered to belong to the superfamily Oplophoroidea, but the larval development is unknown for most of them. The complete larval development of Systellaspis debilis (Milne-Edwards, 1881), here described and illustrated...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bartilotti C,Dos Santos A

更新日期：2019-09-18 00:00:00