Evaluation of the estimate bias magnitude of the Rao's quadratic diversity index.

abstract：Background:Chloroplast genomes provide insufficient phylogenetic information to distinguish between closely related sugarcane cultivars, due to the recent origin of many cultivars and the conserved sequence of the chloroplast. In comparison, the mitochondrial genome of plants is much larger and more plastic and could c...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lloyd Evans D,Hlongwane TT,Joshi SV,Riaño Pachón DM

更新日期：2019-09-24 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：Background:The functional significance of ADAMs family members in the immune infiltration of pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD) awaits elucidation. Methods:ADAMs family members with significant expression were identified among differentially expressed genes of PAAD based on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database follow...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Qi B,Liu H,Dong Y,Shi X,Zhou Q,Zeng F,Bao N,Li Q,Yuan Y,Yao L,Xia S

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrophic plants-plants that have lost the ability to photosynthesize-are characterized by a number of changes at all levels of organization. Heterotrophic plants are divided into two large categories-parasitic and mycoheterotrophic (MHT). The question of to what extent such changes are similar in these two catego...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Shtratnikova VY,Schelkunov MI,Penin AA,Logacheva MD

更新日期：2020-06-19 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：:Sponges are efficient filter feeders, removing significant portions of particulate and dissolved organic matter (POM, DOM) from the water column. While the assimilation and respiration of POM and DOM by sponges and their abundant microbial symbiont communities have received much attention, there is virtually no inform...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Fiore CL,Freeman CJ,Kujawinski EB

更新日期：2017-01-11 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：:The aim of this study was the characterization of fatty acids, antioxidant activity, some physical properties, nutrient content, sugars, and minerals in the pulp and seeds of the date cultivar 'Medjool' (Phoenix dactylifera L.) grown in Mexico. The samples were obtained at maturity (Tamar) in the 2017 harvest season i...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Salomón-Torres R,Ortiz-Uribe N,Valdez-Salas B,Rosas-González N,García-González C,Chávez D,Córdova-Guerrero I,Díaz-Rubio L,Haro-Vázquez MDP,Mijangos-Montiel JL,Morales-Maza A,Mahadevan P,Krueger R

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:As the most widely distributed snake in Eurasia, the adder (Vipera berus) has been extensively investigated in Europe but poorly understood in Asia. The Southern Altay Mountains represent the adder's southern distribution limit in Central Asia, whereas its population status has never been assessed. We conducted, for t...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cui S,Luo X,Chen D,Sun J,Chu H,Li C,Jiang Z

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a federally protected area found in central southern Utah. Designated in 1996 by President William J. Clinton, it was recently reduced in size by President Donald J. Trump in a proclamation that turned the one large monument into three smaller ones. A long-term, standardi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wilson JS,Kelly M,Carril OM

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Research addressing distinctions and similarities between people's malevolent character traits (i.e., the Dark Triad: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) has detected inconsistent linear associations to temperament traits. Additionally, these dark traits seem to have a common core expressed as u...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Garcia D,Rosenberg P

更新日期：2016-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometry-based proteomics facilitate disease understanding by providing protein abundance information about disease progression. For the same type of disease studies, multiple mass spectrometry datasets may be generated. Integrating multiple mass spectrometry datasets can provide valuable information that a s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ryu SY,Wendt GA

更新日期：2019-04-10 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. Little is known about the characteristics of internet distractions that students may engage in during lecture. The objective of this pilot study is to identify some of the internet-based distractions students engage in during in-person lectures. The findings will help identify what activities most commonly...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Nalliah RP,Allareddy V

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Madagascar's subfossil record preserves a diverse community of animals including elephant birds, pygmy hippopotamus, giant lemurs, turtles, crocodiles, bats, rodents, and carnivorans. These fossil accumulations give us a window into the island's past from 80,000 years ago to a mere few hundred years ago, recording the...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mathews JC,Samonds KE

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallelism is important because it reveals how inherently stochastic adaptation is. Even as we come to better understand evolutionary forces, stochasticity limits how well we can predict evolutionary outcomes. Here we sought to quantify parallelism and some of its underlying causes by adapting a bacteriophage (ID11) ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Miller CR,Nagel AC,Scott L,Settles M,Joyce P,Wichman HA

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The cryptic species that make up the Euwallacea fornicatus species complex can be readily distinguished via their DNA sequences. Until recently, it was believed that the Hawaiian Islands had been invaded by only one of these cryptic species, E. perbrevis (tea shot hole borer; TSHB). However, following the 2016 deposit...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rugman-Jones PF,Au M,Ebrahimi V,Eskalen A,Gillett CPDT,Honsberger D,Husein D,Wright MG,Yousuf F,Stouthamer R

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Global warming can significantly affect many aspects of the biology of animal species, including their thermal physiology and physiological performance. Thermal performance curves provide a heuristic model to evaluate the impacts of temperature on the ecophysiology of ectotherms. When integrated with other thermal bio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cabezas-Cartes F,Fernández JB,Duran F,Kubisch EL

更新日期：2019-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) is one of the most common malignant tumours of the head and neck. Recent evidence has demonstrated that lncRNAs play important roles in tumour progression and could be used as biomarkers for early diagnosis, prognosis, and potential therapeutic targets. The "competiti...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liu Y,Ye F

更新日期：2019-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：Aim:We aimed to translate and cross-culturally adapt the International Knee Documentation Committee-subjective knee form (IKDC) in Romanian. Method:The original (US) IKDC-subjective knee form was translated according to recommended guidelines. Validity was tested using Spearmans's correlation coefficient between score...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Todor A,Vermesan D,Haragus H,Patrascu JM Jr,Timar B,Cosma DI

更新日期：2020-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Annually, half of all plant-derived carbon is added to soil where it is microbially respired to CO2. However, understanding of the microbiology of this process is limited because most culture-independent methods cannot link metabolic processes to the organisms present, and this link to causative agents is necessary to...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Butterfield CN,Li Z,Andeer PF,Spaulding S,Thomas BC,Singh A,Hettich RL,Suttle KB,Probst AJ,Tringe SG,Northen T,Pan C,Banfield JF

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Cognitive dysfunction in fibromyalgia (FM) encompasses objective cognitive difficulties, as measured in neuropsychological tests, and self-reported cognitive complaints. Although it has been suggested that FM patients display problems in working memory, the data are inconsistent, and the overall working memo...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pidal-Miranda M,González-Villar AJ,Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT,Andrade E,Rodríguez-Salgado D

更新日期：2018-11-21 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：:Phlorotannins are primary and/or secondary metabolites found exclusively in brown seaweeds, but their geographic distribution and abundance dynamic are not very well understood. In this study we evaluated the phlorotannin concentrations among and within-species of brown seaweeds in a broad latitudinal context (range o...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ank G,da Gama BAP,Pereira RC

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial transglutaminase (mTG) was used as a crosslinking agent in the preparation of gelatin sponges. The physical properties of the materials were evaluated by measuring their material porosity, water absorption, and elastic modulus. The stability of the sponges were assessed via hydrolysis and enzymolysis. To stu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Long H,Ma K,Xiao Z,Ren X,Yang G

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue is endemic throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Currently, there is no clinically approved therapeutic drug available for this acute viral infection. Although the first dengue vaccine Dengvaxia has been approved for use in certain countries, it is limited to those without a previous dengue ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tan WL,Lee YK,Ho YF,Yusof R,Abdul Rahman N,Karsani SA

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian pelvis is thought to exhibit adaptations to the functional demands of locomotor behaviors. Previous work in primates has identified form-function relationships between pelvic shape and locomotor behavior; few studies have documented such relationships in carnivorans, instead focusing on long bones. Most ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lewton KL,Brankovic R,Byrd WA,Cruz D,Morales J,Shin S

更新日期：2020-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We often expect that investigations of the patterns, causes, and consequences of among-individual variation in a trait of interest will reveal how selective pressures or ecological conditions influence that trait. However, many endocrine traits, such as concentrations of glucocorticoid (GC) hormones, exhibit adaptive ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Schoenemann KL,Bonier F

更新日期：2018-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between different exercise modes and visuospatial working memory in healthy older adults. A cross-sectional design was adopted. A total of 111 healthy older adults were enrolled in the study. They were classified by the exercise-related questionnaire to be i...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Guo W,Wang B,Lu Y,Zhu Q,Shi Z,Ren J

更新日期：2016-07-20 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