Molecular characterization of clonal lineage and staphylococcal toxin genes from S. aureus in Southern Nigeria.

abstract：:Infrared thermal imaging has emerged as a valuable tool in veterinary medicine, in particular for evaluating reproductive processes. Here, we explored differences in skin temperature of twenty female chimpanzees in Budongo Forest, Uganda, four of which were pregnant during data collection. Based on previous literature...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Dezecache G,Wilke C,Richi N,Neumann C,Zuberbühler K

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Highlighted text in the Internet (i.e., hypertext) is predominantly blue and underlined. The perceptibility of these hypertext characteristics was heavily questioned by applied research and empirical tests resulted in inconclusive results. The ability to recognize blue text in foveal and parafoveal vision wa...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gagl B

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Conserving both biodiversity and ecosystem services is a major goal of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Hotspots for biodiversity in the Andes significantly overlap with areas with dense human populations that sustain their economy through agricultural production. Therefore, developing management form...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Quintana C,Girardello M,Balslev H

更新日期：2019-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Conserving biodiversity in tropical landscapes is a major challenge to scientists and conservationists. Current rates of deforestation, fragmentation, and land use intensification are producing variegated landscapes with undetermined values for the conservation of biological communities and ecosystem functio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Costa C,Oliveira VHF,Maciel R,Beiroz W,Korasaki V,Louzada J

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological carbon sequestration by forest ecosystems plays an important role in the net balance of greenhouse gases, acting as a carbon sink for anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Nevertheless, relatively little is known about the abiotic environmental factors (including climate) that control carbon storage in temperate and...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Duchesne L,Houle D,Ouimet R,Lambert MC,Logan T

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific are increasingly being assessed for their potential mineral wealth. To anticipate the potential impacts on biodiversity and connectivity among populations at these vents, environmental baselines need to be established. Bathymodiolus manusensis is a deep-sea mussel fou...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Thaler AD,Saleu W,Carlsson J,Schultz TF,Van Dover CL

更新日期：2017-08-21 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：BACKGROUND:Habitat selection and its adaptive outcomes are crucial features for animal life-history strategies. Nevertheless, congruence between habitat preferences and breeding success has been rarely demonstrated, which may result from the single-scale evaluation of animal choices. As habitat selection is a complex m...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jedlikowski J,Brambilla M

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Introduced predators at seabird colonies and parasites may have lethal and/or sub-lethal consequences for bird populations. We assessed the potential sub-lethal negative effects of these stressors in a native seabird listed as vulnerable in its south-eastern pacific distribution. This study was conducted in ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Luna N,Varela AI,Luna-Jorquera G,Brokordt K

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The exoskeleton is an important source of characters for the taxonomy of Hydroidolina. It originates as epidermal secretions and, among other functions, protects the coenosarc of the polypoid stage. However, comparative studies on the exoskeletal tissue origin, development, chemical, and structural characteristics, as...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mendoza-Becerril MA,Marian JE,Migotto AE,Marques AC

更新日期：2017-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Self-contained tests estimate and test the association between a phenotype and mean expression level in a gene set defined a priori. Many self-contained gene set analysis methods have been developed but the performance of these methods for phenotypes that are continuous rather than discrete and with multiple...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Walker JA

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Species identification-of importance for most biological disciplines-is not always straightforward as cryptic species hamper traditional identification. Fibre-optic near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a rapid and inexpensive method of use in various applications, including the identification of species. Despite its e...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kinzner MC,Wagner HC,Peskoller A,Moder K,Dowell FE,Arthofer W,Schlick-Steiner BC,Steiner FM

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We point out complications inherent in biodiversity inventory metrics when applied to large-scale datasets. The number of units of inventory effort (e.g., days of inventory effort) in which a species is detected saturates, such that crucial numbers of detections of rare species approach zero. Any rare errors can then ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Khalighifar A,Jiménez L,Nuñez-Penichet C,Freeman B,Ingenloff K,Jiménez-García D,Peterson T

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes ubiquitously inhabit animals and plants, often affecting their host's phenotype. As a result, even in a constant genetic background, the host's phenotype may evolve through indirect selection on the microbiome. 'Microbiome engineering' offers a promising novel approach for attaining desired host traits but ha...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Arora J,Mars Brisbin MA,Mikheyev AS

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. The ReproQuestionnaire (ReproQ) measures the client's experience with maternity care, following the WHO responsiveness model. In 2015, the ReproQ was appointed as national client experience questionnaire and will be added to the national list of indicators in maternity care. For using the ReproQ in quality...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Scheerhagen M,van Stel HF,Tholhuijsen DJ,Birnie E,Franx A,Bonsel GJ

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Cyclin A overexpression is found in a variety of human tumors and correlates with unfavorable outcome. We analyzed immunohistochemical expression of cyclin A in Wilms tumor (WT) in relation to clinicopathological characteristics, preoperative chemotherapy (PrOpChTh), and overall survival (OS). Methods:This ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Radojević-Škodrić S,Brašanac D,Đuričić SM,Glumac S,Lončar Z,Pavlović I,Todorović A,Nikolić G,Baralić I,Pejić S

更新日期：2019-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of different approaches has successfully delimited new species within many Neotropical species complexes traditionally classified as a single nominal organism. Recent studies have shown that the Amazonian endemic genus Amazophrynella, currently composed of 12 small-sized species, could harbor several a...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mângia S,Koroiva R,Santana DJ

更新日期：2020-09-18 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:The effect of fat tissue on a developing individual is fundamentally different from the effect on an adult. Several changes caused by obesity during sexual maturation have an irreversible and severe negative effect (lower fertility, reduced final height, type 2 diabetes mellitus) even for those who have subs...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Novak JM,Bruzek J,Zamrazilova H,Vankova M,Hill M,Sedlak P

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Understanding individual food preferences is critical for creating tailored strategies that promote healthy individual eating behaviors. Individual sensory liking appears to be an essential determinant of dietary intake. Taste preferences influence satisfaction and satiety, and may consequently influence wei...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Petre LM,Vatasescu BN

更新日期：2019-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine heritability estimation of an ordinal trait for osteoarthritis, using a population of pig-tailed macaques from the Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC). This estimation is non-trivial, as the data consist of ordinal measurements on 16 intervertebral spaces throughout each macaque's spinal co...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chi PB,Duncan AE,Kramer PA,Minin VN

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much genomic-scale, especially transcriptomic, data on spider phylogeny has accumulated in the last few years. These data have recently been used to investigate the diverse architectures and the origin of spider webs, concluding that the ancestral spider spun no foraging web, that spider webs evolved de novo 10-14 tim...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Coddington JA,Agnarsson I,Hamilton CA,Bond JE

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the intelligence-creativity threshold hypothesis, there should be a positive association between intelligence and creative potential up to a certain point, the threshold, after which a further increase in intelligence should have no association with creativity. In the present simulation study, the measure...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sorjonen K,Ingre M,Melin B

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study examines the biophysical and preclinical pulmonary activity of synthetic lung surfactants containing novel phospholipase-resistant phosphonolipids or synthetic glycerophospholipids combined with Super Mini-B (S-MB) DATK and/or SP-Css ion-lock 1 peptides that replicate the functional biophysics of ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Notter RH,Gupta R,Schwan AL,Wang Z,Shkoor MG,Walther FJ

更新日期：2016-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoamines serotonin and dopamine are important neuromodulators present in the central nervous system, known to be active regulators of social behaviour in fish as in other vertebrates. Our aim was to investigate the region-specific brain monoaminergic differences arising when individual cleaners face a client (mu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： de Abreu MS,Messias JPM,Thörnqvist PO,Winberg S,Soares MC

更新日期：2018-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological control, a globally-important ecosystem service, can provide long-term and broad-scale suppression of invasive pests, weeds and pathogens in natural, urban and agricultural environments. Following (few) historic cases that led to sizeable environmental up-sets, the discipline of arthropod biological control...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wyckhuys KAG,Wongtiem P,Rauf A,Thancharoen A,Heimpel GE,Le NTT,Fanani MZ,Gurr GM,Lundgren JG,Burra DD,Palao LK,Hyman G,Graziosi I,Le VX,Cock MJW,Tscharntke T,Wratten SD,Nguyen LV,You M,Lu Y,Ketelaar JW,Goergen G

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of the processionary moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775), a forest pest from the Palearctic, are thought to induce a behavioral response of bats, but up to now the moth has been seldom identified as bats' prey. Studies on bat diets suggest moths with cyclical outbreaks attract a wide ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Garin I,Aihartza J,Goiti U,Arrizabalaga-Escudero A,Nogueras J,Ibáñez C

更新日期：2019-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Grazing and litter removal can alter understory structure and composition after afforestation, posing a serious threat to sustainable forest development. Enclosure is considered to be an effective measure to restore degraded forest restoration. However, little is known about the dynamics of soil nutrients and microbia...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Deng J,Zhou Y,Zhu W,Yin Y

更新日期：2020-03-25 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

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