Rapid rise in toxic load for bees revealed by analysis of pesticide use in Great Britain.

abstract：Background:Adnexal torsion is a gynecologic emergency that requires surgical treatment. In this study, we reviewed the surgical outcomes of women with adnexal torsion in eastern Taiwan (Hualien county, area 4,629 km2, 330,000 residents). Methods:This retrospective study included 42 women diagnosed with surgically-prov...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Huang C,Hong MK,Chu TY,Ding DC

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial-temporal evolution of land use and land cover (LULC) and its multi-scale impact on the water environment is becoming highly significant in the LULC research field. The current research results show that the more significant scale impact on LULC and water quality in the whole basin and the riparian buffer s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Li S,Peng S,Jin B,Zhou J,Li Y

更新日期：2019-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) are important disease vectors in the United States, known to transmit a variety of pathogens to humans, including bacteria, protozoa, and viruses. Their importance as a disease vector necessitates reliable and comparable methods for extracting microbial DNA from ticks....

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ammazzalorso AD,Zolnik CP,Daniels TJ,Kolokotronis SO

更新日期：2015-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：Background:High heel shoes (HHS) can affect human postural control because elevated heel height (HH) may result in plantar flexed foot and limit ankle joint range of motion during walking. Effects of HH and HHS wearing experience on postural stability during self-initiated and externally triggered perturbations are les...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chen Y,Li JX,Wang L

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Demand for lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) has increased exponentially over the last decade, both for their roe, which is used as a caviar substitute, and increasingly also as cleaner fish to control sea lice in salmon farming. The species is classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN and there are growing concerns that ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Whittaker BA,Consuegra S,Garcia de Leaniz C

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products from the unique environments of sea water and oceans represent a largely unfamiliar source for isolation of new microbes, which are potent producers of secondary bioactive metabolites. These unique life-forms from the marine ecosphere have served as an important source of drugs since ancient times and...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Adnan M,Alshammari E,Patel M,Amir Ashraf S,Khan S,Hadi S

更新日期：2018-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:While there have been increasing numbers of reports of human-wolf conflict in China during recent years, little is known about the nature of this conflict. In this study, we used questionnaires and semi-structured interviews to investigate local villagers' perceptions of wolves in Jiuzhaigou County, western China. We ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Xu Y,Yang B,Dou L

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The highest rate of cancer-related deaths worldwide is from lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) annually. Metabolism was associated with tumorigenesis and cancer development. Metabolic-related genes may be important biomarkers and metabolic therapeutic targets for LUAD. Materials and Methods:In this study, the glean...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhao Z,He B,Cai Q,Zhang P,Peng X,Zhang Y,Xie H,Wang X

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The influenza virus can cause seasonal infections with mild to severe symptoms, circulating worldwide, and it can affect people in any age group. Therefore, this infection is a serious public health problem that causes severe illness and death in high-risk populations. Every year, 0.5% of the world's populat...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Silva T,S Salomon P,Hamerski L,Walter J,B Menezes R,Siqueira JE,Santos A,Santos JAM,Ferme N,Guimarães T,O Fistarol G,I Hargreaves P,Thompson C,Thompson F,Souza TM,Siqueira M,Miranda M

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human microbiota plays a key role in health and disease, and bacteriocins, which are small, bacterially produced, antimicrobial peptides, are likely to have an important function in the stability and dynamics of this community. Here we examined the density and distribution of the subclass I lantibiotic m...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Walsh CJ,Guinane CM,O' Toole PW,Cotter PD

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The currently-accepted dogma when analysing human Alu transposable elements is that 'young' Alu elements are found in low GC regions and 'old' Alus in high GC regions. The correlation between high GC regions and high gene frequency regions make this observation particularly difficult to explain. Although a number of s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hellen EH,Brookfield JF

更新日期：2013-05-21 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:Endometriosis (EMs) is a non-malignant gynecological disease, whose pathogenesis remains to be clarified. Recent studies have found that hypoxia induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) as well as epigenetic modification in EMs. However, the relationship between EMT and demethylation modification unde...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wu J,Li X,Huang H,Xia X,Zhang M,Fang X

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Barnacles and their allies (Thecostraca) are a biologically diverse, monophyletic crustacean group, which includes both intensely studied taxa, such as the acorn and stalked barnacles, as well as cryptic taxa, for example, Facetotecta. Recent efforts have clarified phylogenetic relationships in many different parts of...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ewers-Saucedo C,Owen CL,Pérez-Losada M,Høeg JT,Glenner H,Chan BKK,Crandall KA

更新日期：2019-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Loot boxes are items in video games that may be paid for with real-world money, but which contain randomised contents. There is a reliable correlation between loot box spending and problem gambling severity: the more money gamers spend on loot boxes, the more severe their problem gambling tends to be. However, it is u...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zendle D

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of biodiversity caused by impact of elephants (Loxodonta africana) on African woodlands may require a management response, but any action should be based on an understanding of why elephants choose to utilise trees destructively. Comprehension of elephant feeding behaviour requires consideration of the relative v...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Clegg BW,O'Connor TG

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Climate change concurrent with anthropogenic disturbances can initiate serial changes that reverberate up the food chain with repercussions for fisheries. To date, there is no information available concerning the combined effects of global warming and human impacts on tropical marine food webs. While tempe...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chew LL,Chong VC

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Loud calls are used by many species as long-distance signals for group defense, mate attraction, and inter- and intragroup spacing. Chimpanzee loud calls, or pant hoots, are used in a variety of contexts including group coordination and during male contests. Here, we observed an alpha male takeover in wild chimpanzees...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kalan AK,Boesch C

更新日期：2018-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms maintain a 24 h oscillation pattern in metabolic, physiological and behavioral processes in all living organisms. Circadian rhythms are organized as biochemical networks located in hypothalamus and peripheral tissues. Rhythmicity in the expression of circadian clock genes plays a vital role in regula...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hassan A,Ahmad J,Ashraf H,Ali A

更新日期：2018-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, a massive mortality event has killed millions of sea stars, of many different species, along the Pacific coast of North America. This disease event, known as 'sea star wasting disease' (SSWD), is linked to viral infection. In one affected sea star (Pisaster ochraceus), previous work had identified tha...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wares JP,Schiebelhut LM

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean warming threatens the functioning of coral reef ecosystems by inducing mass coral bleaching and mortality events. The link between temperature and coral bleaching is now well-established based on observations that mass bleaching events usually occur when seawater temperatures are anomalously high. However, times...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： DeCarlo TM,Harrison HB

更新日期：2019-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Bighead, silver, and grass carps are invasive in the waterways of central North America, and grass carp reproduction in tributaries of the Great Lakes has now been documented. Questions about recruitment potential motivate a need for accurate models of egg and larval dispersal. Quantitative data on swimming behaviors ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： George AE,Garcia T,Stahlschmidt BH,Chapman DC

更新日期：2018-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Kinorhynchs are marine, microscopic invertebrates inhabiting the seafloors. Their segmented trunk equipped with spines and processes has inspired scientists to give them the common name "mud dragons." Even though kinorhynchs have been known since the 19th century, less than 300 species are known to science, ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sørensen MV,Grzelak K

更新日期：2018-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4736.]. ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Regaiolli B,Spiezio C,Hopkins WD

更新日期：2018-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Burkina Faso, it is not uncommon for mothers to drink alcohol, even during pregnancy. We aimed to study the association between maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy and the child's cognitive performance using the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, 2nd edition (KABC-II) and the Children's Ca...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sanou AS,Diallo AH,Holding P,Nankabirwa V,Engebretsen IMS,Ndeezi G,Tumwine JK,Meda N,Tylleskar T,Kashala-Abotnes E

更新日期：2017-06-30 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：BACKGROUND:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are of great potential as novel antibiotics for the treatment of broad spectrum of pathogenic microorganisms including resistant bacteria. In this study, the mechanisms of action and the therapeutic efficacy of the hybrid peptides were examined. METHODS:TEM, SEM and ATP efflux ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jindal HM,Zandi K,Ong KC,Velayuthan RD,Rasid SM,Samudi Raju C,Sekaran SD

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbutin (p-hydroxyphenyl-β-D-glucopyranoside), a well-known tyrosinase inhibitor, has been widely used as a cosmetic whitening agent. Although its natural role is to scavenge free radicals within cells, it has also exhibited useful activities for the treatment of diuresis, bacterial infections and cancer, as well as a...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhou L,Fu X,Jiang L,Wang L,Bai S,Jiao Y,Xing S,Li W,Ma J

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Live trapping is a common tool used to assess demography of small mammals. However, live-trapping is often expensive and stressful to captured individuals. Thus, assessing the relative tradeoffs among study goals, project expenses, and animal well-being is necessary. Here, we evaluated how apparent bias and precision ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Weldy MJ,Wilson TM,Lesmeister DB,Epps CW

更新日期：2019-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Skeletal muscle wound healing is dependent on complex interactions between fibroblasts, myofibroblasts, myogenic cells, and cytokines, such as TGF-β1. This study sought to clarify the impact of TGF-β1 signaling on skeletal muscle cells and discern between the individual contributions of fibroblasts and myofi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Krieger J,Park BW,Lambert CR,Malcuit C

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00