Correction: Asymmetries in mother-infant behaviour in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus).

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：:Hydrozoa medusae undergo blooms and seasonal fluctuations; however the drivers of such fluctuations are unknown. To understand how medusa populations fluctuate in response to seasonal factors such as temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and chlorophyll a, and to enhance our taxonomic knowledge of Hydrozoa in Galve...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pruski S,Miglietta MP

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:As other spiny lobsters, Panulirus argus is supposed to use preferentially proteins and lipids in energy metabolism, while carbohydrates are well digested but poorly utilized. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of dietary carbohydrate level on digestion and metabolism in the spiny lobster P. argus. We us...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rodríguez-Viera L,Perera E,Montero-Alejo V,Perdomo-Morales R,García-Galano T,Martínez-Rodríguez G,Mancera JM

更新日期：2017-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Construction of hydropower stations has been an important approach to meet China's increasing power demand, but the impact of construction of hydropower stations on river microbiota is not fully understood. To evaluate this, the microbial composition from 18 sampling sites in the downstream of Jinsha River of China, u...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chen X,He D,Zhou L,Cao Y,Li Z

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Following dramatic range and population declines, the cheetah is Africa's most endangered large felid. In Namibia, private land managers still trap cheetahs but increasingly consider moving animals instead of killing them. Across Africa, managers have translocated perceived conflict carnivores for decades, but rarely ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Weise FJ,Lemeris JR Jr,Munro SJ,Bowden A,Venter C,van Vuuren M,van Vuuren RJ

更新日期：2015-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil microbial communities are continuously exposed to H2 diffusing into the soil from the atmosphere. N2-fixing nodules represent a peculiar microniche in soil where H2 can reach concentrations up to 20,000 fold higher than in the global atmosphere (0.530 ppmv). In this study, we investigated the impact of H2 exposur...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Piché-Choquette S,Tremblay J,Tringe SG,Constant P

更新日期：2016-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As one of the highest forest ecosystems in the world, Polylepis forests are recognized both as center of endemism and diversity along the Andes and as an ecosystem under serious threat from habitat loss, fragmentation, and climate change due to human activities. Effective conservation efforts are limited, in...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sevillano-Ríos CS,Rodewald AD

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In 2020, to limit the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), many countries, including Italy, have issued a lengthy quarantine period for the entire population. For this reason lifestyle has changed, bringing inevitable repercussions to the Quality of Life (QoL). The present study aims to identify which psychosoc...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lardone A,Sorrentino P,Giancamilli F,Palombi T,Simper T,Mandolesi L,Lucidi F,Chirico A,Galli F

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic dysfunction in skeletal muscle is a major contributor to the development of type 2 diabetes. Endurance exercise training has long been established as an effective means to directly restore skeletal muscle glucose and lipid uptake and metabolism. However, in addition to the direct effects of skeletal muscle o...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Peterson JM,Mart R,Bond CE

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance in our pathogens is medicine's climate change: caused by human activity, and resulting in more extreme outcomes. Resistance emerges in microbial populations when antibiotics act on phenotypic variance within the population. This can arise from either genotypic diversity (resulting from a mutation...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kurenbach B,Hill AM,Godsoe W,van Hamelsveld S,Heinemann JA

更新日期：2018-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Human population growth has led to biodiversity declines in tropical cities. While habitat loss and fragmentation have been the main drivers of urban biodiversity loss, man-made interventions to reduce health risks have also emerged as an unintentional threat. For instance, insecticide fogging to control mos...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lee NSM,Clements GR,Ting ASY,Wong ZH,Yek SH

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The gray snapper (Lutjanus griseus) has a tropical and subtropical distribution. In much of its range this species represents one of the most important fishery resources because of its high quality meat and market value. Due to this, this species is vulnerable to overfishing, and population declines have bee...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rosado-Nic OJ,Hogan JD,Lara-Arenas JH,Rosas-Luis R,Carrillo L,Villegas-Sánchez CA

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：Background:This study evaluates the generalizability of an eight-station progress clinical skills examination and assesses the growth in performance for six clinical skills domains among first- and second-year medical students over four time points during the academic year. Methods:We conducted a generalizability stud...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Laird-Fick HS,Chang C,Wang L,Parker C,Malinowski R,Emery M,Solomon DJ

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to varietal differences, diminutive size, and similar morphological characters, it is difficult to classify and identify Liriomyza spp., a genus comprised of economically-important, highly-polyphagous insect pests. In this study, we reconfirmed the morphological characteristics of three closely-related invasive le...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chang YW,Chen JY,Zheng SZ,Gao Y,Chen Y,Deng Y,Du YZ

更新日期：2020-10-30 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：Background:The Mini-IPIP scales (Donellan et al., 2006) are possibly one of the most commonly used short inventories for measuring the Big Five Factors of personality. In this study, we aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of two Mini-IPIP Spanish short forms, one balanced and one positively wording (PW). ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Martínez-Molina A,Arias VB

更新日期：2018-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Many tilapia species or varieties have been widely introduced and have become an economically important food fish in China. Information on the genetic backgrounds of these populations is deficient and requires more research, especially for red tilapia strains. Methods:In the present study, displacement loop...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jiang B,Fu J,Dong Z,Fang M,Zhu W,Wang L

更新日期：2019-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Histopathological images contain rich phenotypic descriptions of the molecular processes underlying disease progression. Convolutional neural networks, state-of-the-art image analysis techniques in computer vision, automatically learn representative features from such images which can be useful for disease diagnosis, ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lu L,Daigle BJ Jr

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:This work was aimed to investigate the effects of the different particle size of ground alfalfa hay on caecal microbial and archeal communities of rabbits. One hundred-twenty New Zealand rabbits (950.3 ± 8.82 g) were allocated into four treatments, with five replicates in each treatment and six rabbits in each replica...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yuan M,Liu S,Wang Z,Wang L,Xue B,Zou H,Tian G,Cai J,Peng Q

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Dye wastewater increases cancer risk in humans. For the treatment of dyestuffs, biodegradation has the advantages of economy, high efficiency, and environmental protection compared with traditional physical and chemical methods. Laccase is the best candidate for dye degradation because of its multiple substr...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bu T,Yang R,Zhang Y,Cai Y,Tang Z,Li C,Wu Q,Chen H

更新日期：2020-11-11 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：: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：:In highly biodiverse systems, such as coral reefs, prey species are faced with predatory threats from numerous species. Recognition of predators can be innate, or learned, and can help increase the chance of survival. Research suggests that parental exposure to increased predatory threats can affect the development, b...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Atherton JA,McCormick MI

更新日期：2020-06-18 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：:Objectives. Diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypothyroidism are each associated with increased rate of pregnancy complications. However, their combined morbidity during gestation is poorly studied. Therefore, the aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of the combined morbidity of DM & hypothyroidism and whether...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tirosh D,Benshalom-Tirosh N,Novack L,Press F,Beer-Weisel R,Wiznitzer A,Mazor M,Erez O

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We revise the taxonomy of the myrmicine ants of the Monomorium monomorium species-group for the Arabian Peninsula. Six species are recognized: Monomorium aeyade Collingwood & Agosti, 1996, M. clavicorne André, 1881, M. exiguum Forel, 1894, M. holothir Bolton, 1987, M. mohammedi sp. n., and M. sarawatense Sharaf & Alda...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sharaf M,Al Dhafer HM,Aldawood AS,Hita Garcia F

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:Recent climatic history has strongly impacted plant populations, but little is known about its effect on microbes. Alders, which host few and specific symbionts, have high genetic diversity in glacial refugia. Here, we tested the prediction that communities of root symbionts survived in refugia with their ho...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Roy M,Pozzi AC,Gareil R,Nagati M,Manzi S,Nouioui I,Sharikadze N,Jargeat P,Gryta H,Moreau PA,Fernandez MP,Gardes M

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Helminths include both parasitic nematodes (roundworms) and platyhelminths (trematode and cestode flatworms) that are abundant, and are of clinical importance. The genetic characterization of parasitic flatworms using advanced molecular tools is central to the diagnosis and control of infections. Although the nuclear ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Biswal DK,Ghatani S,Shylla JA,Sahu R,Mullapudi N,Bhattacharya A,Tandon V

更新日期：2013-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Dengue infection represents a global health issue of growing importance. Dengue non-structural protein 1 (NS1) plays a central role in the early detection of the disease. The most common method for NS1 detection is testing by lateral flow immunoassays (LFIAs) with varying sensitivity. In this study, we prese...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tran TV,Nguyen BV,Nguyen TTP,Tran TT,Pham KG,Le QB,Do BN,Pham HN,Nguyen CV,Dinh DPH,Ha VT,Doan THT,Le HQ

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00