Seasonal changes of commercial traits, proximate and fatty acid compositions of the scallop Flexopecten glaber from the Mediterranean Sea (Southern Italy).

abstract：:A new Primulina species from Guangdong, China with an unusual inflorescence is described here. Primulina anisocymosa is vegetatively most similar to P. bobaiensis. It can be distinguished from all species within Primulina morphologically by its unique zigzag monochasial cyme and infructescence. To confirm the phylogen...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hong X,Keene J,Qiu ZJ,Wen F

更新日期：2019-01-04 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. Physical, visual, chemical, and auditory cues signalling fighting ability have independently evolved in many animal taxa as a means to resolve conflicts without escalating to physical aggression. Facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR, i.e., the relative width to height of the face) has been associated with do...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Borgi M,Majolo B

更新日期：2016-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Profiling of microbial communities via metagenomic shotgun sequencing has enabled researches to gain unprecedented insight into microbial community structure and the functional roles of community members. This study describes a method and basic analysis for a metagenomic adaptation of the double digest restr...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liu MY,Worden P,Monahan LG,DeMaere MZ,Burke CM,Djordjevic SP,Charles IG,Darling AE

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe an efficient and effective technique for rearing sexually-derived coral propagules from spawning through larval settlement and symbiont uptake with minimal impact on natural coral populations. We sought to maximize larval survival while minimizing expense and daily husbandry maintenance by experimenta...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pollock FJ,Katz SM,van de Water JAJM,Davies SW,Hein M,Torda G,Matz MV,Beltran VH,Buerger P,Puill-Stephan E,Abrego D,Bourne DG,Willis BL

更新日期：2017-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aspergillus niger, along with many other lignocellulolytic fungi, has been widely used as a commercial workhorse for cellulase production. A fungal cellulase system generally includes three major classes of enzymes i.e., β-glucosidases, endoglucanases and cellobiohydrolases. Cellobiohydrolases (CBH) are vita...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Woon JS,Mackeen MM,Illias RM,Mahadi NM,Broughton WJ,Murad AMA,Abu Bakar FD

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Dung beetles of the subfamily Scarabaeinae are widely recognised as important providers of multiple ecosystem services and are currently experiencing revisions that have improved our understanding of higher-level relationships in the subfamily. However, the study of phylogenetic relationships at the level of genus or ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pardo-Diaz C,Lopera Toro A,Peña Tovar SA,Sarmiento-Garcés R,Sanchez Herrera M,Salazar C

更新日期：2019-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Trees in the Morus genera belong to the Moraceae family. To better understand the species status of genus Morus and to provide information for studies on evolutionary biology within the genus, the complete chloroplast (cp) genomes of M. cathayana and M. multicaulis were sequenced. The plastomes of the two species are ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kong WQ,Yang JH

更新日期：2017-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-invasive measurements of glucocorticoid (GC) concentrations, including cortisol and corticosterone, serve as reliable indicators of adrenocortical activities and physiological stress loads in a variety of species. As an alternative to invasive analyses based on plasma, GC concentrations in saliva still represent s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Nemeth M,Pschernig E,Wallner B,Millesi E

更新日期：2016-01-18 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：:Sea cucumbers possess the remarkable capacity to regenerate their body parts or organs. Regeneration of host organs and/or body parts involves reconstruction of the host associated microbiota, however, the dynamics and contribution of microbiota to the regeneration process are largely unknown due to a lack of experime...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yamazaki Y,Sakai Y,Yu J,Mino S,Sawabe T

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：Background:Geographic variation in body size and condition can reveal differential local adaptation to resource availability or climatic factors. Body size and condition are related to fitness in garter snakes (Thamnophis), thus good body condition may increase survival, fecundity in females, and mating success in male...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Valencia-Flores E,Venegas-Barrera CS,Fajardo V,Manjarrez J

更新日期：2019-03-13 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：BACKGROUND:Cloud forests, characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud cover and fragmented distribution, are one of the most threatened habitats, especially in the Neotropics. Tree ferns are among the most conspicuous elements in these forests, and ferns are restricted to regions in which minimu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sosa V,Ornelas JF,Ramírez-Barahona S,Gándara E

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Prognostic genes in the tumor microenvironment play an important role in immune biological processes and the response of cancer to immunotherapy. Thus, we aimed to assess new biomarkers that are associated with immune/stromal cells in lung adenocarcinomas (LUAD) using the ESTIMATE algorithm, which also signi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Xu ZY,Zhao M,Chen W,Li K,Qin F,Xiang WW,Sun Y,Wei J,Yuan LQ,Li SK,Lin SH

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to accurately identify and label emotions in the self and others is crucial for successful social interactions and good mental health. In the current study we tested the longitudinal relationship between early language skills and recognition of facial and vocal emotion cues in a representative UK populatio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Griffiths S,Goh SKY,Norbury CF,the SCALES team.

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In functional genomics experiments, researchers often select genes to follow-up or validate from a long list of differentially expressed genes. Typically, sharp thresholds are used to bin genes into groups such as significant/non-significant or fold change above/below a cut-off value, and ad hoc criteria are also used...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lazic SE

更新日期：2015-11-26 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:Amoebiasis is the third most common parasitic cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in countries with poor hygienic settings. There exists an ambiguity in the diagnosis of amoebiasis, and hence there arises a necessity for a better diagnostic approach. Serine-rich Entamoeba histolyticaprotein (SREHP...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Manochitra K,Parija SC

更新日期：2017-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent publication of a number of high resolution bacterial voltage-gated sodium channel structures has opened the door for the mechanisms employed by these channels to distinguish between ions to be elucidated. The way these channels select between Na(+) and K(+) has been investigated in computational studies, bu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Corry B

更新日期：2013-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Metabolomics has emerged as a valuable tool to discover novel biomarkers and study the pathophysiology of diabetic nephropathy (DN). However, the effect of postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) on diabetes mellitus (DM) to chronic DN progression has not been evaluated from the perspective of metabolomics...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wang J,Yan W,Zhou X,Liu Y,Tang C,Peng Y,Liu H,Sun L,Xiao L,He L

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on concordant differences in male advertisement call, tadpole morphology, and absence of haplotype sharing in the barcoding 16S mitochondrial DNA, we describe here a new species of spotted leaf frog of the genus Phasmahyla from Atlantic Forest, State of Rio de Janeiro, Southeast Brazil. The new species is most s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pereira EA,Rocha LCL,Folly H,da Silva HR,Santana DJ

更新日期：2018-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The expansion of moose into southern British Columbia caused the decline and extirpation of woodland caribou due to their shared predators, a process commonly referred to as apparent competition. Using an adaptive management experiment, we tested the hypothesis that reducing moose to historic levels would reduce appar...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Serrouya R,McLellan BN,van Oort H,Mowat G,Boutin S

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective. We hypothesized that a significant percentage of patients who are referred to the Emergency Department (ED) after calling their primary care physician's (PCP) office receive such instructions without the input of a physician. Methods. We enrolled a convenience sample of stable adults at an inner-city ED. Pa...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hill R,Gest A,Smith C,Guardiola JH,Apolinario M,Ha J,Gonzalez JR,Richman PB

更新日期：2016-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidating the molecular mechanism of helix-coil transitions of short peptides is a long-standing conundrum in physical chemistry. Although the helix-coil transitions of poly-glutamic acid (PGA) have been extensively studied, the molecular details of its unfolding process still remain unclear. We performed all-atom c...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ogasawara N,Kasahara K,Iwai R,Takahashi T

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I restriction-modification enzymes are multisubunit, multifunctional molecular machines that recognize specific DNA target sequences, and their multisubunit organization underlies their multifunctionality. EcoR124I is the archetype of Type I restriction-modification family IC and is composed of three subunit type...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bialevich V,Sinha D,Shamayeva K,Guzanova A,Řeha D,Csefalvay E,Carey J,Weiserova M,Ettrich RH

更新日期：2017-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A new species of Scutalus Albers, 1850 (Gastropoda: Bulimulidae), Scutalus chango sp. n., is described from a coastal area of northern Chile. Empty shells of this new species were found buried in sand and under boulders and rocks in the foothills of the Chilean Coastal Range at Paposo, Región de Antofagasta. This new ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Araya JF,Breure ASH

更新日期：2017-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Correct identification of forensically important insects, such as flies in the family Calliphoridae, is a crucial step for them to be used as evidence in legal investigations. Traditional identification based on morphology has been effective, but has some limitations when it comes to identifying immature stages of cer...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yusseff-Vanegas SZ,Agnarsson I

更新日期：2017-07-25 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