Use of aerial thermography to reduce mortality of roe deer fawns before harvest.

abstract：:We present a semi-empirical (PM6-based) computational method for systematically estimating the effect of all possible single mutants, within a certain radius of the active site, on the barrier height of an enzymatic reaction. The intent of this method is not a quantitative prediction of the barrier heights, but rather...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hediger MR,Steinmann C,De Vico L,Jensen JH

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean acidification (OA) is one of the most significant threats to marine life, and is predicted to drive important changes in marine communities. Although OA impacts will be the sum of direct effects mediated by alterations of physiological rates and indirect effects mediated by shifts in species interactions and bio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lim EG,Harley CDG

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate community shelter effects of two invasive decapod species, Hemigrapsus sanguineus and Carcinus maenas, in the Long Island Sound (LIS), we deployed artificial shelters in the intertidal and immediate subtidal zones. These consisted of five groups during the summer: a control, a resident H. sanguineus mal...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hudson DM,Reagan D,Crivello JF

更新日期：2016-07-27 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：:Studies on the adverse health effects caused by azo dyes are insufficient and quite contradictory. This work aims to investigate the possible toxic effect of two types of widely used food additives, Sunset Yellow and Allura Red, by assessing the physiological, histopathological and ultrastructural changes in the liver...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Khayyat LI,Essawy AE,Sorour JM,Soffar A

更新日期：2018-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic spines are described as neuronal protrusions. The morphology of dendritic spines and dendrites has a strong relationship to its function, as well as playing an important role in understanding brain function. Quantitative analysis of dendrites and dendritic spines is essential to an understanding of the forma...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wang S,Chen M,Li Y,Shao Y,Zhang Y,Du S,Wu J

更新日期：2016-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The variation between the actual and perceived lightness of a stimulus has strong dependency on its background, a phenomena commonly known as lightness induction in the literature of visual neuroscience and psychology. For instance, a gray patch may perceptually appear to be darker in a background while it looks brigh...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mitra S,Mazumdar D,Ghosh K,Bhaumik K

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) and dopamine receptor 2 (DRD2) play important roles in ovarian follicular development. In this study, we analyzed tissue-specific expression of the Muscovy duck IGF2 and DRD2 genes and cloned those genes transcripts. Polymorphisms in these genes were tightly linked with egg producti...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ye Q,Xu J,Gao X,Ouyang H,Luo W,Nie Q

更新日期：2017-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Brunei Bay, which receives freshwater discharge from four major rivers, namely Limbang, Sundar, Weston and Menumbok, hosts a luxuriant mangrove cover in East Malaysia. However, this relatively undisturbed mangrove forest has been less scientifically explored, especially in terms of vegetation structure, ecosystem serv...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Satyanarayana B,M Muslim A,Izzaty Horsali NA,Mat Zauki NA,Otero V,Nadzri MI,Ibrahim S,Husain ML,Dahdouh-Guebas F

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The association between asthma (AS), allergic rhinitis (AR) and oral diseases remains inconclusive in adults. AS and AR often coexist. However, studies that investigate AS, AR together and their association with oral diseases are scarce. Methods:Data from 22,898 men and 28,541 women, aged 21 to 25 years, we...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ho SW,Lue KH,Ku MS

更新日期：2019-09-10 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：:Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii is a bacterial phytopathogen that causes Stewart's wilt disease in corn. It uses quorum sensing to regulate expression of some genes involved in virulence in a cell density-dependent manner as the bacterial population grows from small numbers at the initial infection site in the leaf...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Packard H,Kernell Burke A,Jensen RV,Stevens AM

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted the attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances in recent years in our understanding of the origin and diversification of many Neotropical taxa and biotic regions, many questions remain to be answered. Additio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Antonelli A,Ariza M,Albert J,Andermann T,Azevedo J,Bacon C,Faurby S,Guedes T,Hoorn C,Lohmann LG,Matos-Maraví P,Ritter CD,Sanmartín I,Silvestro D,Tejedor M,Ter Steege H,Tuomisto H,Werneck FP,Zizka A,Edwards SV

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, herbal drugs and their bioactive compounds have gained popularity in the management of diabetes mellitus (DM), which has become an epidemic disease all over the world and is especially prevalent in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). This study aimed to investigate the antidiabetic effect of ethanolic and aqu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gad-Elkareem MAM,Abdelgadir EH,Badawy OM,Kadri A

更新日期：2019-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative gene expression data obtained from quantitative RT-PCR (RT-qPCR) experiments are dependent on appropriate normalization to represent true values. It is common to use constitutively expressed endogenous reference genes (RGs) for normalization, but for this strategy to be valid the RGs must be stably expressed ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ramhøj L,Axelstad M,Svingen T

更新日期：2019-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila melanogaster P transposable element provides one of the best cases of horizontal transfer of a mobile DNA sequence in eukaryotes. Invasion of natural populations by the P element has led to a syndrome of phenotypes known as P-M hybrid dysgenesis that emerges when strains differing in their P element com...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bergman CM,Han S,Nelson MG,Bondarenko V,Kozeretska I

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Network motifs play an important role in the structural analysis of biological networks. Identification of such network motifs leads to many important applications such as understanding the modularity and the large-scale structure of biological networks, classification of networks into super-families, and protein func...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Patra S,Mohapatra A

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Although anthophilous Coleoptera are regarded to be unspecialised flower-visiting insects, monkey beetles (Scarabaeidae: Hopliini) represent one of the most important groups of pollinating insects in South Africa's floristic hotspot of the Greater Cape Region. South African monkey beetles are known to feed on floral t...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Karolyi F,Hansal T,Krenn HW,Colville JF

更新日期：2016-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are key epigenetic factors in regulating chromatin structure and gene expression in multiple aspects of plant growth, development, and response to abiotic or biotic stresses. Many studies on systematic analysis and molecular function of HDACs in Arabidopsis and rice have been conducted. Ho...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang K,Yu L,Pang X,Cao H,Si H,Zang J,Xing J,Dong J

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in behavior are often the proximate response of animals to human disturbance, with variability in tolerance levels leading some species to exhibit striking shifts in life history, fitness, and/or survival. Thus, elucidating the effects of disturbance on animal behavior, and how this varies among taxonomically ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Matich P,Schalk CM

更新日期：2019-06-07 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：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：Background:The coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) pandemic has heightened the threat to the health and lives of patients with comorbid diseases. Infection by COVID-19 is especially detrimental to patients on hemodialysis. In this study, we evaluated the clinical characteristics, laboratory findings, treatments and prognoses of ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Luo Y,Li J,Liu Z,Yu H,Peng X,Cao C

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesacanthus is a common and speciose genus of acanthodian fish from Lower Old Red Sandstone and Middle Old Red Sandstone assemblages (representing the Lower Devonian and Middle Devonian respectively) and is well represented in many palaeoichthyology collections in the UK. Based upon descriptions given during the 19th ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Baron MG

更新日期：2015-10-29 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：:Grafting is one of the most widely used methods for vegetative propagation, particularly for multiplying trees considered important, but there has been little research done on the effect of hybridization on grafts from the genus Pinus. Sometimes hybrids show the ability to reproduce and adapt efficiently to the enviro...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pérez-Luna A,Wehenkel C,Prieto-Ruíz JÁ,López-Upton J,Hernández-Díaz JC

更新日期：2020-02-07 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:Dinoflagellates have the potential to pose severe ecological and economic damages to aquatic ecosystems. It is therefore largely needed to understand the causes and consequences of distribution patterns of dinoflagellate communities in order to manage potential environmental problems. However, a majority of ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gao Y,Chen Y,Xiong W,Li S,Zhan A

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Trace elements are essential for the growth and survival of plants, and their concentrations and distributions in plants are effective reflections of ecological adaptation strategies. However, this aspect has seldom been addressed. Method:Changes in the leaf and branch trace elements of Pinus massoniana Lam...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lin T,Zheng X,Zheng H

更新日期：2020-09-16 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