Move it or lose it: interspecific variation in risk response of pond-breeding anurans.

abstract：:Physical exercise is linked to individuals whose affect profiles are invariably positive and it induces anti-apoptotic and anti-excitotoxic effects, buttressing blood-brain barrier intactness in both healthy individuals and those suffering from disorders accompanying overweight and obesity. In this regard, exercise of...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Garcia D,Archer T

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Current research posits that all multicellular organisms live in symbioses with associated microorganisms and form so-called metaorganisms or holobionts. Cnidarian metaorganisms are of specific interest given that stony corals provide the foundation of the globally threatened coral reef ecosystems. To gain first insig...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Brüwer JD,Voolstra CR

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some plants popularly employed for the treatment of peptic ulcers have proved to be attractive sources of new drugs. Despite extensive research, the pharmacological and toxicological potentials of these plants are not fully understood. In this context, the aim of this work was to analyze the multielemental composition...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Vieira LD,da Silva KT,Giarola RS,Inocente GF,Kushima H,Hiruma Lima CA,Hormaza JM

更新日期：2018-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Purpose:Oxidative stress is involved in normal and pathological functioning of skeletal muscle. Protection of myoblasts from oxidative stress may improve muscle contraction and delay aging. Here we studied the effect of R. coriaria sumac fruit extract on human myoblasts and zebrafish embryos in condition...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Najjar F,Rizk F,Carnac G,Nassar R,Jabak S,Sobolev AP,Bou Saada Y,El Sabban M,Hamade A

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parasites are essential components of natural communities, but the factors that generate skewed distributions of parasite occurrences and abundances across host populations are not well understood. METHODS:Here, we analyse at a seascape scale the spatiotemporal relationships of parasite exposure and host bo...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rodríguez SM,Valdivia N

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The current cultivation and plant breeding of Honeybush tea (produced from members of Cyclopia Vent.) do not consider the genetic diversity nor structuring of wild populations. Thus, wild populations may be at risk of genetic contamination if cultivated plants are grown in the same landscape. Here, we invest...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Galuszynski NC,Potts AJ

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The shifting baseline syndrome describes a gradual lowering of human cognitive baselines, as each generation accepts a lower standard of resource abundance or size as the new norm. There is strong empirical evidence of declining trends of abundance and body sizes of marine fish species reported from docks and markets....

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Francis FT,Howard BR,Berchtold AE,Branch TA,Chaves LCT,Dunic JC,Favaro B,Jeffrey KM,Malpica-Cruz L,Maslowski N,Schultz JA,Smith NS,Côté IM

更新日期：2019-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the capabilities of the evolutionary fuzzy genetic (FG) approach and compares it with three neuro-fuzzy methods-neuro-fuzzy with grid partitioning (ANFIS-GP), neuro-fuzzy with subtractive clustering (ANFIS-SC), and neuro-fuzzy with fuzzy c-means clustering (ANFIS-FCM)-in terms of modeling long-...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sadeghi-Niaraki A,Kisi O,Choi SM

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Accommodation resistance is a training technique that may improve strength and power gains beyond those achieved by traditional free weights. In this method, chains are either added on a free-weight bar and combined with traditional plates or added to the bar as the entire load. Purpose. The aim of the current study w...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ataee J,Koozehchian MS,Kreider RB,Zuo L

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is a presentation of taxonomic diversity of the orchid genus Cyrtochilum in Northwestern South America. The morphological characteristics of over 90 species occurring in northern Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela are presented together with illustrations of their floral segments. Information about the...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Szlachetko DL,Kolanowska M

更新日期：2020-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Reliable abundance estimates for species are fundamental in ecology, fisheries, and conservation. Consequently, predictive models able to provide reliable estimates for un- or poorly-surveyed locations would prove a valuable tool for management. Based on commonly used environmental and physical predictors, we develope...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sequeira AMM,Mellin C,Lozano-Montes HM,Meeuwig JJ,Vanderklift MA,Haywood MDE,Babcock RC,Caley MJ

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Mimusops coriacea (A.DC.) Miq., (Sapotaceae), originated from Africa, were introduced to coastal areas in Ecuador where it is not extensively used as a traditional medicine to treat various human diseases. Different therapeutically uses of the species include: analgesic, antimicrobial, hypoglycemic, inflamma...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bustamante K,Santos-Ordóñez E,Miranda M,Pacheco R,Gutiérrez Y,Scull R

更新日期：2019-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Dinocephalian therapsids are renowned for their massive, pachyostotic and ornamented skulls adapted for head-to-head fighting during intraspecific combat. Synchrotron scanning of the tapinocephalid Moschops capensis reveals, for the first time, numerous anatomical adaptations of the central nervous system related to t...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Benoit J,Manger PR,Norton L,Fernandez V,Rubidge BS

更新日期：2017-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To prospectively evaluate the effects of vitamin D3 on disease activity and quality of life in ulcerative colitis (UC) patients with hypovitaminosis D. METHODS:The study was a prospective double-blinded, randomized trial conducted at Community Regional Medical Center, Fresno, CA from 2012-2013. Patients with UC an...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mathur J,Naing S,Mills P,Limsui D

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Metoposaurids are representatives of the extinct amphibian clade Temnospondyli, found on almost every continent exclusively in the Late Triassic deposits. Osteohistologically, it is one of the best-known temnospondyl groups, analyzed with a wide spectrum of methods, such as morphology, morphometry, bone histology or c...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Teschner EM,Chakravorti S,Sengupta DP,Konietzko-Meier D

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Assessing psychological pain has been recommended as an integral part of a comprehensive suicide risk assessment. The Psychache Scale, an established measure of psychological pain, does not specify a time frame for when pain is experienced, which may inadvertently increase the likelihood of identifying indiv...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Meerwijk EL,Weiss SJ

更新日期：2017-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Acoustic recording has been recognized as a valuable tool for non-intrusive monitoring of the marine environment, complementing traditional visual surveys. Acoustic surveys conducted on coral ecosystems have so far been restricted to barrier reefs and to shallow depths (10-30 m). Since they may provide refuge for cora...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bertucci F,Parmentier E,Berthe C,Besson M,Hawkins AD,Aubin T,Lecchini D

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations undergoing rapid climate-driven range expansion experience distinct selection regimes dominated both by increased dispersal at the leading edges and steep environmental gradients. Characterisation of traits associated with such expansions provides insight into the selection pressures and evolutionary const...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Taylor-Cox ED,Macgregor CJ,Corthine A,Hill JK,Hodgson JA,Saccheri IJ

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary biology has entered an era of unprecedented amounts of DNA sequence data, as new sequencing technologies such as Massive Parallel Sequencing (MPS) can generate billions of nucleotides within less than a day. The current bottleneck is how to efficiently handle, process, and analyze such large amounts of da...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Andermann T,Cano Á,Zizka A,Bacon C,Antonelli A

更新日期：2018-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Although liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma are major consequences of hepatitis C (HCV), there has been an increasing number of studies examining extrahepatic manifestations, especially those caused by systemic chronic inflammation and metabolic complications that might predispose HCV patients to atheroscler...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pavicic Ivelja M,Dolic K,Tandara L,Perkovic N,Mestrovic A,Ivic I

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms generating and maintaining biodiversity at regional scales may be evaluated by quantifying β-diversity along environmental gradients. Differences in assemblages result in biotic complementarities and redundancies among sites, which may be quantified through multi-dimensional approaches incorporating taxonom...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： de Fraga R,Ferrão M,Stow AJ,Magnusson WE,Lima AP

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine sponges host complex microbial consortia that vary in their abundance, diversity and stability amongst host species. While our understanding of sponge-microbe interactions has dramatically increased over the past decade, little is known about how sponges and their microbial symbionts interact with viruses, the ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pascelli C,Laffy PW,Kupresanin M,Ravasi T,Webster NS

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Theory predicts that habitat fragmentation, by reducing population size and increasing isolation among remnant populations, can alter their genetic diversity and structure. A cascade of effects is expected: genetic drift and inbreeding after a population bottleneck, changes in biotic interactions that may ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Suárez-Montes P,Chávez-Pesqueira M,Núñez-Farfán J

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Dorsal horn neurons in the spinal cord integrate and relay sensory information to higher brain centers. These neurons are organized in specific laminae and different transcription factors are involved in their specification. The murine homeodomain Gbx1 protein is expressed in the mantle zone of the spinal cord at E12....

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Meziane H,Fraulob V,Riet F,Krezel W,Selloum M,Geffarth M,Acampora D,Hérault Y,Simeone A,Brand M,Dollé P,Rhinn M

更新日期：2013-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of people suffering from eye fatigue induced by visual display terminal (VDT) viewing is expected to increase in the modern world. Eye dysfunction is suggested to induce a decrease in cognitive function, at least in the long term. Furthermore, considering other previous findings, it may be reasonable to thi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Akagi R,Tonotsuka M,Horie R,Hirata K,Ando S

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear is a response to a known threat, anxiety is a response to a perceived threat. Both of these affective states can be detrimental to animal welfare in modern housing environments. In comparison to the well-validated tests for assessing fear in laying hens, tests for measuring anxiety are less developed. Perception ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Campbell DLM,Taylor PS,Hernandez CE,Stewart M,Belson S,Lee C

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine odorant-binding protein (bOBP) differs from other lipocalins by lacking the conserved disulfide bond and for being able to form the domain-swapped dimers. To identify structural features responsible for the formation of the bOBP unique dimeric structure and to understand the role of the domain swapping on maint...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Stepanenko OV,Roginskii DO,Stepanenko OV,Kuznetsova IM,Uversky VN,Turoverov KK

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With their Pan-American distribution, long-nosed armadillos (genus Dasypus) constitute an understudied model for Neotropical biogeography. This genus currently comprises seven recognized species, the nine-banded armadillo (D. novemcinctus) having the widest distribution ranging from Northern Argentina to the...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Billet G,Hautier L,de Thoisy B,Delsuc F

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Aedes aegypti is the major vector of dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya viruses that put millions of people in endemic countries at risk. Mass rearing of this mosquito is crucial for strategies that use modified insects to reduce vector populations and transmission of pathogens, such as sterile insect technique or p...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gonzales KK,Tsujimoto H,Hansen IA

更新日期：2015-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of soils to naturally suppress inherent plant pathogens is an important ecosystem function. Usually, pathogen infection assays are used for estimating the suppressive potential of soils. In natural soils, however, co-occurring pathogens might simultaneously infect plants complicating the estimation of a ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rall BC,Latz E

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00