Factors affecting relative abundance of low-mobility fishing resources: spiny lobster in the Galapagos Marine Reserve.

abstract：:Background. Physical activity is important for children's physical, mental, and social well-being. Outdoor active play is an important yet unstudied domain of children's physical activity. The objective of this study was to determine if parental encouragement is associated with the frequency that children engage in ou...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ferrao T,Janssen I

更新日期：2015-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In a number of recent studies we used computer modeling to investigate the evolution of muscle leverage (moment arms) and function in extant and extinct archosaur lineages (crocodilians, dinosaurs including birds and pterosaurs). These studies sought to quantify the level of disparity and convergence in muscle moment ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bates K,Maidment SC,Schachner ER,Barrett PM

更新日期：2015-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The vibrating reed frequency meter, originally employed by Békésy and later by Wilson as a cochlear model, uses a set of tuned reeds to represent the cochlea's graded bank of resonant elements and an elastic band threaded between them to provide nearest-neighbour coupling. Here the system, constructed of 21 reeds prog...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bell A,Wit HP

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Methionine (Met) is an essential sulfur-containing amino acid in animals. Cereal and legume crops with limiting levels of Met represent the major food and feed sources for animals. In plants, cystathionine gamma-synthase (CGS), methionine methyltransferase (MMT) and homocysteine methyltransferase (HMT) are committing ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhao M,Wang W,Wei L,Chen P,Yuan F,Wang Z,Ying X

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) is a highly pleiotropic cytokine with antifibrotic activity in wound healing. During the process of wound healing and fibrosis, fibroblasts are the key players. Although accumulating evidence has suggested the antagonistic effects of FGF2 in the activation process of fibrobl...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wu B,Tang X,Zhou Z,Ke H,Tang S,Ke R

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses encoding a replication-associated protein (Rep) within a covalently closed, single-stranded (ss)DNA genome are among the smallest viruses known to infect eukaryotic organisms, including economically valuable agricultural crops and livestock. Although circular Rep-encoding ssDNA (CRESS DNA) viruses are a widesp...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rosario K,Mettel KA,Benner BE,Johnson R,Scott C,Yusseff-Vanegas SZ,Baker CCM,Cassill DL,Storer C,Varsani A,Breitbart M

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In group-living animals, heterogeneity in individuals' social connections may mediate the sharing of microbial infectious agents. In this regard, the genetic relatedness of individuals' commensal gut bacterium Escherichia coli may be ideal to assess the potential for pathogen transmission through animal social network...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Balasubramaniam K,Beisner B,Guan J,Vandeleest J,Fushing H,Atwill E,McCowan B

更新日期：2018-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Ontario, Canada is home to eight native species of turtles; all eight are federally listed as Species At Risk, due to anthropogenic threats. However, until recently, reports of infectious disease have been lacking. Ranavirus is seen as an emerging threat for ectotherms globally, with mass die-offs most often...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Carstairs SJ

更新日期：2019-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A period of starvation is regarded as a sound practice in aquaculture prior to handling, transportation and harvest, to minimise impacts on welfare and ensure proper hygiene after harvest. However, documentation of welfare issues such as stress following starvation and handling in adult Atlantic salmon are lacking. Th...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Waagbø R,Jørgensen SM,Timmerhaus G,Breck O,Olsvik PA

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We revise the genus Conostigmus Dahlbom 1858 occurring in Madagascar, based on data from more specimens than were examined for the latest world revision of the genus. Our results yield new information about intraspecific variability and the nature of the atypical latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) observed in Ceraph...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mikó I,Trietsch C,Sandall EL,Yoder MJ,Hines H,Deans AR

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Guanylurea is the main transformation product of the antidiabetic drug metformin, which is one of the most prescribed pharmaceuticals worldwide. Due to the high rate of microbial degradation of metformin in sewage treatment plants, guanylurea occurs in higher concentrations in surface waters than its parent ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jacob S,Knoll S,Huhn C,Köhler HR,Tisler S,Zwiener C,Triebskorn R

更新日期：2019-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Overweight and obesity among children can cause metabolic syndrome in adulthood and are a significant public health issue. Some studies suggest that maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and excessive gestational weight gain during pregnancy are associated with overweight and obesity in offspring. How...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liu HK,Wu CY,Yang YN,Wu PL,He ZR,Yang SN,Tey SL

更新日期：2019-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Philodendron is the second most diverse genus of the Araceae, a tropical monocot family with significant morphological diversity along its wide geographic distribution in the Neotropics. Although evolutionary studies of Philodendron were conducted in recent years, the phylogenetic relationship among its species remain...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Loss-Oliveira L,Sakuragui C,Soares Mde L,Schrago CG

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The ornamental trade is a worldwide industry worth >15 billion USD with a problem of rampant product misidentification. Minimizing misidentification is critical in the face of overexploitation of species in the trade. We surveyed the peppermint shrimp ornamental marketplace in the southeastern USA, the most intense ma...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Baeza JA,Behringer DC

更新日期：2017-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of smoking habits and other possibly relevant factors on dental implant survival. The study population included all patients who underwent dental implants between the years 1999 and 2008 at a large military dental clinic and were examined in the periodic medical exami...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Twito D,Sade P

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Gelatin hydrogel crosslinked by microbial transglutaminase (mTG) exhibits excellent performance in cell adhesion, proliferation, and differentiation. We examined the gelation time and gel strength of gelatin/mTG hydrogels in various proportions to investigate their physical properties and tested their degradation perf...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yang G,Xiao Z,Ren X,Long H,Qian H,Ma K,Guo Y

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance strategies of clonal organs, and parent and offspring shoots of Phragmites australis (common reed) to heavy metal pollution in soils are not well known. To clarify the tolerance or resistance strategies in reeds, we conducted a pot experiment with five levels of Pb concentration (0∼4,500 mg kg-1) in flood a...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang N,Zhang J,Li Z,Chen J,Zhang Z,Mu C

更新日期：2018-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to quantify consumption of clothianidin-treated corn seed by birds following standard planting practices. Based on post-planting seed counts on 21 fields in southwestern Ontario, Canada, between 29 and 813 seeds/ha (mean of 224 ± 167 (SD)) were estimated to remain on the soil surface im...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： McGee S,Whitfield-Aslund M,Duca D,Kopysh N,Dan T,Knopper L,Brewer L

更新日期：2018-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The canopy-forming, intertidal brown (Phaeophyceae) seaweed Fucus guiryi is distributed along the cold-temperate and warm-temperate coasts of Europe and North Africa. Curiously, an isolated population develops at Punta Calaburras (Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean) but thalli are not present in midsummer every year, ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Melero-Jiménez IJ,Salvo AE,Báez JC,Bañares-España E,Reul A,Flores-Moya A

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Dilated cardiomyopathy is a prevalent and often fatal disease in humans and dogs. Indeed dilated cardiomyopathy is the third most common form of cardiac disease in humans, reported to affect approximately 36 individuals per 100,000 individuals. In dogs, dilated cardiomyopathy is the second most common cardiac disease ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Simpson S,Edwards J,Emes RD,Cobb MA,Mongan NP,Rutland CS

更新日期：2015-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Esophageal cancer is a common malignant tumor in the world, and the aim of this study was to screen key genes related to the development of esophageal cancer using a variety of bioinformatics analysis tools and analyze their biological functions. The data of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma from the Gene Expression ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Guan X,Yao Y,Bao G,Wang Y,Zhang A,Zhong X

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Most studies on neuroblastoma (NB) have been conducted in Western countries or Japan. The objective of our study was to analyze clinical and pathological features, MYCN status, surgical methods, and prognosis in Chinese NB patients. Methods:A retrospective, single-center case series study of 275 NBs was implem...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ma Y,Zheng J,Feng J,Chen L,Dong K,Xiao X

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Inhibition processing is sensitive to aging, and an age-related decline in inhibition processing has been associated with an accelerated rate of progression to Alzheimer disease. Elderly women are two to three times more likely than age-matched men to have Alzheimer disease. Therefore, this study examined wh...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Xu C,Lu Y,Wang B,Zhou C

更新日期：2019-03-18 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：:It is deemed important to understand cetacean occurrence and distribution to comprehend their ecological roles. The geographical occurrence of species' niche can be used to better describe their potential distribution. The niche can be defined using environmental variables. Those variables are considered static and no...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Figueiredo GCE,do Amaral KB,Santos MCO

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective fishery management strategies should be based on stock delimitation and knowledge of the spatial scale at which species are distributed. However, a mismatch often occurs between biological and management units of fishery resources. The green abalone (Haliotis fulgens) supports an important artisanal fishery ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mejía-Ruíz P,Perez-Enriquez R,Mares-Mayagoitia JA,Valenzuela-Quiñonez F

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Caloric restriction (CR) can trigger gorging behavior. We examined macronutrient choice and behavior in mice that gorged during restriction compared to restricted non-gorgers and controls. Fifty MF1 male mice were restricted to 75% of ad-libitum food intake (FI), while ten controls were fed ad-lib. Body mass (BM) and ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hambly C,Speakman JR

更新日期：2015-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Staphylococci are commensals of the mucosal surface and skin of humans and animals, but have been implicated in infections such as otitis externa, pyoderma, urinary tract infections and post-surgical complications. Laboratory records provide useful information to help investigate these infections. Therefore,...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Qekwana DN,Oguttu JW,Sithole F,Odoi A

更新日期：2017-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The systematic relationships of taxa traditionally referred to as 'basal ornithopods' or 'hypsilophodontids' remain poorly resolved since it was discovered that these taxa are not a monophyletic group, but rather a paraphyletic set of neornithischian taxa. Thus, even as the known diversity of these taxa has dramatical...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Boyd CA

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Banteng (Bos javanicus d'Alton 1823) are an endangered species, highly sensitive to habitat structure and quality. In many areas, banteng were extinct and needed to be reintroduced to restore their population. Thus, understanding the responses of body condition of reintroduced banteng to their habitat was im...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kongsurakan P,Chaiyarat R,Nakbun S,Thongthip N,Anuracpreeda P

更新日期：2020-04-23 00:00:00