Towards a barnacle tree of life: integrating diverse phylogenetic efforts into a comprehensive hypothesis of thecostracan evolution.

abstract：:'Living fossils', a phrase first coined by Darwin, are defined as species with limited recent diversification and high morphological stasis over long periods of evolutionary time. Morphological stasis, however, can potentially lead to diversification rates being underestimated. Notostraca, or tadpole shrimps, is an an...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mathers TC,Hammond RL,Jenner RA,Hänfling B,Gómez A

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Biopesticides based on strains of the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are used globally for effective and environmentally friendly pest control. The most serious threat to the sustainable use of these microbial pesticides is the development of resistance on targeted pests. Populations of Plutella xylos...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Baragamaarachchi RY,Samarasekera JKRR,Weerasena OVDSJ,Lamour K,Jurat-Fuentes JL

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent improvements in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies can facilitate the obtainment of mitochondrial genomes. However, it is not clear whether NGS could be effectively used to reconstruct the mitogenome with high gene rearrangement. These high rearrangements would cause amplification failure, and/or ass...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yuan S,Xia Y,Zheng Y,Zeng X

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitiligo is a chronic asymptomatic disorder affecting melanocytes from the basal layer of the epidermis which leads to a patchy loss of skin color. Even though it is one of the neglected disease conditions, people suffering from vitiligo are more prone to psychological disorders. As of now, various studies have been d...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Srivastava P,Choudhury A,Talwar M,Mohanty S,Narad P,Sengupta A

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Sacbrood virus (SBV) is one of the most pathogenic honeybee viruses that exhibits host specificity and regional variations. The SBV strains that infect the Chinese honeybee Apis cerana are called Chinese SBVs (CSBVs). Methods:In this study, a CSBV strain named AmCSBV-SDLY-2016 (GenBank accession No. MG73328...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Li M,Fei D,Sun L,Ma M

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi play a critical role in a range of ecosystems; however, their interactions and functions in marine hosts, and particular sponges, is poorly understood. Here we assess the fungal community composition of three co-occurring sponges (Cymbastela concentrica, Scopalina sp., Tedania anhelans) and the surrounding seawa...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Nguyen MTHD,Thomas T

更新日期：2018-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell immobilization is an alternative to microencapsulation for the maintenance of cells in a liquid medium. However, artificial immobilization carriers are expensive and pose a high safety risk. Okara, a food-grade byproduct from soymilk production, is rich in prebiotics. Lactobacilli could provide health enhancing e...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Xiudong X,Ying W,Xiaoli L,Ying L,Jianzhong Z

更新日期：2016-11-10 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：:The Proboscideans, an order of mammals including elephants, are the largest of the Earth lands animals. One probable consequence of the rapid increase of their body size is the development of the trunk, a multitask highly sensitive organ used in a large repertoire of behaviours. The absence of bones in the trunk allow...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lefeuvre M,Gouat P,Mulot B,Cornette R,Pouydebat E

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:While studying organisms living in association with the solitary tunicate Phallusia nigra (Ascidiacea, Ascidiidae) from a shallow fringing reef at Zeytouna Beach (Egyptian Red Sea), one of the collected ascidians showed peculiar perforations on its tunic. Once dissected, the perforations revealed to be the openings of...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Martin D,Nygren A,Cruz-Rivera E

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Digital medicine and smartphone-enabled health technologies provide a novel source of human health and human biology data. However, in part due to its intricacies, few methods have been established to analyze and interpret data in this domain. We previously conducted a six-month interventional trial examinin...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gollamudi SS,Topol EJ,Wineinger NE

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Permineralized peat from the central Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica has provided a wealth of information on plant and fungal diversity in Middle Triassic high-latitude forest paleoecosystems; however, there are no reports as yet of algae or cyanobacteria. The first record of a fossil filamentous cyanobacterium...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Harper CJ,Taylor EL,Krings M

更新日期：2020-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schotia brachypetala Sond. (Fabaceae) is an endemic tree of Southern Africa whose phytochemistry and pharmacology were slightly studied. The present work aimed at profiling the major phenolics compounds present in the hydro-alcohol extract from S. brachypetala leaves (SBE) using LC/HRESI/MS/MS and NMR and pr...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sobeh M,ElHawary E,Peixoto H,Labib RM,Handoussa H,Swilam N,El-Khatib AH,Sharapov F,Mohamed T,Krstin S,Linscheid MW,Singab AN,Wink M,Ayoub N

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:According to Spearman's law of diminishing returns (SLODR), IQ test scores are more g saturated among those with low, compared to those with high, ability. The present simulation shows that such difference in saturation can be observed if test scores are affected by a disturbing factor, for example, low motivation, il...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sorjonen K,Melin B

更新日期：2020-07-03 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：: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：:Hypocotyl elongation is a critical sign of seed germination and seedling growth, and it is regulated by multi-environmental factors. Light, temperature, and water potential are the major environmental stimuli, and their regulatory mechanism on hypocotyl growth has been extensively studied at molecular level. However, ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wang H,Shang Q

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The ichthyoplankton assemblage structure in the Yangtze Estuary was analyzed based on four springs in 1999, 2001, 2004 and 2007 in order to provide detailed characterizations of the ichthyoplankton assemblage in springs, examine the long-term dynamics of spring ichthyoplankton assemblages, and evaluate the influence o...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang H,Xian W,Liu S

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The increase in bioinformatics resources such as tools/scripts and databases poses a great challenge for users seeking to construct interactive and reproducible biological data analysis applications. Here, we propose an open-source, comprehensive, flexible R package named BioInstaller that consists of the R functions,...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Li J,Cui B,Dai Y,Bai L,Huang J

更新日期：2018-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Oral cancer progresses from hyperplastic epithelial lesions through dysplasia to invasive carcinoma. The critical needs in oral cancer treatment are expanding our knowledge of malignant tumour progression and the development of useful approaches to prevent dysplastic lesions. This study was designed to gain ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ge S,Zhou H,Zhou Z,Liu L,Lou J

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The cryptic species that make up the Euwallacea fornicatus species complex can be readily distinguished via their DNA sequences. Until recently, it was believed that the Hawaiian Islands had been invaded by only one of these cryptic species, E. perbrevis (tea shot hole borer; TSHB). However, following the 2016 deposit...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rugman-Jones PF,Au M,Ebrahimi V,Eskalen A,Gillett CPDT,Honsberger D,Husein D,Wright MG,Yousuf F,Stouthamer R

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Just as for most other tortoise species, the once common Chaco tortoise, Chelonoidis chilensis (Testudinidae), is under constant threat across it distribution in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. Despite initial qualitative description of the species distribution and further individual reports of new locati...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ruete A,Leynaud GC

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid vectors based on bacteriophage integrases are important tools in molecular microbiology for the introduction of foreign DNA, especially into bacterial species where other systems for genetic manipulation are limited. Site specific integrases catalyze recombination between phage and bacterial attachment sites (...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Herisse M,Porter JL,Guerillot R,Tomita T,Goncalves Da Silva A,Seemann T,Howden BP,Stinear TP,Pidot SJ

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Carrot is an important root vegetable crop abundant in bioactive compounds including carotenoids, vitamins, and dietary fibers. Carrot intake and its products are gradually growing owing to its high antioxidant activity. Auxins are a class of plant hormones that control many processes of plant growth and development. ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Khadr A,Wang GL,Wang YH,Zhang RR,Wang XR,Xu ZS,Tian YS,Xiong AS

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The exploration of the evolution of RNA viruses has been aided recently by the discovery of copies of fragments or complete genomes of non-retroviral RNA viruses (Non-retroviral Endogenous RNA Viral Elements, or NERVEs) in many eukaryotic nuclear genomes. Among the most prominent NERVEs are partial copies of the RNA d...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bruenn JA,Warner BE,Yerramsetty P

更新日期：2015-04-09 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：:Background. Little is known about the characteristics of internet distractions that students may engage in during lecture. The objective of this pilot study is to identify some of the internet-based distractions students engage in during in-person lectures. The findings will help identify what activities most commonly...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Nalliah RP,Allareddy V

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Acontia, located in the gastrovascular cavity of anemone, are thread-like tissue containing numerous stinging cells which serve as a unique defense tissue against predators of the immobile acontiarian sea anemone. Although its morphology and biological functions, such as defense and digestion, have been studied, the d...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lam J,Cheng YW,Chen WU,Li HH,Chen CS,Peng SE

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:To explore whether unilateral relapse of Bechet's disease-associated uveitis (BDU) causes differences in the tear proteome between the diseased and the contralateral quiescent eye and potential tear biomarkers for uveitis recurrence and disease monitoring. Method:To minimize interindividual variations, bilater...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liang A,Qin W,Zhang M,Gao F,Zhao C,Gao Y

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The leading cause of surface water impairment in United States' rivers and streams is pathogen contamination. Although use of fecal indicators has reduced human health risk, current approaches to identify and reduce exposure can be improved. One important knowledge gap within exposure assessment is character...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gilfillan D,Joyner TA,Scheuerman P

更新日期：2018-09-13 00:00:00