Element concentrations in pelagic Sargassum along the Mexican Caribbean coast in 2018-2019.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several recent studies have shown that total scores on depressive symptom measures in a general population approximate an exponential pattern except for the lower end of the distribution. Furthermore, we confirmed that the exponential pattern is present for the individual item responses on the Center for Epi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tomitaka S,Kawasaki Y,Ide K,Akutagawa M,Yamada H,Yutaka O,Furukawa TA

更新日期：2017-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：Aim:We aimed to translate and cross-culturally adapt the International Knee Documentation Committee-subjective knee form (IKDC) in Romanian. Method:The original (US) IKDC-subjective knee form was translated according to recommended guidelines. Validity was tested using Spearmans's correlation coefficient between score...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Todor A,Vermesan D,Haragus H,Patrascu JM Jr,Timar B,Cosma DI

更新日期：2020-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The INDETERMINATE DOMAIN (IDD) gene family encodes hybrid transcription factors with distinct zinc finger motifs and appears to be found in all higher plant genomes. IDD genes have been identified throughout the genomes of the model plants Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa, and the functions of many members of thi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Su X,Meng T,Zhao Y,Li G,Cheng X,Abdullah M,Sun X,Cai Y,Lin Y

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial populations present in Hg-rich environments have evolved biological mechanisms to detoxify methylmercury and other organometallic mercury compounds. The most common resistance mechanism relies on the H(+)-assisted cleavage of the Hg-C bond of methylmercury by the organomercurial lyase MerB. Although the init...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Silva PJ,Rodrigues V

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. The ReproQuestionnaire (ReproQ) measures the client's experience with maternity care, following the WHO responsiveness model. In 2015, the ReproQ was appointed as national client experience questionnaire and will be added to the national list of indicators in maternity care. For using the ReproQ in quality...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Scheerhagen M,van Stel HF,Tholhuijsen DJ,Birnie E,Franx A,Bonsel GJ

更新日期：2016-07-13 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：:Seymouria is the best known of the seymouriamorphs, a group of Permo-Carboniferous reptiliomorphs with both terrestrial and aquatic taxa. The majority of research on Seymouria has focused on cranial anatomy, with few detailed descriptions or illustrations of the postcrania. We utilized neutron computed tomography (nCT...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bazzana KD,Gee BM,Bevitt JJ,Reisz RR

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the existence of coral-reef habitats at depths to 165 m in tropical regions has been known for decades, the richness, diversity, and ecological importance of mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) has only recently become widely acknowledged. During an interdisciplinary effort spanning more than two decades, we c...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pyle RL,Boland R,Bolick H,Bowen BW,Bradley CJ,Kane C,Kosaki RK,Langston R,Longenecker K,Montgomery A,Parrish FA,Popp BN,Rooney J,Smith CM,Wagner D,Spalding HL

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold-water corals provide an important habitat for a rich fauna along the continental margins and slopes. Although these azooxanthellate corals are considered particularly sensitive to ocean acidification, their responses to natural variations in pH and aragonite saturation are largely unknown due to the difficulty of...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Fillinger L,Richter C

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent climatic history has strongly impacted plant populations, but little is known about its effect on microbes. Alders, which host few and specific symbionts, have high genetic diversity in glacial refugia. Here, we tested the prediction that communities of root symbionts survived in refugia with their ho...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Roy M,Pozzi AC,Gareil R,Nagati M,Manzi S,Nouioui I,Sharikadze N,Jargeat P,Gryta H,Moreau PA,Fernandez MP,Gardes M

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The Mini-IPIP scales (Donellan et al., 2006) are possibly one of the most commonly used short inventories for measuring the Big Five Factors of personality. In this study, we aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of two Mini-IPIP Spanish short forms, one balanced and one positively wording (PW). ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Martínez-Molina A,Arias VB

更新日期：2018-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Modern advances in sequencing technology have enabled the census of microbial members of many natural ecosystems. Recently, attention is increasingly being paid to the microbial residents of human-made, built ecosystems, both private (homes) and public (subways, office buildings, and hospitals). Here, we rep...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lang JM,Coil DA,Neches RY,Brown WE,Cavalier D,Severance M,Hampton-Marcell JT,Gilbert JA,Eisen JA

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol drinking may be associated with an increased risk of various metabolic diseases. Rat lines selectively bred for alcohol preference and alcohol avoidance constitute an interesting model to study inherited factors related to alcohol drinking and metabolic disorders. The aim of the present study was to compare th...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mierzejewski P,Zakrzewska A,Kuczyńska J,Wyszogrodzka E,Dominiak M

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Mangroves are important coastal ecosystems known for high photosynthetic productivity and the ability to support marine food chains through supply of dissolved carbon or particular organic matter. Most of the carbon found in mangroves is produced by its vegetation and is decomposed in root associated sedimen...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Taketani RG,Moitinho MA,Mauchline TH,Melo IS

更新日期：2018-10-04 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：:Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) outbreaks on pig farms have caused significant economic loss in the swine industry since it was first reported in Thailand a decade ago. Anecdotal evidence suggests that PEDV is now endemic in this region, therefore genome information of circulating PEDV is important for molecula...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tuanthap S,Vongpunsawad S,Phupolphan C,Duang-In A,Wattanaphansak S,Assavacheep P,Theamboonlers A,Luengyosluechakul S,Amonsin A,Poovorawan Y

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The active place avoidance task is a dry-arena task used to assess spatial navigation and memory in rodents. In this task, a subject is put on a rotating circular arena and avoids an invisible sector that is stable in relation to the room. Rotation of the arena means that the subject's avoidance must be active, otherw...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bahník Š,Stuchlík A

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2869.]. ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Qiu S,Sun H,Liu Y,Kanu JS,Li R,Yu Y,Huang X,Li B,Zhang X

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We documented significantly increasing trends in atmospheric loading of ammonium (NH4) and nitrate/nitrite (NO2/3) and decreasing trends in total phosphorus (P) and sulfate (SO4) to Flathead Lake, Montana, from 1985 to 2004. Atmospheric loading of NO2/3 and NH4 increased by 48 and 198% and total P and SO4 decreased by...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ellis BK,Craft JA,Stanford JA

更新日期：2015-03-19 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：:Afrotheria is a strongly supported clade within placental mammals, but morphological synapomorphies for the entire group have only recently come to light. Soft tissue characters represent an underutilized source of data for phylogenetic analysis, but nonetheless provide features shared by some or all members of Afroth...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Brocklehurst RJ,Crumpton N,Button E,Asher RJ

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In the predator-sea urchin-macrophyte trophic cascade, the ecological effect of sea urchins as grazers depends both on their density and the changes in foraging activity, which are influenced by various disturbing factors. However, the complete duration of the alarm reactions of echinoids has not been studie...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhadan PM,Vaschenko MA

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Seed-applied neonicotinoids are widely used in agriculture, yet their effects on non-target species remain incompletely understood. One important group of non-target species is arthropod natural enemies (predators and parasitoids), which contribute considerably to suppression of crop pests. We hypothesized t...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Douglas MR,Tooker JF

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：Background:This study postulates that underlying environmental conditions and a susceptible population's socio-economic status should be explored simultaneously to adequately understand a vector borne disease infection risk. Here we focus on West Nile Virus (WNV), a mosquito borne pathogen, as a case study for spatial ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kala AK,Atkinson SF,Tiwari C

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In highly biodiverse systems, such as coral reefs, prey species are faced with predatory threats from numerous species. Recognition of predators can be innate, or learned, and can help increase the chance of survival. Research suggests that parental exposure to increased predatory threats can affect the development, b...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Atherton JA,McCormick MI

更新日期：2020-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance in our pathogens is medicine's climate change: caused by human activity, and resulting in more extreme outcomes. Resistance emerges in microbial populations when antibiotics act on phenotypic variance within the population. This can arise from either genotypic diversity (resulting from a mutation...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kurenbach B,Hill AM,Godsoe W,van Hamelsveld S,Heinemann JA

更新日期：2018-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of the modern human (Homo sapiens) cranium is characterized by a reduction in the size of the feeding system, including reductions in the size of the facial skeleton, postcanine teeth, and the muscles involved in biting and chewing. The conventional view hypothesizes that gracilization of the human feedi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ledogar JA,Dechow PC,Wang Q,Gharpure PH,Gordon AD,Baab KL,Smith AL,Weber GW,Grosse IR,Ross CF,Richmond BG,Wright BW,Byron C,Wroe S,Strait DS

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal co-existence of metal and antibiotic resistance genes in bacteria offers a new perspective to the bacterial resistance proliferation in contaminated environment. In this study, an arsenotrophic bacterium Achromobacter xylosoxidans BHW-15, isolated from Arsenic (As) contaminated tubewell water in the Bogra ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Istiaq A,Shuvo MSR,Rahman KMJ,Siddique MA,Hossain MA,Sultana M

更新日期：2019-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:A high body fat coupled with low cardiopulmonary fitness and an increase in oxidative stress has been connoted as contributing factors in developing cardiovascular comorbidities. This study aimed to investigate the correlation between antioxidants and oxidative stress status with cardiopulmonary responses ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Adenan DM,Jaafar Z,Jayapalan JJ,Abdul Aziz A

更新日期：2020-05-19 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