The combined effects of light intensity, temperature, and water potential on wall deposition in regulating hypocotyl elongation of Brassica rapa.

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：:Recent field trips to Member III of the Naobaogou Formation, Nei Mongol, China yielded new fossil discoveries, increasing our knowledge of the late Permian continental fauna from China. We present here a new large therocephalian, Jiufengia jiai gen. et sp. nov., represented by a partial skull with mandibles and part o...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liu J,Abdala F

更新日期：2019-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium septicum produces a number of diseases in human and farm animals which, in most of the cases, are fatal without clinical intervention. Alpha toxin is an important agent and the unique lethal virulent factor produced by Clostridium septicum. This toxin is haemolytic, highly lethal and necrotizing activities...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Vázquez-Iglesias L,Estefanell-Ucha B,Barcia-Castro L,Páez de la Cadena M,Álvarez-Chaver P,Ayude-Vázquez D,Rodríguez-Berrocal FJ

更新日期：2017-06-22 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:Larval settlement and intra-specific interactions during the recruitment phase are crucial in determining the distribution and density of sessile marine populations. Marine caves are confined and stable habitats. As such, they provide a natural laboratory to study the settlement and recruitment processes in ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Costantini F,Rugiu L,Cerrano C,Abbiati M

更新日期：2018-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Complement factor C3 represents the central component of the complement cascade and its activation split product C3a plays an important role in inflammation and disease. Many human disorders are linked to dysregulation of the complement system and alteration in interaction molecules. Therefore, various thera...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Winnicki W,Pichler P,Mechtler K,Imre R,Steinmacher I,Sengölge G,Knafl D,Beilhack G,Wagner L

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Loot boxes are items in video games that may be paid for with real-world money, but which contain randomised contents. There is a reliable correlation between loot box spending and problem gambling severity: the more money gamers spend on loot boxes, the more severe their problem gambling tends to be. However, it is u...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zendle D

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We revise the taxonomy of the myrmicine ants of the Monomorium monomorium species-group for the Arabian Peninsula. Six species are recognized: Monomorium aeyade Collingwood & Agosti, 1996, M. clavicorne André, 1881, M. exiguum Forel, 1894, M. holothir Bolton, 1987, M. mohammedi sp. n., and M. sarawatense Sharaf & Alda...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sharaf M,Al Dhafer HM,Aldawood AS,Hita Garcia F

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We created an easy-to-use device for operant licking experiments and another device that records environmental variables. Both devices use the Raspberry Pi computer to obtain data from multiple input devices (e.g., radio frequency identification tag readers, touch and motion sensors, environmental sensors) and activat...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Longley M,Willis EL,Tay CX,Chen H

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-diversity, defined as spatial replacement in species composition, is crucial to the understanding of how local communities assemble. These changes can be driven by environmental or geographic factors (such as geographic distance), or a combination of the two. Spiders have been shown to be good indicators of envir...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rodriguez-Artigas SM,Ballester R,Corronca JA

更新日期：2016-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have seen a growing awareness of the role the immune system plays in successful cancer treatment, especially in novel therapies like immunotherapy. The characterization of the immunological composition of tumors and their micro-environment is thus becoming a necessity. In this paper we introduce a deep le...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Aprupe L,Litjens G,Brinker TJ,van der Laak J,Grabe N

更新日期：2019-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The study investigates the solution of the multicollinearity between certain body measurements of Romanov lambs and prediction of the body weight of Romanov lambs using the thus calculated factor analysis scores and a multiple regression model. For this purpose, the body measurements (wither height (WH), croup height ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tahtali Y

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wildlife biologists often use grid-based designs to sample animals and generate abundance estimates. Although sampling in grids is theoretically sound, in application, the method can be logistically difficult and expensive when sampling elusive species inhabiting extensive areas. These factors make it challenging to s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Harris G,Farley S,Russell GJ,Butler MJ,Selinger J

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Sex ratio distorting agents (maternally inherited symbionts and meiotically-driving sex chromosomes) are common in insects. When these agents rise to high frequencies they create strong population sex ratio bias and selection then favours mutations that act to restore the rare sex. Despite this strong select...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Reynolds LA,Hornett EA,Jiggins CD,Hurst GDD

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-invasive measurements of glucocorticoid (GC) concentrations, including cortisol and corticosterone, serve as reliable indicators of adrenocortical activities and physiological stress loads in a variety of species. As an alternative to invasive analyses based on plasma, GC concentrations in saliva still represent s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Nemeth M,Pschernig E,Wallner B,Millesi E

更新日期：2016-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of small unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) for ecological studies and wildlife population assessments is increasing. These methods can provide significant benefits in terms of costs and reductions in human risk, but little is known if UAS-based approaches cause disturbance of animals during operations. To addr...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Arona L,Dale J,Heaslip SG,Hammill MO,Johnston DW

更新日期：2018-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The present study investigated differences in reading and spelling outcomes in Dutch and English as a second language (ESL) in adolescents with a high familial risk of dyslexia, of whom some have developed dyslexia (HRDys) while others have not (HRnonDys), in comparison to a low familial risk control group w...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： van Setten ERH,Tops W,Hakvoort BE,van der Leij A,Maurits NM,Maassen BAM

更新日期：2017-10-16 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：:Multimodal imaging enables sensitive measures of the architecture and integrity of the human brain, but the high-dimensional nature of advanced brain imaging features poses inherent challenges for the analyses and interpretations. Multivariate age prediction reduces the dimensionality to one biologically informative s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Richard G,Kolskår K,Sanders AM,Kaufmann T,Petersen A,Doan NT,Monereo Sánchez J,Alnæs D,Ulrichsen KM,Dørum ES,Andreassen OA,Nordvik JE,Westlye LT

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:As other spiny lobsters, Panulirus argus is supposed to use preferentially proteins and lipids in energy metabolism, while carbohydrates are well digested but poorly utilized. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of dietary carbohydrate level on digestion and metabolism in the spiny lobster P. argus. We us...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rodríguez-Viera L,Perera E,Montero-Alejo V,Perdomo-Morales R,García-Galano T,Martínez-Rodríguez G,Mancera JM

更新日期：2017-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of biodiversity caused by impact of elephants (Loxodonta africana) on African woodlands may require a management response, but any action should be based on an understanding of why elephants choose to utilise trees destructively. Comprehension of elephant feeding behaviour requires consideration of the relative v...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Clegg BW,O'Connor TG

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zika virus (ZIKV) transmission has been reported in 67 countries/territories in the Oceania region and the Americas since 2015, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare ZIKV as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in February 2016, due to its strong association with medical comp...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hsieh YH

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoamines serotonin and dopamine are important neuromodulators present in the central nervous system, known to be active regulators of social behaviour in fish as in other vertebrates. Our aim was to investigate the region-specific brain monoaminergic differences arising when individual cleaners face a client (mu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： de Abreu MS,Messias JPM,Thörnqvist PO,Winberg S,Soares MC

更新日期：2018-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to reports of wild primates, studies of captive primates' flexibility often reveal conservatism: individuals are unable to switch to new and more efficient strategies when task demands change. We propose that such conservatism might be a result of task design and hypothesize that conservatism might be link...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jacobson SL,Hopper LM

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Research addressing distinctions and similarities between people's malevolent character traits (i.e., the Dark Triad: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) has detected inconsistent linear associations to temperament traits. Additionally, these dark traits seem to have a common core expressed as u...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Garcia D,Rosenberg P

更新日期：2016-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The increasing production of sewage sludge (SS) engenders the problem of its responsible utilization and disposal. Likewise, urban sediments (SED) are deposited at the bottom of urban reservoirs and sedimentation ponds, and these require periodical dredging and utilization. However, while the SS and SED depo...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wyrwicka A,Urbaniak M,Przybylski M

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a major lethal malignant cancer of the head and neck region, yet its molecular mechanisms of tumourigenesis are still unclear. Patients and methods:We performed weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) on RNA-sequencing data with clinical information obtain...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hu X,Sun G,Shi Z,Ni H,Jiang S

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) stoichiometric ratios are important indicators of ecosystem function and productivity. However, few studies have assessed the nutrient relationship between plant, litter and soil, and the nutrient stock in different secondary mixed forest types. Methods:We investi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pang Y,Tian J,Zhao X,Chao Z,Wang Y,Zhang X,Wang D

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial additive triclosan has been used in personal care products widely across the globe for decades. Triclosan resistance has been noted among Vibrio spp., but reports have been anecdotal and the extent of phenotypic triclosan resistance across the Vibrionaceae family has not been established. Here, tricl...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lydon KA,Robertson MJ,Lipp EK

更新日期：2018-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Knowledge Translation (KT) is expected to be a critical learning outcome of a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program. It continues to serve as an area of interest among educators and healthcare providers due to its importance to evidence-based practice. This study endeavored to develop a valid a...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ong IL,Diño MJS,Calimag MMP,Hidalgo FA

更新日期：2018-08-13 00:00:00