Future sea-level rise drives rocky intertidal habitat loss and benthic community change.

abstract：:We present a semi-empirical (PM6-based) computational method for systematically estimating the effect of all possible single mutants, within a certain radius of the active site, on the barrier height of an enzymatic reaction. The intent of this method is not a quantitative prediction of the barrier heights, but rather...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hediger MR,Steinmann C,De Vico L,Jensen JH

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological carbon sequestration by forest ecosystems plays an important role in the net balance of greenhouse gases, acting as a carbon sink for anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Nevertheless, relatively little is known about the abiotic environmental factors (including climate) that control carbon storage in temperate and...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Duchesne L,Houle D,Ouimet R,Lambert MC,Logan T

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of population genetic structure in Dissostichus eleginoides have shown that oceanographic and geographic discontinuities drive in this species population differentiation. Studies have focused on the genetics of D. eleginoides in the Southern Ocean; however, there is little knowledge of their genetic v...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Canales-Aguirre CB,Ferrada-Fuentes S,Galleguillos R,Oyarzun FX,Hernández CE

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Trees in the Morus genera belong to the Moraceae family. To better understand the species status of genus Morus and to provide information for studies on evolutionary biology within the genus, the complete chloroplast (cp) genomes of M. cathayana and M. multicaulis were sequenced. The plastomes of the two species are ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kong WQ,Yang JH

更新日期：2017-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Infrared thermal imaging has emerged as a valuable tool in veterinary medicine, in particular for evaluating reproductive processes. Here, we explored differences in skin temperature of twenty female chimpanzees in Budongo Forest, Uganda, four of which were pregnant during data collection. Based on previous literature...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Dezecache G,Wilke C,Richi N,Neumann C,Zuberbühler K

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we provide evidence to support an extension of the recognized distributional range of the Mountain Elaenia (Elaenia frantzii) to include southern Mexico. We collected two specimens in breeding condition in northwestern Sierra Norte de Chiapas, Mexico. Morphologic and genetic evidence support their identity as Ela...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hanna ZR,Ortiz-Ramírez MF,Ríos-Muñoz CA,Cayetano-Rosas H,Bowie RC,Navarro-Sigüenza AG

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The Aegean Sea coast of Turkey hosts one of the most important nesting grounds for loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Mediterranean Sea. Previous studies have revealed that the sea turtle carapace provides favourable conditions for various epibiontic organisms. Epibionts occurring on the carapac...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kaleli A,Car A,Witkowski A,Krzywda M,Riaux-Gobin C,Solak CN,Kaska Y,Zgłobicka I,Płociński T,Wróbel R,Kurzydłowski K

更新日期：2020-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is a multifactorial disorder caused by the interaction of genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors. The formation of cytotoxic oligomers consisting of Aβ peptide is widely accepted as being one of the main key events triggering the development of Alzheimer's disease. Aβ peptide production resu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Parenti N,Del Grosso A,Antoni C,Cecchini M,Corradetti R,Pavone FS,Calamai M

更新日期：2017-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylum Actinobacteria constitutes one of the largest and anciently divergent phyla within the Bacteria domain. Actinobacterial diversity has been thoroughly researched in various environments due to its unique biotechnological potential. Such studies have focused mostly on soil communities, but more recently marin...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Arocha-Garza HF,Canales-Del Castillo R,Eguiarte LE,Souza V,De la Torre-Zavala S

更新日期：2017-05-02 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：BACKGROUND:Dengue studies at the urban scale are scarce and required for guiding control efforts. In Brazil, the burden of dengue is high and challenges city public health administrations with limited resources. Here we studied the dynamics of a dengue epidemic in a single city. METHODS:Serum samples from dengue suspe...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Villabona-Arenas CJ,de Oliveira JL,de Sousa-Capra C,Balarini K,Pereira da Fonseca CR,Zanotto PM

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Synechocystis gathered momentum in modelling studies and biotechnological applications owing to multiple factors like fast growth, ability to fix carbon dioxide into valuable products, and the relative ease of genetic manipulation. Synechocystis physiology and metabolism, and consequently, the productivity of Synechoc...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cordara A,Re A,Pagliano C,Van Alphen P,Pirone R,Saracco G,Branco Dos Santos F,Hellingwerf K,Vasile N

更新日期：2018-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Global warming can significantly affect many aspects of the biology of animal species, including their thermal physiology and physiological performance. Thermal performance curves provide a heuristic model to evaluate the impacts of temperature on the ecophysiology of ectotherms. When integrated with other thermal bio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cabezas-Cartes F,Fernández JB,Duran F,Kubisch EL

更新日期：2019-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：Background:WRKY proteins play a vital role in the plants response to different stresses, growth and development. Studies of WRKY proteins have been mainly focused on model plant Arabidopsis and a few other vegetable plants. However, the systematical study of eggplant WRKY transcription factor superfamily is scarce. Me...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yang Y,Liu J,Zhou X,Liu S,Zhuang Y

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Massively parallel sequencing technology is being used to sequence highly diverse populations of DNA such as that derived from heterogeneous cell mixtures containing both wild-type and disease-related states. At the core of such molecule tagging techniques is the tagging and identification of sequence read...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Andrews TD,Jeelall Y,Talaulikar D,Goodnow CC,Field MA

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Climate change concurrent with anthropogenic disturbances can initiate serial changes that reverberate up the food chain with repercussions for fisheries. To date, there is no information available concerning the combined effects of global warming and human impacts on tropical marine food webs. While tempe...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chew LL,Chong VC

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor unit synchronization is the tendency of motor neurons and their associated muscle fibers to discharge near-simultaneously. It has been theorized as a control mechanism for force generation by common excitatory inputs to these motor neurons. Magnitude of synchronization is calculated from peaks in cross-correlati...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tweedell AJ,Tenan MS

更新日期：2019-12-10 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

abstract：:Mega-journals are a new kind of scholarly journal made possible by electronic publishing. They are open access (OA) and funded by charges, which authors pay for the publishing services. What distinguishes mega-journals from other OA journals is, in particular, a peer review focusing only on scientific trustworthiness....

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Björk BC

更新日期：2018-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Flies use specialized photoreceptors R7 and R8 in the dorsal rim area (DRA) to detect skylight polarization. R7 and R8 form a tiered waveguide (central rhabdomere pair, CRP) with R7 on top, filtering light delivered to R8. We examine how the division of a given resource, CRP length, between R7 and R8 affects their abi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Heras FJ,Laughlin SB

更新日期：2017-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Palythoa caribaeorum is a zoanthid often dominant in shallow rocky environments along the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean, from the tropics to the subtropics. This species has high environmental tolerance and is a good space competitor in reef environments. Considering current and future scenarios in the global clima...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Durante LM,Cruz ICS,Lotufo TMC

更新日期：2018-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental question in ecology is how the success of a taxon changes through time and what drives this change. This question is commonly approached using trajectories averaged over a group of taxa. Using results from probability theory, we show analytically and using examples that averaged trajectories will be more...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hohmann N,Jarochowska E

更新日期：2019-11-06 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 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：Background:The microRNAs (miRNAs) have been validated as prognostic markers in many cancers. Here, we aimed at developing a miRNA-based signature for predicting the prognosis of esophagus adenocarcinoma (EAC). Methods:The RNA-sequencing data set of EAC was downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Eighty-four pa...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lan T,Lu Y,Xiao Z,Xu H,He J,Hu Z,Mao W

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are key epigenetic factors in regulating chromatin structure and gene expression in multiple aspects of plant growth, development, and response to abiotic or biotic stresses. Many studies on systematic analysis and molecular function of HDACs in Arabidopsis and rice have been conducted. Ho...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang K,Yu L,Pang X,Cao H,Si H,Zang J,Xing J,Dong J

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Correct identification of forensically important insects, such as flies in the family Calliphoridae, is a crucial step for them to be used as evidence in legal investigations. Traditional identification based on morphology has been effective, but has some limitations when it comes to identifying immature stages of cer...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yusseff-Vanegas SZ,Agnarsson I

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine gastropod, Coralliophila abbreviata, is an obligate corallivore that causes substantial mortality in Caribbean Acropora spp. Considering the imperiled status of Acropora cervicornis and A. palmata, a better understanding of ecological interactions resulting in tissue loss may enable more effective conservat...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bright AJ,Cameron CM,Miller MW

更新日期：2015-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Although mosquito microbiota are known to influence reproduction, nutrition, disease transmission, and pesticide resistance, the relationship between host-associated microbial community composition and geographical location is poorly understood. To begin addressing this knowledge gap, we characterized microbiota assoc...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Duguma D,Hall MW,Smartt CT,Debboun M,Neufeld JD

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Habitat selection and its adaptive outcomes are crucial features for animal life-history strategies. Nevertheless, congruence between habitat preferences and breeding success has been rarely demonstrated, which may result from the single-scale evaluation of animal choices. As habitat selection is a complex m...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jedlikowski J,Brambilla M

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00