Phyllosphere bacterial assembly in citrus crop under conventional and ecological management.

abstract：Background:In the absence of highly effective antiviral therapies against SARS-CoV-2, it is crucial to counter the known pathophysiological causes of severe COVID-19. Evaluating the efficacy existing drugs may expedite the development of such therapeutics. Severe COVID-19 is largely the result of a dysregulated immune ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kaye AG,Siegel R

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), the causative agent of white-nose syndrome in bats (WNS), has led to dramatic declines of bat populations in eastern North America. In the spring of 2016, WNS was first detected at several locations in Washington State, USA, which has prompted the need for large scale surveillance ef...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Urbina J,Chestnut T,Schwalm D,Allen J,Levi T

更新日期：2020-01-20 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：:Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an important vegetable cultivated in Asia, Africa and southern Europe and, following tomato and pepper, ranks as the third most important solanaceous vegetable crop. The Dof (DNA-binding with one finger) family is a group of plant-specific transcription factors that play important ro...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wei Q,Wang W,Hu T,Hu H,Mao W,Zhu Q,Bao C

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular RNA (circRNA) is an endogenous noncoding RNA with a covalently closed cyclic structure. Based on their components, circRNAs are divided into exonic circRNAs, intronic circRNAs, and exon-intron circRNAs. CircRNAs have well-conserved sequences and often have high stability due to their resistance to exonuclease...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Xu S,Zhou L,Ponnusamy M,Zhang L,Dong Y,Zhang Y,Wang Q,Liu J,Wang K

更新日期：2018-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed (i) to explore the relationship between vertical (jumping) and horizontal (sprinting) force-velocity-power (FVP) mechanical profiles in a large range of sports and levels of practice, and (ii) to provide a large database to serve as a reference of the FVP profile for all sports and levels tested. A to...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jiménez-Reyes P,Samozino P,García-Ramos A,Cuadrado-Peñafiel V,Brughelli M,Morin JB

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Wildlife demography is typically studied at a single point in time within a year when species, often during the reproductive season, are more active and therefore easier to find. However, this provides only a low-resolution glimpse into demographic temporal patterns over time and may hamper a more complete understandi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Guimarães M,Correa DT,Gaiarsa MP,Kéry M

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Allium tenuissimum L. is a widely distributed perennial herbaceous species in temperate and desert steppes. Relative to other wild Allium species, it produces unique sweet flavors, more biomass in arid and cold environments, and has generated greater interest for crop production. Successful crop establishment, however...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Xiao H,Yang H,Monaco T,Song Q,Rong Y

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse sources of pollution like agricultural or urban runoff are important factors in determining the quality of surface waters, although they are more difficult to monitor than point sources. The objective of our study was to verify assumptions that the inflow from agricultural nutrient sources is higher than from ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Matej-Lukowicz K,Wojciechowska E,Nawrot N,Dzierzbicka-Głowacka LA

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most heterogeneous malignant cancers with no effective targets and treatments. However, the molecular pathogenesis of HCC remains largely uncertain. The aims of our study were to find crucial genes involved in HCC through multidimensional methods and revealed potential mole...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liu ZK,Zhang RY,Yong YL,Zhang ZY,Li C,Chen ZN,Bian H

更新日期：2019-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver fibrosis often appears in chronic liver disease, with extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition as the main feature. Due to the presence of the liver-gut axis, the destruction of intestinal homeostasis is often accompanied by the development of liver fibrosis. The inconsistent ecological environment of different int...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wan S,Huang C,Wang A,Zhu X

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean warming threatens the functioning of coral reef ecosystems by inducing mass coral bleaching and mortality events. The link between temperature and coral bleaching is now well-established based on observations that mass bleaching events usually occur when seawater temperatures are anomalously high. However, times...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： DeCarlo TM,Harrison HB

更新日期：2019-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Liolaemus is one of the most ecologically diverse and species-rich genera of lizards worldwide. It currently includes more than 250 recognized species, which have been subject to many ecological and evolutionary studies. Nevertheless, Liolaemus lizards have a complex taxonomic history, mainly due to the inco...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Panzera A,Leaché AD,D'Elía G,Victoriano PF

更新日期：2017-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera, queens and workers have different longevity although they share the same genome. Queens consume royal jelly (RJ) as the main food throughout their life, including as adults, but workers only eat worker jelly when they are larvae less than 3 days old. In order to explore the ef...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yang W,Tian Y,Han M,Miao X

更新日期：2017-03-28 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：Aim:Historically, the distribution of Sandhill Cranes included much of North America and extending in summer into northeast Russia. In recent years, observations of sandhill cranes in Asia during the non-breeding period have been frequently reported. However, the distribution and abundance of sandhill cranes during the...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gao L,Mi C,Guo Y

更新日期：2019-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We often expect that investigations of the patterns, causes, and consequences of among-individual variation in a trait of interest will reveal how selective pressures or ecological conditions influence that trait. However, many endocrine traits, such as concentrations of glucocorticoid (GC) hormones, exhibit adaptive ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Schoenemann KL,Bonier F

更新日期：2018-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway shows frequent aberrant alterations and pathological activation in breast cancer cells. While PI3K inhibitors have not achieved expectant therapeutic efficacy in clinical trials, and several studies provide promising combination strategies to substantially maximize therapeu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Qin H,Liu L,Sun S,Zhang D,Sheng J,Li B,Yang W

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Eucryptodiran turtles from the Late Jurassic (mainly Kimmeridgian) deposits of the Jura Mountains (Switzerland and France) are among the earliest named species traditionally referred to the Plesiochelyidae, Thalassemydidae, and Eurysternidae. As such, they are a reference for the study of Late Jurassic euc...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Anquetin J,Püntener C,Billon-Bruyat JP

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Riparian corridors can affect nutrient, organic matter, and sediment transport, all of which shape water quality in streams and connected downstream waters. When functioning riparian corridors remain intact, they provide highly valued water quality ecosystem services. However, in rapidly urbanizing watershed...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Atkinson SF,Lake MC

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) populations have experienced dramatic declines since the mid-19th century along the southern portion of the species range, leading citizen groups to petition the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to list the species as endangered in the contiguous US. While there remai...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hart CJ,Kelly RP,Pearson SF

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost all extant testudinids are highly associated with terrestrial habitats and the few tortoises with high affinity to aquatic environments are found within the genus Manouria. Manouria belongs to a clade which forms a sister taxon to all remaining tortoises and is suitable as a model for studying evolutionary tran...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Natchev N,Tzankov N,Werneburg I,Heiss E

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common disease in elderly dogs. The present study aims to evaluate the efficacy of a dietary supplement containing calcium carbonate, calcium-lactate gluconate, chitosan and sodium bicarbonate in dogs with IRIS stage 3 of CKD. Twenty dogs were enrolled in the study, ten were administe...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Martello E,Perondi F,Capucchio MT,Biasato I,Biasibetti E,Cocca T,Bruni N,Lippi I

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial transglutaminase (mTG) was used as a crosslinking agent in the preparation of gelatin sponges. The physical properties of the materials were evaluated by measuring their material porosity, water absorption, and elastic modulus. The stability of the sponges were assessed via hydrolysis and enzymolysis. To stu...

journal_title：PeerJ

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

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individuals with unilateral lower limb amputation have a high risk of developing knee osteoarthritis (OA) in their intact limb as they age. This risk may be related to joint loading experienced earlier in life. We hypothesized that loading during walking would be greater in the intact limb of young US milita...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Miller RH,Krupenevich RL,Pruziner AL,Wolf EJ,Schnall BL

更新日期：2017-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific are increasingly being assessed for their potential mineral wealth. To anticipate the potential impacts on biodiversity and connectivity among populations at these vents, environmental baselines need to be established. Bathymodiolus manusensis is a deep-sea mussel fou...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Thaler AD,Saleu W,Carlsson J,Schultz TF,Van Dover CL

更新日期：2017-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabarcoding can rapidly determine the species composition of bulk samples and thus aids biodiversity and ecosystem assessment. However, it is essential to use primer sets that minimize amplification bias among taxa to maximize species recovery. Despite this fact, the performance of primer sets employed for metabarco...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Elbrecht V,Braukmann TWA,Ivanova NV,Prosser SWJ,Hajibabaei M,Wright M,Zakharov EV,Hebert PDN,Steinke D

更新日期：2019-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear is a response to a known threat, anxiety is a response to a perceived threat. Both of these affective states can be detrimental to animal welfare in modern housing environments. In comparison to the well-validated tests for assessing fear in laying hens, tests for measuring anxiety are less developed. Perception ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Campbell DLM,Taylor PS,Hernandez CE,Stewart M,Belson S,Lee C

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. There has been a continual increase in injury rates in cricket, with hamstring strain injuries (HSIs) being the most prominent. Eccentric knee flexor weakness and bilateral asymmetries are major modifiable risk factors for future HSIs. However, there is a lack of data relating to eccentric hamstring streng...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chalker WJ,Shield AJ,Opar DA,Keogh JW

更新日期：2016-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrozoans display the most morphological diversity within the phylum Cnidaria. While recent molecular studies have provided some insights into their evolutionary history, sister group relationships remain mostly unresolved, particularly at mid-taxonomic levels. Specifically, within Hydroidolina, the most speciose hyd...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kayal E,Bentlage B,Cartwright P,Yanagihara AA,Lindsay DJ,Hopcroft RR,Collins AG

更新日期：2015-11-19 00:00:00