The nine ADAMs family members serve as potential biomarkers for immune infiltration in pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

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：:Two forms of the monstrilloid copepod, one represented by males, the other by females, were dominant among the monstrilloids collected while sampling zooplankton with a light trap in southern coastal waters of Korea. Morphological examination revealed that the males are conspecific with the previously reported and rat...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jeon D,Lim D,Lee W,Soh HY

更新日期：2018-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study found that use of the traditional halibut hook (čibu.d) of the Makah Tribe in present day recreational Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) fisheries significantly reduced bycatch compared to paired 8/0 circle hooks. The study also found that the čibu.d had a significantly reduced catch of halibu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Petersen JR,Scordino JJ,Svec CI,Buttram RH,Gonzalez MR,Scordino J

更新日期：2020-06-12 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：Background:Nurses are often the first to activate the chain of survival when a cardiorespiratory arrest happens. That is why it is crucial that they keep their knowledge and skills up-to-date and their attitudes to resuscitation are very important. The main aim of this study was to analyse whether the level of theoreti...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tíscar-González V,Blanco-Blanco J,Gea-Sánchez M,Rodriguez Molinuevo A,Moreno-Casbas T

更新日期：2019-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Automatic species classification of birds from their sound is a computational tool of increasing importance in ecology, conservation monitoring and vocal communication studies. To make classification useful in practice, it is crucial to improve its accuracy while ensuring that it can run at big data scales. Many appro...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Stowell D,Plumbley MD

更新日期：2014-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Current ovarian cancer treatment involves chemotherapy that has serious limitations, such as rapid clearance, unfavorable biodistribution and severe side effects. To overcome these limitations, drug delivery systems (DDS) have been developed to encapsulate chemotherapeutics for delivery to tumor cells. However, no sys...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Raavé R,de Vries RB,Massuger LF,van Kuppevelt TH,Daamen WF

更新日期：2015-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:"Higher" termites have been able to colonize all tropical and subtropical regions because of their ability to digest lignocellulose with the aid of their prokaryotic gut microbiota. Over the last decade, numerous studies based on 16S rRNA gene amplicon libraries have largely described both the taxonomy and structure o...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hervé V,Liu P,Dietrich C,Sillam-Dussès D,Stiblik P,Šobotník J,Brune A

更新日期：2020-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) is a highly pleiotropic cytokine with antifibrotic activity in wound healing. During the process of wound healing and fibrosis, fibroblasts are the key players. Although accumulating evidence has suggested the antagonistic effects of FGF2 in the activation process of fibrobl...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wu B,Tang X,Zhou Z,Ke H,Tang S,Ke R

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Efficient communication requires that signals are well transmitted and perceived in a given environment. Natural selection therefore drives the evolution of different signals in different environments. In addition, environmental heterogeneity at small spatial or temporal scales may favour phenotypic plastici...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wright DS,Rietveld E,Maan ME

更新日期：2018-01-03 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：BACKGROUND:Profiling of microbial communities via metagenomic shotgun sequencing has enabled researches to gain unprecedented insight into microbial community structure and the functional roles of community members. This study describes a method and basic analysis for a metagenomic adaptation of the double digest restr...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liu MY,Worden P,Monahan LG,DeMaere MZ,Burke CM,Djordjevic SP,Charles IG,Darling AE

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of recent parallel outbreaks of the high pathogenicity H5N8 avian flu virus in Europe and in Japan can be traced to a single source population, which has most likely been spread by migratory birds. By using Bayesian coalescent methods to analyze the DNA sequences of the virus to find the times for divergenc...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Dalby AR,Iqbal M

更新日期：2015-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The gray snapper (Lutjanus griseus) has a tropical and subtropical distribution. In much of its range this species represents one of the most important fishery resources because of its high quality meat and market value. Due to this, this species is vulnerable to overfishing, and population declines have bee...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rosado-Nic OJ,Hogan JD,Lara-Arenas JH,Rosas-Luis R,Carrillo L,Villegas-Sánchez CA

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate community shelter effects of two invasive decapod species, Hemigrapsus sanguineus and Carcinus maenas, in the Long Island Sound (LIS), we deployed artificial shelters in the intertidal and immediate subtidal zones. These consisted of five groups during the summer: a control, a resident H. sanguineus mal...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hudson DM,Reagan D,Crivello JF

更新日期：2016-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Self-efficacy and enjoyment are two main constructs proposed within many motivational theories in any human endeavor, sport and physical activity included. Methods:The purpose of this study was to examine the factor structure of two pictorial scales measuring self-efficacy and enjoyment levels in a sample o...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Morano M,Bortoli L,Ruiz MC,Vitali F,Robazza C

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on concordant differences in male advertisement call, tadpole morphology, and absence of haplotype sharing in the barcoding 16S mitochondrial DNA, we describe here a new species of spotted leaf frog of the genus Phasmahyla from Atlantic Forest, State of Rio de Janeiro, Southeast Brazil. The new species is most s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pereira EA,Rocha LCL,Folly H,da Silva HR,Santana DJ

更新日期：2018-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in soil bacterial communities, which are crucial for the assessment of ecological restoration in Chinese plantations, have never been studied in the "Three North Shelterbelt" project in the semi-arid areas. We used high-throughput sequencing of the 16S rDNA gene to investigate the soil bacterial community dive...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Deng J,Zhang Y,Yin Y,Zhu X,Zhu W,Zhou Y

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:This study aimed to examine differences between track and field (T&F) runners and foot-orienteers (Foot-O) in the walking and running tests in the absence of vision and hearing. We attempted to determine whether experienced foot orienteers show better ability to maintain the indicated direction compared to trac...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Machowska W,Cych P,Siemieński A,Migasiewicz J

更新日期：2019-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The Chinese Natural Forest Protection program has been conducted nationwide and has achieved resounding success. However, timber importation has increased; therefore, producing more domestic timber is critical to meet the demand for raw materials. Fertilization is one of the most effective silviculture pract...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hou L,Dong Z,Yang Y,Zhang D,Zhang S,Zhang S

更新日期：2018-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Teeth have been a focus of research in both extinct and extant taxa alike; a significant portion of dental literature is concerned with dental patterning and replacement. Most non-mammalian vertebrates continuously replace their dentition but an anomalous group of squamates has forgone this process in only having one ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Haridy Y

更新日期：2018-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4110.]. ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： van Heteren AH,van Dierendonck RCH,van Egmond MANE,Ten Hagen SL,Kreuning J

更新日期：2017-12-20 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：:Motile cryptofauna inhabiting coral reefs are complex assemblages that utilize the space available among dead coral stands and the surrounding coral rubble substrate. They comprise a group of organisms largely overlooked in biodiversity estimates because they are hard to collect and identify, and their collection caus...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Monroy-Velázquez LV,Rodríguez-Martínez RE,Blanchon P,Alvarez F

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Construction of hydropower stations has been an important approach to meet China's increasing power demand, but the impact of construction of hydropower stations on river microbiota is not fully understood. To evaluate this, the microbial composition from 18 sampling sites in the downstream of Jinsha River of China, u...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chen X,He D,Zhou L,Cao Y,Li Z

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Niche production is intended to produce premium pork, but several husbandry factors may affect the meat fatty acid composition and aroma. Fatty acid profile (by GC-FID) of raw meat and volatile compounds (by SPME-GC-MS) of cooked meat were analysed in loin samples from two pig genetic types-75% Duroc (Du) and 50% Piet...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Argemí-Armengol I,Villalba D,Tor M,Pérez-Santaescolástica C,Purriños L,Manuel Lorenzo J,Álvarez-Rodríguez J

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms generating and maintaining biodiversity at regional scales may be evaluated by quantifying β-diversity along environmental gradients. Differences in assemblages result in biotic complementarities and redundancies among sites, which may be quantified through multi-dimensional approaches incorporating taxonom...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： de Fraga R,Ferrão M,Stow AJ,Magnusson WE,Lima AP

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Quality of life is an important health outcome for older persons. It predicts the adverse outcomes of institutionalization and premature death. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine the influence of both disability in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily livi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gobbens RJ

更新日期：2018-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is demonstrated to be a risk factor in the development of cancers of various organs, such as colon, prostate, pancreas and so on. Leptine (LEP) is the most renowned of the adipokines. As a hormone, it mediates its effect through leptin receptor (LEPR), which is widely expressed in various tissues including col...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Al-Shibli SM,Harun N,Ashour AE,Mohd Kasmuri MHB,Mizan S

更新日期：2019-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Monkeypox (MPX) is a zoonotic disease similar to smallpox. Its fatality rate is about 11% and it is endemic to the Central and West African countries. In this paper, we analyze a compartmental model of MPX dynamics. Our goal is to see whether MPX can be controlled and eradicated by voluntary vaccinations. We show that...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bankuru SV,Kossol S,Hou W,Mahmoudi P,Rychtář J,Taylor D

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00