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• Differences in the endophytic fungal community and effective ingredients in root of three Glycyrrhiza species in Xinjiang, China.

  Authors:Hanli Dang, Tao Zhang, Zhongke Wang, Guifang Li, Wenqin Zhao, Xinhua Lv, et al.From:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 20218,879 words Article 1390LBackground Endophytic fungi influence the quality and quantity of the medicinal plant's bioactive compounds through specific fungus-host interactions. Nevertheless, due to the paucity of information, the composition of...

• Colchicine induction of 'Old Blush' 2n pollen for the hybridization and breeding of tetraploid rose.

  Authors:Shumin Gao, Yahong Sun, and Yan ZhouFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 20218,143 words Article 1460LObtaining 2n pollen from the diploid Chinese old rose 'Old Blush' through artificial induction is one important means of hybridizing and breeding modern tetraploid roses. We used colchicine-induced 2n pollen to assess...

• Genes for degradation and utilization of uronic acid-containing polysaccharides of a marine bacterium Catenovulum sp. CCB-QB4.

  Authors:Go Furusawa, Nor Azura Azami, and Aik-Hong TehFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 20218,983 words Article 1360LBackground Oligosaccharides from polysaccharides containing uronic acids are known to have many useful bioactivities. Thus, polysaccharide lyases (PLs) and glycoside hydrolases (GHs) involved in producing the...

• Long-term storage of feces at -80 °C versus -20 °C is negligible for 16S rRNA amplicon profiling of the equine bacterial microbiome.

  Authors:Stefan Gavriliuc, Mason R. Stothart, Astrid Henry, and Jocelyn PoissantFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 20216,750 words Article 1610LThe development of next-generation sequencing technologies has spurred a surge of research on bacterial microbiome diversity and function. But despite the rapid growth of the field, many uncertainties remain regarding...

• The extent of carbapenemase-encoding genes in public genome sequences.

  Authors:Ingmar Janse, Rick Beeloo, Arno Swart, Michael Visser, Leo Schouls, Engeline van Duijkeren, et al.From:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 20213,758 words Report 1660LGenome sequences provide information on the genetic elements present in an organism, and currently there are databases containing hundreds of thousands of bacterial genome sequences. These repositories allow for mining...

• Analyzing clinical characteristics of patients with different cumulative hemodialysis durations: a cross-sectional study.

  Authors:Xu Chen, Li Yuan, Yuan Zhang, Houyong Dai, Yaping Fan, and Xiaolan ChenFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 20213,986 words Report 1300LBackground The objective of this study was to examine the clinical characteristics of patients with different cumulative hemodialysis (HD) durations, so as to improve their survival rate. Methods In this...

• The role of gender and academic degree on preference for smooth curvature of abstract shapes.

  Authors:Letizia Palumbo, Giulia Rampone, and Marco BertaminiFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 20217,576 words Report, Author abstr... 1330LBackground Preference for smooth contours occurs for a variety of visual stimuli. However, there are individual differences. Openness to experience, a trait associated with aesthetic appreciation, emotional sensitivity...

• Conservation actions and ecological context: optimizing coral reef local management in the Dominican Republic.

  Authors:Camilo Cortés-Useche, Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado, Johanna Calle-Triviño, Rita Sellares Blasco, Victor Galván, and Jesús E. Arias-GonzálezFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 202112,175 words Article 1490LOver the past few decades, coral reef ecosystems have been lost at accelerated rates as a result of global climate change and local stressors. Local management schemes can help improve the condition of coral reefs by...

• Development and validation of a nomogram to predict the mortality risk in elderly patients with ARF.

  Authors:Junnan Xu, Jie Weng, Jingwen Yang, Xuan Shi, Ruonan Hou, Xiaoming Zhou, et al.From:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 20214,864 words Article 1320LBackground Acute respiratory failure (ARF) is a life-threatening complication in elderly patients. We developed a nomogram model to explore the risk factors of prognosis and the short-term mortality in elderly patients...

• The emotional canvas of human screams: patterns and acoustic cues in the perceptual categorization of a basic call type.

  Authors:Jonathan W. M. Engelberg, Jay W. Schwartz, and Harold GouzoulesFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 202112,708 words Article 1510LScreams occur across taxonomically widespread species, typically in antipredator situations, and are strikingly similar acoustically, but in nonhuman primates, they have taken on acoustically varied forms in association...

• Expression analysis of genes related to cold tolerance in Dendroctonus valens.

  Authors:Dongfang Zhao, Chunchun Zheng, Fengming Shi, Yabei Xu, Shixiang Zong, and Jing TaoFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 202110,992 words Article 1380LPine beetles are well known in North America for their widespread devastation of pine forests. However, Dendroctonus valens LeConte is an important invasive forest pest in China also. Adults and larvae of this bark...

• Effect of domain knowledge encoding in CNN model architecture-a prostate cancer study using mpMRI images.

  Authors:Piotr Sobecki, Rafal Józwiak, Katarzyna Sklinda, and Artur PrzelaskowskiFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 20217,058 words Article 1410LBackground Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Currently, convolution neural networks (CNNs) are achieving remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, and in medical imaging research....

• Fall supplemental feeding increases population growth rate of an endangered caribou herd.

  Authors:Douglas C. Heard and Kathryn L. ZimmermanFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 20219,979 words Article 1590LMost woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) populations are declining primarily because of unsustainable predation resulting from habitat-mediated apparent competition. Wolf (Canis lupus) reduction is an effective...

• Arsenic transfer along the soil-sclerotium-stroma chain in Chinese cordyceps and the related health risk assessment.

  Authors:YuGuo Liu, Ming Shi, XiaoShan Liu, JinYing Xie, RunHuang Yang, QiaoWei Ma, et al.From:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 20215,963 words Article 1330LBackground Chinese cordyceps (Lepidoptera: Ophiocordyceps sinensis)is a larval-fungus complex. The concentration and distribution of arsenic (As) may vary during the stroma (ST) germination process and between the...