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• The first fossil immature of Elmidae: an unusual riffle beetle larva preserved in Baltic amber.

  Authors:Ana Zippel, Viktor A. Baranov, Jörg U. Hammel, Marie K. Hörnig, Carolin Haug, and Joachim T. HaugFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 7, 20226,677 words Article 1290LElmidae, riffle beetles, have both adult and immature stages that show specializations for water environments. Fossils of adults of Elmidae are already known from amber, however a record of immatures was so far lacking....

• Burden of COVID-19: a preliminary analysis in the population of Saudi Arabia.

  Authors:Syed Mohammed Basheeruddin Asdaq, Syed Imam Rabbani, Mohammed Kanan Alshammari, Reem Saud Alshammari, Mehnaz Kamal, Mohd Imran, et al.From:PeerJ (Vol. 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 7, 20226,176 words Article 1380LBackground Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) has resulted in an unprecedented number of human deaths and economic losses. Analyzing the role of disease in different groups of people is useful for determining the burden...

• Alleviation of drought stress by root-applied thiourea is related to elevated photosynthetic pigments, osmoprotectants, antioxidant enzymes, and tubers yield and suppressed oxidative stress in potatoes cultivars.

  Authors:Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Xiukang Wang, Abida Parveen, Shagufta Perveen, Saqib Mehmood, Sajid Fiaz, et al.From:PeerJ (Vol. 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 7, 202210,189 words Article 1380LThe growth and productivity of plants are enhanced by the use of thiourea (TU) under stressful conditions. When TU is applied as a rooting medium, it improves plant growth characteristics and other physiological...

• The regulation of hsacirc_004413 promotes proliferation and drug resistance of gastric cancer cells by acting as a competing endogenous RNA for miR-145-5p.

  Authors:Fusheng Zhou, Weiqun Ding, Qiqi Mao, Xiaoyun Jiang, Jiajie Chen, Xianguang Zhao, et al.From:PeerJ (Vol. 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 7, 20225,515 words Article 1350LBackground Whether circRAN, which acts as a microRNA sponge, plays a role in 5-fluorouracil (5-Fu) resistant gastric cancer has not been reported. In this study, a 5-Fu resistant cell line with an IC50 of 16.59...

• Historical significance and taxonomic status of Ischyrodon meriani (Pliosauridae) from the Middle Jurassic of Switzerland.

  Authors:Daniel Madzia, Sven Sachs, and Christian KlugFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 7, 20226,845 words Article 1340LIschyrodon meriani is an obscure pliosaurid taxon established upon an exceptionally large tooth crown of a probable Callovian (Middle Jurassic) age that originates from Wölflinswil, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland. Despite...

• Antagonistic co-contraction can minimize muscular effort in systems with uncertainty.

  Authors:Anne D. Koelewijn and Antonie J. Van Den BogertFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 7, 20228,637 words Report 1460LMuscular co-contraction of antagonistic muscle pairs is often observed in human movement, but it is considered inefficient and it can currently not be predicted in simulations where muscular effort or metabolic energy...

• Putting small and big pieces together: a genome assembly approach reveals the largest Lamiid plastome in a woody vine.

  Authors:Luiz Henrique M. Fonseca, Alison G. Nazareno, Verônica A. Thode, Alexandre R. Zuntini, and Lúcia G. LohmannFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 7, 20227,689 words Article 1290LThe plastid genome of flowering plants generally shows conserved structural organization, gene arrangement, and gene content. While structural reorganizations are uncommon, examples have been documented in the literature...

• The soft tissue and skeletal anatomy of two Late Jurassic ichthyosaur specimens from the Solnhofen archipelago.

  Authors:Lene L. Delsett, Henrik Friis, Martina Kölbl-Ebert, and Jørn H. HurumFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 7, 20228,959 words Article 1310LIchthyosaurs from the Solnhofen Lagerstätte are among the only examples of soft tissue preservation in the major Middle Jurassic-middle Cretaceous family Ophthalmosauridae. However, few such specimens are currently...

• A new basal ichthyosauromorph from the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) of Zhebao, Guangxi Autonomous Region, South China.

  Authors:Jicheng Ren, Haishui Jiang, Kunpeng Xiang, Corwin Sullivan, Yongzhong He, Long Cheng, et al.From:PeerJ (Vol. 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 7, 20229,386 words Report 1280LHere we describe a newly discovered basal ichthyosauromorph from the Lower Triassic of South China, Baisesaurus robustus gen. et sp. nov. The only known specimen of this new species was collected from the Lower Triassic...

• Soil metabolomics and bacterial functional traits revealed the responses of rhizosphere soil bacterial community to long-term continuous cropping of Tibetan barley.

  Authors:Yuan Zhao, Youhua Yao, Hongyan Xu, Zhanling Xie, Jing Guo, Zhifan Qi, et al.From:PeerJ (Vol. 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 7, 20229,027 words Article 1490LContinuous cropping often leads to an unbalanced soil microbial community, which in turn negatively affects soil functions. However, systematic research of how these effects impact the bacterial composition, microbial...