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The Maldives & the whale shark: the world's biggest fish adds value to paradise

Whale shark in Maldives

August 12, 2014

The Maldives & the whale shark: the world's biggest fish adds value to paradise

New research shows that a small group of whale sharks in a single Maldivian Atoll accounts for nearly 3% of the global shark ecotourism and nearly half that of the Maldives -

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August 21, 2014

Subsampled open-reference clustering creates consistent, comprehensive OTU definitions and scales to billions of sequences

Jai Ram Rideout, Yan He, Jose A. Navas-Molina, William A. Walters, Luke K. Ursell, Sean M. Gibbons, John Chase, Daniel McDonald, Antonio Gonzalez, Adam Robbins-Pianka, Jose C. Clemente, Jack A. Gilbert, Susan M. Huse, Hong-Wei Zhou, Rob Knight, J. Gregory Caporaso

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.545 PubMed 25177538

August 28, 2014

Graeme Shannon, Jesse S. Lewis, Brian D. Gerber

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.532 PubMed 25210658

August 28, 2014

Disease dynamics and potential mitigation among restored and wild staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis

Margaret W. Miller, Kathryn E. Lohr, Caitlin M. Cameron, Dana E. Williams, Esther C. Peters

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.541 PubMed 25210660

August 7, 2014

Asymmetric connectivity of spawning aggregations of a commercially important marine fish using a multidisciplinary approach

Adrian Munguia-Vega, Alexis Jackson, Silvio Guido Marinone, Brad Erisman, Marcia Moreno-Baez, Alfredo Girón-Nava, Tad Pfister, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Jorge Torre

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.511 PubMed 25165626

August 14, 2014

Divergence by depth in an oceanic fish

Peter Shum, Christophe Pampoulie, Carlotta Sacchi, Stefano Mariani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.525 PubMed 25165634

August 19, 2014

Sequencing at sea: challenges and experiences in Ion Torrent PGM sequencing during the 2013 Southern Line Islands Research Expedition

Yan Wei Lim, Daniel A. Cuevas, Genivaldo Gueiros Z. Silva, Kristen Aguinaldo, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Andreas F. Haas, Mark Hatay, Savannah E. Sanchez, Linda Wegley-Kelly, Bas E. Dutilh, Timothy T. Harkins, Clarence C. Lee, Warren Tom, Stuart A. Sandin, Jennifer E. Smith, Brian Zgliczynski, Mark J.A. Vermeij, Forest Rohwer, Robert A. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.520 PubMed 25177534

August 19, 2014

Data-driven discovery of the spatial scales of habitat choice by elephants

Andrew F. Mashintonio, Stuart L. Pimm, Grant M. Harris, Rudi J. van Aarde, Gareth J. Russell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.504 PubMed 25177532

August 14, 2014

Demographic effects on fruit set in the dioecious shrub Canada buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis)

Kate M. Johnson, Scott E. Nielsen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.526 PubMed 25165635

August 12, 2014

A comparison of success rates of introduced passeriform birds in New Zealand, Australia and the United States

Michael P. Moulton, Wendell P. Cropper