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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 12, 2014

The mitochondrial genome of Paragonimus westermani (Kerbert, 1878), the Indian isolate of the lung fluke representative of the family Paragonimidae (Trematoda)

Devendra K. Biswal, Anupam Chatterjee, Alok Bhattacharya, Veena Tandon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.484 PubMed 25165620

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 14, 2014

Fast and accurate semantic annotation of bioassays exploiting a hybrid of machine learning and user confirmation

Alex M. Clark, Barry A. Bunin, Nadia K. Litterman, Stephan C. Schürer, Ubbo Visser

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.524 PubMed 25165633

August 5, 2014

Insights on the structure and stability of Licanantase: a trimeric acid-stable coiled-coil lipoprotein from Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans

Fernando Abarca, Sebastian E. Gutierrez-Maldonado, Pilar Parada, Patricio Martinez, Alejandro Maass, Tomas Perez-Acle

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.457 PubMed 25165619