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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 26, 2014

A survey on cultivable heterotrophic bacteria inhabiting a thermally unstratified water column in an Atlantic Rainforest lake

Cláudia I. Lima-Bittencourt, Patrícia S. Costa, Mariana P. Reis, Alexandre B. Santos, Francisco A.R. Barbosa, Jean L. Valentin, Fabiano L. Thompson, Edmar Chartone-Souza, Andréa M.A. Nascimento

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.478 PubMed 25237594

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 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 12, 2014

Feeding behaviour of Caenorhabditis elegans is an indicator of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 virulence

Shawn Lewenza, Laetitia Charron-Mazenod, Lauriane Giroux, Alexandra D. Zamponi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.521 PubMed 25165631

August 5, 2014

RIM-DB: a taxonomic framework for community structure analysis of methanogenic archaea from the rumen and other intestinal environments

Henning Seedorf, Sandra Kittelmann, Gemma Henderson, Peter H. Janssen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.494 PubMed 25165621