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January 13, 2015

Sizing up the giants that live in the ocean

In this monumental study, researchers sifted through multiple datasets and historical records to produce more accurate and comprehensive size measurements for 25 marine species including the Blue Whale, Giant Squid, and Great White Shark. Infographic CC-BY 4.0 PeerJ (Low Res, High Res, PDF)

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January 13, 2015

Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna

Craig R. McClain, Meghan A. Balk, Mark C. Benfield, Trevor A. Branch, Catherine Chen, James Cosgrove, Alistair D.M. Dove, Leo Gaskins, Rebecca R. Helm, Frederick G. Hochberg, Frank B. Lee, Andrea Marshall, Steven E. McMurray, Caroline Schanche, Shane N. Stone, Andrew D. Thaler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.715 PubMed 25649000

January 13, 2015

Tandem-repeat protein domains across the tree of life

Kristin K. Jernigan, Seth R. Bordenstein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.732 PubMed 25653910

January 6, 2015

Intragenomic polymorphisms among high-copy loci: a genus-wide study of nuclear ribosomal DNA in Asclepias (Apocynaceae)

Kevin Weitemier, Shannon C.K. Straub, Mark Fishbein, Aaron Liston

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.718 PubMed 25653903

January 29, 2015

Evidence for a sexual dimorphism in gene expression noise in metazoan species

Carlos Díaz-Castillo