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January 2015

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Sizing up the giants that live in the ocean

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)

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

DrugOn: a fully integrated pharmacophore modeling and structure optimization toolkit

Dimitrios Vlachakis, Paraskevas Fakourelis, Vasileios Megalooikonomou, Christos Makris, Sophia Kossida

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.725 PubMed 25648563

January 27, 2015

First genomic insights into members of a candidate bacterial phylum responsible for wastewater bulking

Yuji Sekiguchi, Akiko Ohashi, Donovan H. Parks, Toshihiro Yamauchi, Gene W. Tyson, Philip Hugenholtz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.740 PubMed 25650158

January 15, 2015

The socio-matrix reloaded: from hierarchy to dominance profile in wild lemurs

Ivan Norscia, Elisabetta Palagi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.729 PubMed 25653908

January 6, 2015

Fish mislabelling in France: substitution rates and retail types

Julien Bénard-Capelle, Victoire Guillonneau, Claire Nouvian, Nicolas Fournier, Karine Le Loët, Agnès Dettai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.714 PubMed 28462014

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 15, 2015

Using citizen-science data to identify local hotspots of seabird occurrence

Eric J. Ward, Kristin N. Marshall, Toby Ross, Adam Sedgley, Todd Hass, Scott F. Pearson, Gerald Joyce, Nathalie J. Hamel, Peter J. Hodum, Rob Faucett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.704 PubMed 25653898

January 22, 2015

From a word to a world: the current situation in the interdisciplinary field of synthetic biology

Xiaojun Hu, Ronald Rousseau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.728 PubMed 25650074

January 6, 2015

SATRAT: Staphylococcus aureus transcript regulatory network analysis tool

Tamilselvi Gopal, Vijayaraj Nagarajan, Mohamed O. Elasri

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.717 PubMed 25653902

January 22, 2015

First photographic records of the giant manta ray Manta birostris off eastern Australia

Lydie I.E. Couturier, Fabrice R.A. Jaine, Tom Kashiwagi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.742 PubMed 25649395

January 8, 2015

Effects of five southern California macroalgal diets on consumption, growth, and gonad weight, in the purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

Matthew C. Foster, Jarrett E.K. Byrnes, Daniel C. Reed

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.719 PubMed 25653904

January 15, 2015

A quantitative approach for integrating multiple lines of evidence for the evaluation of environmental health risks

Jerome J. Schleier III, Lucy A. Marshall, Ryan S. Davis, Robert K.D. Peterson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.730 PubMed 25648367

January 29, 2015

More coral, more fish? Contrasting snapshots from a remote Pacific atoll

Ricardo Beldade, Suzanne C. Mills, Joachim Claudet, Isabelle M. Côté

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.745 PubMed 25650118

January 20, 2015

Captive rearing of the deep-sea coral Eguchipsammia fistula from the Red Sea demonstrates remarkable physiological plasticity

Anna Roik, Till Röthig, Cornelia Roder, Paul J. Müller, Christian R. Voolstra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.734 PubMed 25653911

January 8, 2015

Piecing together the biogeographic history of Chenopodium vulvaria L. using botanical literature and collections

Quentin J. Groom

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.723 PubMed 25653906

January 20, 2015

Development and characterization of novel microsatellite loci for Lusitanian toadfish, Halobatrachus didactylus

Carla Sousa-Santos, Paulo J. Fonseca, Maria Clara P. Amorim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.731 PubMed 25653909

January 29, 2015

Rangeland dynamics: investigating vegetation composition and structure of urban and exurban prairie dog habitat

Rebecca Hopson, Paul Meiman, Graeme Shannon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.736 PubMed 25650011

January 27, 2015

Loss of wwox expression in zebrafish embryos causes edema and alters Ca²⁺ dynamics

Yusuke Tsuruwaka, Masataka Konishi, Eriko Shimada

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.727 PubMed 25649963

January 15, 2015

Changes in the timing of departure and arrival of Irish migrant waterbirds

Alison Donnelly, Heather Geyer, Rong Yu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.726 PubMed 25653907

January 6, 2015

Male emergence schedule and dispersal behaviour are modified by mate availability in heterogeneous landscapes: evidence from the orange-tip butterfly

W James Davies, Ilik J. Saccheri

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.707 PubMed 25648908

January 8, 2015

Modeling functional changes to Escherichia coli thymidylate synthase upon single residue replacements: a structure-based approach

Majid Masso

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.721 PubMed 25648456

January 29, 2015

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

Carlos Díaz-Castillo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.750 PubMed 25649874

January 8, 2015

Association between intrinsic disorder and serine/threonine phosphorylation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Gajinder Pal Singh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.724 PubMed 25648268

January 22, 2015

Chronologically sampled flight feathers permits recognition of individual molt-migrants due to varying protein sources

Sievert Rohwer, Anthony D. Fox, Thomas Daniel, Jeffrey F. Kelly

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.743 PubMed 25649835

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