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February 2015

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Weight–length relationships & Fulton’s condition factors of skipjack tuna

Katsuwonus pelamis (Skipjack Tuna)

February 12, 2015

Weight–length relationships & Fulton’s condition factors of skipjack tuna

Given the significance of the skipjack tuna to Pacific fisheries, it is important to have a good knowledge of certain parameters of growth and size, as they relate to different stages of fish age and development. Researchers therefore measured certain biological parameters from in different seasons and different growth phases in the Pacific ocean.

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February 17, 2015

Diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis by a new multiplex peptide nucleic acid fluorescence in situ hybridization method

António Machado, Joana Castro, Tatiana Cereija, Carina Almeida, Nuno Cerca

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.780 PubMed 25737820

February 24, 2015

Quantification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in multispecies biofilms using PMA-qPCR

Sarah Tavernier, Tom Coenye

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.787 PubMed 25755923

February 26, 2015

Wild plant species growing closely connected in a subalpine meadow host distinct root-associated bacterial communities

Kristin Aleklett, Jonathan W. Leff, Noah Fierer, Miranda Hart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.804 PubMed 25755932

February 24, 2015

Oxygen availability is a major factor in determining the composition of microbial communities involved in methane oxidation

Maria E. Hernandez, David A.C. Beck, Mary E. Lidstrom, Ludmila Chistoserdova

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.801 PubMed 25755930

February 10, 2015

Diversity and ecological structure of vibrios in benthic and pelagic habitats along a latitudinal gradient in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean

Luciane A. Chimetto Tonon, Bruno Sergio de O. Silva, Ana Paula B. Moreira, Cecilia Valle, Nelson Alves, Giselle Cavalcanti, Gizele Garcia, Rubens M. Lopes, Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho, Rodrigo L. de Moura, Cristiane C. Thompson, Fabiano L. Thompson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.741 PubMed 25699199

February 17, 2015

Insight into Shiga toxin genes encoded by Escherichia coli O157 from whole genome sequencing

Philip M. Ashton, Neil Perry, Richard Ellis, Liljana Petrovska, John Wain, Kathie A. Grant, Claire Jenkins, Tim J. Dallman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.739 PubMed 25737808

February 3, 2015

The Hsp70-like StkA functions between T4P and Dif signaling proteins as a negative regulator of exopolysaccharide in Myxococcus xanthus

Pamela L. Moak, Wesley P. Black, Regina A. Wallace, Zhuo Li, Zhaomin Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.747 PubMed 25674362