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November 2015

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Kingman reef

November 10, 2015

Can we measure beauty?

Researchers have shown that an objective computational analysis of photographic images can be used to assess the health of a coral reef. The results have even wider posible application. The authors have also created a website using the techniques developed in this article where you can upload your own image to and get an 'aesthetic' score back.

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November 26, 2015

Ranking, selecting, and prioritising genes with desirability functions

Stanley E. Lazic

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1444 PubMed 26644980

November 24, 2015

Assessing the utility of the Oxford Nanopore MinION for snake venom gland cDNA sequencing

Adam D. Hargreaves, John F. Mulley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1441 PubMed 26623194

November 19, 2015

Phylogenetic analysis of higher-level relationships within Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using mitochondrial genome data and insight into their mitochondrial transcription

Ehsan Kayal, Bastian Bentlage, Paulyn Cartwright, Angel A. Yanagihara, Dhugal J. Lindsay, Russell R. Hopcroft, Allen G. Collins