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Variegated tropical landscapes conserve diverse dung beetle communities

Scarabaeus laticollis

April 4, 2017

Variegated tropical landscapes conserve diverse dung beetle communities

Researchers investigated the biodiversity of tropical landscapes by studying the range of dung beetles present in differing biomes.

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April 27, 2017

Whole genome sequencing of group A Streptococcus: development and evaluation of an automated pipeline for emmgene typing

Georgia Kapatai, Juliana Coelho, Steven Platt, Victoria J. Chalker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3226 PubMed 28462035

April 19, 2017

The genomic sequence of Exiguobacterium chiriqhucha str. N139 reveals a species that thrives in cold waters and extreme environmental conditions

Ana Gutiérrez-Preciado, Carlos Vargas-Chávez, Mariana Reyes-Prieto, Omar F. Ordoñez, Diego Santos-García, Tania Rosas-Pérez, Jorge Valdivia-Anistro, Eria A. Rebollar, Andrés Saralegui, Andrés Moya, Enrique Merino, María Eugenia Farías, Amparo Latorre, Valeria Souza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3162 PubMed 28439458

April 4, 2017

Prioritisation of structural variant calls in cancer genomes

Miika J. Ahdesmäki, Brad A. Chapman, Pablo Cingolani, Oliver Hofmann, Aleksandr Sidoruk, Zhongwu Lai, Gennadii Zakharov, Mikhail Rodichenko, Mikhail Alperovich, David Jenkins, T. Hedley Carr, Daniel Stetson, Brian Dougherty, J. Carl Barrett, Justin H. Johnson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3166 PubMed 28392986

April 25, 2017

CRF: detection of CRISPR arrays using random forest

Kai Wang, Chun Liang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3219 PubMed 28462029

April 6, 2017

Evolutionary analysis of vision genes identifies potential drivers of visual differences between giraffe and okapi

Edson Ishengoma, Morris Agaba, Douglas R. Cavener

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3145 PubMed 28396824

April 27, 2017

Exploring the binding properties and structural stability of an opsin in the chytrid Spizellomyces punctatus using comparative and molecular modeling

Steven R. Ahrendt, Edgar Mauricio Medina, Chia-en A. Chang, Jason E. Stajich