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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 18, 2017

Molecular assessment of the fecal microbiota in healthy cats and dogs before and during supplementation with fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) and inulin using high-throughput 454-pyrosequencing

Jose F. Garcia-Mazcorro, Jose R. Barcenas-Walls, Jan S. Suchodolski, Jörg M. Steiner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3184 PubMed 28439463

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 27, 2017

A Profile Hidden Markov Model to investigate the distribution and frequency of LanB-encoding lantibiotic modification genes in the human oral and gut microbiome

Calum J. Walsh, Caitriona M. Guinane, Paul W. O’ Toole, Paul D. Cotter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3254 PubMed 28462050

April 27, 2017

Analysis of the in planta transcriptome expressed by the corn pathogen Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii via RNA-Seq

Holly Packard, Alison Kernell Burke, Roderick V. Jensen, Ann M. Stevens

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3237 PubMed 28462040

April 4, 2017

Conserved DNA motifs in the type II-A CRISPR leader region

Mason J. Van Orden, Peter Klein, Kesavan Babu, Fares Z. Najar, Rakhi Rajan