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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

21 citations

936 downloads

3,038 views

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

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

April 19, 2017

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

4 citations

639 downloads

2,956 views

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

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

2 citations

637 downloads

2,036 views

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

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3161 PubMed 28392985

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

9 citations

565 downloads