The Signaling Pathways Project is a multi-omics knowledgebase based upon public, manually curated transcriptomic and cistromic (ChIP-Seq) datasets involving genetic and small molecule manipulations of…
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Earth & Environment Biodiversity ConservationView Collection
PLOS ONE takes great pleasure to announce the launch of our Biodiversity Conservation Collection. Biodiversity is the backbone of ecosystems and maintaining diversity through conservation is critical…
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Earth & Environment Plastics in the EnvironmentView Collection
Plastic pollution in the natural environment is a global problem, with an estimated five trillion plastic pieces weighing over 250,000 tonnes afloat in the oceans in 2014 [1]. Plastic pollution has…
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Earth & Environment Life in Extreme EnvironmentsView Collection
The study of life in extreme environments is a highly interdisciplinary subject, which helps further the understanding of the biological and biogeochemical processes taking place in various…
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Earth & Environment Urban EcologyView Collection
This collection, curated by Academic Editor Christopher Lepczyk in collaboration with PLOS ONE staff editors, features some of the interdisciplinary urban ecology research published in PLOS ONE. From…
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Earth & Environment Measuring Forest Conservation EffectivenessView Collection
Scholars and practitioners have repeatedly called for more and better impact evaluation of conservation policies. This PLOS ONE collection brings together a series of studies that evaluate the…
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Biology & Life Sciences Oceanic Metagenomics CollectionView Collection
The J. Craig Venter Institute's Global Ocean Sampling Expedition revealed an enormous amount of previously unexplored diversity in the world's oceans. In addition to the research articles, this…
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Earth & Environment Confronting Climate Change in the Age of DenialView Collection
Most scientists believe that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time -- if not the greatest challenge. Yet too often, efforts to communicate science-based information about the…
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Earth & Environment Open Highlights: Birds, Blooms, and Evolving DiversityView Collection
How the traits that distinguish species develop and diversify over time is a long-standing question in the field of evolutionary biology. This Open Highlight investigates how species have evolved…
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Biology & Life Sciences GIGA: Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance researchView Collection
GIGA is an international non-profit community of scientists dedicated to promoting genomics research of diverse non-model invertebrate species. Invertebrates comprise over 95% of all animal species…
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Biology & Life Sciences Biodiversity of Saba BankView Collection
Saba Bank is the largest submarine atoll in the Atlantic Ocean, adjacent to the nearby island of Saba, in the Netherlands Antilles. The submerged platform is ~2200 sq km, with a 50 km fringing reef…