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 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…
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Biology & Life Sciences Sauropod Gigantism: A Cross-Disciplinary ApproachView Collection
Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest terrestrial animals to roam the Earth, exceeding all other land-dwelling vertebrates in both mean and maximal body size. While convergently evolving many features…
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Computer & Information Sciences Proceedings of the Third International Barcode of Life Conference Mexico CityView Collection
"DNA barcoding" was proposed formally in 2003 as a technique for species diagnosis and identification using short standardized gene regions. Early conferences focused on the degree to which…
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Biology & Life Sciences The World Register of Marine SpeciesView Collection
This collection has been created by the editors of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), an open-access online database which holds information on all marine species, and some of their…
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Earth & Environment Oil SpillsView Collection
Oil Spills cause catastrophic and persistent damage on enormous scales, and have dramatic consequences for both humans and the environment. Research into the consequences of oil spills is multifaceted…
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Earth & Environment Editor’s Picks: Ocean SciencesView Collection
Ocean Science or Oceanography covers a wide range of scientific topics, including complex ecosystems, sustainability, marine organisms, ocean currents, climate change and the geology of the sea…
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Earth & Environment Responding to Climate ChangeView Collection
Few areas can benefit as much from the force of Open Access as climate change research: the combination of public, scientific, and governmental interest with the mounting misinformation…
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Biology & Life Sciences PaleontologyView Collection
This collection represents those articles published in PLOS journals on the general topic of Paleontology (the study of fossils and of life forms that existed in past geological periods). The…