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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Biology & Life Sciences VectorsView Collection
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, the first journal dedicated to chronic and poverty-promoting infectious diseases, has long been a home for vector research. With this collection, we aim to curate the…
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Biology & Life Sciences Visceral Leishmaniasis and HIV Co-InfectionView Collection
HIV has been identified as one of the emerging challenges for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) control. HIV infection dramatically increases the risk of progression from asymptomatic infection towards…
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Biology & Life Sciences Marine Megafauna: Marine Ecology and TechnologyView Collection
This section of the Marine Megafauna collection provides examples of studies that address the behavior and ecology of marine megafauna through the use of new technology and novel analytical…
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Biology & Life Sciences Marine Megafauna: Paleoecology Evolution and SystematicsView Collection
These papers address important aspects about the evolutionary and ecological history of marine fauna from geological to historical timescales, including taxonomically focused…
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Biology & Life Sciences Up For A Challenge (U4C) – Stimulating Innovation in Breast Cancer Genetic EpidemiologyView Collection
Breast cancer remains a major public health problem, with more than 250,000 new cases and 40,000 deaths estimated to occur in women in the U.S. in 2017. In 2015, the National Cancer Institute (NCI…
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Biology & Life Sciences Tsetse Genome BiologyView Collection
Tsetse flies are important vectors of human and animal diseases that adversely impact life in sub-Sahara Africa. A community of tsetse researchers (International Glossina Genome Initiative) have been…
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Biology & Life Sciences Marine Megafauna: Marine Habitats and Conservation BiologyView Collection
This section of the Marine Megafauna collection focuses on species/habitat relationships of large marine organisms and provides specific examples of the conservation issues associated with some of the…
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Biology & Life Sciences Structural Biology & Human Health: Medically Relevant Proteins from the SGCView Collection
This collection of articles represents some of the research highlights from the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC). The SGC is an international public-private partnership that determines three…
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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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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…