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  • Biology & Life Sciences A PLOS Collection ’Omics of Cellular Signaling Pathways
    Published June 4, 2020 Curated Collections

    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 A PLOS Collection Responding to Climate Change
    Published December 12, 2017 Curated Collections

    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 A PLOS Collection Paleontology
    Published November 8, 2017 Curated Collections

    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…

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  • Biology & Life Sciences A PLOS Collection Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
    Published October 10, 2017 Curated Collections

    The ecological impacts of climate change are broad and diverse, altering species' range limits, plant phenology and growth, carbon and nutrient cycling, as well as biodiversity and extinction risk…

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  • Earth & Environment A PLOS Collection Participatory Monitoring for Forests, Climate and REDD+
    Published July 4, 2017 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

    The studies in this PLOS ONE collection investigate community participation in measuring, reporting and verifying (PMRV) initiatives as a contribution to international, national and project level…

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  • Biology & Life Sciences A PLOS Collection 2009 Maize Genome Collection
    Published June 8, 2016 Curated Collections

    The authors of the research presented in this special collection used the first description of the B73 maize genome to probe some of the most intriguing questions in genetics and plant biology. Read…

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  • Earth & Environment A PLOS Collection Urban Transportation
    Published January 11, 2023 Curated Collections

    PLOS ONE presents a curated collection of research from 2020-2022 in the field of Urban Transportation. This collection showcases the breadth of understanding and recent innovation in this area, from…

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  • Biology & Life Sciences A PLOS Collection Pearls: The Microbiome
    Published September 1, 2021 Curated Collections

    Human-associated microbial communities can include eukaryotes, archaea, bacteria and viruses and provide protection against foreign invaders, stimulate the immune response, produce antimicrobials, and…

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