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The dots are gone

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Daniel Mietchen

Today’s Open Access File of the Day depicts one step in the life cycle of the tropical abalone Haliotis asinina, that of sexual maturity. In comparison to the previous stage, it has lost the characteristic blue and orange dots.     Fig. 1H of the article Dynamic expression … Continue reading →

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Today on the menu: raw fish

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Daniel Mietchen

Today’s Open Access File of the Day depicts Koi pla (ก้อยปลา), a dish consisting of fine-ground raw fish with seasoning and rice. It is popular in Northeastern Thailand, and so is an infection with a parasite frequently transmitted this way – the human liver … Continue reading →

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Greetings from your liver fluke

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Daniel Mietchen

Today’s Open Access File of the Day depicts a pathogen, beautiful though it may appear – the human liver fluke Clonorchis sinensis.   Cropped from the composite Fig. 2 of the article Liver Fluke Induces Cholangiocarcinoma by Banchob Sripa et al. (2007) in PLoS Medicine Licensed CC BY. … Continue reading →

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Open Access File of the Day: Genetic subdivision in the giraffe based on mitochondrial DNA sequences.png

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Daniel Mietchen

Today’s Open Access File of the Day is a composite figure that was cropped from the two-part Figure 1 of an article by David Brown et al., 2007 in BMC Biology. It is licensed CC BY and used on the Breton, Catalan, English and Turkish Wikipedias in the … Continue reading →

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