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For some, Blue Monday is green under UV light
After featuring a model organism yesterday, today’s Open Access File of the Day depicts another one: mice. The photo – taken under illumination with ultraviolet light – shows two transgenic mice (on the left and right) expressing enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein, whereas … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, blue, BMC Cancer, CC BY, composite figure, Creative Commons, English, German, GFP, Green Fluorescent Protein, Ingrid Moen, JPG, mice, model organism, mouse, mus musculus, ultraviolet, Wikipedia
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Fast growth may be debilitating
Model organisms are used in many branches of the life sciences in order to render the study of particular structures or mechanism more amenable to experimental manipulation. Zebra finches have helped to address research loads of research questions related to … Continue reading
Deconstructing pyrophilous beetles
On December 14, we got a glimpse of the Northwest Crown Fire Modeling Experiment, one of the most detailed studies of forest fires. Today, we return to the subject of forest fires: pyrophilous insect species like the beetle Melanophila acuminata lay their eggs … Continue reading
Tail kinkiness varies among genetically identical littermates
Axin is a regulator of Wnt signaling, and a mutation in the axin gene can lead to cloned mice differing in the kinkiness of their tail, as shown in today’s Open Access File of the Day. Fig. 1 of the feature Human Epigenome … Continue reading
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Tagged 2003, CC BY, Creative Commons, epigenome, Feature, genome, Jane Bradbury, kinkiness, mice, model organism, PLoS Biology, PNG, tail, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wiktionary
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A beautiful mountain with wings
Today’s Open Access File of the Day takes us to a mountainous area in northwestern Yunnan, China, which is the habitat of some of chaos theory’s most famous mascots – butterflies, specifically of the species Phengaris atroguttata and Phengaris xiushani. The latter was recently described, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, butterfly, CC BY, China, Chinese, Creative Commons, English, habitat, Josef Settele, JPG, landscape, Min Wang, mountains, Phengaris atroguttata, Phengaris xiushani, Polish, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Xiu-Shan, Xiushan Li, Yunnan, ZooKeys
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Universal access to oxygenated blood? Please enter credit card details.
In light of the ongoing debate around the Research Works Act, universal access and the role of publishers in research communication, some images – like the suckling pigs on December 21 or today’s Open Access File of the Day - may take on a special meaning: just imagine … Continue reading
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Tagged 2008, academic publishing, Bulgarian, Caitlin Sedwick, CC BY, Creative Commons, fetus, Greek, JPG, Open Access, placenta, PLoS Biology, Research Works Act, scholarly communication, SENP2, Shang-Yi Chiu, synopsis, umbilical cord, universal access, Wei Hsu, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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Did you know that you are a vector too?
Have you ever thought of yourself as a vector? To some life forms, you certainly are. Amongst them is the pepper mild mottle virus that transits your digestive tract before reaching target plants like pepper. In today’s Open Access File of the Day, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2006, Arabic, CC BY, Creative Commons, digestion, English, Liza Gross, Pamela Roberts, parasitology, pathogen, plant disease, plant virus, PLoS Biology, PNG, synopsis, Tao Zhang, UF/IFAS Pest Alert, vector, virus, Wikibooks, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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Lice in 50 languages
Lice can be tremendously useful. For instance, the high but not perfect specificity of several different species of lice allows to use information about their phylogeny to infer some information about the phylogenies of their host species. Some of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2004, Category:Graph images that should use vector graphics, CC BY, composite figure, Creative Commons, David L. Reed, evolution, Fahrenholzia pinnata, Greek, human evolution, JPG, lice, phylogenics, PLoS Biology, Reuse, SVG, Vincent S. Smith, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Zazaki
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A dino on the move
Yesterday, I came across a post by Stuart Shieber, in which he highlighted a quote and linked to a blog post about an interview that Richard Poynder had done with Jan Velterop, in which the latter had said the following: … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, Animal skeletons, Araripesuchus wegeneri, attribution stacking, CC BY, Creative Commons, Czech, dinosaurs, fossils, Hans Larsson, JPG, palaeontology, Paul Sereno, publishing, Research Works Act, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikispecies, ZooKeys
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Gough Island – as remote as it gets on the planet
Few places on our planet are as remote as Gough Island in the Southern Atlantic, yet even there, invasive species are not uncommon, as pointed out in a feature article in PLoS Biology, from which today’s Open Access File of … Continue reading