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Matter: Even Elusive Animals Leave DNA, and Clues, Behind

Scientists are relying more heavily on environmental DNA, shed in an animal's habitat, to track rare or endangered species.

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Northern White rhinos are on the edge of extinction with just five of them left in the world, but conservation experts are trying to find ways to save them.

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Scientists Develop Technique Aimed at Preventing Spread of Bio-Engineered Organisms

A team has given E. coli a unique genetic code, making it dependent on unnatural amino acids so it would die in the wild, they say.

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Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle by D.Emlen from Holt, NY (Jan 19).

Darwin's Orchids: Then and Now, ed R.Edens-Meier and P.Bernhardt from Univ Chicago Press (Jan 19).

The new journal Nature Plants features papers relevant to plant evolutionary biology. (Jan 8).

The Tree of Life; Evolution and Classification of Living Organism, by P. Vargas & R. Zardoya, Eds. from Sinauer Associates (Dec 29).

Dodging Extinction; Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth, by A.Barnosky, from Univ California Press (Dec 29).

In Search of Cell History; The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks, by F.Harold, from Univ Chicago Press (Dec 29).

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Jan 24 08:00Highly constrained intergenic Drosophila ultraconserved elements are candidate ncRNAs - Andrew D. Kern, Daniel A. Barbash, Joshua Chang Mell, Daniel Hupalo, Amanda Jensen (GBE)
Jan 24 08:00Spatial dynamics of evolving dosage compensation in a young sex chromosome system - Roland Schultheiß, Heidi M. Viitaniemi, Erica H. Leder (GBE)
Jan 24 08:00Deeply Diverged Alleles in the Arabidopsis AREB1 Transcription Factor Drive Genome-Wide Differences in Transcriptional Response to the Environment - David L. Des Marais, Wesley D. Skillern, Thomas E. Juenger (MBE)
Jan 24 08:00The Effect of Species Representation on the Detection of Positive Selection in Primate Gene Data Sets - Ross M. McBee, Shea A. Rozmiarek, Nicholas R. Meyerson, Paul A. Rowley, Sara L. Sawyer (MBE)
Jan 24 08:00Assortative Mating Drives Linkage-Disequilibrium between Sperm and Egg Recognition Protein loci in the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus - Andres Plata Stapper, Peter Beerli, Don R Levitan (MBE)
Jan 24 08:00Collateral resistance and sensitivity modulate evolution of high-level resistance to drug combination treatment in Staphylococcus aureus - Mari Rodriguez de Evgrafov, Heidi Gumpert, Christian Munck, Thomas T. Thomsen, Morten O.A. Sommer (MBE)
Jan 22 08:00Inference of Gorilla Demographic and Selective History from Whole-Genome Sequence Data - Kimberly F. McManus et al. (MBE)

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