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Jun 3 20:00Extended sequence context shapes mutational bias in Escherichia coli - Matthew J. , et al. (PNAS)
Jun 2 20:00Persistent trade-offs balance competition and colonization across centuries - Talia Backman, et al. (PNAS)
Jun 2 20:00Social cues drive the evolution of plastic pathogen virulence in spatially and temporally variable environments - Ryuichi Kumata, et al. (PNAS)
Jun 2 17:03Functional conservation with mechanistic drift: AMP activation in the evolution of archaeal sugar kinases by Sixto M Herrera and others (MBE)
Jun 2 17:03Comparative transcriptomics suggests that breast secretory epithelium reuses gene repertoires conserved across vertebrates beyond mammals by Marie Saitou (GBE)
Jun 2 17:03Chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes of the lichen-symbiotic green alga Trebouxia illuminate evolutionary relationships and climate associations, and yield new phylogenetic markers by Edgar L Y Wong and others (GBE)
Jun 2 17:03Truncated life history underlies rapid local adaptation in island rattlesnake venom expression by Mark J Margres and others (GBE)
Jun 1 20:00Trace fossils constrain the perceptual ranges of the earliest motile animals - Zekun Wang, et al. (PNAS)
Jun 1 17:03Single-cell analyses of tissue regeneration in two true jellyfish by Yiqian Li and others (MBE)
Jun 1 17:03Intrahost mutational dynamics parallel long-term genome evolution in endosymbionts by Younghwan Kwak and Gordon Bennett (MBE)

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