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Jan 17 14:03Germlinede novo mutation rate of the highly heterozygous amphioxus genome by Jing Xue and others (MBE)
Jan 17 14:03Genome Shows no Recent Inbreeding in Near-Extinction Woolly Rhinoceros Sample Found in Ancient Wolf's Stomach by Sólveig M Guðjónsdóttir and others (GBE)
Jan 17 12:00Evolution of environmental sex determination via juvenile hormone-induced gene co-option in Daphnia - Yugo Takahata, et al. (PNAS)
Jan 17 12:00"Excluded phenotypes" restrict genetic paths toward adaptation in declining populations - James S. , et al. (PNAS)
Jan 16 14:03Pseudogenes Document Protracted Parallel Regression of Oral Anatomy in Myrmecophagous Mammals by Christopher A Emerling and others (MBE)
Jan 16 14:03Emergence and tandem repeat-mediated elongation of a translated de novo open reading frame in human oncogenic RNA gene VPS9D1-AS1 (MYU) by Lin Chou and others (GBE)
Jan 16 14:03Structome-AlignViewer: On Confidence Assessment in Structure-Aware Alignments by Ashar J Malik and others (GBE)

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