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Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) causes progressive muscle weakness and, without treatment, can limit life expectancy to just two years.

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'It guts us': Curator fears for future of Joggins Fossil Institute after provincial funding cuts

The curator of the Joggins Fossil Institute says a 20 per cent cut to its provincial funding will devastate operations and force the cancellation of educational programs that reach hundreds of students each year.

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Bristol Water is using ancient hedge laying techniques to improve biodiversity near Blagdon lake.

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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, by Cat Bohannon, from Vintage Canada, (Mar 21).

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea, by Matt Ridley, from Harper. (Mar 7).

The journal Insects has a call for papers for a special issue on "Evolutionary and Ecological Mechanisms of Plant Defense Against Insects". (Feb 28).

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Mar 29 20:03Age-dependent phylodynamics with application to single-cell lineage trees by Nicola Mulberry and others (MBE)
Mar 29 20:03De novo chromosome-level assembly of the endangered Pilocarpus microphyllus highlights genomic resources for conservation and sustainable pilocarpine extraction by Mariane Brom Sobreiro and others (GBE)
Mar 28 14:03Genomic erosion across avian lineages in the context of their evolutionary history by Xuejing Wang and others (MBE)
Mar 28 14:03Ancient origin and dynamic evolution of bivalent spider toxins by Robin A Araya and others (MBE)
Mar 28 14:03Evolutionary trajectories, early diversification and species-specific amplification of the metazoan Inhibitor of Apoptosis (IAP) repertoire by Mélanie Ribeiro Lopes and others (MBE)
Mar 28 14:03Genome sequence data reveal complex and variable ploidy in the amoebozoan Acanthamoeba castellanii by Morgan J Colp and John M Archibald (GBE)
Mar 28 14:03Structural Constraints Acting on the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Reveal Limited Space for Viral Adaptation by James C Herzig and others (GBE)
Mar 27 20:03Phage toxin variants are linked to protection specificity in a defensive symbiont by Balig Panossian and others (MBE)
Mar 27 20:03Cosmopolitan gene families with known functions are hotspots for the evolution of novel genes in stony corals by Timothy G Stephens and others (GBE)
Mar 27 20:03Identifying adaptive footprints in the presence of demographic uncertainty by Sandipan Paul Arnab and others (GBE)
Mar 27 20:03The Missing Piece: Functional Telomerase Restored in the Beetle Model by Petr Fajkus and others (GBE)
Mar 27 20:03Signatures of Innovation and Selection in the Extremotolerant Yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus by Kaylee E Christensen and others (GBE)
Mar 27 20:03Evolutionary Dynamics of Gene Expression During Thermal Adaptation in Drosophila subobscura by Marta A Antunes and others (GBE)
Mar 27 20:00Reply to MacColl: Repeated evolution from standing genetic variation - Marius Roesti, et al. (PNAS)
Mar 27 20:00Ecological speciation in allopatry is rooted in older divergence - Andrew D. , et al. (PNAS)

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