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Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

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Genetics of white tigers pinpointed

Chinese scientists trace the rare white colouration in Bengal tigers to a single change in a gene that affects a host of animals, including humans.

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VIDEO: 'Worrying declines' for UK species

A major new report from 25 wildlife organisations, assessing the state of Britain's Nature, is warning that many species of wildlife are facing extinction in the UK unless urgent action is taken.

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May 24 12:00"The genome sequence of Streptomyces lividans 66 reveals a novel tRNA-dependent peptide biosynthetic system within a metal-related genomic island" - Pablo Cruz-Morales et al. (GBE)
May 24 12:00Efficient moment-based inference of admixture parameters and sources of gene flow - Mark Lipson et al. (MBE)
May 24 12:00Estimating gene gain and loss rates in the presence of error in genome assembly and annotation using CAFE 3 - Mira V. Han, Gregg W.C. Thomas, Jose Lugo-Martinez, Matthew W. Hahn (MBE)
May 24 08:00Deep Sequencing of Mixed Total DNA Without Barcodes Allows Efficient Assembly of Highly Plastic Ascidian Mitochondrial Genomes - Nimrod D. Rubinstein et al. (GBE)
May 22 12:00A scan for human-specific relaxation of negative selection reveals unexpected polymorphism in proteasome genes - Mehmet Somel et al. (MBE)
May 22 08:00Fungal genes in context: genome architecture reflects regulatory complexity and function - Luke M. Noble, Alex Andrianopoulos (GBE)
May 22 08:00Bio++: efficient, extensible libraries and tools for computational molecular evolution - Laurent Guéguen et al. (MBE)

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