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Jan 12 14:03Mitochondrial Retrograde Control of Transcription Evolves with Respiratory Stress, Metabolic Adaptation, and Virulence in Budding Yeasts by Karolina abędzka-Dmoch and others (MBE)
Jan 11 14:03Estimating the reduction in genetic diversity from background selection under non-equilibrium demography and partial selfing by Alexander Mackintosh and others (MBE)
Jan 11 14:03Myriapod Metallothioneins Conserve the Ancestral Architecture of Arthropods while Displaying Lineage-Specific Adaptations in Metal Binding by Ňscar Palacios and others (GBE)
Jan 11 14:03A Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly and Resequencing Data Reveal Low DNA Methylation and Reduced Diversity in the Solitary Bee PollinatorOsmia cornuta by Jannik S Möllmann and others (GBE)
Jan 10 16:00Mutation rate variability in viral populations: Implications for lethal mutagenesis - Sarah Arcos, et al. (PNAS)
Jan 10 16:00Reactive oxygen species drove red lineage phytoplankton to displace green lineage phytoplankton during the Mesozoic - Yuxi Zhao, et al. (PNAS)
Jan 10 16:00Biological causes and impacts of rugged tree landscapes in phylodynamic inference - Jiansi Gao, et al. (PNAS)
Jan 10 14:03Viviparity and Beyond: Captured Endogenous Retroviral Envelope Genes Drive Teleost Physiological Innovations by Weihao Song and others (MBE)

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