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Where did COVID-19 originate? Saskatoon lab helps with genetic analysis that points to animal market

A team of scientists, including one from Saskatoon, say they have strong evidence the COVID-19 virus jumped from infected animals to humans in a market in Wuhan, China, and didn't originate with a lab leak.

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This Laurentian University researcher is collecting DNA from the air inside beehives

A professor at Laurentian University will be putting honey bees to work to better understand how climate change is affecting different plants and pollinators across Ontario.

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Conservationist Jane Goodall on the urgent need to turn the tide on climate change and nature loss. 

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Annelida, by Greg Rouse, Fredrik Pleijel, and Ekin Tilic, from Oxford University Press. (Nov 16).

The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909 Darwinism's Generations, by Martin Hewitt, from Oxford University Press. (Nov 9).

Special Issue from Heredity on structural variation. Call for papers. (Oct 24).

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The Journal of Molecular Evolution is a hybrid journal and you can still publish your work there for free under the traditional model. And we want your submissions! D. Liberles, Editor-in-Chief (Oct 19).

Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour, Third Edition, by Gillian R. Brown and Kevin N. Lala, from Oxford University Press. (Oct 19).

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Nov 20 16:00Genome streamlining: effect of mutation rate and population size on genome size reduction - (GBE)
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Nov 20 08:00Stochastic Epigenetic Modification and Evolution of Sex Determination in Vertebrates - Sergio Branciamore, Andrei S. Rodin, Arthur D. Riggs (JME)
Nov 19 16:00Adaptation during the shift from entomopathogen to endosymbiont is accompanied by gene loss and intensified selection - (GBE)

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