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Rare plant makes comeback from brink of extinction

The Kentish milkwort has seen a seven-fold increase since conservation efforts in 2013.

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B.C. biologist disciplined for 'hunting' caribou after shooting clips to collect hair for DNA samples

The definition of 'hunting' is at the centre of a ruling from B.C.'s Environmental Appeal Board which upheld a decision to punish a wildlife biologist for his actions toward an endangered caribou herd he is studying in northern B.C.

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How tiny 'backpacks' and sniffer dogs could save hedgehogs from extinction

The project uses GPS 'backpacks' to track the hedgehogs as they become an increasingly rare sight.

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Modelling Evolution, by Walter Veit, from Cambridge Univ Press. (Apr 18).

Genes, Environments and Interactions: Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics Brought Up-to-date, by Jos Ãlvarez-Castro, from Springer Nature. (Apr 4).

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

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May 19 16:00Regulatory rewiring of Dand5 drove left-right organizer heterotopy and organ asymmetry evolution in chordates - Rongrong Pan, et al. (PNAS)
May 19 16:00Evolutionary branching and consistency in group cooperation - Alina Glaubitz, et al. (PNAS)
May 19 14:03New lineages provide insights into the convergent evolution of extreme salt adaptation within symbiotic Archaea by Joshua N Hamm and others (MBE)
May 19 14:03Epistasis and background dependence in the evolution of Omicron variants of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein by Alief Moulana and others (MBE)
May 19 11:03Genomic Insights into the Admixture History and Adaptive Evolution of the Zhuang People by Chuangxue Mao and others (MBE)
May 19 11:03Chromosome-level reference genome of the beach false foxglove, Agalinis fasciculata (Orobanchaceae) by Pedro H Pezzi and Maribeth Latvis (GBE)
May 19 11:03Inferring patterns of purifying, positive and balancing selection in the coppery titi monkey (Plecturocebus cupreus) utilizing a well-fit evolutionary baseline model by Vivak Soni and others (GBE)
May 18 16:00Maynard Smith's analogy, realized: Common ancestry constrains evolutionary percolation through protein space - Swathi Nachiar , et al. (PNAS)
May 18 16:00Genomic diversity and the domestication history of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) - Weixuan Ning, et al. (PNAS)
May 18 16:00Emergence of cooperation due to opponent-specific responses in Prisoner's Dilemma - Alexandre V. , et al. (PNAS)
May 18 16:00Arctic ecosystems shaped mammalian dispersal and diversification before the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction - Sarah L. , et al. (PNAS)
May 17 17:03Novel 20th century rotavirus alphagastroenteritidis strains identified in formalin-fixed and ethanol-preserved museum specimens by Ashleigh F Porter and others (MBE)
May 17 17:03Highlight: comparative single-cell analysis reveals how birds and mammals build distinct lung architectures by Ioanna Kotari (MBE)
May 17 17:03"Dark" or "Junk"? Functional Roles of Pervasive Transcription in the Human Genome by Haoran Cai (GBE)
May 17 11:03Beyond Genomes: Functional Signatures Reveal Evolutionary Patterns Across the Tree of Life by A Muñoz-Mérida and A J Muñoz-Pajares (MBE)

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