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Abigail Perrin and Richard Dorrell review the roles protists play in the global ecosystem, and their fragility and resilience to a present and future characterized by rapid ecological change

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Genomic history of the Italian population recapitulates key evolutionary dynamics of both Continental and Southern Europeans
Marco Sazzini et al.
Published on: 22 May 2020

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Wonky whales: the evolution of cranial asymmetry in cetaceans
Ellen Coombs et al.
Published on: 10 July 2020

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Tandem gene duplications drive divergent evolution of caffeine and crocin biosynthetic pathways in plants
Zhichao Xu et al.
Published on: 18 June 2020

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Relationship between oxygen consumption and neuronal activity in a defined neural circuit​​​​​​​
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X-ray computed tomography in life sciences
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Buzz Baum and David Baum
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Giulio Chiesa et al.
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Focus: Plant Pathogens

The broad use of the Pm8 resistance gene in wheat resulted in hypermutation of the AvrPm8 gene in the powdery mildew pathogen
Lukas Kunz et al.
Published in BMC Biology 8 February 2023

Combined pangenomics and transcriptomics reveals core and redundant virulence processes in a rapidly evolving fungal plant pathogen
Hongxin Chen et al.
Published in BMC Biology 6 February 2023

The extrachromosomal circular DNAs of the rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae contain a wide variety of LTR retrotransposons, genes, and effectors
Pierre M. Joubert & Ksenia V. Krasileva
Published in BMC Biology 23 November 2022

The Venturia inaequalis effector repertoire is dominated by expanded families with predicted structural similarity, but unrelated sequence, to avirulence proteins from other plant-pathogenic fungi
Mercedes Rocafort et al.
Published in BMC Biology 3 November 2022

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