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Structural basis of directional switching by the bacterial flagellum

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Berg, H. C. Bacterial behaviour. Nature 254, 389–392 (1975). Article  ADS  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Berg, H. C. The rotary motor of ...

A conserved interdomain microbial network underpins cadaver decomposition despite environmental variables

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Swift, M. J., Heal, O. W. & Anderson, J. M. Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems (Blackwell Scientific, 1979). Carter, D. O., Yellowlees, D. ...

Stable isotopes show Homo sapiens dispersed into cold steppes ~45,000 years ago at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

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Hublin, J.-J. et al. Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. Nature 581, 299–302 (2020). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google ...

Ancestral photoreceptor diversity as the basis of visual behaviour

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Baden, T. Circuit mechanisms for colour vision in zebrafish. Curr. Biol. 31, R807–R820 (2021). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Dacey, D. M. ...

Hagfish genome elucidates vertebrate whole-genome duplication events and their evolutionary consequences

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Van de Peer, Y., Maere, S. & Meyer, A. The evolutionary significance of ancient genome duplications. Nat. Rev. Genet. 10, 725–732 (2009). ...

The Information Theory of Aging

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Johnson, F. B., Sinclair, D. A. & Guarente, L. Molecular biology of aging. Cell 96, 291–302 (1999). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  ...

Iron accumulation drives fibrosis, senescence and the senescence-associated secretory phenotype

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Cells Human melanoma cells (SK-MEL-103, kindly provided by M.S. Soengas, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre), mouse endothelial cells (H5V), HUVECs (H5V and ...

Decoupling speciation and extinction reveals both abiotic and biotic drivers shaped 250 million years of diversity in crocodile-line archosaurs

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Allan, R. P. Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis: Working Group I Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental ...

The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition

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Darwin, C. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for ...

Subgenome dominance shapes novel gene evolution in the decaploid pitcher plant Nepenthes gracilis

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Soltis, D. E. et al. Polyploidy and angiosperm diversification. Am. J. Bot. 96, 336–348 (2009). Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  Van de Peer, ...