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Differential signal sensitivities can contribute to the stability of multispecies bacterial communities

János Juhász, Dóra Bihary, Attila Jády, Sándor Pongor and Balázs Ligeti

Published on: 15 September 2017
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Evidence-based gene models for structural and functional annotations of the oil palm genome

Kuang-Lim Chan, Tatiana V. Tatarinova, Rozana Rosli, Nadzirah Amiruddin, Norazah Azizi, Mohd Amin Ab Halim, Nik Shazana Nik Mohd Sanusi, Nagappan Jayanthi, Petr Ponomarenko, Martin Triska, Victor Solovyev, Mohd Firdaus-Raih, Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi, Denis Murphy and Eng-Ti Leslie Low

Published on: 8 September 2017
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On the global CRISPR array behavior in class I systems

Alice Toms and Rodolphe Barrangou

Published on: 29 August 2017
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Breath-giving cooperation: critical review of origin of mitochondria hypotheses

István Zachar and Eörs Szathmáry

Published on: 14 August 2017
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Cell adhesion heterogeneity reinforces tumour cell dissemination: novel insights from a mathematical model

David Reher, Barbara Klink, Andreas Deutsch and Anja Voss-Böhme

Published on: 11 August 2017

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Midichlorians - the biomeme hypothesis: is there a microbial component to religious rituals?

Alexander Y Panchin, Alexander I Tuzhikov and Yuri V Panchin

Published on: 2 July 2014
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The evolution of domain-content in bacterial genomes

Nacho Molina and Erik van Nimwegen

Published on: 11 December 2008
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On the origin of life in the Zinc world: 1. Photosynthesizing, porous edifices built of hydrothermally precipitated zinc sulfide as cradles of life on Earth

Armen Y Mulkidjanian

Published on: 24 August 2009
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The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells

Eugene V Koonin, Tatiana G Senkevich and Valerian V Dolja

Published on: 19 September 2006
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Bioinformatics clouds for big data manipulation

Lin Dai, Xin Gao, Yan Guo, Jingfa Xiao and Zhang Zhang

Published on: 28 November 2012

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Eugene Koonin, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA
David Lipman, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA

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