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You cannot tell a book by looking at the cover: Cryptic complexity in bacterial evolution

Abstract: Do genetically closely related organisms under identical, but strong selection pressure converge to a common resistant genotype or will they diverge to different genomic solutions? This question gets at the heart of how rough is the fitness landscape in the local vicinity of two closely related strains under stress. We chose a Growth Advantage…
Weddell seal foraging dives: comparison of free-ranging and isolated-hole paradigms

Weddell seals are polar predators that must partition their time between many behaviors, including hunting prey at depth and breathing at the surface. Although they have been well studied, little is known about how foraging behavior changes when access to breathing holes is restricted, such as in the isolated-hole paradigm. The current study took advantage…
Guide to the UCSC Genome Browser

This tutorial is aimed at the biologist who is interested in exploring protein-coding genes using the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genome Browser. It is geared towards those who have little or no experience using the UCSC Genome Browser and for more advanced users who are not familiar with many of the gene-oriented browser…