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    Diversification of a single ancestral gene into a successful toxin superfamily in highly venomous Australian funnel-web spiders

    Spiders have evolved pharmacologically complex venoms that serve to rapidly subdue prey and deter predators. The major toxic factors in most spider venoms are small, disulfide-rich peptides. While there is abu...

    Sandy S Pineda, Brianna L Sollod, David Wilson, Aaron Darling in BMC Genomics (2014)

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    Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter

    Genome sequencing enhances our understanding of the biological world by providing blueprints for the evolutionary and functional diversity that shapes the biosphere. However, microbial genomes that are current...

    Christian Rinke, Patrick Schwientek, Alexander Sczyrba, Natalia N. Ivanova in Nature (2013)

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    Insights into the evolution of Darwin’s finches from comparative analysis of the Geospiza magnirostris genome sequence

    A classical example of repeated speciation coupled with ecological diversification is the evolution of 14 closely related species of Darwin’s (Galápagos) finches (Thraupidae, Passeriformes). Their adaptive rad...

    Chris M Rands, Aaron Darling, Matthew Fujita, Lesheng Kong in BMC Genomics (2013)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

    Algorithms in Bioinformatics

    13th International Workshop, WABI 2013, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 2-4, 2013. Proceedings

    Aaron Darling, Jens Stoye in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2013)

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    The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

    Sponges are an ancient group of animals that diverged from other metazoans over 600 million years ago. Here we present the draft genome sequence of Amphimedon queenslandica, a demosponge from the Great Barrier Re...

    Mansi Srivastava, Oleg Simakov, Jarrod Chapman, Bryony Fahey in Nature (2010)

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    Protocol

    In Sffamily Identification of Genes in Bacteriophage DNA

    One of the most satisfying aspects of a genome sequencing project is the identification of the genes contained within it.These are of two types: those which encode tRNAs and those which produce proteins. After...

    Andrew M. Kropinski, Mark Borodovsky, Tim J. Carver in Bacteriophages (2009)