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Distribution of non-natural food (provisioning) to attract fish, though popular in coral reef tourism, has often been discouraged due to its assumed adverse effects on fish health and behavior. However, the ef...
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Taiwan straddles tropical and subtropical latitudes in the North Pacific Ocean. While shallow-water coral reefs in Taiwan have been studied for many years, mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) have recently enjo...
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In the marine brown macroalgae, the morphological characters are highly similar between two widely distributed genera, Homoeostrichus and Zonaria (Dictyotaceae), thereby resulting in the difficulty of exploring t...
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Members of the calcified red algal genus, Galaxaura, are distributed predominantly in warm temperate, subtropical, and tropical regions worldwide. The capacity of these algae to form calcified thalli could play a...
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Open AccessComparative genomics of parasitic silkworm microsporidia reveal an association between genome expansion and host adaptation
Microsporidian Nosema bombycis has received much attention because the pébrine disease of domesticated silkworms results in great economic losses in the silkworm industry. So far, no effective treatment could be ...
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Cytologists have long documented differences in chromosome number and organization among plants, but the truly dynamic nature of plant genome evolution is only becoming apparent with fully sequenced and assemb...
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Open AccessMolecular adaptation and expression evolution following duplication of genes for organellar ribosomal protein S13 in rosids
Gene duplication has been a fundamental process in the evolution of eukaryotic genomes. After duplication one copy (or both) can undergo divergence in sequence, expression pattern, and function. Two divergent ...
