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Group 11: Reproductive Success and Telomeres of Barn Swallows

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Group15: Interacting amino acid replacements allow poison frogs to evolve epibatidine resistance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOEg1U2mMXk Citations: Edmund D. Brodie III. 2009. Toxins and venoms. Current Biology Volume 19 (Issue 20): R931-R935. DOI: 10.1016 Rebecca D. Tarvin, Cecilia M. Borghese, Wiebke Sachs, Juan C. Santos, Ying Lu, Lauren A. O’Connell, David C. Cannatella, R. Adron … Continue reading

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Group 28: A single mutations in the prM protein of Zika virus contributes to fetal microcephaly

References: Belluck, P., McNeil, D. 2017, Sep. 28. The zika virus grew deadlier with a small mutation, study suggests. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/health/zika-mutation-microcephaly.html   Yuan, L., Huang, X., Liu, Z., Zang, F., Zhu, X., Yu, J., . … Continue reading

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Group 21: Competitiveness of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTO6987aBns Citations Andrew Pike, Yuemei Dong, Nahid Borhani Dizaji, Anthony Gacita, Emmanuel F. Mongodin,George Dimopoulos. 2017. Changes In Microbiota Caused Genetically Modified Anopheles to Spread In Population. Science 357(6358): 1396-1399. doi: 10.1126/science.aak9691 Minard, Guillaume, Patrick Mavingui, and Claire Valiente Moro. … Continue reading

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Group 10: Telomere length is reflected by plumage coloration and predicts seasonal reproductive success for the barn swallow

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Group 2: Male genital titillators and the intensity of post-copulatory sexual selection across bushcrickets

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Group 13: Poison Frog Mutations Allow for Decreased Toxin Sensitivity

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Group 19: Genomic Signature of an Avian Lilliput Effect across the K-Pg Extinction

References: Berv, J. S., & Field, D. J. (2017, July 13). Genomic Signature of an Avian Lilliput Effect across the K-Pg Extinction. Retrieved October 27, 2017, from https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/doi/10.1093/sysbio/syx064/3960267/Genomic-Signature-of-an-Avian-Lilliput-Effect Leonard, P. (2017, September 20). That Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs? It … Continue reading

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Group 34: Cell Metabolism: A Predictive Model for Selective Targeting of the Warburg Effect

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Group 37: Surveying the sequence diversity of model prebiotic peptides by mass spctrometry

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