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January 22, 2002; 99 (2)
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FROM THE COVER
RING domain proteins as self-assembled scaffolds
Thiamin catalysis: Catching alpha-carbanion in the active site
Exotic species turn native predators into prey
Results from the Breast Cancer Linkage Consortium
Epigenetic transcriptional silencing and DNA double-strand break repair
Commentaries
Commentary
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Ajit Varki
Six blind men and the elephant—the many faces of heparan sulfate
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Alan M. Michelson
Deciphering genetic regulatory codes: A challenge for functional genomics
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Commentary
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R. G. Hill
Substance P, opioid, and catecholamine systems in the mouse central nervous system (CNS)
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Jack R. Lancaster, Jr.
Reaping of nitric oxide by sickle cell disease
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Robert T. Paine
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Daniel E. Schindler
Ecological pork: Novel resources and the trophic reorganization of an ecosystem
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Richard E. Lenski
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Margaret A. Riley
Chemical warfare from an ecological perspective
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Meir Glick
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Anwar Rayan
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Amiram Goldblum
A stochastic algorithm for global optimization and for best populations: A test case of side chains in proteins
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Anne M. Hofmeister
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Ho-kwang Mao
Redefinition of the mode Grüneisen parameter for polyatomic substances and thermodynamic implications
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Physical Sciences - Mathematics
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Liming Ge
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Junhao Shen
Generator problem for certain property T factors
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Dongfang Liu
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Zachary Shriver
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Ganesh Venkataraman
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Yosuf El Shabrawi
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Ram Sasisekharan
Tumor cell surface heparan sulfate as cryptic promoters or inhibitors of tumor growth and metastasis
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Brian M. Paegel
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Charles A. Emrich
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Gary J. Wedemayer
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James R. Scherer
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Richard A. Mathies
High throughput DNA sequencing with a microfabricated 96-lane capillary array electrophoresis bioprocessor
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Reuben J. Peters
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Rodney B. Croteau
Abietadiene synthase catalysis: Mutational analysis of a prenyl diphosphate ionization-initiated cyclization and rearrangement
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Anthony C. Bishop
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Tyzoon K. Nomanbhoy
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Paul Schimmel
Blocking site-to-site translocation of a misactivated amino acid by mutation of a class I tRNA synthetase
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Erik Fiedler
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Stina Thorell
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Tatyana Sandalova
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Ralph Golbik
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Stephan König
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Gunter Schneider
From the Cover: Snapshot of a key intermediate in enzymatic thiamin catalysis: Crystal structure of the α-carbanion of (α,β-dihydroxyethyl)-thiamin diphosphate in the active site of transketolase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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Holly H. Hogrefe
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Connie J. Hansen
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Bradley R. Scott
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Kirk B. Nielson
Archaeal dUTPase enhances PCR amplifications with archaeal DNA polymerases by preventing dUTP incorporation
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Rocio A. Lopez
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Stuti Schoetz
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Kathryn DeAngelis
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David O'Neill
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Arthur Bank
Multiple hematopoietic defects and delayed globin switching in Ikaros null mice
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Jian Wang
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Mariliz Ortiz-Maldonado
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Barrie Entsch
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Vincent Massey
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David Ballou
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Domenico L. Gatti
Protein and ligand dynamics in 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase
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Maria Teresa Pastor
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Manuela López de la Paz
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Emmanuel Lacroix
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Luis Serrano
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Enrique Pérez-Payá
Combinatorial approaches: A new tool to search for highly structured β-hairpin peptides
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Weitian Liu
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Hongmei Jiao
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Nancy C. Murray
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Marion O'Connor
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Wendell L. Roelofs
Gene characterized for membrane desaturase that produces ( E )-11 isomers of mono- and diunsaturated fatty acids
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Yael Olswang
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Hannah Cohen
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Orit Papo
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Hanoch Cassuto
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Colleen M. Croniger
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Parvin Hakimi
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Shirley M. Tilghman
,
Richard W. Hanson
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Lea Reshef
A mutation in the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ-binding site in the gene for the cytosolic form of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase reduces adipose tissue size and fat content in mice
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Ryan Hagglund
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Charles Van Sant
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Pascal Lopez
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Bernard Roizman
Herpes simplex virus 1-infected cell protein 0 contains two E3 ubiquitin ligase sites specific for different E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes
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Dong-chul Kang
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Rahul V. Gopalkrishnan
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Qingping Wu
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Eckhard Jankowsky
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Anna Marie Pyle
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Paul B. Fisher
mda-5 : An interferon-inducible putative RNA helicase with double-stranded RNA-dependent ATPase activity and melanoma growth-suppressive properties
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Lidija Covic
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Amy L. Gresser
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Joyce Talavera
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Steven Swift
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Athan Kuliopulos
Activation and inhibition of G protein-coupled receptors by cell-penetrating membrane-tethered peptides
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Antonio Conconi
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Vyacheslav A. Bespalov
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Michael J. Smerdon
Transcription-coupled repair in RNA polymerase I-transcribed genes of yeast
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Yoon Gi Choi
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Theo W. Dreher
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A. L. N. Rao
tRNA elements mediate the assembly of an icosahedral RNA virus
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Huei-Ju Ting
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Shuyuan Yeh
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Kazuo Nishimura
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Chawnshang Chang
Supervillin associates with androgen receptor and modulates its transcriptional activity
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Alex Kentsis
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Ronald E. Gordon
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Katherine L. B. Borden
From the Cover: Self-assembly properties of a model RING domain
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Didier Gonze
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José Halloy
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Albert Goldbeter
Robustness of circadian rhythms with respect to molecular noise
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2002
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David McMillen
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Nancy Kopell
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Jeff Hasty
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J. J. Collins
Synchronizing genetic relaxation oscillators by intercell signaling
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Margaret S. Cheung
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Angel E. García
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José N. Onuchic
Protein folding mediated by solvation: Water expulsion and formation of the hydrophobic core occur after the structural collapse
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Patrice Koehl
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Improved recognition of native-like protein structures using a family of designed sequences
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Yang Qu
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Gerhard Dahl
Function of the voltage gate of gap junction channels: Selective exclusion of molecules
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Anwar Rayan
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Amiram Goldblum
A stochastic algorithm for global optimization and for best populations: A test case of side chains in proteins
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2002
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703
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708
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James G. Bann
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Jerome Pinkner
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Scott J. Hultgren
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Carl Frieden
Real-time and equilibrium 19 F-NMR studies reveal the role of domain–domain interactions in the folding of the chaperone PapD
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Jack L. Arbiser
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John Petros
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Robert Klafter
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Baskaran Govindajaran
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Elizabeth R. McLaughlin
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Lawrence F. Brown
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Cynthia Cohen
,
Marsha Moses
,
Susan Kilroy
,
Rebecca S. Arnold
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J. David Lambeth
Reactive oxygen generated by Nox1 triggers the angiogenic switch
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Kiyoshi Suzuma
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Noriko Takahara
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Izumi Suzuma
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Keiji Isshiki
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Kohjiro Ueki
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Michael Leitges
,
Lloyd Paul Aiello
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and
George L. King
Characterization of protein kinase C β isoform's action on retinoblastoma protein phosphorylation, vascular endothelial growth factor-induced endothelial cell proliferation, and retinal neovascularization
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Paul J. Muchowski
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Ke Ning
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Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey
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Stanley Fields
Requirement of an intact microtubule cytoskeleton for aggregation and inclusion body formation by a mutant huntingtin fragment
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Huaiyang Chen
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Ian C. Duncan
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Hormozd Bozorgchami
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Su Hao Lo
Tensin1 and a previously undocumented family member, tensin2, positively regulate cell migration
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Joan D. Ferraris
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Chester K. Williams
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Prita Persaud
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Zheng Zhang
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Ye Chen
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Maurice B. Burg
Activity of the TonEBP/OREBP transactivation domain varies directly with extracellular NaCl concentration
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Minoru Funakoshi
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Toru Sasaki
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Takeharu Nishimoto
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Hideki Kobayashi
Budding yeast Dsk2p is a polyubiquitin-binding protein that can interact with the proteasome
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Hyeong-Cheol Yang
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Actin cable dynamics in budding yeast
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Benjamin P. Berman
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Yutaka Nibu
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Barret D. Pfeiffer
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Pavel Tomancak
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Susan E. Celniker
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Michael Levine
,
Gerald M. Rubin
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and
Michael B. Eisen
Exploiting transcription factor binding site clustering to identify cis-regulatory modules involved in pattern formation in the Drosophila genome
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Michele Markstein
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Michael S. Levine
Genome-wide analysis of clustered Dorsal binding sites identifies putative target genes in the Drosophila embryo
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Mavji N. Patel
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Christopher G. Knight
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Constantina Karageorgi
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Armand M. Leroi
Evolution of germ-line signals that regulate growth and aging in nematodes
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Caroline Goutte
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Valerie A. Hale
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James R. Priess
APH-1 is a multipass membrane protein essential for the Notch signaling pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos
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Kenta Sumiyama
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Steven Q. Irvine
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David W. Stock
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Kenneth M. Weiss
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Kazuhiko Kawasaki
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Nobuyoshi Shimizu
,
Cooduvalli S. Shashikant
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Webb Miller
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Frank H. Ruddle
Genomic structure and functional control of the Dlx3 - 7 bigene cluster
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Tamás L. Czárán
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Rolf F. Hoekstra
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Ludo Pagie
Chemical warfare between microbes promotes biodiversity
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2002
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