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    Surprisingly, monitoring single bacteria expressing constitutive or flagellar genes reveals faster growth, a benefit driven by inherited, cost-free growth factors, whereas bulk measurements show an expected net fitness cost.
    1. Ecology
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    Lili F Vizer, Douglas Alvarado ... Pete Buston
    During the establishment of size-based dominance hierarchies in clown anemonefish, an individual's social context shapes its growth trajectory through coordinated changes in feeding behavior, aggressive behaviors, and gene expression.
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    Cell cycle-coupled CK1δ turnover, autoinhibition, and activity

    Fidel Emmanuel Serrano, Bianca Ruppert ... Michael Brunner
    In light of recent observations of how CK1δ is dynamically regulated, kinase activity and abundance are also regulated throughout the cell cycle primarily through phosphorylation at the C-terminal tail.
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    Primary cilia in the growing limb are preferentially orientated, uncoupled from centriolar position

    Theana Johnson, Swati Midha ... Angus KT Wann
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    Dopaminergic Neurons Linking Threat Processing to Cardiac Modulation and Locomotor Responses

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    Selective suppression and biasing of chemokine receptors CCR9 and ACKR4 through targeting CCL25 with de novo miniproteins

    Bas de Boer, Thomas D Lamme ... Christopher T Schafer
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    Male chickadees with better spatial cognition sire more extra-pair young

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    Zhenzhen Ma, Alexander L Starr ... Hunter B Fraser
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    Spatial confinement induces oscillatory migration of epidermal keratinocytes and forms a three-compartment epithelial structure with epithelial–mesenchymal transition dynamics

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