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    G protein-coupled receptor diversity and evolution in the closest living relatives of Metazoa

    Alain Garcia De Las Bayonas, Nicole King
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    The impact of ambient contamination on demultiplexing methods for single-nucleus multiome experiments

    Terence Li, Marcus Alvarez ... Noah Zaitlen
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Refining the resolution of the yeast genotype-phenotype map using single-cell RNA-sequencing

    Arnaud N’Guessan, Wen Yuan Tong ... Alex N Nguyen Ba
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    Reviewed Preprint v4
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    • Useful
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Benchmarking and Optimization of Methods for the Detection of Identity-By-Descent in High-Recombining Plasmodium falciparum Genomes

    Bing Guo, Shannon Takala-Harrison, Timothy D O’Connor
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Ancient Trans-Species Polymorphism at the Major Histocompatibility Complex in Primates

    Alyssa Lyn Fortier, Jonathan K Pritchard
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Tissue-specific responses to TFAM and mtDNA copy number manipulation in prematurely ageing mice

    Laura Sophie Kremer, Guanbin Gao ... Nils-Göran Larsson
    Regulation of mitochondrial DNA copy number is highly tissue-specific and context-dependent, particularly in the presence of disease.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Divergent C. elegans toxin alleles are suppressed by distinct mechanisms

    Stefan Zdraljevic, Laura Walter-McNeill ... Leonid Kruglyak
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Minus the Error: Testing for Positive Selection in the Presence of Residual Alignment Errors

    Avery Selberg, Nathan L Clark ... Sergei L Kosakovsky Pond
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    • Valuable
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    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    ADMA-histones play a crucial role in the initial recognition of dual-strand piRNA cluster regions by Rhino

    Raku Saito, Hirotsugu Ishizu ... Mikiko C Siomi
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    WRN and WRNIP1 ATPases impose high fidelity on translesion synthesis by Y-family DNA polymerases

    Jung-Hoon Yoon, Karthi Sellamuthu ... Satya Prakash
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
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