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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a groundbreaking study, researcher Kostas Konstantinidis has reshaped our understanding of microbial life, challenging the long ...

If you’ve ever had a spiny leaf insect as a pet, or you’re considering getting one, hopefully someone has warned you about this: if you put one in your enclosure, you might come back some time later ...

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SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) Further analysis of PifA and PifB revealed that they exhibit many of the characteristics of eukaryotic host-associated ...