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On the immortality of television sets: "function" in the human genome according to the evolution-free gospel of ENCODE by Graur, Dan, Zheng, Yichen, Price, Nicholas, Azevedo, Ricardo B R, Zufall, Rebecca A, Elhaik, Eran

“…A recent slew of ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Consortium publications, specifically the article signed by all Consortium members, put forward the idea…”
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Heads or Tails: A Simple Reliability Check for Multiple Sequence Alignments by Landan, Giddy, Graur, Dan

“…The question of multiple sequence alignment quality has received much attention from developers of alignment methods. Less forthcoming, however, are practical…”
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Phylogenetic position of the order Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares and allies) by Graur, Dan, Duret, Laurent, Gouy, Manolo

“…Ever since they have been classified as ruminants in the Old Testament (Leviticus 11:6, Deuteronomy 14:7) and equated with hyraxes in the vulgate Latin…”
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Soft-coral natural chimerism: a window in ontogeny allows the creation of entities comprised of incongruous parts by Barki, Yael, Gateño, Daniel, Graur, Dan, Rinkevich, Baruch

“…Chimerism, the evolutionary perplexing outcome of fusion between conspecific individuals, is widely documented in nature. Several reports assign a variety of…”
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An alignment confidence score capturing robustness to guide tree uncertainty by Penn, Osnat, Privman, Eyal, Landan, Giddy, Graur, Dan, Pupko, Tal

“…Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is the basis for a wide range of comparative sequence analyses from molecular phylogenetics to 3D structure prediction…”
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Fast computation of maximum likelihood trees by numerical approximation of amino acid replacement probabilities by Pupko, T, Graur, D

“…Phylogenetic reconstruction methods seek to find the tree topology that best describes the evolutionary history of a set of DNA or protein sequences. Maximum…”
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Gene diversity in Hymenoptera by Graur, Dan

“…Hymenopteran species display levels of electrophoretic variation significantly lower than most other insects, and a few of them lack variation altogether…”
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Speciation versus phenotypic plasticity in coral inhabiting barnacles: Darwin's observations in an ecological context by Mokady, O, Loya, Y, Achituv, Y, Geffen, E, Graur, D, Rozenblatt, S, Brickner, I

“…Speciation and phenotypic plasticity are two extreme strategic modes enabling a given taxon to populate a broad ecological niche. One of the organismal models…”
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Reading the entrails of chickens: molecular timescales of evolution and the illusion of precision by Graur, Dan, Martin, William

“…For almost a decade now, a team of molecular evolutionists has produced a plethora of seemingly precise molecular clock estimates for divergence events ranging…”
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A simple method for estimating the intensity of purifying selection in protein-coding genes by Ophir, R, Itoh, T, Graur, D, Gojobori, T

“…We propose a method by which the intensity of purifying selection on a functional protein-coding gene is estimated by using three aligned homologous sequences:…”
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Positively discriminating by Graur, Dan

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Afghanistan: vaccinate drug users against COVID-19 by Ahmadi, Attaullah, Ntacyabukura, Blaise, Lucero-Prisno III, Don Eliseo

“…Letter to the Editor…”
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Polymorphism in soft coral larvae revealed by amplified fragment-length polymorphism (AFLP) markers by BARKI, Y, DOUEK, J, GRAUR, D, GATENO, D, RINKEVICH, B

“…The dioecious Red Sea soft coral Parerythropodium fulvum fulvum breeds its nonsymbiotic planula larvae on the surface of female colonies for less than a week…”
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Comparison of site-specific rate-inference methods for protein sequences: empirical Bayesian methods are superior by Mayrose, Itay, Graur, Dan, Ben-Tal, Nir, Pupko, Tal

“…The degree to which an amino acid site is free to vary is strongly dependent on its structural and functional importance. An amino acid that plays an essential…”
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Alu-containing exons are alternatively spliced by Sorek, Rotem, Ast, Gil, Graur, Dan

“…Alu repetitive elements are found in approximately 1.4 million copies in the human genome, comprising more than one-tenth of it. Numerous studies describe…”
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Evolutionary Affinities of the Order Perissodactyla and the Phylogenetic Status of the Superordinal Taxa Ungulata and Altungulata by Graur, Dan, Gouy, Manolo, Duret, Laurent

“…Contrary to morphological claims, molecular data indicate that the order Perissodactyla (e.g., horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs) is neither part of the…”
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GUIDANCE: a web server for assessing alignment confidence scores by Penn, Osnat, Privman, Eyal, Ashkenazy, Haim, Landan, Giddy, Graur, Dan, Pupko, Tal

“…Evaluating the accuracy of multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is critical for virtually every comparative sequence analysis that uses an MSA as input. Here we…”
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Draft genome of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus by Smith, Chris R, Smith, Christopher D, Robertson, Hugh M, Helmkampf, Martin, Zimin, Aleksey, Yandell, Mark, Holt, Carson, Hu, Hao, Abouheif, Ehab, Benton, Richard, Cash, Elizabeth, Croset, Vincent, Currie, Cameron R, Elhaik, Eran, Elsik, Christine G, Favé, Marie-Julie, Fernandes, Vilaiwan, Gibson, Joshua D, Graur, Dan, Gronenberg, Wulfila, Grubbs, Kirk J, Hagen, Darren E, Viniegra, Ana Sofia Ibarraran, Johnson, Brian R, Johnson, Reed M, Khila, Abderrahman, Kim, Jay W, Mathis, Kaitlyn A, Munoz-Torres, Monica C, Murphy, Marguerite C, Mustard, Julie A, Nakamura, Rin, Niehuis, Oliver, Nigam, Surabhi, Overson, Rick P, Placek, Jennifer E, Rajakumar, Rajendhran, Reese, Justin T, Suen, Garret, Tao, Shu, Torres, Candice W, Tsutsui, Neil D, Viljakainen, Lumi, Wolschin, Florian, Gadau, Jürgen

“…We report the draft genome sequence of the red harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus. The genome was sequenced using 454 pyrosequencing, and the current…”
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About the Cover: 1859 and All That by Graur, Dan

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ConSurf: an algorithmic tool for the identification of functional regions in proteins by surface mapping of phylogenetic information by Armon, Aharon, Graur, Dan, Ben-Tal, Nir

“…Experimental approaches for the identification of functionally important regions on the surface of a protein involve mutagenesis, in which exposed residues are…”
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