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Darwin's Theory of Descent with Modification, versus the Biblical Tree of Life by Penny, David

“…The other references are in Proverbs (3:18, 11:30, 13:12, 15:4), where it appears more metaphorical in intent. [...]my first point is that Darwin certainly did…”
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QUOKKA, the pinhole small‐angle neutron scattering instrument at the OPAL Research Reactor, Australia: design, performance, operation and scientific highlights by Wood, Kathleen, Mata, Jitendra P., Garvey, Christopher J., Wu, Chun-Ming, Hamilton, William A., Abbeywick, Peter, Bartlett, Daniel, Bartsch, Friedl, Baxter, Peter, Booth, Norman, Brown, Warren, Christoforidis, Jason, Clowes, Douglas, d'Adam, Timothy, Darmann, Frank, Deura, Michael, Harrison, Shane, Hauser, Nick, Horton, Glen, Federici, David, Franceschini, Ferdi, Hanson, Philip, Imamovic, Eno, Imperia, Paolo, Jones, Martin, Kennedy, Shane, Kim, Sungjoong, Lam, Tony, Lee, Wai Tung, Lesha, Mark, Mannicke, David, Noakes, Terry, Olsen, Scott R., Osborn, John C., Penny, David, Perry, Merv, Pullen, Stewart A., Robinson, Robert A., Schulz, Jamie C., Xiong, Norman, Gilbert, Elliot P.

“…QUOKKA is a 40 m pinhole small‐angle neutron scattering instrument in routine user operation at the OPAL research reactor at the Australian Nuclear Science and…”
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Chloroplast Phylogenomic Inference of Green Algae Relationships by Sun, Linhua, Fang, Ling, Zhang, Zhenhua, Chang, Xin, Penny, David, Zhong, Bojian

“…The green algal phylum Chlorophyta has six diverse classes, but the phylogenetic relationship of the classes within Chlorophyta remains uncertain. In order to…”
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Complex spliceosomal organization ancestral to extant eukaryotes by Collins, Lesley, Penny, David

“…In higher eukaryotes, introns are spliced out of protein-coding mRNAs by the spliceosome, a massive complex comprising five non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) and about…”
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Tinamous and Moa Flock Together: Mitochondrial Genome Sequence Analysis Reveals Independent Losses of Flight among Ratites by Phillips, Matthew J., Gibb, Gillian C., Crimp, Elizabeth A., Penny, David

“…Ratites are large, flightless birds and include the ostrich, rheas, kiwi, emu, and cassowaries, along with extinct members, such as moa and elephant birds…”
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Beyond phylogeny: pelecaniform and ciconiiform birds, and long-term niche stability by Gibb, Gillian C., Kennedy, Martyn, Penny, David

“…[Display omitted] •Mitochondrial genome analyses of Pelecaniformes, Ciconiiformes and allies.•Group has occupied a water carnivore role for tens of millions of…”
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Genome-scale phylogeny and the detection of systematic biases by Phillips, Matthew J, Delsuc, Frédéric, Penny, David

“…Phylogenetic inference from sequences can be misled by both sampling (stochastic) error and systematic error (nonhistorical signals where reality differs from…”
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Evaluating hypotheses for the origin of eukaryotes by Poole, Anthony M., Penny, David

“…Numerous scenarios explain the origin of the eukaryote cell by fusion or endosymbiosis between an archaeon and a bacterium (and sometimes a third partner). We…”
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Evolutionary Analysis of Arabidopsis, Cyanobacterial, and Chloroplast Genomes Reveals Plastid Phylogeny and Thousands of Cyanobacterial Genes in the Nucleus by Martin, William, Rujan, Tamas, Richly, Erik, Hansen, Andrea, Cornelsen, Sabine, Lins, Thomas, Leister, Dario, Stoebe, Bettina, Hasegawa, Masami, Penny, David

“…Chloroplasts were once free-living cyanobacteria that became endosymbionts, but the genomes of contemporary plastids encode only ≈5-10% as many genes as those…”
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The root of the mammalian tree inferred from whole mitochondrial genomes by Phillips, Matthew J., Penny, David

“…Morphological and molecular data are currently contradictory over the position of monotremes with respect to marsupial and placental mammals. As part of a…”
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Membrane cholesterol modulates STEAP2 conformation during dynamic intracellular trafficking processes leading to broad subcellular distribution by Hasegawa, Haruki, Li, Cong, Alba, Benjamin M., Penny, David M., Xia, Zhen, Dayao, Maria Rosalyn, Li, Peng, Zhang, Jue, Zhou, Jing, Lim, Desiree, Murawsky, Christopher M., Lim, Ai Ching

“…STEAP2 is a member of the Six-Transmembrane Epithelial Antigen of the Prostate (STEAP) protein family that is proposed to function as metalloreductase. While…”
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The RNA infrastructure: dark matter of the eukaryotic cell? by Collins, Lesley J, Penny, David

“…Eukaryotes express many functional non-protein-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that participate in the processing and regulation of other RNA molecules. By focusing on…”
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Evolution of the Chlorophyta： Insights from chloroplast phylogenomic analyses by Fang, Ling, Leliaert, Frederik, Zhang, Zhen‐Hua, Penny, David, Zhong, Bo‐Jian

“…Green plants comprise two main clades： the Streptophyta, which include charophyte green algae and the embryophytic land plants, and the Chlorophyta including a…”
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The Origin of Land Plants: A Phylogenomic Perspective by Zhong, Bojian, Sun, Linhua, Penny, David

“…Land plants are a natural group, and Charophyte algae are the closest lineages of land plants and have six morphologically diverged groups. The conjugating…”
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Coevolution of genomic intron number and splice sites by Irimia, Manuel, Penny, David, Roy, Scott W

“…Spliceosomal intron numbers and boundary sequences vary dramatically in eukaryotes. We found a striking correspondence between low intron number and strong…”
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Early penguin fossils, plus mitochondrial genomes, calibrate avian evolution by Slack, Kerryn E, Jones, Craig M, Ando, Tatsuro, Harrison, G L Abby, Fordyce, R Ewan, Arnason, Ulfur, Penny, David

“…Testing models of macroevolution, and especially the sufficiency of microevolutionary processes, requires good collaboration between molecular biologists and…”
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New Zealand Passerines Help Clarify the Diversification of Major Songbird Lineages during the Oligocene by Gibb, Gillian C, England, Ryan, Hartig, Gerrit, McLenachan, Patricia A Trish, Taylor Smith, Briar L, McComish, Bennet J, Cooper, Alan, Penny, David

“…Passerines are the largest avian order, and the 6,000 species comprise more than half of all extant bird species. This successful radiation probably had its…”
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Mass Survival of Birds Across the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary: Molecular Evidence by Cooper, Alan, Penny, David

“…The extent of terrestrial vertebrate extinctions at the end of the Cretaceous is poorly understood, and estimates have ranged from a mass extinction to limited…”
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Phylogenetic species identification in Rattus highlights rapid radiation and morphological similarity of New Guinean species by Robins, Judith H, Tintinger, Vernon, Aplin, Ken P, Hingston, Melanie, Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth, Penny, David, Lavery, Shane D

“…The genus Rattus is highly speciose, the taxonomy is complex, and individuals are often difficult to identify to the species level. Previous studies have…”
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Resolving the root of the avian mitogenomic tree by breaking up long branches by Slack, Kerryn E., Delsuc, Frédéric, Mclenachan, Patricia A., Arnason, Ulfur, Penny, David

“…Incomplete taxon sampling has been a major problem in resolving the early divergences in birds. Five new mitochondrial genomes are reported here (brush-turkey,…”
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