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Artist’s conception of this new approach to revealing master regulator genes and species that affect evolutionary diversification. Credit: By Navid Marvi, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science.
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Revealed: Some microbiome species regulate their entire bacterial ecosystem

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CRISPR/Cas9 reveals a key gene involved in the evolution of coral skeleton formation

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