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A Novel Human-Infection-Derived Bacterium Provides Insights into the Evolutionary Origins of Mutualistic Insect–Bacterial Symbioses
These results show that genome degeneration proceeds rapidly following the onset of symbiosis. They also highlight the potential for diverse insect taxa to acquire closely related insect symbionts as a consequence of vectoring bacterial pathogens to plants and animals.
The Contributions of Wobbling and Superwobbling to the Reading of the Genetic Code
The authors find that superwobbling occurs in all codon families where it is theoretically possible, demonstrating that all triplets with pyrimidines in third codon position are dually decoded: by a tRNA utilizing standard base pairing or wobbling and by a second tRNA employing superwobbling.
A Unified Method for Detecting Secondary Trait Associations with Rare Variants: Application to Sequence Data
These authors developed a unified method for detecting secondary trait associations with rare variants (STAR) in selected and random samples, which can flexibly incorporate all rare variant association tests and allow joint analysis of multiple cohorts ascertained under different study designs.
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