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Dwaraka, VB ;Voss, SR "Towards comparative analyses of salamander limb regeneration." Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution 336, 2 (2021): 129-144.

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Baddar, NWAH ;Dwaraka, VB ;Ponomareva, LV ;Thorson, JS ;Voss, SR "Chemical genetics of regeneration: Contrasting temporal effects of CoCl2 on axolotl tail regeneration." Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists (2021):

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Huffman, D ;Ajwad, A ;Yaghouby, F ;O'Hara, BF ;Sunderam, S "A real-time sleep scoring framework for closed-loop sleep manipulation in mice." Journal of sleep research (2021): e13262.

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Crowley, PH ;Labonne, J "Theory of environmental sex determination: Trending populations in stressful environments." Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 75, 4 (2021): 794-805.

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Hime, PM ;Lemmon, AR ;Lemmon, ECM ;Prendini, E ;Brown, JM ;Thomson, RC ;Kratovil, JD ;Noonan, BP ;Pyron, RA ;Peloso, PLV ;Kortyna, ML ;Keogh, JS ;... "Phylogenomics Reveals Ancient Gene Tree Discordance in the Amphibian Tree of Life." Systematic biology 70, 1 (2021): 49-66.

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Poelstra, JW ;Salmona, J ;Tiley, GP ;Schüßler, D ;Blanco, MB ;Andriambeloson, JB ;Bouchez, O ;Campbell, CR ;Etter, PD ;Hohenlohe, PA ;Hunnicutt, KE ;... "Cryptic Patterns of Speciation in Cryptic Primates: Microendemic Mouse Lemurs and the Multispecies Coalescent." Systematic biology 70, 2 (2021): 203-218.

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Martínez-Matías, N ;Chorna, N ;González-Crespo, S ;Villanueva, L ;Montes-Rodríguez, I ;Melendez-Aponte, LM ;Roche-Lima, A ;Carrasquillo-Carrión, K ;... "Toward the discovery of biological functions associated with the mechanosensor Mtl1p of Saccharomyces cerevisiae via integrative multi-OMICs analysis." Scientific reports 11, 1 (2021): 7411.

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Arthur, G ;Osborn, JL ;Yiannikouris, FB "(Pro)renin receptor in the kidney: function and significance." American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 320, 4 (2021): R377-R383.

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Marks, RA ;Smith, JJ ;VanBuren, R ;McLetchie, DN "Expression dynamics of dehydration tolerance in the tropical plant Marchantia inflexa." The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology 105, 1 (2021): 209-222.

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Rodrigues-Junior, AG ;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM ;De-Paula, OC "The pleurogram, an under-investigated functional trait in seeds." Annals of botany 127, 2 (2021): 167-174.

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Athugala, YS ;Jayasuriya, KMG Gehan;Gunaratne, AMTA ;Baskin, CC "Seed dormancy of 80 tropical montane forest species in Sri Lanka, the first dormancy profile for a tropical montane forest community." Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) 23, 2 (2021): 293-299.

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Liu, Y.;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM ;Yang, J.;Cao, M ;Wen, B "Seed dormancy profiles for forest dynamics plot data: focusing on a tropical seasonal rainforest in Xishuangbanna, southwest China." Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) 23, 3 (2021): 420-426.

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Cassone, VM ;Tosini, G "Obituary: Michael Menaker, PhD. (1934-2021)." Journal of pineal research (2021): e12729.

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Santollo, J ;Edwards, AA "How predictive is body weight on fluid intake in rats? It depends on sex." Physiology & behavior 229, (2021): 113262.

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Mietlicki-Baase, EG ;Santollo, J ;Daniels, D "Fluid intake, what's dopamine got to do with it?" Physiology & behavior 236, (2021): 113418.

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Keinath, MC ;Davidian, A ;Timoshevskiy, V ;Timoshevskaya, N ;Gall, JG "Characterization of axolotl lampbrush chromosomes by fluorescence in situ hybridization and immunostaining." Experimental cell research 401, 2 (2021): 112523.

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Dunoyer, LA ;Seifert, AW ;Van Cleve, J "Evolutionary bedfellows: Reconstructing the ancestral state of autotomy and regeneration." Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution 336, 2 (2021): 94-115.

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Smith, JJ ;Timoshevskiy, VA ;Saraceno, C "Programmed DNA Elimination in Vertebrates." Annual review of animal biosciences 9, (2021): 173-201.

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Schloissnig, S ;Kawaguchi, A ;Nowoshilow, S ;Falcon, F ;Otsuki, L ;Tardivo, P ;Timoshevskaya, N ;Keinath, MC ;Smith, JJ ;Voss, SR ;Tanaka, EM "The giant axolotl genome uncovers the evolution, scaling, and transcriptional control of complex gene loci." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118, 15 (2021):

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Harpole, CE ;Cassone, VM "Context and novelty increase strength of auditory cues as a weak circadian zeitgeber in songbirds." Chronobiology international (2021): 1-10.

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Marguerite, NT ;Bernard, J ;Harrison, DA ;Harris, D ;Cooper, RL "Effect of Temperature on Heart Rate for Phaenicia sericata and Drosophila melanogaster with Altered Expression of the TrpA1 Receptors." Insects 12, 1 (2021):

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Piedade, WP ;Famulski, JK "E3 ubiquitin ligase-mediated regulation of vertebrate ocular development; new insights into the function of SIAH enzymes." Biochemical Society transactions 49, 1 (2021): 327-340.

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Aloysius, A ;Saxena, S ;Seifert, AW "Metabolic regulation of innate immune cell phenotypes during wound repair and regeneration." Current opinion in immunology 68, (2021): 72-82.

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Thusithana, V ;Amarasekara, RWK ;Jayasuriya, KMG Gehan;Gama-Arachchige, NS ;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM "Seed dormancy of Cardiospermum halicacabum (Sapindaceae) from three precipitation zones in Sri Lanka." Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) 23, 1 (2021): 148-155.

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Dingemanse, NJ ;Araya-Ajoy, YG ;Westneat, DF "Most published selection gradients are underestimated: Why this is and how to fix it." Evolution; international journal of organic evolution (2021):

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Hu, D ;Baskin, JM ;Baskin, CC ;Liu, R.;Yang, X.;Huang, Z. "A seed mucilage degrading fungus from the rhizosphere strengthens the plant-soil-microbe continuum and potentially regulates root nutrients of a cold desert shrub." Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI (2021):

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Proudfoot, KL ;Kull, JA ;Krawczel, PD ;Bewley, JM ;O'Hara, BF ;Donohue, KD ;Pighetti, GM "Effects of acute lying and sleep deprivation on metabolic and inflammatory responses of lactating dairy cows." Journal of dairy science 104, 4 (2021): 4764-4774.

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Buckley, TN ;Omotola, O ;Archer, LA ;Rostron, CR ;Kamineni, EP ;Llanora, JD ;Chalfant, JM ;Lei, F ;Slade, E ;Pendergast, JS "High-fat feeding disrupts daily eating behavior rhythms in obesity-prone but not in obesity-resistant male inbred mouse strains." American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (2021):

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Araya-Ajoy, YG ;Westneat, DF ;Wright, J "Pathways to social evolution and their evolutionary feedbacks." Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 74, 9 (2020): 1894-1907.

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Westneat, DF ;Araya-Ajoy, YG ;Allegue, H ;Class, B ;Dingemanse, N ;Dochtermann, NA ;Garamszegi, LZ ;Martin, JGA ;Nakagawa, S ;Réale, D ;Schielzeth, H "Collision between biological process and statistical analysis revealed by mean centring." The Journal of animal ecology 89, 12 (2020): 2813-2824.

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