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(2 December 2005)

A selection of evaluations from Faculty of 1000 Biology covering yeast metabolite profiling; high-frequency homologous recombination; functional RNA motifs; phylogeny of Oryzeae; genomic variability within an organism

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(21 November 2005)

A selection of evaluations from Faculty of 1000 Biology covering genetically identical SNPs; detailed histone modification mapping; plant gene-expression diversity; photosynthesis gene evolution; -Proteobacteria diversity

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(1 November 2005)

A selection of evaluations from Faculty of 1000 Biology covering bacterial chromosome segregation; a protein structure initiative; subcellular plant protein localization; transcriptional reprogramming of atrophic muscle; sex-determined recombination levels

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(24 October 2005)

A selection of evaluations from Faculty of 1000 Biology covering the transition from an RNA to a DNA world; sex chromosome evolution; vertebrate whole-genome duplication; U5 snRNA variants in Drosophila; human influenza A virus variation.

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(3 October 2005)

A selection of evaluations from Faculty of 1000 covering Wolbachia ankyrin domain-encoding genes; horizontal gene transfer rates; profiling mental retardation; murine exon evolution; rice and Arabidopsis transcriptomes.

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(20 September 2005)

A selection of evaluations from Faculty of 1000 covering ectopic gene conversions; heterozygous insertions in C. elegans; plant RNA silencing suppression; phage insertion into the host genome; screening viral protein variants.