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UC Santa Cruz researchers have sequenced the first complete genome of the Pacific banana slug, a species known for its gelatinous slime and self-fertilization. The genome may reveal insights into slug ...

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Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with increasing complexity and gaining new genes, but gene loss and simplification also ...