Report backs Endangered Species Act
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The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences issued a report supporting the continuation of the Endangered Species Act. The report praised the scientific basis of the law and defended the policy of protecting subspecies and isolated populations.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1995
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Tracing backbone evolution through a tunicate's lost tail
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Researchers have identified a gene called Manx that regulates the development of vertebrate-like characteristics in tunicate embryos. The gene is crucial to tail development and is missing in tailless species.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1996
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Studly sheep by non-Mendelian means
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Genetic researchers have discovered that a rare and complex pattern of inheritance can control sheep phenotype. Expression of a gene for muscular buttocks depends on both parent of origin and genotype.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1996
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