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December 2006

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Sleeping red knots (Calidris canutus islandica) in the Wadden Sea, The Netherlands.
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Red knots taking a nap during high tide in the Dutch Wadden Sea. Recently, this marine protected area has been commercially exploited by shellfisheries. As reported by van Gils et al., shellfish dredging has been directly responsible for a decline in the knots' population through a reduction in both the amount and the quality of their food resources.

Image Credit: Photo: Jan van de Kam

Essay

Balancing Robustness and Evolvability

Richard E Lenski, Jeffrey E Barrick, Charles Ofria

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What Is the Hobbit?

Tabitha M Powledge

PLOS Biology: published December 12, 2006 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040440

Primer

How Bacterial Communities Expand Functional Repertoires

James Versalovic, David Relman

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Kathleen M Scott, Stefan M Sievert, Fereniki N Abril, Lois A Ball, Chantell J Barrett, Rodrigo A Blake, Amanda J Boller, Patrick S. G Chain, Justine A Clark, Carisa R Davis, Chris Detter, Kimberly F Do, Kimberly P Dobrinski, Brandon I Faza, Kelly A Fitzpatrick, Sharyn K Freyermuth, Tara L Harmer, Loren J Hauser, Michael Hügler, Cheryl A Kerfeld, Martin G Klotz, William W Kong, Miriam Land, Alla Lapidus, Frank W Larimer, Dana L Longo, Susan Lucas, Stephanie A Malfatti, Steven E Massey, Darlene D Martin, Zoe McCuddin, Folker Meyer, Jessica L Moore, Luis H Ocampo Jr., John H Paul, Ian T Paulsen, Douglas K Reep, Qinghu Ren, Rachel L Ross, Priscila Y Sato, Phaedra Thomas, Lance E Tinkham, Gary T Zeruth

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A High-Resolution Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Genetic Map of the Mouse Genome

Sagiv Shifman, Jordana Tzenova Bell, Richard R Copley, Martin S Taylor, Robert W Williams, Richard Mott, Jonathan Flint

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