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Gene expression of a tropical starfish fluctuates between the seasons

Gene expression of a tropical starfish fluctuates between the seasons
2024-05-14
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Gene expression of a tropical starfish fluctuates between the seasons

 

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In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available paper in PLOS Biology:   http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002620

Article Title: Seasonal tissue-specific gene expression in wild crown-of-thorns starfish reveals reproductive and stress-related transcriptional systems

Author Countries: Australia

Funding: This research was supported by a Linkage Project grant (LP170101049) from the Australian Research Council to BMD, DJC, SMD and CKW. DJC and CKW are supported by a Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia (2009564) and by access to the facilities of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science (CE200100012) and an ARC Future Fellowship (FFT220100583). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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