On the twelfth day of Christmas my journals gave to me…

This study published in BMC Evolutionary Biology in particular focused on piranhas and aimed to determine the evolutionary lineage of such a characteristic. Eleven: Cpipe pipelines Overview of Cpipe workflow, click to enlargeSadedin et al., 2015 A software article from Genome Medicine reports the implementation of Cpipe. This is an exome analysis pipeline designed specifically for clinical genetic disease diagnostics. Its aim is to provide fast, effective and reproducible analysis, while also being highly flexible and customizable to meet the individual needs of diverse clinical settings. This is vital, as clinical implementation of sequencing data becomes widespread there is a need for a freely available analysis platform that can be shared between clinical laboratories. Ten: Land fish are leaping The Pacific leaping blennyMorgans e tal., 2015 The Pacific leaping blenny is a highly social fish that spends its adult life on land among the rocky foreshores of the island Gaum. This BMC Evolutionary Biology study finds that there are changes in the phenotype of populations of this species with regards to the size of their head crest and the intensity of color on the red dorsal fin. These features are important for finding a mate and therefore divergence of such a reproductively important characteristic often leads to speciation. This differentiation has occurred despite evidence of extensive gene flow among the populations, suggesting the change is recent. Regardless, this cou...
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