The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock.
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SUBMITTER: Lewin HA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8795548 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
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The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock.
Lewin Harris A HA Richards Stephen S Lieberman Aiden Erez E Allende Miguel L ML Archibald John M JM Bálint Miklós M Barker Katharine B KB Baumgartner Bridget B Belov Katherine K Bertorelle Giorgio G Blaxter Mark L ML Cai Jing J Caperello Nicolette D ND Carlson Keith K Castilla-Rubio Juan Carlos JC Chaw Shu-Miaw SM Chen Lei L Childers Anna K AK Coddington Jonathan A JA Conde Dalia A DA Corominas Montserrat M Crandall Keith A KA Crawford Andrew J AJ DiPalma Federica F Durbin Richard R Ebenezer ThankGod E TE Edwards Scott V SV Fedrigo Olivier O Flicek Paul P Formenti Giulio G Gibbs Richard A RA Gilbert M Thomas P MTP Goldstein Melissa M MM Graves Jennifer Marshall JM Greely Henry T HT Grigoriev Igor V IV Hackett Kevin J KJ Hall Neil N Haussler David D Helgen Kristofer M KM Hogg Carolyn J CJ Isobe Sachiko S Jakobsen Kjetill Sigurd KS Janke Axel A Jarvis Erich D ED Johnson Warren E WE Jones Steven J M SJM Karlsson Elinor K EK Kersey Paul J PJ Kim Jin-Hyoung JH Kress W John WJ Kuraku Shigehiro S Lawniczak Mara K N MKN Leebens-Mack James H JH Li Xueyan X Lindblad-Toh Kerstin K Liu Xin X Lopez Jose V JV Marques-Bonet Tomas T Mazard Sophie S Mazet Jonna A K JAK Mazzoni Camila J CJ Myers Eugene W EW O'Neill Rachel J RJ Paez Sadye S Park Hyun H Robinson Gene E GE Roquet Cristina C Ryder Oliver A OA Sabir Jamal S M JSM Shaffer H Bradley HB Shank Timothy M TM Sherkow Jacob S JS Soltis Pamela S PS Tang Boping B Tedersoo Leho L Uliano-Silva Marcela M Wang Kun K Wei Xiaofeng X Wetzer Regina R Wilson Julia L JL Xu Xun X Yang Huanming H Yoder Anne D AD Zhang Guojie G
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20220101 4
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