What’s hot in science? Research news for the day of September 7, 2021

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Tue, 07 Sep 2021
Cities are making mammals bigger

Readily available food in places packed with people may be the reason

A new study published in Communications Biology shows that urbanization is causing many mammal species to grow bigger, possibly because of readily available food in places packed with

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Tue, 07 Sep 2021
Study of structural variants in cacao genomes yields clues about plant diversity

New insights into the role genomic structural variants play in gene expression

A comparison of the genomes of multiple strains of the cacao tree by a team of researchers has provided insights into the role genomic structural variants play in the regulation of gene expression and chromosome evolution, giving rise to the differences in populations of the

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