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Enough oxygen to breathe in the future Baltic Sea?
In many coastal seas nutrient pollution caused severe oxygen depletion. We have therefore carried out future projections of one of them, the Baltic Sea, and examined the questions of when and where the first signs of improvement will emerge if the anthropogenic nutrient loads are further reduced.
New proteins from nowhere -- how evolution shapes the structure and function of a newly emerged protein in flies
By Andreas Lange, Prajal H. Patel and Geoffrey D. Findlay. In a collaboration that spanned three continents, we analysed the structure, function, and evolutionary history of a Drosophila protein that emerged from previously non-coding DNA and has since become essential for male fertility.
