This Week in PLoS: Aug 22, 2008

Aug 22, 2008

A handful of papers in PLoS this week highlight some interesting large-scale work. In one, published in PLoS ONE, Irish researchers used phylogenetic analysis to compare the genomes of three related Aspergillus species: A. oryzae, A.

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