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A successfully returning forager communicates using the waggle dance where she found resources. Scientists decode this message to determine where bees are collecting food. Significant and consistent trends in intra-dance variation may be used to devise an efficient, effective, and cheap methodology for dance decoding. See the article by Couvillon et al. (doi: 10.1242/bio.20121099). Image courtesy of Christoph Grüter.
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The transformation suppressor gene Reck is required for postaxial patterning in mouse forelimbs
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