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Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism
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Ecology in relation to speciation rates: some case histories of Miocene-Recent mammal clades
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Mismatch repair protein MutL becomes limiting during stationary-phase mutation
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TL;DR: It is reported that overproduction of MutL inhibits mutation in stationary phase but not during growth, and functional MutL is limiting for mismatch repair specifically during stationary phase, implying that MutS and MutH decline to levels appropriate for the decreased DNA synthesis in stationary phases.
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Macroevolution is more than repeated rounds of microevolution.
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