Muons penetrate much further than X-rays, they do essentially zero damage, and they are provided for free by the cosmos.
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Communicated by Morris Goodman, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, April 25, 2003 (received for review January 24, 2003)
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- Received January 24, 2003
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- Christophe J. Douady †‡,
- François Catzeflis§,
- Jaishree Raman¶,
- Mark S. Springer ∥††, and
- Michael J. Stanhope †††‡‡
- †Biology and Biochemistry, Queen's University of Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, United Kingdom; §Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université Montpellier 2, 34095 Montpellier, France; ¶Department of Zoology, Göteborg University, Box 463, SE 405 30, Göteborg, Sweden; and ∥Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
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Communicated by Morris Goodman, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, April 25, 2003 (received for review January 24, 2003)
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↵†† To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: michael_j_stanhope{at}gsk.com or mark.springer{at}ucr.edu.
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↵‡ Present address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4H7.
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↵‡‡ Present address: Bioinformatics, GlaxoSmithKline, 1250 South Collegeville Road, UP1345, Collegeville, PA 19426-0989.
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Abbreviations: IRBP, interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein; ME, minimum evolution; ML, maximum likelihood; MP, maximum parsimony; mt, mitochondrial; MYA, million years ago; vWF, von Willebrand factor.
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Data deposition: The sequences reported in this paper have been deposited in the GenBank database (accession nos. AY310879–AY310900).
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