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As Tribolium matures as a model insect, coleopteran community congregates in Cologne

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all members of the Tribolium research community for allowing us to share their unpublished data from the meeting in this report. Throughout the planning and duration of the meeting, our fellow lab members were instrumental in ensuring the smooth running of the proceedings. The authors would also like to thank Siegfried Roth for continuous support and the SFB-680: Collaborative Research Centre on the Molecular Basis of Evolutionary Innovations (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for funding.

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Lynch, J.A., Panfilio, K.A. & da Fonseca, R.N. As Tribolium matures as a model insect, coleopteran community congregates in Cologne. Dev Genes Evol 219, 531–533 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00427-009-0307-7

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