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Using a shore-based radar system to improve whale-vessel strike risk assessments at the entrance to San Francisco Bay
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Cross-species exome sequencing reveals recurrent genomic alterations in California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) urogenital carcinoma and highlights a recurrent PD-L1 variant