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Andersen, B. H. et al. Evidence of robust, universal conformal invariance in living biological matter. Preprint at https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.08466 (2024).
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Meacock, O. J. & Mitri, S. Environment-organism feedbacks drive changes in ecological interactions. Preprint at https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.31.565024 (2023).
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