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Michael Pointer

Washington, D.C.
As seen in: The New York Times, The New York Times en Español, Color Research & Application, Nature, USA Today, Wiley Online Library, Associated Press, Infobae, MDPI, U.S. News and World Report and
Communications specialist for @IBEW after 25 years as a sports writer. St. Louis raised, Mizzou graduate. Working in the nation's capital and loving it.
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Trump despide a Kristi Noem, secretaria de Seguridad Nacional Original

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By Maggie Haberman , Hamed Aleaziz , Michael Pointer
| The New York Times en Español
Trump despide a Kristi Noem, secretaria de Seguridad Nacional El presidente anunció la decisión en las redes sociales, junto con una nueva función, hasta ahora inexistente, para Noem: enviada especial para el Escudo de las Américas.
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Oviposited eggs are sensitive to experimental heatwaves

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By Ramakrishnan Vasudeva, Benjamin Cole, Michael Pointer, Facultyof Environment
| Wiley Online Library
Introduction Global warming is threatening biodiversity (Harvey et al. 2023). The biosphere has already warmed by over 1°C since industrialisation, and this continued warming trajectory could exceed 2‒5°C by the end of this century (IPCC 2023). Since the early 2000s, summers have been getting warmer, with a ten-fold increase in ‘very hot' summers from once every 52 years to once in every 5 years (Christidis et al. 2015).
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Sexual selection matters in genetic rescue, but productivity benefits fade over time; a multi-generation experiment to inform conservation.

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By George West, Michael Pointer, Will Nash, Rebecca Lewis
| biorxiv.org
Abstract Globally, many species are threatened by population decline as a result of anthropogenic changes. Smaller populations are at greater risk of fragmentation, genetic isolation, and eventual inbreeding depression. As genetic load is expressed and adaptive potential is lost, risk of population extinction greatly increases. Genetic rescue, the controlled introduction of genetic variation, is a method used to potentially relieve such effects in small populations.
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