Salamander trumps toad as Mr Universe

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Hop away toads, you've lost your title as the world's strongest animal. That honour now passes to the giant palm salamander Bolitoglossa dofleini, whose tongue explodes outward with more instantaneous power than any other known vertebrate muscle. At 18,000 watts of power per kilogram of muscle, the salamander, from the forest floors of Central America, is nearly twice as strong as the previous champ, the Colorado river toad Bufo alvarius

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Folding under evolutionary pressure

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The team systematically characterized the folding free energy landscape of Top7, a computationally designed protein lacking an evolutionary history. It concludes that the Highly Cooperative Folding of Small Naturally Occurring Proteins Is Likely the Result of Natural Selection.

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