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With best wishes, Clare Clare Thomas Senior Editor Nature From: 4iEsN own iov.cn> Sent: 29 June 2021 00: To: Clare Thomas nature.com> Subject: Re: RE: RE: A question about the addendum to your Nature paper Dear Clare, Thank you for your information. I'm fine with the passing to the journalist on the information I told you. Best regards, Zhengli, AEX: "Clare Thomas" AG AY [A]:202 1-06-29 04:39:21 WEA: Wh.iov.cn" pik: =E #1: RE: RE: A question about the addendum to your Nature paper nature.com> a) wh.iov.cn> Dear Zhengli, Thanks again for replying to my question about the discrepancy highlighted to us. We've received some queries about it from journalists. Conversations between editors and authors are confidential but I wanted to ask you if you would have any objection to our passing on the information that you have told us? Would you be willing for us to tell the journalists that you have told us that the bioinformatics approaches used to analyse the genome sequences in the Nature paper and the thesis were different? We are considering how to respond and wonder whether this might help dampen the speculation. Please could you let me know? All the best, Clare