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Sex chromosomes in conflict « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. Sex chromosomes in conflict. House mouse (by Wenfei Tong). Have you thought that not all the genes in your body might have the same evolutionary interests? The mouse Y chromosome. Figure from Sho et a. 2014. Showing how much of the mouse Y contains recently evolved, repetitive coding sequences. Why does sex even become linked to these bits of chromosome that do or don’t recombine? Figure from Sho et al. 2014.

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. She’s currently a postdoc at the UC Davis Genome Center. Working on marine microbial biogeography. She completed her PhD. At Louisiana State University in 2013. When not “biology-ing”, she likes to cook, walk her dog and quote Seinfeld episodes over coffee. Now, as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota, he studies the symbiosis between legumes and nitrogen-fixing bacteria. 27 October 2011 at ...

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Under selection, an endangered species runs low on evolutionary “fuel” « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. Under selection, an endangered species runs low on evolutionary “fuel”. A pale-headed brushfinch, Atlapetes pallidiceps. Wikimedia Commons:Aves y Conservación/NBII Image Gallery. Is a conservation success story, or at least the first chapter of one. The birds were thought to be extinct, until a 1998 survey [PDF]. Have the brush finches’ rebounded enough to secure their population for the future? Fortunately for...

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How to celebrate Valentine’s Day: A note on the Red Queen and maintaining sexual reproduction « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. How to celebrate Valentine’s Day: A note on the Red Queen and maintaining sexual reproduction. This year's Valentine's card of choice. HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! Perfect for Valentine’s Day! Why organisms reproduce sexually is one of the great mysteries in evolutionary biology (I’d like to note that here I’m talking about sex in terms of reproduction. It isn’t a mystery to me why organisms cop...One of the stronges...

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The Goals of the Ronin Institute | Ronin Institute

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Skip to primary content. Library / Journal Access. The Goals of the Ronin Institute. May 29, 2012. Greetings Roniños y Roniñas! Over the weekend, your Ronin Institute got some nice press coverage in the Ideas section of the Boston Globe. You can read the whole article here. Here’s the take-home message, though:. No, we can do this. We don’t need a master.’. I have spent my entire academic career dealing with variations on the following: “It’s great that you’re working on. But it is boring as hell, and it...

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. All posts and comments by our contributors. Are their own opinions, which are not necessarily shared or condoned by other contributors to the blog, nor by their respective employers, collaborators, or other associates. We do not actively moderate comments, though we do apply a filter for spam. We reserve the right to delete any and all comments that we judge to be uncivil or spammy. Subscribe in a reader. How W...

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. Beware of the snail. Have you recently flown into the US from abroad? On the landing card it asks if you’ve been in contact with things should not be brought into the US. Have you encountered agriculture or been on a farm? Have you been exposed to people coughing ebola? And then one slightly odd question that gets overlooked:. Are you carrying snails? Endless forms most beautiful. Endless forms most beautiful.

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Neotrogla « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Making sense of life as we know it, in the light of evolution. Birds do it, beetles do it … (Flickr: Henry Burrows. Last spring, the journal. Published a report describing something new under the entomological sun: A genus of tiny cave-dwelling insects, dubbed. In which females, not males, have penises. Literally, a female body ); but in the title, it’s a female penis. Read the headline in the prestigious journal. Most of the stories, even the. It was a complex organ compo...