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GENE RECRUITMENT. "Comparative genomic analysis reveals numerous cases of recruitment of genes with essential functions in cellular life forms, including those that enable evolutionary transitions." https://lnkd.in/d_h9CX2 View in LinkedIn

PUSH TOWARDS COMPLEXITY. "Only increasing organizational complexity, e.g. emergence of multicellular aggregates, can prevent the collapse of the host–parasite system under the pressure of parasites." https://lnkd.in/d_h9CX2 View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS the peek into radically new thinking about the relationship between genes and traits. The overused word wholistic applies here as never before: in an environmental context. No longer genes causing phenotypes due to their mutations and sequences; but rather, the impact of the ecosystem, non-inherited post-translational methylations of DNA, and the word of today, epigenetics, together with genes, cause the phenotype. We are not just governed by genes. View in LinkedIn

NEW PARADIGM. "The differential view of the GP relationship helps to clarify the genetic and environmental effects on phenotypes and their connection." (GP = genotype-phenotype relationship)." https://lnkd.in/d3vzXnd View in LinkedIn

VAST SAMPLE. "Here we explicitly test the long term determinants of TE evolution by comparing 42 nematode genomes that span over 500 million years of diversification, and include numerous transitions between life history states and RNAi pathways." (TE = transposable elements). https://lnkd.in/drMDPh6 View in LinkedIn

CONSEQUENCES OF SURPRISES. "Nowadays, one should not be surprised that a piece of DNA associated with a complex wing color pattern in one Heliconius butterfly species provides similar wings and collective protection from the same predators when introduced into the genome of other butterflies." https://lnkd.in/d3vzXnd View in LinkedIn

FAST-TRACK PREFERENCE. "A significant positive correlation was detected between the content of TEs and evolutionary rate of lincRNAs indicating that inserted TEs are preferentially fixed in fast-evolving lincRNA genes." (TE = transposable elements; LincRNA= long intergenic non-coding RNA). https://lnkd.in/dwuaM5f View in LinkedIn

PREDOMINANCE IN PARALLEL UNIVERSE. "The content of TES in lincRNA genes is substantially higher than that in protein-coding genes, especially in exons and promoter regions." (TE = transposable elements; LincRNA= long intergenic non-coding RNA). https://lnkd.in/dwuaM5f View in LinkedIn

GENESIS. "Higher frequencies of ancient TEs in promoters and exons compared to introns implies that many lincRNA genes emerged before the split of primates and rodents." (TE = transposable elements; LincRNA= long intergenic non-coding RNA). https://lnkd.in/dwuaM5f View in LinkedIn

DISTRIBUTION OF VIRAL FOSSILS. "Introns of lincRNA genes contain the highest percentage of TE-derived sequences (TES), followed by exons and then promoter regions although the density of TEs is not significantly different between exons and promoters." (TE = transposable elements; LincRNA= long intergenic non-coding RNA). https://lnkd.in/dwuaM5f View in LinkedIn