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"REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES are structural, functional and behavioral adaptations that improve the chances of fertilization and/or increase the survival rate of offspring." https://lnkd.in/dw58Df4 View in LinkedIn

MIXED MODALITIES. "Flowering plants possess an unrivaled diversity of mechanisms for achieving sexual and asexual reproduction, often simultaneously." A curious state of affairs. http://www.pnas.org/content/112/29/8859.full View in LinkedIn

GENE CENTRALITY. "The egg contains the hen's genes, which combine with the rooster's genes. The genes create from the raw materials of organic life another chicken. That chicken then has another egg. It is not the egg, but the genetic material that the egg nourishes and brings to fruition that is important. It is the genes that must be passed on if a species is not to become extinct." http://public.wsu.edu/~taflinge/biosex1.html View in LinkedIn

SELFING IN INVASIVE PLANTS. “We found breeding-system data for a total of 1,752 species covering all major clades of angiosperms, from 161 families, and from all over the world” and their data supports a major selfing theory. https://lnkd.in/d5EUtN2 View in LinkedIn

CONTINUATION OF THE GERMPLASM. "Samuel Butler once said, "The hen is the egg's way of making another egg." There is a much truth in this adage. In the natural world, the egg's vehicle, be it fish, fowl or flower, doesn't matter. What does matter is that the vehicle gets the egg fertilized, hatched, and far enough along in development to have a chance of producing another egg." http://public.wsu.edu/~taflinge/biosex1.html View in LinkedIn

LATE FUNCTIONAL MODIFICATIONS. "In addition to the canonical HK97-like core, many coat proteins contain additional accessory domains or extended loops, likely imparting specific functions." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001920 View in LinkedIn

CAPSID β-HINGE OF P22. "This hinge appears to direct motion of the A-domain during hexon symmetrization that occurs simultaneously with expansion. Finally, plug proteins (gp4, gp10 and gp26) close the portal protein channel and tailspike proteins (gp9) are added to complete the mature infectious phage." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001920 View in LinkedIn

CAPSID MATURATION. "Considerable conformational rearrangements of coat protein N-arm, E-loop, and A-domain occur upon maturation. In P22 coat protein, the β-hinge has been shown to be the most dynamic region of the subunit during capsid maturation." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001920 View in LinkedIn

PROCAPSID EMERGENCE. "Coat protein monomers are added to the growing edge, eventually producing a closed, spherical, precursor structure (“procapsid”) in which the coat proteins are organized with T=7 laevo quasi-symmetry. During assembly scaffolding protein catalyzes, stabilizes, and directs geometry of the procapsid." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001920 View in LinkedIn