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CORE TO BOTH PATHWAYS. "Meiosis is a key step in sexual life cycles, as well as some asexual life cycles derived from sexual ancestors." https://lnkd.in/e2tp_G5 View in LinkedIn

EDITING. "It is also possible that stringent synapsis checkpoints evolved, in part, to prevent the formation of defective gametes due to transposable element activity, along with other possible causes of meiotic errors." https://lnkd.in/e2tp_G5 View in LinkedIn

TRANSITION TO ASEXUALITY. "In many cases, the initial evolution of asexuality may thus resemble the evolution of self-fertilisation, and several traits may pre-exist (such as low recombination rates) that make the successful transition to asexuality more likely in some taxa." https://lnkd.in/e2tp_G5 View in LinkedIn

PRINCIPLE 2. “Transmission of information is not one way.” https://lnkd.in/eBKWC7d View in LinkedIn

PRINCIPLE 1. “Biological functionality is multi-level.” https://lnkd.in/eBKWC7d View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE focuses on Denis Nobel’s “Ten Principles”, which debunk Neo-Darwinism and the central dogma of molecular biology. This extraordinary thinker has the ability to synthesize vast amounts of research into pithy and philosophical conclusions. Unafraid to be controversial, and with deep insight, he takes the best of recent thinking and advances it to the next level of synthesis, setting the stage for new investigations to provide data for this iterative process of knowledge. https://lnkd.in/ezwgytQ View in LinkedIn

TRANSPOSON-ENABLED PLASTICITY. "The intriguing parasitic success of mitotic root-knot nematodes in the absence of sex may be partly explained by transposable element-rich composite genomes resulting from multiple allo-polyploidization events and promoting plasticity in the absence of sex." https://lnkd.in/e9RafZt View in LinkedIn

TRANSPOSON RICH. "Our comparative genomic analysis shows that obligatory asexual root-knot nematodes have a higher abundance of transposable elements compared to the facultative sexual and contain duplicated regions with a high within-species average nucleotide divergence of 8%." https://lnkd.in/e9RafZt View in LinkedIn

DOMINANCE WITHOUT SEXUAL REPRODUCTION. "Root-knot nematodes (genus Meloidogyne) show an intriguing diversity of reproductive modes ranging from obligatory sexual to fully asexual reproduction. Intriguingly, the most damaging species to the world agriculture are those that reproduce without meiosis and without sex." https://lnkd.in/e9RafZt View in LinkedIn

MONOTREMES are ancient animals that lay soft-shelled eggs, including the platypus and spiny anteater. http://www.ege.fcen.uba.ar/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Life-histories-Molles.pdf View in LinkedIn