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ANGIOSPERM REPRODUCTION. “Selfing, however, is not the predominant mode of reproduction in angiosperms, and multiple mechanisms may potentially effect intermediate levels of self-fertlization.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION OF PLANT SELFING. “Over the last 50 yr, an impressive body of theoretical and experimental work has demonstrated that the evolution of selfing is driven by multifarious agents of selection, potentially dominated by its transmission advantage and ability to provide reproductive assurance.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn

VIRAL DARK MATTER. "Viruses are the most numerous, and arguably the most diverse, branch of life. They have been described as the ‘dark matter’ of biology because they can be very hard to detect, and the large-scale sequencing of genetic material from the environment is only now showing us how numerous and diverse they really are." https://lnkd.in/dYBnxsT View in LinkedIn

FLAWED DATA. “Sources of data that apparently contradict strongly asymmetric mating system transitions often rely on statistical phylogenetic tests plagued by profound flaws.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn

EMERGING PHAGOSPHERE. "This view reveals substantial diversity even among phages known to infect a common host strain, but the relationships are complex, with mosaic genomic architectures generated by illegitimate recombination over a long period of evolutionary history." A promiscuous bunch. http://jvi.asm.org/content/89/16/8107.short View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL MYTHS. “A compound hypothesis positing that self-fertilization is an evolutionary dead end conflates two distinct claims: the transition from outcrossing to selfing is unidirectional; and the diversification rate, or the balance of the speciation and extinction rate, is negative for selfing species. Both claims have enjoyed widespread informal support for decades, but have recently come under suspicion.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn

"BACTERIOPHAGES are the most abundant biological entities in the biosphere, and this dynamic and old population is, not surprisingly, highly diverse genetically. Relative to bacterial genomics, phage genomics has advanced slowly, and a higher-resolution picture of the phagosphere is only just emerging." Bacteriophages are viruses that prey on bacteria. https://lnkd.in/dWD3NUK View in LinkedIn

COMBINED SEXES. “The vast majority of flowering plants are hermaphrodites, bearing both ovules and pollen enclosed in the same flower. They display an impressive diversity in form and function, with substantial variation within and across species in the degree to which self-fertilization is avoided or embraced.” https://lnkd.in/dj9hK7n View in LinkedIn

BACTERIAL IGNORANCE. "The earth contains enormous microbial diversity. Microbes colonize a wide variety of environmental niches, creating complex ecosystems and communities. Despite the marvelous progress in microbiology over the past century, we have only scratched the surface of this microbial world. It has been estimated that

BAD SELFING GENETICS. "The ephemeral nature of selfing lineages may be primarily due to the accumulation of deleterious mutations. Also, a reduced rate of fixation of beneficial mutations can limit the ability of selfing populations to adapt to changing environments." https://lnkd.in/dX-FzGD View in LinkedIn