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TREE ALTRUISM. “We injured the Douglas fir by pulling its needles off, and by attacking it with western spruce bud worm, and it then sent a lot of carbon in its network into the neighbouring ponderosa pine. "My interpretation was the Douglas fir knew it was dying and wanted to pass its legacy of carbon on to its neighbour, because that would be beneficial for the associated fungi and the community." http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34849374 View in LinkedIn

VESTIGIAL TEETH. "Along with tooth morphology, it remains unclear whether the tooth buds observed in mysticete embryos represent the first, deciduous dentition, or the second, permanent dentition." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00067/full View in LinkedIn

FRAMESHIFTS. "All frameshift mutations occurred in two enamel related genes, AMBN and ENAM; no frame shifts were observed in the multi-functional DMP1 gene." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00067/full View in LinkedIn

TEETH PSEUDOGENES. "Building on this work, Deméré et al. (2008) demonstrated that SCPP genes are present, but not functional in mysticetes, suggesting that the loss of functional teeth had resulted in the SCPP gene family being released from selective pressures." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00067/full View in LinkedIn

TEETH GENES. "Primarily, one gene family is responsible for proper dental development in mammals (SCPP), coding for secretory calcium-binding phosphoprotein." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00067/full View in LinkedIn

ECHOLOCATION. "Recent research has documented the remarkable convergence between echolocating bats and odontocetes across six genes related to auditory physiology." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534714000846 View in LinkedIn

DECOUPLED EVENTS. "We suggest that the origin of baleen is decoupled from the loss of teeth, with a separate morphological and genetic basis." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00067/full View in LinkedIn