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REPRODUCTION in nature appears to be a central goal of all living things, along with the generation of increasing genetic fitness, by either complexification or by outsourcing simplification of the driver genome. Reproduction is front and central. All else can be seen as secondary. View in LinkedIn

VIRAL ORIGIN. "Recent emergence of numerous lncRNAs suggests that they continue to be actively synthesized (i) from ancestral genes that have lost their coding potential, (ii) by genes or other lncRNAs duplication, transposition, and mutation and (iii) de novo from intergenic DNA." (lncRNA = long non-coding RNA). https://lnkd.in/d2sxUZQ View in LinkedIn

Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $417 million in talcum powder case. Shame on the Family company. View in LinkedIn

"A MIND-BLOWING DIVERSITY of sex-determining mechanisms exists among eukaryotes." https://lnkd.in/dX2rADH View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTION in nature is extremely varied. It is a misconception to simply think that animals evolve sexual reproduction while some plants and microbes predominantly or only use vegetative reproduction. Sex is the universal way that organisms achieve new genetic diversity in the next generation. That is its biological function. View in LinkedIn

IN LIGHT OF the deviations from Mendel's laws, and the considerable complexity of inheritable patterns and mechanisms throughout nature, it seems only fit that these be included in the Modern Synthesis, revising our old Darwinian -- and Mendelian -- views about evolution and the central dogmas of Molecular Biology. As yet, this synthesis has not been completed. View in LinkedIn

NOT CONSERVED. “The genetic and cellular mechanisms making the decision of whether the undifferentiated gonad of animal embryos develops either towards male or female are manifold and quite diverse.” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631069116300658 View in LinkedIn

CONSERVED. “Sexual reproduction is one of the most highly conserved processes in evolution.” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631069116300658 View in LinkedIn

THE WILD AND WONDERFUL. “Sex in microbes often occurs in the absence of reproduction. Most plants simultaneously are female and male, and some plants and fish change sex over time. And in mushrooms, after gamete fusion sex is postponed until just before reproduction. These deviations from the ‘norm’ may hamper our general understanding of sexual reproduction if we phrase general theories based on rules that only apply within a subset of species.” http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/weird-sex-underappreciated-diversity-sexual-reproduction View in LinkedIn

COMMON VIEW. “Most people associate ‘sex’ with reproduction, where sperm of males fertilize the eggs of females, and where the sex of an individual is determined by sex chromosomes. Yet, the vast majority of organisms deviate in one or more respects from these ‘norms’.” https://lnkd.in/dnXHW-Z View in LinkedIn