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‘My job is to clean up the environment. China really wants to do that’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/10/my-job-is-to-clean-up-the-environment-china-really-wants-to-do-that?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this foray into hybrids and speciation. Tullimonstrum (the Tully Monster) has been a taxonomic conundrum for a long time, seemingly cobbled together from various taxa and without comparator, and is fossil proof of the extreme of speciation weirdness. It will not be the last such example. https://lnkd.in/dm8QrFv View in LinkedIn

OTHER MECHANISMS. "Admixture can simultaneously bring together many new combinations of alleles, generating multilocus novelties that might never have appeared via gradual accumulation of new mutations in a single population. Gene exchange is not the sole, nor even necessarily most likely, source of evolutionary novelty, but is perhaps the most likely mechanism of sudden, population level change. Transgressive segregation might be just the mechanism to make more monsters hopeful." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-012-9209-0 View in LinkedIn

NOT SIMPLE. "Most bacteria rely on binary fission for propagation. Conceptually this is a simple process; a cell just needs to grow to twice its starting size and then split in two. But, to remain viable and competitive, a bacterium must divide at the right time, in the right place, and must provide each offspring with a complete copy of its essential genetic material." https://lnkd.in/eqsJf6Q View in LinkedIn

SUDDEN EVOLUTIONARY JUMPS. "Transgressive segregation might be an important mechanism promoting sudden phenotypic changes and ecological transitions in evolution. Even if most of the variation produced is deleterious, a rare transgressive hybrid genotype could rapidly fix in a population or establish a novel lineage." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-012-9209-0 View in LinkedIn

MICRASTERIAS binary division time lapse. https://lnkd.in/enGHqVS View in LinkedIn

TRANSGRESSIVE PHENOTYPES. "Interspecific hybridization and allopolyploidy provide the opportunity for new, transgressive characters to evolve. Transgressive characters can be observed at all levels from the transcriptome to inflorescence morphology and may arise through novel cis-trans interactions in the genome or by 'mixing and matching' of different metabolic pathways found in the parents." https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-2013-14-6-207 View in LinkedIn

PROTOZOAN BINARY FISSION video in real life. Beautiful and dramatic view of two spaceships of protoplasm dividing. https://lnkd.in/ejfE_vZ View in LinkedIn

LEAKY SPECIES BARRIER. "Interspecific hybridization can generate a large range of characters in hybrids, including intermediate characters and potentially characters that fall outside the range found in the parents (transgressive characters). Hybrids usually backcross to one or both of the parents, providing gene flow between species." https://lnkd.in/dHD-ddW View in LinkedIn