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NEUROSPORA COMPETITION BETWEEN SEXES. "Given that male-biased genes often evolve rapidly in animals/plants, which are prone to male–male competition, and female-biased genes evolve rapidly in N. crassa, which have a propensity for female–female competition, suggests sexual selection via intrasex competition is a strong candidate to explain differences in the evolution of sex-biased genes in both systems." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION AS PHENOTYPE. “To be explicit, biological information is distinctive because it possesses a type of causal efficacy —it is the information that determines the current state and hence the dynamics (and therefore also the future state(s)).” https://lnkd.in/ewsT9EQ View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA MAJOR ROLE. "The evolutionary differences among sex-biased genes across these disparate taxonomic groups suggest that sexually dichotomous structures could have played a major role in driving gene divergence among organisms throughout evolutionary history, i.e., before, during, and after divergence of these three kingdoms." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

INTRINSIC INFORMATION. “The central position of information in biology is not itself especially new or radical. What is often sidestepped, however, is the fact that in biological systems information is not merely a way to label states, but a property of the system.” https://lnkd.in/ewsT9EQ View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA SURPRISE. "Remarkably, these findings in a hermaphrodite infer that sex is connected to gene evolution in the complete absence of differences in sex-specific genome regions." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA FEMALE ASCENDANCY. "The results revealed that in this organism, female-biased genes exhibit rapid protein-level evolution, lowered optimal codon usage, elevated levels of positive selection, and stronger signals of selective sweeps compared with male-biased genes." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA DUAL ROLES. "The male structure may serve dual roles, one as a male donor during fertilization and another as an asexual spore that grows vegetatively or form anastomosis cells that link into networks." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA MECHANISM. "The much larger female protoperithecium accepts the nucleus from the male structure, harbors karyogamy and meiosis, and shelters and sustains the developing offspring until release; thus, production of female structures is apt to be a greater investment for reproduction than the smaller, male structures, which solely contributes the fertilizing nucleus. Also similar to many animals/plants, the male donor cells are produced in much higher numbers than the female tissues." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA CRASSA "are sexually dichotomous, producing conidia and protoperithecia, which have been described cytologically and behaviorally as male and female sexual structures, respectively." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA SEXUAL GENE EXPRESSION. "Sexually dimorphic gene expression and its connection to molecular evolution are particularly strong for genes associated with sexual structures. Genes with higher expression in male sexual organs and gametes often exhibit more pronounced interspecific protein divergence than those from female sexual tissues or nonsexual tissues." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn