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SEX WINS. "The redistribution of alleles through sex can result in the variance of sexually derived offspring being different (higher or lower) than that of asexually derived offspring." https://lnkd.in/ePUmiA8 View in LinkedIn

RECOMBINATION. "The evolution of recombination is not the same as the evolution of sex." https://lnkd.in/ePUmiA8 View in LinkedIn

NOVEL GENE SETS. "Genetic recombination is the production of offspring with combinations of traits that differ from those found in either parent. In eukaryotes, genetic recombination during meiosis can lead to a novel set of genetic information that can be passed on from the parents to the offspring." https://lnkd.in/egNsFFi View in LinkedIn

SEX AND TRAIT SELECTION. "Better support for adaptation providing a “gene-level” advantage to sex comes from survey studies showing that recombination tends to increase as an incidental by-product of directional selection on other traits." https://lnkd.in/ePUmiA8 View in LinkedIn

RED QUEEN "is an allusion to Lewis Carroll’s novel Through the Looking Glass in which the character the Red Queen must run as fast as she can just to stay in the same place, and in the evolutionary analogy sexual reproduction enables organisms to just keep ahead in the co-evolutionary race with the pathogens that afflict them." http://www.mycologia.org/content/105/1/1.full View in LinkedIn

SELFISH BRAIN. "The presented model includes a newly discovered ‘principle of balance’ of how pairs of high and low-affinity receptors can originate setpoints in biological systems. In this ‘Selfish Brain Theory’, the neocortex and limbic system play a central role in the pathogenesis of diseases such as anorexia nervosa and obesity." View in LinkedIn

EITHER-OR. "Increased growth of one trait occurs at the expense of growth in other traits, without overall changes in the size of the animal, much as faster-growing cells (e.g., minute+ cells expressed in a minute− background) out-compete neighboring cells for space within a growing imaginal disc without affecting the final size of the disc." http://www.pnas.org/content/95/7/3685.full View in LinkedIn

NUTRIENT FUNNELING TO BRAIN. "The brain has two possibilities to ensure its energy supply: allocation or intake of nutrients. The term ‘allocation’ refers to the allocation of energy resources between the brain and the periphery." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763404000259 View in LinkedIn

THIRD REGULATION. "Herein we illustrate a third and intermediate level of size regulation, manifest as what appears to be competition among growing traits within late-stage larvae immediately prior to pupation. Superficially, at least, the mechanism of trait competition described herein is similar to the process of cell competition and compensatory growth that operates within compartments of individual imaginal discs." http://www.pnas.org/content/95/7/3685.full View in LinkedIn

BRAIN METABOLISM WINS. "Here we present a new paradigm for the regulation of energy supply within the organism. The brain gives priority to regulating its own adenosine triphosphate (ATP) concentration. In that postulate, the peripheral energy supply is only of secondary importance." https://lnkd.in/dFnjHSQ View in LinkedIn