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"SEX is a ubiquitous, ancient, and inherent attribute of eukaryotic life." https://lnkd.in/deZ8DED View in LinkedIn

GENE DIFFUSION. "An analysis confirms the long-standing theory that sex increases the rate of adaptive evolution by accelerating the speed at which beneficial mutations sweep through sexual, as opposed to asexual, populations." https://lnkd.in/dNRpdc2 View in LinkedIn

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION CURVE. "As predicted by theory, the advantage to sex arises because sexually derived progeny are more variable in fitness, allowing for faster adaptation. This “long-term advantage” builds over multiple generations, eventually resulting in higher fitness of sexual types." https://lnkd.in/ePUmiA8 View in LinkedIn

CORRELATED TO ADAPTION. "Using experimental populations of the facultatively sexual rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus, we show that rates of sex evolve to higher levels during adaptation but then decline as fitness plateaus." https://lnkd.in/ePUmiA8 View in LinkedIn

SEX ENHANCES ADAPTATION. "Both theory and experiments have demonstrated that sex can facilitate adaptation, potentially yielding a group-level advantage to sex." https://lnkd.in/ePUmiA8 View in LinkedIn

FRAMESHIFT ORIGINS. "Okamura et al. demonstrated that frameshift mutations often generate new coding sequences, finding that 470 human gene duplicates that had done so. Xue et al. found that Epstein-Barr virus contains an early gene which undergoes frequent frameshifts, probably to combat host immunity." https://lnkd.in/dvpUaYF View in LinkedIn

RECOMBINED GENES. "Gilbert proposed an entirely new model of new gene formation in 1978, whereby pieces of unrelated genes can be recombined into new genes, rather than just strictly duplicated." https://lnkd.in/dvpUaYF View in LinkedIn

GENE SPLITTING. "New gene structures may be formed by splitting existing genes. Wang et al., for example, found that gene duplication is an intermediate stage in an evolutionary process leading to gene fission." https://lnkd.in/g5PeHKe View in LinkedIn

SECONDING OF EXISTING GENES. "Muller predicted that a new duplicate copy of a gene could acquire a novel function and be preserved in the genome, and further that “there remains no reason to doubt the application of the dictum ‘all life from pre-existing life’ and ‘every cell from a pre-existing cell’ to the gene: ‘every gene from a pre-existing gene.’” https://lnkd.in/dvpUaYF View in LinkedIn

WILD MUSICAL CHAIRS. "In addition, retroposed sequences may jump into or near existing genes and recruit existing exons, or be recruited into an existing coding sequence." https://lnkd.in/dvpUaYF View in LinkedIn