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MATING TYPE. "Genome rearrangements and chromosomal translocations lead to postzygotic blocks to sexual reproduction, but if an individual with a rearranged genome simply switches mating type, it now has a mate with a colinear genome with whom to found a new species." https://lnkd.in/ebVhXPf View in LinkedIn

SEX GENES AND SPECIATION. "Postzygotic incompatability between nuclear and mitochondrial genomes or between multiple nuclear loci have both been shown to play a role in Saccharomyces species incompatibilities. Hence sex-related genes are integral to establishing species boundaries." https://lnkd.in/ebVhXPf View in LinkedIn

EUKARYOTIC SPECIATION. "A signature feature of eukaryotes is that they speciate, segregating into closely related populations that fail to respond to each other’s mating cues to form zygotes (prezygotic isolation) and/or form zygotes that fail to produce a viable next generation (postzygotic isolation)." http://cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/6/3/a016154.full View in LinkedIn

PLASTID ELIMINATION. "In land plants, plastids are excluded from the sperm cell or are left behind in synergid cells during fertilization; mechanisms are again unknown." http://cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/6/3/a016154.full View in LinkedIn

SPERM ORGANELLE ELIMINATION. "Notably, in the vertebrate examples, the sperm organelles enter the egg but are quickly and selectively eliminated in the zygote in a species-specific fashion." https://lnkd.in/ebVhXPf View in LinkedIn

SELECTED AGAINST? “Given the widespread occurrence, yet apparently short-lived persistence, of selfing as a strategy, an oft-invoked hypothesis has been that species selection discourages this mating system.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn

ANGIOSPERM REPRODUCTION. “Selfing, however, is not the predominant mode of reproduction in angiosperms, and multiple mechanisms may potentially effect intermediate levels of self-fertlization.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION OF PLANT SELFING. “Over the last 50 yr, an impressive body of theoretical and experimental work has demonstrated that the evolution of selfing is driven by multifarious agents of selection, potentially dominated by its transmission advantage and ability to provide reproductive assurance.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn

VIRAL DARK MATTER. "Viruses are the most numerous, and arguably the most diverse, branch of life. They have been described as the ‘dark matter’ of biology because they can be very hard to detect, and the large-scale sequencing of genetic material from the environment is only now showing us how numerous and diverse they really are." https://lnkd.in/dYBnxsT View in LinkedIn

FLAWED DATA. “Sources of data that apparently contradict strongly asymmetric mating system transitions often rely on statistical phylogenetic tests plagued by profound flaws.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn