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BINARY FISSION. "Fission, also called binary fission, occurs in prokaryotic microorganisms and in some invertebrate, multi-celled organisms. After a period of growth, an organism splits into two separate organisms. Some unicellular eukaryotic organisms undergo binary fission by mitosis." https://lnkd.in/d_e3R-w View in LinkedIn

PARTHENOGENESIS GENE. "This study presents the first demonstration, to our knowledge, of function for a gene cloned from a naturally occurring apomictic plant that encodes a key component controlling parthenogenesis." http://www.pnas.org/content/112/36/11205.full View in LinkedIn

BLACK BOX. "The molecular mechanisms controlling apomixis, a mode of asexual reproduction in plants leading to clonal seed formation, are largely unknown." https://lnkd.in/dKiMTaq View in LinkedIn

APOMIXIS TRAIT. "When crop species acquire this trait, superior genotypes, including hybrids, will be fixed and seeds will be multiplied without segregation of superior gene combinations." http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/agriculture/abstract.htm?id=16663 View in LinkedIn

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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