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MUTANT INSIGHTS. "Organ suppression might arise as a consequences of the differential expression patterns of the B and C function genes. Mutants of the B function genes in hermaphroditic plants are effectively female with homeotic transformations of petals to sepals in the second whorl and stamens to carpels in the third whorl." https://lnkd.in/gb3zS32 View in LinkedIn

RECENT ADDITION. "Plant sex chromosomes are probably of relatively recent origin, in contrast to the situation in animals, and thus afford the opportunity of investigating recent chromosome evolution." https://lnkd.in/gb3zS32 View in LinkedIn

SEX GENE CANDIDATES. "One of the first molecular targets has been the MADS box genes which control the identities of the floral organs in hermaphroditic plant species." https://lnkd.in/gb3zS32 View in LinkedIn

INFO GAP. "There is relatively little information available on the molecular basis of sex determination and it is even difficult to estimate the numbers of genes involved, particularly as the genes which result in organ suppression are unlikely to be the primary sex determining genes." https://lnkd.in/gb3zS32 View in LinkedIn

VARIETY OF SUPPRESSIONS. "This variation in timing and nature of suppression argues for the existence of a variety of different underlying mechanisms." https://lnkd.in/gb3zS32 View in LinkedIn

LATE DIVERGENCE. "In a small number of dioecious species such as Actinidia deliciosa and Asparagus officinalis, the developmental divergence occurs so late that male and female flowers are superficially indistinguishable from each other and from perfect flowers." https://lnkd.in/gb3zS32 View in LinkedIn

VIRUSES are pieces of genetic code in a chainmail protein coat that can be crystallized and wait dormant for centuries for the right moment to animate. They are the most outsourced and streamlined creatures on the planet, also the most numerous and the most diverse. Contrary to the popular imagination, the majority are benign and live in collaborative symbiosis with numerous hosts including man. The influenza pandemic of 1918, smallpox, yellow fever, herpes, rabies, polio, smallpox, rotavirus, and HIV are headline viruses, but the majority of viruses are neither famous nor harmful. View in LinkedIn

VIRAL PRIMER 101. The tiny replicons outsource the messy stuff that need complex machinery to their hosts, allowing viruses to be excessively streamlined and flexible. This flexibility gave some of the fastest reproductive cycles and greatest diversity on the planet. This deceptive simplicity has led many observers to believe that viruses are indeed simple, and many believe that they are actually non-living. Nasus non videatur in facie tua. https://lnkd.in/gR97A9s View in LinkedIn

VIRAL UNIVERSE. “There are an estimated 10(31) viruses on Earth. That is to say: there may be a hundred million times more viruses on Earth than there are stars in the universe.” https://lnkd.in/dzmPw57 View in LinkedIn

THE CAPE FLORISTIC REGION. “We show that >40% of the current total of species was described within the first 100 years of exploration, followed by a continued steady rate of description. We propose that