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English rivers polluted by powerful insecticides, first tests reveal https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/13/english-rivers-polluted-by-powerful-insecticides-first-tests-reveal?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

KEY FEATURE. “We postulate that it is the transition to context-dependent causation—mediated by the onset of information control—that is the key defining characteristic of life.” https://lnkd.in/ewsT9EQ View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA COMPETITION BETWEEN SEXES. "Given that male-biased genes often evolve rapidly in animals/plants, which are prone to male–male competition, and female-biased genes evolve rapidly in N. crassa, which have a propensity for female–female competition, suggests sexual selection via intrasex competition is a strong candidate to explain differences in the evolution of sex-biased genes in both systems." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION AS PHENOTYPE. “To be explicit, biological information is distinctive because it possesses a type of causal efficacy —it is the information that determines the current state and hence the dynamics (and therefore also the future state(s)).” https://lnkd.in/ewsT9EQ View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA MAJOR ROLE. "The evolutionary differences among sex-biased genes across these disparate taxonomic groups suggest that sexually dichotomous structures could have played a major role in driving gene divergence among organisms throughout evolutionary history, i.e., before, during, and after divergence of these three kingdoms." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

INTRINSIC INFORMATION. “The central position of information in biology is not itself especially new or radical. What is often sidestepped, however, is the fact that in biological systems information is not merely a way to label states, but a property of the system.” https://lnkd.in/ewsT9EQ View in LinkedIn

PLOIDY FROM MALFUNCTION. "Speciation and diversification of plants has been attributed, in part, due to polyploidy otherwise known as whole-genome duplications (WGD). Changes in ploidy can result from aberrations in meiotic or mitotic processes, which includes whole genome duplications." https://lnkd.in/etn6Uea View in LinkedIn

ANGIOSPERM PLOIDY. "There is a high level of biodiversity in angiosperms that indicate plants have undergone extensive diversification. Some of this diversity, on the genomic level, can be explained by a high degree of variation in ploidy level and/or chromosome number." https://lnkd.in/etn6Uea View in LinkedIn

PLASTICITY IMPACT. "The interplay between phenotypic plasticity, ecology and evolution is further complicated by the fact that the plasticity of one trait can influence the phenotype of another, later in the developmental trajectory or in the life cycle of a species." https://lnkd.in/dN4mKjm View in LinkedIn

MULTIPLE PHENOTYPES. "If one plastic genotype can result in various phenotypes, the emergence of alternative genotypes becomes unnecessary. Additionally plasticity can hide genetic diversity since one (optimal) phenotype can originate from multiple genotypes (canalization)." https://lnkd.in/dN4mKjm View in LinkedIn