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THE EUK MYTH. "The list of eukaryotic species that lack strong direct evidence for meiotic sex, but that seem sexual, as suggested by the presence of these meiosis-associated genes, is growing longer and longer." https://lnkd.in/deZ8DED View in LinkedIn

EUK AND EPISODIC SEX. "Hence, from the perspective of cell lineage, sex in multicellular organisms is as episodic as it is in facultatively sexual unicellular eukaryotes. Indeed, tens to hundreds of clonal cell divisions may occur in the germ line of different multicellular organisms." https://lnkd.in/deZ8DED View in LinkedIn

EUK CLONALITY. "In fact, a multicellular organism is “nothing else than” a clonally propagating population of cells that are physically linked." A contrarian viewpoint. https://lnkd.in/deZ8DED View in LinkedIn

EUK SEXUAL REPRODUCTION. "The prevailing view seems to be that multicellular organisms are obligately sexual while clonally reproducing representatives are an oddity, whereas microbial eukaryotes (protists) are perceived as just facultatively sexual, or even purely clonal." https://lnkd.in/deZ8DED View in LinkedIn

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

EARLY GENE LIFE. "New gene origination is a microevolutionary process. A protogene structure is first generated by a mutation in a single germ cell genome. This protogene structure must then spread through the population until it is fixed. Various evolutionary forces, such as natural selection and genetic drift, govern the spread of the protogene through the population, thus making protogene fixation a population genetic process." https://lnkd.in/dvpUaYF View in LinkedIn

BIRTH AND DEATH OF GENES. "These recent data reveal a widespread process of birth and death of genes in organisms, in which new genes enter the genome and old genes are lost." https://lnkd.in/dvpUaYF View in LinkedIn

NEW GENE GENERATION IS COMMON. "Today it is clear that new gene origination is a general process in evolution and that species-specific or lineage-specific genes exist in many, if not all, organisms." https://lnkd.in/dvpUaYF View in LinkedIn

DE NOVO GENES. “New gene structures may arise from previously non-coding DNA. Chen et al. were the first to show that antifreeze proteins, which bind and halt the growth of ice crystals in the blood of some polar fishes, were created by amplification of microsatellite DNA." https://lnkd.in/dvpUaYF View in LinkedIn

AGING GENES. "As genes age, they accumulate mutations which obscure the structural or evolutionary signals from their early history. Genes younger than 10–30 million years have not experienced much sequence evolution and are thus a valid system in which to investigate the early evolution of genes and to understand their properties." https://lnkd.in/dvpUaYF View in LinkedIn