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REMARKABLE BLIND SPOT. "As yet, no single prediction program and no single proteomics experiment can accurately identify the full complement of proteins located in plastids or mitochondria." (2016). https://lnkd.in/ePgs9VJ View in LinkedIn

PLANT SPECIATION. "The relative role of genic changes versus the chromosomal rearrangements in the evolution of intrinsic postzygotic reproductive isolation now appears to be on the verge of resolution with the implementation of modern molecular techniques." https://lnkd.in/eGmuRdp View in LinkedIn

PLANTS. "Currently, it is unclear whether the evolution of reproductive isolating barriers is under simple genetic control or due to more complex additive and/or epistatic control, involves loci of major or minor effect, and whether genetic architecture is dependent on the type of reproductive isolating barrier." https://lnkd.in/eGmuRdp View in LinkedIn

PRION EPIGENETIC SWITCH. "The mammalian prion species barrier, which prevents the spread of scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy to man, has been the focus of intense research efforts. Our data show that for the yeast [PSI+] prion, the species barrier results from a remarkable specificity in interaction between the prion protein itself, mediated by a well-defined epitope in the PrD. Because prion domains are modular, fusion to prion domains could potentially allow prion-based regulation of a broad range of proteins." https://lnkd.in/ebZGb4M View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION. "The role of sexual selection as a selective force in plant speciation is still controversial, in contrast to the situation in animals." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.13756/full View in LinkedIn

PLANT GENE DOUBLING. "The total chromosome number also may double by combining the chromosome sets of a single species. Of the 260,000 known species of plants, as many as half may have originated in this way." https://lnkd.in/ejwXt8N View in LinkedIn

PLANT VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION. "Even if hybrids are unable to undergo sexual reproduction because their chromosomes do not sort out properly in meiosis, they may reproduce vegetatively." https://lnkd.in/ejwXt8N View in LinkedIn

POLYPLOIDY LEADS TO HYBRIDS. "In plants, new, reproductively isolated species may arise instantaneously, due to multiplication of the entire complement of chromosomes by a process known as polyploidy. This may occur as a result of hybridization, combining the chromosome sets from two parent species in a hybrid individual. If such hybrids turn out to be well adapted to environmental conditions, hybridization is a mechanism that produces new species." https://lnkd.in/ejwXt8N View in LinkedIn

HOST RANGE. "Many infectious diseases cross the species barrier. Generally, this crossing occurs either because humans come into contact with a microorganism that is already capable of causing human infection or because an alteration occurs in the spectrum of species for which the organism is pathogenic — the so-called host range." https://lnkd.in/enTxJtp View in LinkedIn

COUNTER-INTUITIVE. "The general properties of diatom mitochondrial genomes are indeed more similar to animal than to plant mitochondrial genomes." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/20/jxb.err441.full View in LinkedIn