Month: September 2022

NEUROSPORA FEMALE ASCENDANCY. "The results revealed that in this organism, female-biased genes exhibit rapid protein-level evolution, lowered optimal codon usage, elevated levels of positive selection, and stronger signals of selective sweeps compared with male-biased genes." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA SURPRISE. "Remarkably, these findings in a hermaphrodite infer that sex is connected to gene evolution in the complete absence of differences in sex-specific genome regions." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is 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

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

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

NEUROSPORA HARD CALL. “Fully distinguishing between natural and sexual selection is a challenging task involving aspects of molecular function, physiology, behavior, and ecology." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA FEMALE-FEMALE COMPETITION. "The concept that female–female competition drives rapid evolution of female-biased implies some degree of overlap between unmated female tissues studied herein and those exposed to conidia." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

MODIFIED TRAITS. "We show that the experimental evolution of improved hermaphrodite self-fertility occurred through complex modification of a suite of developmental and reproductive traits: increased sperm production, accelerated oogenesis and ovulation rates, and increased embryo retention in utero." https://lnkd.in/gdtTpDJ View in LinkedIn

MODIFIED TRAITS. "We show that the experimental evolution of improved hermaphrodite self-fertility occurred through complex modification of a suite of developmental and reproductive traits: increased sperm production, accelerated oogenesis and ovulation rates, and increased embryo retention in utero." https://lnkd.in/gdtTpDJ View in LinkedIn

MODIFIED TRAITS. "We show that the experimental evolution of improved hermaphrodite self-fertility occurred through complex modification of a suite of developmental and reproductive traits: increased sperm production, accelerated oogenesis and ovulation rates, and increased embryo retention in utero." https://lnkd.in/gdtTpDJ View in LinkedIn