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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

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 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 DUAL ROLES. "The male structure may serve dual roles, one as a male donor during fertilization and another as an asexual spore that grows vegetatively or form anastomosis cells that link into networks." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA MECHANISM. "The much larger female protoperithecium accepts the nucleus from the male structure, harbors karyogamy and meiosis, and shelters and sustains the developing offspring until release; thus, production of female structures is apt to be a greater investment for reproduction than the smaller, male structures, which solely contributes the fertilizing nucleus. Also similar to many animals/plants, the male donor cells are produced in much higher numbers than the female tissues." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

CONTRASTING POSITIONS. "It has been argued that increased plasticity enables the appearance of new phenotypes and thus promotes diversification, population divergence and speciation. Conversely, it has also been put forward that plasticity can prevent diversification." https://lnkd.in/dN4mKjm View in LinkedIn

ACUTE ADAPTATIONS. "Phenotypic plasticity — i.e., the ability of an organism to produce different phenotypes in response to its environment — offers the possibility for organisms to adapt to varying environments in real time." https://lnkd.in/dN4mKjm View in LinkedIn

"NATURAL SELECTION shapes the evolution of populations, communities and ecosystems by acting on phenotypes. It is through the elimination of poorly adapted traits that populations change, diversify, specialize or become extinct." https://lnkd.in/dN4mKjm 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