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NO PLANT ARRESTS. "Meiotic arrests in plants are unknown. Plants seem to completely lack strict mechanisms to arrest the meiotic cell division. Contrary to animals and fungi that for example arrest the cell cycle and abort meiosis once double strand breaks are not repaired, plants will progress through meiosis irrespective of such major defects." http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/04/28/050831.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

MEIOTIC ARRESTS. "Whereas male meiosis occurs continuously, female meiosis usually stops twice." http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/04/28/050831.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

GERMLINE. "In animals, where haploid mitosis is suppressed, syngamy immediately follows meiosis. Furthermore, specific cells are ‘destined’ at an early stage to eventually undergo meiosis (a.k.a germline), whereas this cell fate is determined much later in fungi, plants and some algae." https://lnkd.in/e2tp_G5 View in LinkedIn

PRINCIPLE 6. “There is no genetic program.” https://lnkd.in/eBKWC7d View in LinkedIn

ASYMMETRICAL MEIOSIS. "The selective scenarios underlying the evolution of meiotic asymmetry are unresolved. In some cases, such as in ciliates, there is no requirement for four meiotic products, as sex occurs by the cytoplasmic exchange of haploid micronuclei (“conjugation”)." http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/04/28/050831.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

PRINCIPLE 5. “Gene ontology will fail without higher-level " "insight.” https://lnkd.in/eBKWC7d View in LinkedIn

ASYMMETRY. "Asymmetrical meiosis, on the other hand, has evolved multiple times, and occurs in female meiosis in animals, seed plants and some ciliates." http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/04/28/050831.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

PRINCIPLE 4. “The theory of biological relativity: there is no privileged level of causality.” https://lnkd.in/eBKWC7d View in LinkedIn

SYMMETRY. "Symmetrical meiosis results in four viable gametes, whereas asymmetrical meiosis results a single one. Symmetrical meiosis is ancestral, and found in male meiosis in animals, seed plants, ‘homosporous’ species (e.g. mosses, many ferns) and isogamous eukaryotes." https://lnkd.in/e2tp_G5 View in LinkedIn

PRINCIPLE 3. “DNA is not the sole transmitter of inheritance.” https://lnkd.in/eBKWC7d View in LinkedIn