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VIRUSES, humans as descendants of these creatures. Interview with Dr Villarreal. https://youtu.be/3Ms04x6MvMY View in LinkedIn

ASEXUAL LINEAGES. “Nevertheless, in a considerable proportion of eukaryotic lineages, no sexual cycle has ever been observed, e.g. in around 20% of all fungi, a kingdom that contains pathogens of animals and plants. Such lineages that lack a sexual cycle have been considered evolutionary dead-ends.” https://lnkd.in/eC8eb-V View in LinkedIn

VIRUS CLASSIFICATION, a lovely chart summarizing the world of viruses. Only 22 families of viruses have been described. Eight are DNA viruses, the remaining 14 are RNA viruses. https://lnkd.in/duMh5jV View in LinkedIn

SEXUAL DRIVERS OF VARIATION. “Before genetic information is transferred to the progeny, meiotic recombination generates novel combinations of existing alleles. It is therefore not surprising that meiotic recombination is considered an important driver for rapid adaptation of pathogens to their hosts.” https://lnkd.in/eC8eb-V View in LinkedIn

"SELFISH ELEMENTS make key contributions to evolutionary transitions at least at two levels. First, the parasite–host arms race leads to increased organizational complexity of biological systems, i.e. serving as a catalyst of evolutionary transitions. Second, viruses and mobile elements contribute specific genes that play major roles in the emergence of coherent wholes at a new level of complexity." https://lnkd.in/daxmUKR View in LinkedIn

ALL PLACENTAL LINEAGES. "Over the years, it has become increasingly evident that endogenized retroviruses (ERVs) have been intimately and deeply involved in the placenta of all mammalian lineages." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apm.12485/full View in LinkedIn

VIRUSES AND THE PLACENTA. "The emergence of mammalian vivipary and the placenta presents many biological and behavioral issues that challenge theories of evolution. These biological and immunological dilemmas are associated with the emergence of the ‘foreign’ mammalian placenta (expressing paternal genes)." https://lnkd.in/etdQ9rN View in LinkedIn

VIRAL INVOLVEMENT. "All systems of host identity and immunity can be examined from this way and show viral involvement. I also examine the emergence of human social identity from this perspective which provides many new insights for the origin of social cooperation." https://lnkd.in/dk3eXRj View in LinkedIn

COMPREHENSIVE EXPLANATION. "The combined concepts of addiction modules and quasispecies can be applied to understand a wide array of phenomena, involving cooperation, network formation, symbiosis, immunity and group identity, all of which are also examined from a virus first perspective." https://lnkd.in/dk3eXRj View in LinkedIn

VIRAL EDITING OF HOST IDENTITY. "Since viruses are naturally competent in host code but also extend that code, they are natural agents for code editing. They are also natural agents to create new host identity (self), although this typically involves cooperative populations of agents." https://lnkd.in/dk3eXRj View in LinkedIn