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CHIMERIC LARVAE: "each presenting different combinations of maternal genotypic constituents, create genetically-complex sets of asexual propagules. This novel mode of inheritance in corals challenges classical postulations of sexual/asexual reproduction traits, as asexual derived chimeric larvae represent an alliance between genotypes that significantly sways the recruits’ absolute fitness.” https://lnkd.in/d68A9uu View in LinkedIn

DOC RICKETTS IN CANNERY ROW. (John Steinbeck). "Doc is also the smartest man in Cannery Row, interested in knowing something about everything. "Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom. His mind had no horizon," Steinbeck wrote. "Everyone who knew him was indebted to him. And everyone who thought of him thought next, 'I really must do something nice for Doc.' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannery_Row_(novel) View in LinkedIn

CHIMERIC CORAL LARVAE. " The globally distributed coral species Pocillopora damicornis is known to release either sexual or asexual derived planula-larvae in various reef locations...we documented the release of asexually derived chimeric larvae, originating from mosaicked maternal colonies that were also chimeras.” https://lnkd.in/d68A9uu View in LinkedIn

"INHERITED CHIMERISM is an alternative to the problematic practice of conjuring up additional, gene-donating symbionts at organelle origins to explain gene trees. It places no constraints on the collections of genes that the plastid and the mitochondrial symbionts possessed, other than that it needs to be a genome-sized collection, not tens of thousands of genes, and it allows freely for lateral gene transfer among prokaryotes before the endosymbionts become organelles and afterward. Lateral gene transfers among prokaryotes has received much attention in the past decades. Inherited chimerism incorporates lateral gene transfers among prokaryotes into endosymbiotic theory." https://lnkd.in/d4YBVjh View in LinkedIn

HYBRID PHOBIA. "The view that hybridisation threatens the genetic purity of parental species and is a violation of species integrity is pervasive throughout conservation literature. Furthermore, hybridisation is often considered to be an evolutionary dead end because genetic incompatibilities and combinations make hybrids unfit, sterile or absent." https://lnkd.in/dfcW_XQ View in LinkedIn

MODERN ENDOSYMBIONTS. "Many protozoan and metazoan cells harbor vertically inherited endosymbionts in their cytoplasm. Comprehensive reviews have covered most aspects of these ancient mutualistic relationships, including metabolism, genetics, and evolutionary history of the endosymbiont/host cell associations." https://lnkd.in/dHQJqnW View in LinkedIn

BINGO. "I introduce the idea of horizontal larval transfer." Ouch. Clunky. But possibly, tantalizingly, fascinating. https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn

INFERENCES. "My own hypothesis of the transfer of larval forms depends on genetic mechanisms that are imperfectly understood but that can be inferred." Just as Darwin's work operated in the absence of modern genetics. https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn

IMPROBABLE BUT COMPREHENSIVE. "At first sight, this may seem a highly improbable thesis, but it provides a tenable explanation of the facts." https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn

NEW LATERAL GENE TRANSFERS. "The implied transfers of large amounts of genetic material are attributed to successful hybridizations between animals that are not closely related." https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn