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TRANSITIONS. "QTLs can, of course, correspond with large genetic intervals containing tens or even hundreds of genes, and so it is important to pinpoint the exact genes (and their number) to understand the ease with which an evolutionary transition between, for example, a scented and a scentless flower type can occur." (QTLs = quantitative trait loci). https://lnkd.in/dHD-ddW View in LinkedIn

SINGLE VERSUS MULTI-LOCUS TRAITS. "Although many floral traits are controlled by a single locus, many more are multi-locus traits. Some floral scent cues that influence pollinators may be affected by a relatively small number of genetic loci, detected by screening for QTLs." (QTL = quantitative trait loci). https://lnkd.in/dHD-ddW View in LinkedIn

LOCI TESTING. "Pollinator selection for specific loci has been tested in various contexts. For example, red flowers are relatively poorly detected by insect pollinators that lack red receptors, whereas hummingbirds have such receptors and can thus detect and identify red flowers more easily. In cases in which flower color is controlled by a small number of loci, crossing experiments can directly assess pollinator responses to a specific allele." https://lnkd.in/dHD-ddW View in LinkedIn

FEW CONTROLLING GENES. "Floral traits are sometimes controlled by a relatively small number of genes. For example, in the common morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea), various aspects of pigmentation are controlled by single loci: one locus determines pink versus blue flowers, another controls intensity, a third controls the patterning and degree of pigmentation, and a fourth locus has epistatic effects on the other three loci." https://lnkd.in/dHD-ddW View in LinkedIn

FUNCTION OF MEMORY. “Memory is the glue that binds our mental lives. Without it, we’d be prisoners of the present, unable to use the lessons of the past to change our future.” https://lnkd.in/dU7QXHe View in LinkedIn

TED TALK. “A Memory Without Limits: Prof. Giuliana Mazzoni at TEDxHull.” https://lnkd.in/dKUjM2s View in LinkedIn

UNLIMITED. “Hack your brain to remember almost anything.” https://lnkd.in/dE2v5a4 View in LinkedIn

ENHANCED THOUGHTS. "For nearly all of human history, only the five natural senses were known to serve as a way into the brain, and language and gesture as the channels out. Now researchers are breaching those boundaries of the mind, moving information in and out and across space and time, manipulating it and potentially enhancing it." http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-brain-brain-communication-no-longer-unthinkable-180954948/ View in LinkedIn