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Tag Archives: haploid-diploid
La vie en rouge … l'algue rouge
Best laid plans of a #NewPI … what happens to them? Well, they often get triaged for more urgent things that were triaged earlier for more urgent things that were also triaged even earlier for more urgent things … and … Continue reading
Have we got the power?
Sabrina Heiser wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Science Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sabrina grew up in Germany, completed a BSc (Hons) in Marine Biology at Plymouth University (UK) and then lived … Continue reading
An evolutionary cycle …
Rescan, Lenormand and Roze (2016) recently published new models on the evolution of life cycles in The American Naturalist. Most animals and protists have diploid life cycles in which the haploid stage is reduced to a single-celled gamete. Other organisms, such … Continue reading
Posted in evolution, haploid-diploid, mutation, selection, transcriptomics
Tagged Evolution, haploid-diploid, life cycle, models, selection
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An Oedipus complex in mosses?
Nannandrous … phyllodioicous … gotta love botanical terms and these will most definitely find their way into this week’s list of favorite words! Both refer to the tiny epiphytic nature of males situated on much larger female shoots. There may be many … Continue reading
Posted in bioinformatics, evolution, genomics, haploid-diploid, plants, population genetics
Tagged haploid-diploid, mating system evolution, mosses, SNPs
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Just like an elephant and a manatee …
There is a positive correlation between the time since two lineages have diverged and the strength of the reproductive barriers between them. Rothfels et al. (2015) have described a natural hybridization event between two fern genera that diverged from one … Continue reading
Posted in Coevolution, evolution, natural history, speciation
Tagged ferns, haploid-diploid, hybridization, reproductive isolation
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