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Tag Archives: mutation
Cricket Plays a Song of Systems Biology
Mina Momeni wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Science Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Mina earned her MS degree and is now a research technician at UAB in Dr. Nicole Riddle‘s lab. … Continue reading
Annotations on a tweet-storm directed more-or-less towards Neil deGrasse Tyson
So, Saturday afternoon, while I really should have been working on other things, this happened: Hi, @neiltyson, I am an actual evolutionary geneticist who probably did inherit such a gene, thanks. https://t.co/B9ATLu357L — Jeremy Yoder (@JBYoder) March 12, 2016 What … Continue reading
Posted in evolution, natural history, population genetics, selection
Tagged germline, mutation, Neil deGrasse Tyson, somatic mutation
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The unforeseen genomic consequences of domestication
When a desired genome is selected for propagation, all mutations, beneficial, neutral, or deleterious, shift in frequency, and this sometimes can have unforeseen consequences. Natural selection takes the good with the bad. Beneficial and harmful mutations combine to provide a net … Continue reading
Posted in domestication, genomics, plants, selection, transcriptomics
Tagged mutation, sunflowers
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For viruses, ecology shapes the speed of evolutionary change
Molecular ecologists are interested in understanding what patterns in genetic variation across and among populations can tell us about the ecology of the living things we study. But a paper published in the latest issue of The American Naturalist demonstrates … Continue reading