Posts Tagged ‘pgenes’

The Evolutionary Origin of Descending Testicles – The New York Times

Saturday, August 18th, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/science/descending-testicles-evolution.html

High-throughput discovery of novel developmental phenotypes : Nature : Nature Research

Thursday, September 22nd, 2016

HTP discovery of novel developmental #phenotypes
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7621/full/nature19356.html New list of essential genes for the mouse, upping number to ~2900

Kruglyak paper on C. elegans

Thursday, January 2nd, 2014

A paper on C. elegans that’s very informative:
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v44/n3/full/ng.1050.html
Chromosome-scale selective sweeps shape Caenorhabditis elegans genomic diversity

Most notable of their findings is evidence of recent selective sweeps on chromosomes I, IV, V and (sort of) X. These sweeps have the potential to fix pseudogenes that might have been present at the time.