Why do creationists shy away from gene duplication? | Atheist A new review article on Evolutionary causes and consequences of gene duplication has dropped. It’s nothing novel to well-informed biologists, but it’s another nail in the coffin of creationism. Not th...

Why do #creationists shy away from #geneduplication?

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Lab new paper is out!🎉🧬

We investigate how master #SexDetermining genes evolve in #anurans🐸

👉 rarely by #GeneDuplication but allelic diversification
👉 #SexChromsometurnover is not driven by gene translocation
👉 strong purifying selection (not duplicated ones)

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Starting #ESEB2025 a bit late, with an exciting symposium on whole genome duplication. They couldn’t fit all of the talks in, I’ll be talking on “Gene expression variability and evolutionary outcomes after whole-genome duplication in fishes” tomorrow in the Genetics symposium. #GeneDuplication […]

One of my favorite non-plant labs to follow, @mydennis.bsky.social, continues to amaze!
Their latest work shows the role of human-specific duplicate genes in brain evolution 🧓🧠🧬
🎉 Congrats, Megan and the team! #GeneDuplication
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HSDSnake: a user-friendly SnakeMake pipeline for analysis of duplicate genes in eukaryotic genomes. #SnakeMake #GeneDuplication #Genomics #Bioinformatics 💻 🧬
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🕸️ Explore the link between gene duplication & spider traits like silk, venom, and segmentation.
Despite unresolved questions, one thing is clear: spiders hold key insights into how genomes innovate and diversify becoming an increasingly powerful model #WGD #Spiders #GeneDuplication #EvoDevo

The main image shows brown algae (Sargassum sp.) that proved nutrients for Nitzschia sing1 diatoms (Sentosa Island, Singapore). Nitzschia sing1 diatoms growing in the lab are shown in the inset. The diatoms are 30 micrometers long. Credit: Jedd Group

The #diatom genus Nitzschia lost photosynthesis to become free-living heterotrophs. This study shows how #HGT from marine bacteria, followed by #GeneDuplication & #neofunctionalization, allowed them to catabolize #alginate & live off brown algal polysaccharides @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/41WaW8e

The main image shows brown algae (Sargassum sp.) that proved nutrients for Nitzschia sing1 diatoms (Sentosa Island, Singapore). Nitzschia sing1 diatoms growing in the lab are shown in the inset. The diatoms are 30 micrometers long. Credit: Jedd Group

The #diatom genus Nitzschia lost photosynthesis to become free-living heterotrophs. This study shows how #HGT from marine bacteria, followed by #GeneDuplication & #neofunctionalization, allowed them to catabolize #alginate & live off brown algal polysaccharides @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/41WaW8e

The main image shows brown algae (Sargassum sp.) that proved nutrients for Nitzschia sing1 diatoms (Sentosa Island, Singapore). Nitzschia sing1 diatoms growing in the lab are shown in the inset. The diatoms are 30 micrometers long. Credit: Jedd Group

The #diatom genus Nitzschia lost photosynthesis to become free-living heterotrophs. This study shows how #HGT from marine bacteria, followed by #GeneDuplication & #neofunctionalization, allowed them to catabolize #alginate & live off brown algal polysaccharides @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/41WaW8e

Nice work on functional evolution of proteins after duplication by @Landrychristian lab https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado5719 #duplication #GeneDuplication #MolecularEvolution