#pleiotropy
#immunesystem

The same gene and its effector that confer infectious disease tolerance to young mice make the same infection deadly in aging mice.

In aging people too, probably...

OA paper nature.com/articles/s41...

press release: www.salk.edu/it/news-rele...

@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Why do those #antivax bozos always anticipate only adverse potential side effects, and not BENEFICIAL ones? #pleiotropy

Ecological speciation in sympatric palms: 5. Evidence for pleiotropic speciation genes using gene knockout and high-throughput phenotyping Abstract. Theoretical models predict that sympatric, ecological speciation may be facilitated more readily when so-called ‘magic traits’ are present, linki

Magic traits may assist sympatric #Ecological speciation, but few examples exist & evidence for their role is rare. Yet, this study found #pleiotropy affected soil preference & flowering time in #Hawea, consistent with speciation!

Check out the full paper 🌍🧪👇

Key genes for corn architecture revealed, identifying future breeding targets The physical structure of corn plants—including the angle of leaves bending from the stem and the number of pollen-laden tassel branches—makes a big difference for yield. Compact plants can be planted...

Key #genes for #corn #architecture revealed, identifying future #breeding targets.

#agriculture #food-security #genomics #gene_regulation #pleiotropy #transcription_factors #transcriptomics #funded_by_NSF #funded_by_us

phys.org/news/2025-03...

Magic traits may assist sympatric #Ecological speciation, but few examples exist & evidence for their role is rare. Yet, this study found #pleiotropy affected soil preference & flowering time in #Hawea, consistent with speciation!

@LinneanSociety