Pattern recognition and conserved receptors (TAARs)
Olfactory Receptor Patterning in a Higher Primate Excerpt: We found that TAARs are also expressed in the macaque OE, suggesting that these receptors may also […]
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The vomeronasal organ
Not only in DNA’s hands: Epigenetics has large say in blood formation animah: pheromone-controlled Modern science: https://www.scienc…1100010X The vomeronasal organ (the pheromone receptor organ) is thus […]
What Darwin proved: there’s no such thing as a species
GENETICS As Animals Mingle, a Baffling Genetic Barrier A short stretch of DNA is challenging what it means to be a species. By: Emily Singer August […]
Molecular time travel: a misrepresentation of amino acid substitutions
Evolution depends on rare chance events, ‘molecular time travel’ experiments show Excerpt: Thornton and Harms then created millions of copies of this genetic template, using […]
Nutrient-dependent non-random personality differences
Personality: The Random Factor Description: “Benjamin de Bivort, of Harvard, explores what fruit flies can tell us about personality, and also the random differences that […]
Vitamin A causes mutations (or not)
Vitamin A’s Influence on Immunity Exposure to vitamin A in the womb influences immune system development and lifelong ability to fight infections, a mouse study […]
Nutrient-dependent cooperation vs cannibalism (video)
Contributions of VLDLR and LRP8 in the establishment of retinogeniculate projections reported as: Researchers find surprising relationships in brain signaling Excerpt: “…the glycoprotein Reelin is crucial to […]
Functional vomeronasal receptor genes in primates?
Social isolation disrupts myelin production.
The hormone-miRNA axis, life span, and sexual orientation
Instead of simply offering more evolutionary theory, we detailed the link from the sensory environment to sexual orientation (e.g., the epigenetic effects of pheromones on the gonadotropin releasing hormone neuronal system).
Sex differences in Alzheimer’s and everything else
the logic of gene regulatory networks in adaptive evolution does not skip any species.