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… a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female … the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the first … One shared gene stood out in particular: a cytokinin response regulator that was expanded in a palindrome and …

… salinity determine how life thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As … ice surface handles such fluctuations. P. psychrophila is a species of Pelagophyceae, a microalga shown to thrive in … ecosystems. Researchers studied P. psychrophila’ s stress response by comparing how it responded to being moved to a …

… in the laboratory. “We are fortunate because the progenitor species of  Brachypodium hybridum are still extant (whereas … genomically the whole complex of progenitors and descendant species and, consequently, the evolution of polyploidy.” … correspond to the same recurrent speciation outcome or to different species,” added Catalan. Overall, Vogel noted, the …

… Rick Cavicchioli compared two strains of haloarchaea from different Antarctic lakes. To assess the genomic variation … pool of genetic material comprised by all members of a species, the pan-genome of haloarchaea contains the parts of … due to gene transfer events. Such events can occur in response to viral infections and are important for …