Science Buzz Lunch in Mixer Room, May 20 and 21, 2013
Topics discussed included:
1) A report online in ScienceNews about a report by Lenore Pipes at the Biology of Genes conference at Cold Spring Harbor about how the selective mating of either the tamest or the most aggressive foxes since 1959 by Russian scientists has led to changes in not only the animals' behavior but also their brain chemistry.
2) The genome contraction in smooth (Tetraodontid) pufferfish but not spiny (Diodontid) pufferfish in the last 50 - 70 million years, and how this genome contraction is similar in many ways (selective absence of retrotransposons, high genomic GC content, contraction after whole genome duplication, etc.) to that of the recently reported genome contaction of the carnivorous plant, U. gibba. Speculation about why the mechanisms might have been similar....
Topics discussed included:
1) A report online in ScienceNews about a report by Lenore Pipes at the Biology of Genes conference at Cold Spring Harbor about how the selective mating of either the tamest or the most aggressive foxes since 1959 by Russian scientists has led to changes in not only the animals' behavior but also their brain chemistry.
2) The genome contraction in smooth (Tetraodontid) pufferfish but not spiny (Diodontid) pufferfish in the last 50 - 70 million years, and how this genome contraction is similar in many ways (selective absence of retrotransposons, high genomic GC content, contraction after whole genome duplication, etc.) to that of the recently reported genome contaction of the carnivorous plant, U. gibba. Speculation about why the mechanisms might have been similar....
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