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Mendel’s Garden #14

By Trevor | May 8, 2007

Welcome to the fourteenth edition of Mendel’s Garden, a blog carnival devoted to everything that has to do with the discipline of genetics. It’s ironic that it’s being hosted on a blog devoted entirely to showing that classical genetics isn’t what it’s all about — epigenetics is, in some ways, challenging the classical assumptions of Mendelian inheritance. But we couldn’t have learned anything about epigenetics until a multitude of genetic mechanisms were clearly established. And many are yet to be uncovered.

With that said, Rich at evolgen has succinctly summarized the newly discovered in the area of sex chromosomes in the pufferfish, cat, and mouse. The research centers mainly on sex determination, natural selection, and nucleotide diversity.

Hsien Lei at the newly minted blog Eye on DNA recently covered an interesting finding from deCODE Genetics showing an association between a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and increased risk of heart attack and cardiovascular disease.

p-ter at Gene Expression has given his take on the recent paper describing positive selection between chimps and humans, “More genes underwent positive selection in chimpanzee evolution than in human evolution.”

From this blog, I wrote from my perspective on the increasing use of the word ‘epigenetics’ in response to an essay postulating that the word was being improperly used.

Song and Plumage Evolution in New World Orioles is the topic of choice at Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted).

And Carl Zimmer, the science writer often appearing in the New York Times, has done just that with his recent article on evolution and duck phalluses.

That’s all for this edition. If you would like to host the next Mendel’s Garden, details are at the carnival’s home page.

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