Tag: Extavour

  • Nation & World

    Horizontal helper

    Cassandra Extavour and Leo Blondel provide the strongest suggestive evidence yet that at least part of a specific gene came from bacterial genomes.

    7 minutes
    Cassandra Extavour.
  • Nation & World

    New view of germ cells

    Cassandra Extavour is the author of a new study that points to a different mechanism as an ancestral process for specifying germ cells.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Solving a biological mystery

    A team of Harvard researchers has shown that insects like crickets possess a variation of a gene — called oskar — that is critical to the production of germ cells in “higher” insects. That discovery suggests that the oskar gene emerged far earlier in insect evolution than researchers previously believed.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The bounty of EDEN

    An associate professor at Harvard, Cassandra Extavour also heads up the Evo-Devo-Eco Network (EDEN), a collaborative group of researchers devoted to encouraging the study of nontraditional “model” organisms, ranging from sea anemones and crickets.

    3 minutes