Tag: Germ cells
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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.
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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.
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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.