Competition over millions of years preserves genetic diversity
Variations in genetic material allow the water flea to defend itself against parasites, forcing the parasites to adapt. This coevolutionary loop has been running for at least 15 million years, as researchers at the University of Basel have demonstrated.
Fantastic new study and resource by Anurag Chaturvedi,
Luisa Orsini
and colleagues!! "hologenome of
#Daphniamagna reveals possible DNA methylation and microbiome-mediated evolution of the host genome?"
https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkad685/7252670?login=false
The hologenome of Daphnia magna reveals possible DNA methylation and microbiome-mediated evolution of the host genome
Abstract. Properties that make organisms ideal laboratory models in developmental and medical research are often the ones that also make them less representativ
A new
#preprint #OpenScience #PeerReview by @PCI_Zoology: Houwenhuyse S et al.
#Microbiome mediated tolerance to biotic stressors: a case study of the interaction between a toxic
#cyanobacterium and an oomycete-like infection in
#Daphniamagna.
#Zoology.
https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/9n4mg
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