🎬 Maverick dropped the first trailer for Clutch, all cinematic flair, very little gameplay on show, and it's clearly a STORY-driven racer.

Cast highlights: lead Theo Marcial is played by an actor known from "Doctor Who" and "Supergene", his sister is Simbiatu Abisola Abiola Adjikaawo, better known as Little Simz; also starring Peter Serafinowicz and Jane Perry. Open-world Côte d'Azur racing: legal by day and illegal at...

#SteamAndEpic #Little #STORYDriven #Serafinowicz #OpenWorld #Supergene

A selfish supergene causes meiotic drive through both sexes in Drosophila

#meioticdrive #supergene #drosophila

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421185122

#Supergene research solves the mystery of tiny #ant #queens

#formica

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-supergene-mystery-tiny-ant-queens.html

Now there are six cases of independently evolved distyly supergene that are hemizygous in thrums, in contrast to the classical genetic model for distyly.

Check out this cool new study on distylous Nymphoides indica in New Phytologist: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19264

#supergene #distyly #heterostyly #MatingSystem #FloweringPlants

Fascinating. Possibly a real-life X-Men type mutation in a single generation.

"The work showed that a single mutation in a supergene was sufficient to produce the full suite of changes observed in the obligate parasites, even before the ants were split by speciation."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-mutation-turned-ants-into-parasites-in-one-generation-20230508/

#Biology #Nature #Mutations #Genetics #Genes #Supergene

@alexwild @StrepsipZerg

Possible solution to the mystery of the rapid, parallel, and #sympatric #evolution of #ant #workerless social #parasites (#inquilines): a single #mutation in a #supergene.

https://cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00136-7 Trible et al. 2023