American NaturalistNov 20, 2023

Ito & Saski have taken many coevolving species of living fossils as flows over a trait space, and developed a new equation to show that living fossils are inevitable byproducts of innovation-driven taxonomic turnovers. Read now for free ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/727046

#coevolving #species #livingFossils #traitSpace #taxonomicTurnovers

Jacob TennessenNov 8, 2022
I also study #HumanGenetics, especially as it relates to #InfectiousDisease. I use #PopulationGenetics to identify genes that may be #coevolving with parasites and could affect resistance to diseases like #malaria. Malaria-relevant genes are often expressed in #RedBloodCells.
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