🧬🐟 The #Amazon #molly, an all-female #fish from #Texas and #Mexico rivers, has cloned itself for over 100,000 years – long past the predicted extinction deadline.
A 2026 #Nature #study by researchers at University of #Missouri and LMU #Munich shows the fish uses “gene conversion,” a #DNA repair trick, to erase bad #mutations and spread good ones without #sex.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-finally-know-how-an-all-female-fish-keeps-cloning-itself
#genetics #evolution #cloning #parthenogenesis #genome #geneconversion #reproduction #biology #science
So, I noticed something about #Trump’s trip to #China, because I tend to pay attention to #bioethics stuff. Amongst all the panopticon bros was a solitary biotech executive; Jacob #Thaysen, CEO of #Illumina.
Illumina holds the patents that mean 80% of the world’s #genomic analysis is done via their products or databases.
According to #CIA agents, the #US left the #WHO so we didn’t have to admit that we’d funded the Chinese lab where #COVID seems to have originated.
Leaving the WHO also means Illumina no longer has to share their data with public health experts. And they’ve been first on the ground in both #hantavirus and #Ebola to sequence these outbreaks. #African countries must sign away their #genome rights before America will pay the health budget Congress authorized. So, that’s fun.
And once again, as I start digging, the #DreyDossier brings receipts. She’s a hella investigator.
After more than two weeks, the Grauniad now has an #obituary for #CraigVenter: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/14/craig-venter-obituary I was kind of surprised that he died at a normal age, rather than using his resources to engineer his own immortality.
Chantzi et al. examined the prevalence of perfect inverted repeats across 118,019 complete organismal genomes, showing that they exhibit distinct genomic features and sequence compositions, while being strategically positioned at key regulatory elements.
📣 GBE is launching a Methods section
💻 Rapid advances in genomic sequencing and computational approaches are transforming evolutionary biology.
To support the community in this expanding methodological landscape, GBE is launching a new Methods section dedicated to theoretical advances, methodological innovation, and critical assessments of existing approaches.
8-May-2026
#Plants survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid by duplicating genomes
When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet. But many plants survived the devastation. In a new study publishing May 8 in the Cell Press journal Cell, researchers reveal that the accidental duplications of genomes—a natural phenomenon—might have helped many flowering plants survive some of the most extreme environmental upheavals in Earth’s history. This strategy could help plants adapt to the rapid climate changes unfolding today.
J of Systematics and Evolution
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