Thrilled to see my main PhD work out on bioRxiv! Huge thanks to @arburga.bsky.social and my wonderful labmates, collaborators, colleagues and friends @imbavienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social for a detailed breakdown see below 👇
🪱 Selfish genes are everywhere and drive some of biology’s biggest innovations (CRISPR, antibody recombination, epigenetics). Yet almost no one asks the obvious question: how does a selfish gene begin? Our new manuscript uncovers how selfishness can emerge directly from the host genome.
Julian Ross
🧬 New research from the Burga lab! We took a closer look at a rogue selfish protein and caught evolution in the act of turning something old into something radically new 💡 (a.k.a. neofunctionalization) @imbavienna.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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