Scott Roy Lab SFState
@KeepGenomeWeird
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The more I learn the more I'm confused.
Joined October 2020
Bioinformatics tech position on a cool protistology project at HBCU Spelman:
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Personal record: I got the same manuscript rejected from two different journals in the same day.
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No big deal, but my girlfriend's friend's dog's littermate's owner is in Sleater-Kinney.
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Queen asexuality repeatedly evolves in ant species with multi-queen colonies! https://t.co/ODJ9sTfKNf
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@alexmkuhn
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Cool PhD project in cool lab in cool department in cool city:
findaphd.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO Sex, males, and hermaphrodites in the scale insect Icerya purchasi at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
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A new HOAP ... function. Old genes acquire new functions doing old things b/c ... read the hashtag. https://t.co/x4hBNFQ7HZ
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elifesciences.org
Evolution strictly preserves telomere stability but rapidly diversifies telomere length regulation in Drosophila.
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Scott Roy Lab SFState @KeepGenomeWeird Start-snatching, to be confused with neither stop-snitching nor thatch-sniffing (@JoeBiden), generates chimeric viral-host genes! https://t.co/zbDQUBYDIT
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It slices, it dices, it makes julienne fries. And also completes DNA replication. And, argonaute, I mean. And in archaea.
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Retrons aren't just old-timey robots any more, they're also involved in phage defense! https://t.co/cP86vmbcPE
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IRE1, which splices a small number of weirdo introns, can also generate miRNAs. Man, Dicer is gonna be soooo mad when she finds out! https://t.co/saQ4DkemhD
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Fruitfly transposable elements (TE) have taken a TE-suppressing gene hostage through acquiring a copy of the gene, so that suppressing the TEs lead to suppressing the suppressor! https://t.co/sPF8dUvUnC
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R.I.P. humans' mutation rate record. https://t.co/HMb5PqrzWF
@Prof_LDHurst
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Regions downstream of stop codons, when translated out of frame due to splicing snafus, translate as 'poop!' (or 'pxxp' as the authors demurely put it), so the cell can degrade the improper protein! https://t.co/o0wbIYxy0S
#GenomeSoWeird @pre_mRCO
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Regions downstream of stop codons translate as 'I made an oopsie' so the cell can degrade the improperly extended protein! https://t.co/JWMlAiQTnv
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academic.oup.com
Abstract. Faithful translation of genetic information depends on the ability of the translational machinery to decode stop codons as termination signals. A
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(BG: Some asexual females need sperm to reproduce b/c, like, developmental constraint?) Usually females just 'use' males from other species. These females make their own males (sexually) and reject males from other species! https://t.co/LXFJvKOEho
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com
Background Pseudogamy is a reproductive system in which females rely on the sperm of males to activate their oocytes, generally parasitizing males of other species, but do not use the sperm DNA. The...
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(BG: Wolbachia kills sons to help daughters, b/c sons don't pass down Wolbachia.) The monarch butterfly allele for susceptibility to Wolbachia is linked to the W chromosome, so Wolbachia is always inherited by susceptible hosts! https://t.co/SWy7UhQ9pa
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@mel_rosina
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Sex-determining gene jumping around the genome to hang out with rate-of-maturity genes! https://t.co/MG0YBmDxcO
#GenomeSoWeird @charrgirl
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Mitochondrial tRNA genes in nuclear genome regulate splicing! https://t.co/Qhp4gWlohl
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