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Found a fascinating review about geese hybridization (PMID: 27182276) last week. Reading this figure about how nest parasitism could lead to hybridization and my immediate reaction was Tarzan could mate with Terk...
January 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Really enjoyed the book by @philipcball.bsky.social ! I wholeheartedly agree that the reductionist approach we like to take (cough single-cell cough ... ) is reaching a limit with diminished return and we got to start to think of biology as a whole system. 1/2
December 20, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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The human Alu sequences really don't like foreigners...
December 20, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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What about the methylation of LINE1 insertions? The overall profile over LINE1 consensus is shown here. 5' end highly methylated, some lowly methylated CpG in the middle. But we are intrigued by several isolated lowly methylated CpGs (like position 5875 on the consensus).
December 2, 2024 at 4:32 PM
I am very excited to share my latest work characterizing cytosine methylation of polymorphic insertions in the human population! #genomics A thread: 1/
November 25, 2024 at 10:17 PM