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I love living things, esp. when they interact with each other in large groups. Trying to get good at python and R.


Mar
22
answered Do dolphins really sleep?
Feb
16
answered Is there a comprehensive life science techniques/methods database?
Feb
14
awarded  Critic
Feb
12
comment How selfish is Dictyostelium slug formation?
The answer to your original question, "So my question is: what is the current thought about how cells compete in the mexican hat and stalk formation to be at the top of the pile? Its pretty altruistic of the cells in the stalk to do this - some web pages say they die, is that right?" is that the assignment to the spore part is by lottery. It is very altruistic (in the sense that individuals die in the stalk). As you point out, it seems pretty common for individuals to be very closely related (although chimerism seems possible).
Feb
10
answered How selfish is Dictyostelium slug formation?
Feb
6
answered Manipulating Gut flora in vivo
Feb
6
revised Do cold blooded animals generate any heat?
grammar
Feb
5
awarded  Teacher
Feb
5
answered Do cold blooded animals generate any heat?
Feb
5
comment paralogue genes in genome-wide association studies?
Is a Fisher's exact test (a chi-squared test with more relaxed assumptions) something you've considered?
Feb
5
awarded  Editor
Feb
5
revised Effect of single-gene overexpression in the cell's response
Added a specific example of an overexpression vector used to overexpress a transcription factor.
Feb
5
comment How are whole Haplotypes for Sequencing isolated?
Are you limited to a particular species of fish? Or can you use one of the asexually-reproducing species?
Feb
5
awarded  Supporter
Feb
5
answered Are all chromosomes equally susceptible to mutation?
Feb
5
answered Interlocus Contest Evolution means suicide?
Feb
5
answered Effect of single-gene overexpression in the cell's response
Feb
5
comment Terminology question: the scope of an allele in an organism
I've also never heard of it. Perhaps it's best to refer to it in the context of the chronology of development (e.g., "the foo mutation happened early in development and is thus prevalent in most cell lineages in the organism")?
Feb
5
comment What is the frequency of double-hets between parent and child?
I'm a little confused: are the genotypes in the rows representing different loci or just different potential, non AA/AA scenarios of one locus?
Jan
17
awarded  Scholar