Ecology

Re-inventing mutation-driven evolution

Peter Berean is an administrator of “The Battlefield” Facebook group. He repeatedly claims that I have not proved that energy is information. For comparison, there is something he calls “bio-functional information.” He has not defined that term or placed it into the context of energy-dependent creation or into the context of evolutionary theory.   We Re-inventing mutation-driven evolution

Sudden death indel polymorphism

An insertion/deletion polymorphism within 3’UTR of RYR2 modulates sudden unexplained death risk in Chinese populations. …different alleles of rs10692285 could alter the local structure of RYR2 mRNA and microRNA (miRNA) binding. See for comparison: Modeling Recent Human Evolution in Mice by Expression of a Selected EDAR Variant The differences between the 370A knockin mouse phenotypes Sudden death indel polymorphism

Bio-functional information

Peter Berean‘s attack on my model of energy as information led him to invent or re-introduce the term “Bio-Functional Information.” The comment from Greg Thurston (below) can be placed into the context of Schrodinger’s claims from “What is Life?” For instance, Schrodinger challenged de Vries definition of the term mutation with this entry: “Indeed, in Bio-functional information

Bird-brained theorists

Study: There Are Twice as Many Bird Species as Previously Estimated The issue of biodiversity in all vertebrates was linked from ecological variation to nutrient energy-dependent ecological adaptation by natural selection for codon optimality and differences in morphology paired with differences in behavior in the context of the physiology of reproduction and biophysically constrained cell Bird-brained theorists

Energy-dependent self-organization and self repair

Energy-dependent autophagy links food odors and pheromones from the innate immune system and RNA-mediated feedback loops to the physiology of reproduction in all living genera via chromosomal inheritance. Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance is nutrient-energy-dependent and pheromone-controlled. That fact has been established in the extant literature since 1933, when Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize in Energy-dependent self-organization and self repair

Expunging the distinguished public

Royal Society Expunges Public From Evo Record Many of the attendee-participants were, in fact, more distinguished than many of the actual speakers. So the audience came to be heard as well as to listen. But the official recording (now posted) has been wiped clean of public comment — the most robust part of the meeting Expunging the distinguished public

Explorers who do not know what is known

Can genetic testing determine antimicrobial susceptibility? EUCAST experts say not yet… (link opens pdf) Reported as:  Whole genome sequencing cannot yet be used to determine antimicrobial susceptibility For most bacterial species there is currently insufficient evidence to support the use of WGS-inferred AST to guide clinical decision making. WGS-AST should be a funding priority if Explorers who do not know what is known