Volvox genome paper: This week in Science; Science News of the week; Science Daily

Stories (New Scientist; The Economist; Newsback; World-Science; Science and Theology News) on our paper on the origin of an altruistic gene. Nedelcu AM and RE Michod. 2006. The evolutionary origin of an altruistic gene. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23: 1460-1464

Story on our Mesostigma paper: Nedelcu AM, Borza T, and RW Lee. 2006. A land plant-specific multigene family in the unicellular Mesostigma argues for its close relationship to Streptophyta. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23: 1011-1015

New Scientist story (New Scientist.com) on Nedelcu AM. 2005. Sex as a response to oxidative stress: Stress genes co-opted for sex. Proceedings of Royal Society London B, Biological Sciences 272, 1935-1940

Media coverage of Nedelcu AM, Marcu O, and RE Michod. 2004. Sex as a response to oxidative stress: A two-fold increase in cellular reactive oxygen species activates sex genes. Proceedings of Royal Society London B, Biological Sciences 271, 1591-1596

Media coverage of our work on the evolution of multicellularity in Volvocales

 
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