- Happy to share that my PhD project is finally published!🪱✨ Selfish genes are found across the tree of life. They can disrupt inheritance patterns and at the same time act as units for molecular innovation. Here we tried to answer one big question: how do selfish genes emerge in the first place?
- Recurrent evolution of selfishness from an essential tRNA synthetase in Caenorhabditis tropicalis 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- As Alejandro pointed out, it's not an easy one to answer - please check his thread with our main findings!
- And our research highlight interview at IMBA
- 🚨 New paper alert! Scientists in the Burga lab show for the first time how toxin-antidote elements—selfish genetic elements that perpetuate by poisoning those embryos that don’t inherit them—evolved from normal cellular proteins. More: imba.science/3M3fRyq
- Big thanks and congratulations to @arburga.bsky.social, co-authors, collaborators and colleagues (special 🫶 for my colleagues)! Bonus video showing in vivo toxin degradation (green signal) in synchronised nematode embryos, ~8 hours of development in 10 seconds 🪱🪩
