Comments on: Why is there sex? To fight the parasite army

By: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About…Sex! «

20 Things You Didn’t Know About…Sex! « — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:14:28 +0000

[...] leading hypothesis suggests that sex won out over DIY as a defense against parasites, which would be less harmful in a varied gene [...]

By: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Sex | DragonTortises.com

20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Sex | DragonTortises.com — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:58:53 +0000

[...] leading hypothesis suggests that sex won out over DIY as a defense against parasites, which would be less harmful in a varied gene [...]

By: erpiu

erpiu — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:22:35 +0000

yeah. these ingenious experimentalists crippled first the worms with a hefty dose of mutagens so that the selfers became immediately homozygous for all kind of nasty mutations (while the sexuals purged the mutations through segregation). then the bacteria had a great time trashing the crippled selfers that for sure started with compromised innate immunity, but had a much harder time with the outcrossers since these started with strong wildtype innate immunity. chapeau to the authors though, since i too would do anything to get published (and avoid perishing)! and congrats to the hyper-expert reviewers !

By: Mom w questions

Mom w questions — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:18:57 +0000

Survival of the species is important. The next question is- is it love or just hormones at work for our DNA?

By: Vivek

Vivek — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:54:53 +0000

A very interesting question this work raises is that why arent there 3 genders. That would ensure a lot of variation in genes. What is so universal about 2 genders ?

By: Are men necessary? | Get Selected!

Are men necessary? | Get Selected! — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:11:08 +0000

[...] inimitable Carl Zimmer posted about this study http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/07/07/why-is-there-sex-to-fight-the-parasite-army/ earlier this month, and I certainly won’t try to imitate him; I strongly recommend reading [...]

By: Discover Magazine: “Why is there sex? To fight the parasite army” | TYHWAW

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:57:39 +0000

[...] carried out a number of studies to get an answer to the question, “Why sex?”” — http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/07/07/why-is-there-sex-to-fight-the-parasite-army/ This entry was posted in Sexuality. Bookmark the permalink. ← Technology Review: [...]

By: Parasites | Watching Watching Hu

Parasites | Watching Watching Hu — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:29:52 +0000

[...] PM by Carl Zimmer in Evolution, The Parasite Files, The Tangled Bank, Top posts | 22 comments | RSS feed | Trackback > This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. [...]

By: tarflux

tarflux — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:16:19 +0000

Marshelinda and Rachel – You have to put your comments on Dr. H’s blog, not here.

By: deekmon

deekmon — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 01:13:23 +0000

Read What’s Love Got to Do With It” by forensic anthropologist Meredith F. Small
“Modern men and women are obsessed with the sexual; it is the only realm of the primordial adventure still left to most of us.”