Belgrade : Institute of molecular genetics and genetic engineering
Abstract
The textbooks are written based on Escherichia coli, Arabidopsis thaliana, Saccharomyces
cerevisiae, Drosophila melanogaster, and mouse biology, with some contribution
of less popular model species. However, interesting biology and evolution also happens
elsewhere, and I’ll tell three such stories that have an evolutionary aspect in common:
positive selection on mRNA editing in octopuses and their relatives, tetraplet codons
in some ciliate infusoria and their seemingly neutral evolution, and (time permitting)
recapitulation of the embryonic transcriptional program in insect pupae.Book of abstract: 4th Belgrade Bioinformatics Conference, June 19-23, 202
