Pleiotropy: Get some ignorant science advisers now!

Get some ignorant science advisers now!

By Bjørn Østman on 10/27/2011 12:18:00 PM

It's *almost* hard to tell whether this republican science adviser is for real or not. The giveaway is of course that republicans don't have those...?

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Pleiotropy comes from the Greek πλείων pleion, meaning "more", and τρέπειν trepein, meaning "to turn, to convert". It designates the occurrence of a single gene affecting multiple traits, and is a hugely important concept in evolutionary biology.

~~All~~ Many aspects of everything interest me, but my research focus used to be on microbial evolution, adaptive radiation, speciation, fitness landscapes, epistasis, and the influence of genetic architecture on adaptation and speciation.

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