Glenn Soltes

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Pleiotropy: Do We Really Understand the Implications?

Pleiotropy occurs when one gene influences two or more seemingly unrelated phenotypic traits. (from Wikipedia) (from Greek πλείων pleion, "more", and τρόπος tropos, "way") Pleiotropy is a...

22 March 2018 9,695 3 View

The Starlight Paradox: How Does Plancks Constant Manifest in Astronomy?

When you look out at the night sky and see stars, generally the photons from those stars are traversing great distances and times to hit the tiny 1cm opening in your eye. The difference between a...

19 March 2018 9,769 6 View

Bacterial Mutation Rates = How will Whole Genome Sequencing Affect Our Thinking?

Bacteria change over time both quickly and slowly and both randomly and non-randomly. Teasing this apart is problematic. Can the measurement of the mutation rate of a single gene be meaningful...

11 February 2016 9,111 2 View

Genomics, Bacterial Classification, and Pathobiology: Do we need to completely re-evaluate our thinking in the light of new genomic data?

Attached is a pretty picture of what our current understanding of species looks like at the genome level (ie the big complete picture) Generally the darker the colour the better the match between...

14 January 2016 8,127 8 View

Does anyone have experience with immune response to vaccination of fish being skewed towards proteins >60kDa?

I am immunizing rainbow trout with bacterins (crude bacterial protein preps) from a potential pathogen. Running the bacterins on a SDS-PAGE gel shows a fairly uniform distribution of proteins...

07 May 2014 6,826 0 View