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November 19, 2020

Asif Ghazanfar, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at Princeton University, led a research group that showed that influencing the development of the vocal abilities of baby monkeys also leads to changes in the markers of domestication: a patch of white fur on their foreheads. Credit: Rebecca Terrett and Lauren Kelly, Ghazanfar Lab, Princeton

Monkeys may have domesticated themselves - similar to humans

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It is no coincidence that dogs are cuter than wolves, or that goats in the wild have shorter horns and friendlier manners than their wild ancestors. Researchers call these phenomena "domestication syndrome"
The viruses (hexagons) attack the algae. Credit - Technion spokesmen

Unique light receptors shared by marine giant viruses and the algae they infect

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According to Prof. Oded Beja, "From the genomic mapping we conducted, we concluded that the evolutionary origin of the genes is in the algae, not in the virus, and we estimate that at some point in evolution, the virus 'stealth' accelerated the genes into rhodopsins in a way that allows it to carry out some kind of manipulation related to sensing light"
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