{"id":1801,"date":"2009-09-05T08:24:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T14:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2009-09-05T08:24:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T14:24:48","slug":"facebook-and-frameshift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Frameshift"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook
\n<\/strong>I don’t know about you, but I timidly joined facebook last fall to begin\u00a0my journey in\u00a0learning how this social networking resource\u00a0might be of use both personally and professionally.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Happily, I\u00a0have\u00a0discovered that there are educational relevant uses\u00a0for facebook!\u00a0 I will write a extended blog post on how I use it with students in the near future but\u00a0today I\u00a0read something on my facebook home page\u00a0that I thought I should pass along.<\/p>\n

As a member of facebook, one can join groups and follow updates on other people’s pages.\u00a0 Some of these people happen to be practicing scientists or others on the periphery of the science community.\u00a0\u00a0One individual I happen to follow is Carl Zimmer<\/a>.\u00a0 Most of you\u00a0are\u00a0familiar with Carl’s\u00a0collection of quality books<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0If you aren’t a\u00a0member\u00a0of facebook, you can follow his blog via his website<\/a>\u00a0(which links to the\u00a0Discover’s\u00a0blogsite – my how connected things are – if you have your own website you can add it with an RSS feed – maybe KABT should consider this).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, the cool thing about reading Carl’s blog is that you are kept up-to-date on his insights into the\u00a0active world of science, and don’t have to wait a year or two for such insights to be integrated into\u00a0his next book.<\/p>\n

Frameshift<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n<\/strong>In one of his posts from yesterday, Losing Teeth, but Keeping Genes<\/a>, <\/strong>he reviews a recently published article Molecular Decay of the Tooth Gene Enamelin (ENAM) Mirrors the Loss of Enamel in the Fossil Record of Placental Mammals<\/a><\/em> from the online journal PLOS Genetics.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Here is the gist of the story from Carl:<\/p>\n

Their results were pretty much what they expected, but they\u2019re still pretty amazing. There were no frameshift mutations in ENAM among the mammals with teeth. But 17 out of 20 species without teeth or enamel had at least one. In all 20 enamel-free species, a stop command (known as a stop codon) was present. These genes are shot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am\u00a0certain that you all teach about “frameshift” mutations.\u00a0 The two resources above could become additions to your bag of supplemental tricks\u00a0that make such concepts come alive for your students.\u00a0 They can also help in your integration of\u00a0evolutionary biology throughout the curriculum, and to supplement topics like “adaptation, pseudogenes, purifying and neutral selection, molecular clocks, and radiation and convergent evolution”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Enjoy reading, and maybe I’ll see meet you in facebook someday soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Facebook I don’t know about you, but I timidly joined facebook last fall to begin\u00a0my journey in\u00a0learning how this social networking resource\u00a0might be of use both personally and professionally.\u00a0\u00a0 Happily, I\u00a0have\u00a0discovered that there are educational relevant uses\u00a0for facebook!\u00a0 I will write a extended blog post on how I use it with students in the near
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