Our results open the possibility that extensive recoding is common in many organisms, rivaling alternative splicing as a means of creating functional diversity.
Marine biologists now say that deep-sea corals and attendant organisms easily rival tropical reefs in their diversity -- and their fragility.
The heart-stopping result of the Israeli election may prompt the thought that the Israeli public is perfectly divided against itself, a single organism with rival minds, one for "peace: and one for "security --the nation asecurity --thern between romance and dread.
The genesis of the Wasp Hound goes back to 1988, when Mr. Lewis and a colleague, J. H. Tumlinson, published a paper in the scientific journal Nature that demonstrated how the associative learning process used by insects rivals that of higher organisms.
Dispersal is a risky strategy: a dispersing individual may die, settle in an unsuitable habitat or find itself in competition with locally adapted rivals, and for many organisms, the probability that dispersal will pay off is extremely low.
This makes genes non-rival for this group of organisms and consequently genes can be throught of as club goods under a Tree of Life hypothesis.
The importance of angiosperms in the terrestrial portion of the biosphere is rarely rivaled by any other group of organisms.
Indeed, while genes are theoretically public goods, in reality, some genes are excludable, particularly, though not only, when they have variant genetic codes or behave as coalition or club goods, available for all organisms of a coalition to integrate into their genomes, and non-rival within the club.
ncRNAs are encoded within the genomes of both eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms and represent a novel layer of cell regulation and function that rivals the diversity and function of protein-coding mRNAs (for review, see Mattick 2007).
Some see this as contrary to Darwinism, since it would permit characteristics acquired during an organism's lifetime to be passed on to its offspring, as suggested by a rival theory of evolution put forward by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
