Phagocytosis

topics as diverse as development, pheromonal communication and meiosis. The overall theme of these studies remains the evolution of cooperation and conflict. The same logic can be used while studying the fate of paternallyand maternallyinherited genes during meiosis in Caenorhabditis elegans or the partitioning of reproduction in a wasp society. After all, this all has to do with tricks (be it at the cellular or organismic level) that evolved as a means to increase the transmission rate of genes over evolutionary time. An evolutionary perspective provides you with tools to understand many oddities that are found at the molecular, cellular and organismal levels.