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Agathe Thies
\"This is a killer who is preying on the unhoused,\" Bass said. \"We are calling Angelinos to come together. The city and the region is mobilizing to find this individual. ... We will find you, we will catch you and you will be held accountable.\"
We monitor the Plan's progress and ensure it meets the MMPA goal of reducing mortality and serious injury of false killer whales incidental to the fisheries addressed by the Plan. If mortality and serious injury is not reduced to appropriate levels, we will reconvene the Team to develop additional measures.
When trained chefs George & Katie Brown set out to spice up a plain bag of Texas pecans, a killer snack was born. Sweet and spicy with a bold kick, Killer Pecans combines the crunch of fresh Mammoth pecans with chef-crafted flavor for a Texas-sized taste that is truly chef's kiss.
This paper argues incumbent firms may acquire innovative targets solely to discontinue the target's innovation projects and preempt future competition. We call such acquisitions "killer acquisitions." We develop a model illustrating this phenomenon. Using pharmaceutical industry data, we show that acquired drug projects are less likely to be developed when they overlap with the acquirer's existing product portfolio, especially when the acquirer's market power is large due to weak competition or distant patent expiration. Conservative estimates indicate 5.3 percent to 7.4 percent of acquisitions in our sample are killer acquisitions. These acquisitions disproportionately occur just below thresholds for antitrust scrutiny.
The fetus is considered to be an allograft that, paradoxically, survives pregnancy despite the laws of classical transplantation immunology. There is no direct contact of the mother with the embryo, only with the extraembryonic placenta as it implants in the uterus. No convincing evidence of uterine maternal T-cell recognition of placental trophoblast cells has been found, but instead, there might be maternal allorecognition mediated by uterine natural killer cells that recognize unusual fetal trophoblast MHC ligands.
Analysing population genomic data from killer whale ecotypes, which we estimate have globally radiated within less than 250,000 years, we show that genetic structuring including the segregation of potentially functional alleles is associated with socially inherited ecological niche. Reconstruction of ancestral demographic history revealed bottlenecks during founder events, likely promoting ecological divergence and genetic drift resulting in a wide range of genome-wide differentiation between pairs of allopatric and sympatric ecotypes. Functional enrichment analyses provided evidence for regional genomic divergence associated with habitat, dietary preferences and post-zygotic reproductive isolation. Our findings are consistent with expansion of small founder groups into novel niches by an initial plastic behavioural response, perpetuated by social learning imposing an altered natural selection regime. The study constitutes an important step towards an understanding of the complex interaction between demographic history, culture, ecological adaptation and evolution at the genomic level.
To better understand and visualize the complexity of the ancestry of killer whale ecotypes, we reconstructed the genetic relationships among ecotypes in the form of a maximum likelihood graph (Fig. 2a), representing the degree of genetic drift and modelling both population splits and gene flow using the unified statistical framework implemented in TreeMix (ref. 24). The inferred migration edges were supported by the three-population (f3) and D-statistic (ABBA-BABA)25 tests, which can provide clear evidence of admixture, even if the gene flow events occurred hundreds of generations ago26. These population genomic methods test for asymmetry in the covariance of allele frequencies that indicate that the relationships among populations are not fully described by a simple bifurcating tree model.
(a) PSMC estimates of changes in effective population size (Ne) over time inferred from the autosomes of a North Atlantic killer whale (red) and from the autosomes of a North Pacific resident killer whale (brown). Thick lines represent the median and thin light lines of the same colour correspond to 100 rounds of bootstrapping. (b) PSMC estimates of changes in Ne over time inferred from the autosomes (NeA, red) and the X-chromosome (NeX, grey) of the high-coverage genome sequence of a North Atlantic female killer whale. Thick lines represent the median and thin light lines of the same colour correspond to 100 rounds of bootstrapping. The dashed black line indicates the ratio of NeX/NeA. (c) Changes in effective population size (Ne) over time in the transients (blue), residents (brown) and type C (orange) inferred using the SFS of each ecotype. Thick lines represent the median and thin light lines the 2.5 and 97.5 percentiles of the SFS analysis.
Overall, the population genetic analyses of the whole-genome sequences above shed light on the ancestry of killer whale ecotypes in unprecedented detail, highlighting a complex tapestry of periods of isolation interspersed with episodic admixture events and strong demographic bottlenecks associated with the founder events that gave rise to the resident, transient and ancestral Antarctic ecotypes.
Demographic bottlenecks during population splits and founding events, followed by subsequent demographic and geographic expansion, can produce rapid shifts in allele frequencies between populations34. The high levels of genome-wide differentiation (FST) between killer whale ecotypes across all genomic regions (Fig. 4a,b) are consistent with strong genetic drift following demographic expansion from small founding groups. Considering the low efficiency of selection in populations as small as the estimates presented here35, in which founder populations have an estimated Ne ranging from a few tens to hundreds, a genome-wide contribution of ecologically mediated divergent selection is neither necessary nor particularly likely to explain the observed shifts in allele frequencies in such a large number of loci. Consistent with this prediction, we find that differentiation is highest along the branches inferred by TreeMix to have experienced the most substantial genetic drift (Fig. 2a), that is, the branch to the ancestor of the Antarctic types and the branch to the resident ecotype (Supplementary Fig. 13). We therefore expect that only those beneficial alleles that have a strong favourable effect (that is, strength of selection (s)>1/2Ne) would have an increased fixation probability because of selection within these founder populations.
Using the population branch statistic (PBS), which has strong power to detect recent natural selection40 and has allowed us to investigate allele changes along specific branches, we identified another candidate example where cold adaptation may play a role. The FAM83H gene showed a signature of selection (top 99.9% PBS values) and was found to contain four fixed non-synonymous substitutions derived in the Antarctic lineages based on the inferred ancestral state, which resulted in physicochemical changes including a hydrophobic side chain being replaced by a positively charged side chain. The keratin-associated protein encoded by the FAM83H gene is thought to be important for skin development and regulation through regulation of the filamentous state of keratin within cytoskeletal networks in epithelial cells, determining processes such as cell migration and polarization41. Skin regeneration is thought to be constrained in killer whales while inhabiting the cold waters around Antarctica because of the high cost of heat loss, and is thought to underlie rapid round-trip movements to warmer subtropical waters by Antarctic ecotypes42. The balance between skin regeneration and thermal regulation in Antarctic waters could be a major selective force requiring both behavioural42 and genomic adaptation (Supplementary Fig. 15).
Signatures of selection along branches leading to the two predominantly mammal-eating ecotypes included in this study, the North Pacific transient and Antarctic type B1, were found in genes that play a key role in the methionine cycle (Fig. 5). Methionine is an essential amino acid that has to be obtained through dietary intake, and is converted through trans-sulfurcation to cysteine via intermediate steps of catalysis to homocysteine44. Any excess homocysteine is re-methylated to methionine44. Diets with different protein contents, such as between killer whale ecotypes, will differ in their content of methionine, and the enzymatic cofactors involved in the metabolism of methionine and homocysteine, which include folate, vitamins B6 and B12 (ref. 44; hence why vegetarians often take vitamin B12 supplements). While different genes and different biological processes showed a signature of selection in each of these two mammal-eating ecotypes (Fig. 5), in both cases the candidate genes and processes were associated with the regulation of methionine metabolism, which results in the generation of cysteine. Successful hunting of mammal prey by killer whales would provide a sudden and rich source of dietary methionine. This fluctuating intake of protein may place more of a selective pressure on the regulation of the metabolism of methionine than does the consumption of fish by piscivorous ecotypes.
The ancestral state for each site was inferred by mapping whole-genomic Illumina sequencing reads of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus, Short Read Archive accession code SRX200685)16 against the killer whale reference genome using BWA read mapper as above. The consensus sequence was called using SAMtools, and ambiguous bases were masked with N's. The ancestral state could be inferred for 2,206,055,540 (98.1%) of 2,249,565,739 bases.
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