Vol 145, No 2 (2025)
- Year: 2025
- Published: 15.12.2025
- Articles: 11
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/0042-1324/issue/view/20249
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Articles
Monoclonal antibodies to a variable fragment of the T cell receptor – at the service of science and medicine
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Evaluation of gut microbial diversity of the domestic goat Capra hircus
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Domestic goat as a promising animal model for high-level brain function research
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The quality of activity and its importance in the evolution of vertebrates
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The Current Concepts of Fish Systematics
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Advances in applied genomics of white poplars: results and prospects of genome editing and modification
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Genome editing has many potential applications in green building and forestry by altering genome sequences that control tree growth and development, stress response, and resistance to diseases and pests. Using tools such as CRISPR/Cas9 targeted changes in genomes can improve desired quantitative and qualitative traits. Genome editing has great potential to solve problems in silviculture: by manipulating genes associated with lignin biosynthesis, researchers have successfully reduced the lignin content of poplar wood, increasing the efficiency of fiber production; genome editing applied to increase cellulose production has resulted in increased biomass productivity; various genome editing techniques have been used to control poplar blooms, allowing sterile forms to be bred, preventing the spread of genetically modified traits among non-target populations.



DISCUSSIONS
Preface by the Editor-in-Chief
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В № 3–5 за 2024 г. был опубликован цикл статей члена нашей редакционной коллегии профессора А.П. Козлова, посвященный обзору развиваемой им теории carcino-evo-devo о роли наследуемых опухолей в эволюции организмов. Эта серия публикаций стала первым обобщением достижений и идей автора за десять лет, прошедших с 2014 г., когда в издательстве Academic Press/Elsevier впервые вышла его книга “Evolution by tumor neofunctionalization: the role of tumors in the origin of new cell types, tissues and organs”. Теория А.П. Козлова во многом оригинальна и даже революционна, хотя и базируется на работах выдающихся ученых, среди которых наши соотечественники Л.С. Берг, А.Н. Северцов, американский генетик Сусуму Оно и большое количество других биологов. Экспериментально теория carcino-evo-devo подтверждается фактом экспрессии в опухолях множества протогенов, которые не экспрессируются в нормальных тканях. Именно последующая функционализация этих генов в процессе мутагенеза, отбора и специализации, по мнению А.П. Козлова, приводит к формированию из опухоли полноценного органа. При этом опухоль выступает в роли своеобразного полигона, на котором путем автокомбинаторики обкатываются варианты возможного развития органа. Несмотря на то, что теория имеет и предысторию, и экспериментальное обоснование, она до сих пор в научном сообществе вызывает полярные оценки: от полного отрицания до глубокого приятия. Учитывая это, мы посчитали нужным открыть на страницах журнала дискуссионный круглый стол, за которым будут иметь возможность высказаться все: и сторонники, и противники теории, и конструктивные критики.
Редакция журнала приглашает к обсуждению всех заинтересованных исследователей.



Book review: Andrei P. Kozlov “Evolution by tumor neofunctionalization: the role of tumors in the origin of new cell types, tissues and organs”. Amsterdam, Boston, Heidelberg, London, New York, Oxford, Paris, San Diego, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo: Academic Press/Elsevier, 2014. 248 p. ISBN: 978-0-12-800165-3
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A review of the book by Professor Andrei P. Kozlov is presented. It is noted that the neofunctionalization of tumors is definitely an unconventional idea put forward by a decidedly unconventional thinker. The book combines both well-known evolutionary and ecological concepts, as well as little-known theories, and thoughtful consideration is given to each of them. And although many scientists will undoubtedly disagree with its main conclusions (it remains to be seen whether examples such as the goldfish cap are the exception or the rule), the book in many ways encourages reflection and provides ample ground for experimentation, thereby stimulating the further development of scientific thought. “Evolution by neofunctionalization of tumors” by A.P. Kozlov will be an important reading for anyone studying evolution and genomics, especially for the ideological leaders of Darwinian medicine.



Review of the series of articles “A theory of the evolutionary role of hereditary tumors (carcino-evo-devo): the history and the current state” in four parts, published in the journal “Advances in Current Biology” in 2024
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E.D. Sverdlov, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, provided a review of a series of articles, published in the journal “Advances in Current Biology” in 2024. The reviewer believes, that the presented 4 parts of the article “Theory of the evolutionary role of inherited tumors (carcino-evo-devo): history of development and current state” (Kozlov, 2024) summarize the enormous work of Andrei P. Kozlov, and his colleagues on proving the concept of the role of hereditary tumors in evolution put forward by A.P. Kozlov. This theory, called by the author the theory of carcino-evo-devo, may become a unifying biological theory.



On the theory of increasing complexity by Professor A.P. Kozlov, published in a series of papers in 2024
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A series of works by Professor A.P. Kozlov, published in the journals “Advances in Current Biology” and “Paleontological Journal” in 2024, is devoted to fundamental issues of the evolutionary development of living organisms, the analysis of which is based on the role of inherited tumors as a natural mechanism for the formation of evolutionarily new tissues and organs. The study of this mechanism is the basis for the theory of carcino-evo-devo, which, according to the author, explains the process of increasing the biological complexity of living organisms. In this review the conclusions from the new chapters of A.P. Kozlov’s theory concerning the increasing complexity of living organisms from the standpoint of computer science and information technology are analyzed.



Echo of Carcino-evo-devo. On the beneficial role of inherited tumors in the evolution of organisms
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