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From Evolutionary Aspects of Zoophytophagy to Biological Control

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018
Zoophytophagy (true omnivory) is a ubiquitous behavior. It allows plant-feeding predators to maximize their development by finding essential nutrients, and to survive when animal resources are scarce. In agroecosystems, some zoophytophagous predators are
François Dumont, François Dumont, Olivier Aubry, Eric Lucas   +3 more
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Artificial selection on brain size leads to matching changes in overall number of neurons

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2019
Neurons are the basic computational units of the brain, but brain size is the predominant surrogate measure of brain functional capacity in comparative and cognitive neuroscience.
Lucie Marhounová, Alexander Kotrschal, Kristina Kverková, N. Kolm, P. Němec   +4 more
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An Overview of Artificial Immune Systems [PDF]

, 2004
The immune system is highly distributed, highly adaptive, self-organising in nature, maintains a memory of past encounters and has the ability to continually learn about new encounters.
E. Hart, Timmis, Jon, de Castro, Leandro N., L. N. de Castro, Knight, Thomas, Hart, Emma, J. Timmis, T. Knight   +7 more
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Artificial selection on GmOLEO1 contributes to the increase in seed oil during soybean domestication

PLoS Genetics, 2019
Increasing seed oil content is one of the most important breeding goals for soybean due to a high global demand for edible vegetable oil. However, genetic improvement of seed oil content has been difficult in soybean because of the complexity of oil ...
Dan Zhang, Hengyou Zhang, Zhenbin Hu, Shanshan Chu, Kaiye Yu, Lingling Lv, Yuming Yang, Xiangqian Zhang, Xi Chen, Guizhen Kan, Yang Tang, Y. An, Deyue Yu   +12 more
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Genome changes due to artificial selection in U.S. Holstein cattle

BMC Genomics, 2019
The availability of a unique unselected Holstein line since 1964 provided a direct comparison between selected and unselected Holstein genomes whereas large Holstein samples provided unprecedented statistical power for identifying high-confidence SNP ...
Li Ma, T. Sonstegard, J. Cole, C. P. Vantassell, G. Wiggans, B. Crooker, Cheng Tan, Dzianis Prakapenka, G. Liu, Y. Da   +9 more
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Effect of the Reproduction Method in an Artificial Selection Experiment at the Community Level

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Selection at the group level is proposed to be an evolutionary process occurring in the context of multilevel selection in natura. In artificial selection experiments, selecting at the community level can allow to find multispecies assemblages that are ...
Tiffany Raynaud, M. Devers, A. Spor, M. Blouin   +3 more
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Simultaneous feature selection and parameter optimisation using an artificial ant colony : case study of melting point prediction

, 2008
We present a novel feature selection algorithm, Winnowing Artificial Ant Colony (WAAC), that performs simultaneous feature selection and model parameter optimisation for the development of predictive quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR ...
Nigsch Florian, David S Palmer, O'Boyle, NM, Florian Nigsch, Palmer, David S, Noel M O'Boyle, Nigsch, F, Mitchell, J. B., John BO Mitchell, O'Boyle, Noel M, Mitchell, John BO, Palmer, D. S., O'Boyle, N. M., Mitchell John BO, Nigsch, Florian, Palmer David S, Mitchell, John Blayney Owen, Nigsch, F., Palmer, DS, O'Boyle Noel M   +19 more
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Parallels between natural selection in the cold-adapted crop-wild relative Tripsacum dactyloides and artificial selection in temperate adapted maize.

The Plant Journal, 2019
Artificial selection has produced varieties of domesticated maize that thrive in temperate climates around the world. However, the direct progenitor of maize, teosinte, is indigenous only to a relatively small range of tropical and subtropical latitudes ...
Lang Yan, S. K. Kenchanmane Raju, X. Lai, Yang Zhang, Xiuru Dai, Oscar Rodriguez, S. Mahboub, Rebecca L. Roston, James c. Schnable   +8 more
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Artificial selection causes significant linkage disequilibrium among multiple unlinked genes in Australian wheat

Evolutionary Applications, 2019
Australia has one of the oldest modern wheat breeding programs worldwide although the crop was first introduced to the country in 1788. Breeders selected wheat with high adaptation to different Australian climates, while ensuring satisfactory yield and ...
R. Joukhadar, H. Daetwyler, A. Gendall, M. Hayden   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

From mice to humans—divergent strategies for intestinal homeostasis and regeneration

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Recent advances such as organoid genome editing, xenotransplantation, imaging, and whole‐genome sequencing have enabled direct studies of human intestinal stem cells (ISCs). These studies reveal species‐specific features, including slower ISC proliferation, distinct injury responses, slower somatic mutation accumulation in humans, and an inverse ...
Keiko Ishikawa, Shinya Sugimoto, Toshiro Sato   +2 more
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