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Towards physical principles of biological evolution [PDF]
bioRxiv, 2017 Biological systems reach organizational complexity that far exceeds the complexity of any known inanimate objects. Biological entities undoubtedly obey the laws of quantum physics and statistical mechanics.
M. Katsnelson, Y. Wolf, E. Koonin
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Evolution of biological complexity [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000 To make a case for or against a trend in the evolution of complexity in biological evolution, complexity needs to be both rigorously defined and measurable. A recent information-theoretic (but intuitively evident) definition identifies genomic complexity with the amount of information a sequence stores about its environment.
Adami, Christoph +2 more
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Quadruple context-free L-System mathematical tools as origin of biological evolution [PDF]
, 2010 It is well known that A, T, G, C annealed together early in evolution and the long stretch of DNA was found which ultimately resulted into chromosomes of different organisms.
Arunava Goswami +3 more
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Spatial organization of the kelp microbiome at micron scales
Microbiome, 2022 Background Elucidating the spatial structure of host-associated microbial communities is essential for understanding taxon-taxon interactions within the microbiota and between microbiota and host. Macroalgae are colonized by complex microbial communities,
S. Tabita Ramírez-Puebla +5 more
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Testing a non-destructive assay to track Plasmodium sporozoites in mosquitoes over time
Parasites & Vectors, 2023 Background The extrinsic incubation period (EIP), defined as the time it takes for malaria parasites in a mosquito to become infectious to a vertebrate host, is one of the most influential parameters for malaria transmission but remains poorly understood.
Catherine E. Oke +2 more
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Corncob structures in dental plaque reveal microhabitat taxon specificity
Microbiome, 2022 Background The human mouth is a natural laboratory for studying how bacterial communities differ across habitats. Different bacteria colonize different surfaces in the mouth—teeth, tongue dorsum, and keratinized and non-keratinized epithelia—despite the ...
Viviana Morillo-Lopez +4 more
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Evolution of biological information [PDF]
Nucleic Acids Research, 2000 How do genetic systems gain information by evolutionary processes? Answering this question precisely requires a robust, quantitative measure of information. Fortunately, 50 years ago Claude Shannon defined information as a decrease in the uncertainty of a receiver.
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Horizontal transfer of BovB and L1 retrotransposons in eukaryotes
Genome Biology, 2018 Background Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA sequences, colloquially known as jumping genes because of their ability to replicate to new genomic locations. TEs can jump between organisms or species when given a vector of transfer, such as a tick
Atma M. Ivancevic +3 more
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Evolutionary Applications, 2021 Urban environments are among the fastest changing habitats on the planet, and this change has evolutionary implications for the organisms inhabiting them.
Allison J. Shultz +5 more
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The Compatibility of Evolution and Thomistic Metaphysics: A Reply to Dennis F. Polis [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2021 In this article the author discusses Dennis F. Polis’ defense of the compatibility of biological evolution and Thomistic metaphysics. Some of Polis’ methodological and metaphysical arguments are examined and it is explained why they are unfaithful to the
Robert A. Delfino
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