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The free energy requirements of biological organisms; implications for evolution
, 2016 Recent advances in nonequilibrium statistical physics have provided unprecedented insight into the thermodynamics of dynamic processes. The author recently used these advances to extend Landauer's semi-formal reasoning concerning the thermodynamics of ...
Wolpert, David H.
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic disease affecting motor neurons. Individuals with SMA experience mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of an antioxidant and neuroprotective substance, ergothioneine (ERGO), on an SMNΔ7 mouse model of SMA.
Francesca Cadile +8 more
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Biological applications of the theory of birth-and-death processes [PDF]
, 2005 In this review, we discuss the applications of the theory of birth-and-death processes to problems in biology, primarily, those of evolutionary genomics. The mathematical principles of the theory of these processes are briefly described.
Karev, Georgy P. +2 more
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Degeneracy: a design principle for achieving robustness and evolvability
, 2009 Robustness, the insensitivity of some of a biological system's functionalities to a set of distinct conditions, is intimately linked to fitness. Recent studies suggest that it may also play a vital role in enabling the evolution of species.
Bender, Axel, Whitacre, James M
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Microbial exopolysaccharide production by polyextremophiles in the adaptation to multiple extremes
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Polyextremophiles are microorganisms that endure multiple extreme conditions by various adaptation strategies that also include the production of exopolysaccharides (EPSs). This review provides an integrated perspective on EPS biosynthesis, function, and regulation in these organisms, emphasizing their critical role in survival and highlighting their ...
Tracey M Gloster, Ebru Toksoy Öner
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Freudarwin: Evolutionary Thinking as a Root of Psychoanalysis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This essay synthesizes the place of biological evolutionism in the early history of psychoanalysis, and shows the implicit significance of German Darwinism in Sigmund Freud’s whole psychoanalytical works.
Geoffrey Marcaggi +4 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Nicotinamide (NIC) and nicotinic acid (NIA) are proposed as stress signaling compounds in plants. Oxidative stress may lead to single strand breaks (SSB) in DNA, which activate poly(ADP‐ribose) polymerase (PARP). NIC and NIA are then formed from NAD. NIC and NIA can promote epigenetic changes leading to the expression of defense genes specific for the ...
Torkel Berglund, Anna B. Ohlsson
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Evolution: Biological and Human [PDF]
Nature, 1962 Evolution and Man's Progress. Edited by Hudson Hoagland and Ralph W. Burhoe. Pp. 181. (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1962.) 4.50 dollars; 36s.
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Combining biological approaches to highlight the evolution of Musa complex [PDF]
, 2008 The diversity of the banana complex can be deciphered only by jointly characterizing the original wild species and their relatives, the primitive diploid forms and the triploid varieties.
Bakry, Frédéric +6 more
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Simple model of self-organized biological evolution as completely integrable dissipative system
, 1998 The Bak-Sneppen model of self-organized biological evolution of an infinite ecosystem of randomly interacting species is represented in terms of an infinite set of variables which can be considered as an analog to the set of integrals of motion of ...
H. Flyvbjerg +9 more
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