Synthesizing a novel genetic sequential logic circuit: a push‐on push‐off switch
Molecular Systems Biology, 2010 Design and synthesis of basic functional circuits are the fundamental tasks of synthetic biologists. Before it is possible to engineer higher‐order genetic networks that can perform complex functions, a toolkit of basic devices must be developed.
Chunbo Lou +16 more
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Modeling viral coevolution: HIV multi-clonal persistence and competition dynamics [PDF]
, 2005 The coexistence of different viral strains (quasispecies) within the same host are nowadays observed for a growing number of viruses, most notably HIV, Marburg and Ebola, but the conditions for the formation and survival of new strains have not yet been ...
Altfeld +43 more
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Casanovas are liars : behavioral syndromes, sperm competition risk, and the evolution of deceptive male mating behavior in live-bearing fishes [version 2; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] [PDF]
, 2013 Male reproductive biology can by characterized through competition over mates as well as mate choice. Multiple mating and male mate choice copying, especially in internally fertilizing species, set the stage for increased sperm competition, i.e., sperm ...
Bierbach, David +5 more
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The Field of Cell Competition Comes of Age: Semantics and Technological Synergy
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 Stem cells experience many selective pressures which shape their cellular populations, potentially pushing them to skew towards dominance of a few break-through clones. An evolutionarily conserved answer to curb these aberrant selective pressures is cell
Kieran Maheden +2 more
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Principles of parametric estimation in modeling language competition [PDF]
, 2013 It is generally difficult to define reasonable parameters and interpret their values in mathematical models of social phenomena. Rather than directly fitting abstract parameters against empirical data, we should define some concrete parameters to denote ...
Gong, T, Zhang, M
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Zoologia (Curitiba), 2018 The biology and ecology of southwestern Atlantic loliginid squids have been intensively researched in the last few decades, mostly off the Brazilian southern coast.
Rodrigo Silvestre Martins +1 more
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The coevolution of toxin and antitoxin genes drives the dynamics of bacterial addiction complexes and intragenomic conflict [PDF]
, 2012 Bacterial genomes commonly contain ‘addiction’ gene complexes that code for both a toxin and a corresponding antitoxin. As long as both genes are expressed, cells carrying the complex can remain healthy.
Brown, Sam P. +3 more
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A systematic review of context bias in invasion biology.
PLoS ONE, 2017 The language that scientists use to frame biological invasions may reveal inherent bias-including how data are interpreted. A frequent critique of invasion biology is the use of value-laden language that may indicate context bias.
Robert J Warren +4 more
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Competition-based screening helps to secure the evolutionary stability of a defensive microbiome
BMC Biology, 2021 Background The cuticular microbiomes of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants pose a conundrum in microbiome biology because they are freely colonisable, and yet the prevalence of the vertically transmitted bacteria Pseudonocardia, which contributes to the ...
Sarah F. Worsley +9 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Kin selection on one hand, and gamete interactions in post-ejaculatory sexual selection on the other are two major research themes that have risen to prominence over the past half century and have simultaneously developed into central fields of research ...
Lauri Myllymaa, Jussi Lehtonen
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