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Characterization of the BspA and Pmp protein family of trichomonads
Parasites & Vectors, 2019 Background Trichomonas vaginalis is a human-infecting trichomonad and as such the best studied and the only for which the full genome sequence is available considering its parasitic lifestyle, T.
Maria R. Handrich +4 more
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Fecundity determines the outcome of founding queen associations in ants
Scientific Reports, 2021 Animal cooperation evolved because of its benefits to the cooperators. Pleometrosis in ants—the cooperation of queens to found a colony—benefits colony growth, but also incurs costs for some of the cooperators because only one queen usually survives the ...
Eva-Maria Teggers +2 more
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A rate-distortion scenario for the emergence and evolution of noisy molecular codes [PDF]
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 048101 (2008), 2010 We discuss, in terms of rate-distortion theory, the fitness of molecular codes as the problem of designing an optimal information channel. The fitness is governed by an interplay between the cost and quality of the channel, which induces smoothness in the code.
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Adaptive evolution of molecular phenotypes
, 2014 Molecular phenotypes link genomic information with organismic functions, fitness, and evolution. Quantitative traits are complex phenotypes that depend on multiple genomic loci. In this paper, we study the adaptive evolution of a quantitative trait under
Armita Nourmohammad +13 more
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Molecular evolution of olfactomedin [PDF]
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 1998 Olfactomedin is a secreted polymeric glycoprotein of unknown function, originally discovered at the mucociliary surface of the amphibian olfactory neuroepithelium and subsequently found throughout the mammalian brain. As a first step toward elucidating the function of olfactomedin, its phylogenetic history was examined to identify conserved structural ...
Robert R. H. Anholt +1 more
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The Jackprot Simulation Couples Mutation Rate with Natural Selection to Illustrate How Protein Evolution Is Not Random [PDF]
, 2011 Protein evolution is not a random process. Views which attribute randomness to molecular change, deleterious nature to single-gene mutations, insufficient geological time, or population size for molecular improvements to occur, or invoke “design ...
Bai, Chunyan Y. +2 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017 Background Zika, dengue, and chikungunya are three mosquito-borne viruses having overlapping transmission vectors. They cause diseases having similar symptoms in human patients, but requiring different immediate management steps.
Ozlem Yaren +8 more
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Communications Biology, 2021 Kiefer et al. sequence the metagenome of the sawtoothed grain beetle and demonstrate how its symbiont mechanistically helps the host by providing tyrosine. Providing this amino acid in the pupal stage and early adulthood supports cuticle biosynthesis and
Julian Simon Thilo Kiefer +8 more
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BMC Genomics, 2022 Background With the expansion of animal production, parasitic helminths are gaining increasing economic importance. However, application of several established deworming agents can harm treated hosts and environment due to their low specificity ...
Hanno Schmidt +9 more
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Molecular Evolution in Time Dependent Environments
, 1999 The quasispecies theory is studied for dynamic replication landscapes. A meaningful asymptotic quasispecies is defined for periodic time dependencies. The quasispecies' composition is constantly changing over the oscillation period.
A. Sasaki +15 more
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