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Evolutionary robotics as a modelling tool in evolutionary biology [PDF]

Frontiers in Robotics and AI
The use of evolutionary robotic systems to model aspects of evolutionary biology is well-established. Yet, few studies have asked the question, “What kind of model is an evolutionary robotic system?” This paper seeks to address that question in several ...
Alan F. T. Winfield
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Evolutionary biology for the 21st century [PDF]

PLoS Biology, 2013
New theoretical and conceptual frameworks are required for evolutionary biology to capitalize on the wealth of data now becoming available from the study of genomes, phenotypes, and organisms - including humans - in their natural environments.Molecular ...
Arnold, Stevan J., Bejerano, Gill, Brodie, E. D., Hibbett, David, Hoekstra, Hopi E., Losos, Jonathan B., Mindell, David P., Monteiro, Antónia, Moritz, Craig, Orr, H. Allen, Petrov, Dmitri A., Renner, Susanne S., Ricklefs, Robert E., Soltis, Pamela S., Turner, Thomas L.   +14 more
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The evolutionary biology of endometriosis [PDF]

Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 2021
Abstract We provide the first analysis and synthesis of the evolutionary and mechanistic bases for risk of endometriosis in humans, structured around Niko Tinbergen's four questions about phenotypes: phylogenetic history, development, mechanism and adaptive significance.
Natalie Dinsdale, Pablo Nepomnaschy, Bernard Crespi   +2 more
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Ultrastructure of the lamprey head mesoderm reveals evolution of the vertebrate head

iScience, 2023
Summary: The cranial muscle is a critical component in the vertebrate head for a predatory lifestyle. However, its evolutionary origin and possible segmental nature during embryogenesis have been controversial.
Takayuki Onai, Noritaka Adachi, Hidetoshi Urakubo, Fumiaki Sugahara, Toshihiro Aramaki, Mami Matsumoto, Nobuhiko Ohno   +6 more
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Phototransduction in a marine sponge provides insights into the origin of animal vision

iScience, 2022
Summary: Most organisms respond to light. Here, we investigate the origin of metazoan phototransduction by comparing well-characterized opsin-based photosystems in neural animals with those in the sponge Amphimedon queenslandica.
Eunice Wong, Victor Anggono, Stephen R. Williams, Sandie M. Degnan, Bernard M. Degnan   +4 more
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Sex-specific growth arrest in a lizard

iScience, 2022
Summary: (1) In contrast to mammals and birds, reptiles have been considered as indeterminate growers, whose growth reflects differential allocation of resources to growth versus other energetically demanding processes such as reproduction.
Lukáš Kubička, Adam Tureček, Tomáš Kučera, Lukáš Kratochvíl   +3 more
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Elements of divergence in germline determination in closely related species

iScience, 2023
Summary: Evolutionary transitions are particularly important in development of the germ line, cells which directly impact sexual reproduction. Differences in the primordial germ cells (PGCs) of two sea urchin species were examined here by stage-matched ...
Shumpei Morita, Nathalie Oulhen, Stephany Foster, Gary M. Wessel   +3 more
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Nuclear receptors EcR-A/RXR and HR3 control early embryogenesis in the short-germ hemimetabolous insect Blattella germanica

iScience, 2023
Summary: The role of steroid hormone signaling during insect post-embryonic development has been extensively characterized. However, its function during embryonic development is less understood, particularly in short-germ band hemimetabolous insects.
Josefa Cruz, Oscar Maestro, Xavier Franch-Marro, David Martín   +3 more
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Evolutionary Biology [PDF]

, 2016
Sánchez-Busó, Leonor, Comas, Iñaki, Beamud, Beatriz, García-González, Neris, Pla, Marta, González-Candelas, Fernando   +5 more
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FishPIE: A universal phylogenetically informative exon markers set for ray-finned fishes

iScience, 2022
Summary: Understanding the evolutionary history of the highly diverse ray-finned fishes has been challenging, and the development of more universal primers for phylogenetic analyses may help overcoming these challenges. We developed FishPIE, a nested PCR
Xidong Mu, Yexin Yang, Jinhui Sun, Yi liu, Meng Xu, Changwei Shao, Ka Hou Chu, Wei Li, Chao Liu, Dangen Gu, Miao Fang, Chi Zhang, Fei Liu, Hongmei Song, Xuejie Wang, Jiehu Chen, Ka Yan Ma   +16 more
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