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Fitness costs predict emotional, moral and attitudinal inbreeding aversion [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 In terms of sexual intercourse, the very last people we think about are our kin. Imagining inbreeding intercourse, whether it involves our closest kin or not, induces aversion in most people who invoke inbreeding depression problems or cultural ...
Florence Lespiau, Gwenael Kaminski
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PLoS Genetics, 2022 Like many viruses, Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) has a high mutation rate, which helps the virus adapt quickly, but mutations come with fitness costs. Fitness costs can be studied by different approaches, such as experimental or frequency-based approaches. The
Kaho H Tisthammer +7 more
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Mobile Compensatory Mutations Promote Plasmid Survival
mSystems, 2019 The global dissemination of plasmids encoding antibiotic resistance represents an urgent issue for human health and society. While the fitness costs for host cells associated with plasmid acquisition are expected to limit plasmid dissemination in the ...
Martin Zwanzig +5 more
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Insects, 2021 The western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, is among the most serious pests of maize in the United States. Since 2003, transgenic maize that produces insecticidal toxins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) has been used ...
Aaron J. Gassmann
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Inheritance and Fitness Costs of Vip3Aa19 Resistance in Mythimna separata
Toxins, 2022 The “high-dose/refuge” strategy is expected to work most effectively when resistance is inherited as a functionally recessive trait and the fitness costs associated with resistance are present.
Yueqin Wang +5 more
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Evolutionary trade-offs of insecticide resistance – the fitness costs associated with target-site mutations in the nAChR of Drosophila melanogaster [PDF]
, 2020 The evolution of resistance to drugs and pesticides poses a major threat to human health and food security. Neonicotinoids are highly effective insecticides used to control agricultural pests.
Rafael A. Homem +13 more
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Cultural evolution from the producers’ standpoint
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2023 Standard approaches to cultural evolution focus on the recipients or consumers. This does not take into account the fitness costs incurred in producing the behaviours or artefacts that become cultural, i.e. widespread in a social group.
Jean-Baptiste André +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Sequestration, that is, the accumulation of plant toxins into body tissues for defense, was predicted to incur physiological costs and may require resistance traits different from those of non‐sequestering insects.
Prayan Pokharel +2 more
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Fitness cultures and environmental (in)justice? [PDF]
, 2008 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2009 The Author.This article focuses on the environmentalist agenda in fitness cultures.
Mansfield, L +2 more
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Physical fitness in preschool children : correlates and intervention effects [PDF]
, 2011 Summary: Children’s physical fitness has decreased over the last decades. At the same time, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children has increased dramatically. For public health, these trends are alarming because overweight and a decrease in
Bänteli-Niederer, Iris
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