Morphological and population genomic evidence that human faces have evolved to signal individual identity. [PDF]
, 2014 Facial recognition plays a key role in human interactions, and there has been great interest in understanding the evolution of human abilities for individual recognition and tracking social relationships.
Nachman, Michael W, Sheehan, Michael J
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Gene losses may contribute to subterranean adaptations in naked mole-rat and blind mole-rat
BMC Biology, 2022 Background Naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber, NMRs) and blind mole-rats (Spalax galili, BMRs) are representative subterranean rodents that have evolved many extraordinary traits, including hypoxia tolerance, longevity, and cancer resistance ...
Zhizhong Zheng +4 more
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Parallel developmental genetic features underlie stickleback gill raker evolution. [PDF]
, 2014 BackgroundConvergent evolution, the repeated evolution of similar phenotypes in independent lineages, provides natural replicates to study mechanisms of evolution.
Cleves, Phillip A +4 more
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Proteome-wide prediction of targets for aspirin: new insight into the molecular mechanism of aspirin [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Besides its anti-inflammatory, analgesic and anti-pyretic properties, aspirin is used for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and various types of cancer.
Shao-Xing Dai +3 more
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Experimental harvesting of fish populations drives genetically based shifts in body size and maturation [PDF]
, 2013 Size-selective harvesting in commercial fisheries can induce rapid changes in biological traits. While experimental and wild harvested populations often exhibit clear shifts in body size and maturation associated with fishing pressure, the relative ...
Christine Dreyer +9 more
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Genetic evaluation of migratory fish: Implications for conservation and stocking programs
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Fish stocking programs have been implemented to mitigate the blockage of original riverbeds by the construction of hydropower dams, which affects the natural migration of fish populations. However, this method raises concerns regarding the genetic rescue
Juliana da Silva Martins Pimentel +12 more
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Zebrafish toxicological screening could aid Leishmaniosis drug discovery
Laboratory Animal Research, 2021 Background Recently a screen from a library of 1.8 million compounds identified in vitro a potent activity of the 2-aminobenzimidazoles series against Leishmania infantum, the etiological agent responsible by over 20.000 deaths each year. Several analogs
Hirla Costa Silva Fukushima +6 more
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Evolving cellular automata to generate nonlinear sequences with desirable properties [PDF]
, 2007 This paper presents a new chromosomal representation and associated genetic operators for the evolution of highly nonlinear cellular automata that generate pseudorandom number sequences with desirable properties ensured.
Guan, SU, Tan, SK
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A strategy to find novel candidate anti-Alzheimer’s disease drugs by constructing interaction networks between drug targets and natural compounds in medical plants [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Alzheimer’ disease (AD) is an ultimately fatal degenerative brain disorder that has an increasingly large burden on health and social care systems.
Bi-Wen Chen +9 more
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Multitask Evolution with Cartesian Genetic Programming
, 2017 We introduce a genetic programming method for solving multiple Boolean circuit synthesis tasks simultaneously. This allows us to solve a set of elementary logic functions twice as easily as with a direct, single-task approach.Comment: 2 ...
Caruana Rich +2 more
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