A study of the relationship between the general physical fitness of adolescents aged 15 – 19 years and their parents [PDF]
, 2008 The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of familial resemblance in general physical fitness between adolescents and their parents. Data was gathered from a sample of adolescent-parent pairs.
Law, Christopher J.
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Diversity maintenance on neutral landscapes: an argument for recombination
, 2002 It has been demonstrated that several standard evolutionary computation test problems can be solved by a simple hill climbing search algorithm - often more efficiently than by a population based evolutionary algorithm.
J. Wiles +5 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee +3 more
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Population genetic diversity and fitness in multiple environments
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2010 Background When a large number of alleles are lost from a population, increases in individual homozygosity may reduce individual fitness through inbreeding depression.
McGreevy Thomas J +8 more
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Nature beats nurture: a case study of the physiological fitness of free-living and laboratory-reared male Anopheles gambiae s.l. [PDF]
, 2007 Laboratory experimentation forms the basis for most of our knowledge of the biology of many organisms, in particular insects. However, the accuracy with which laboratory-derived estimates of insect life history and behaviour can predict their fitness and
Killeen, G.F. +20 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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Male-benefit sexually antagonistic genotypes show elevated vulnerability to inbreeding
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017 Background There is theoretical and empirical evidence for strong sexual selection in males having positive effects on population viability by serving to purify the genome of its mutation load at a low demographic cost. However, there is also theoretical
Karl Grieshop +2 more
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Automated Problem Decomposition for the Boolean Domain with Genetic Programming [PDF]
, 2013 Researchers have been interested in exploring the regularities and modularity of the problem space in genetic programming (GP) with the aim of decomposing the original problem into several smaller subproblems.
Otero, Fernando E.B. +3 more
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The human gut microbiome across the life course
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Despite significant individual variation and continuous change throughout life, the human gut microbiome follows some life stage‐specific trends. This article provides a brief overview of how gut microbiome composition shifts across different phases of life. Created in BioRender. Özkurt, E. (2026) https://BioRender.com/8q4nrnc.
Alise J. Ponsero +4 more
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Genetic architecture of rainbow trout survival from egg to adult
, 2010 Survival from birth to a reproductive adult is a challenge that only robust individuals resistant to a variety of mortality factors will overcome. To assess whether survival traits share genetic architecture throughout the life cycle, we estimated ...
Paananen, T. +5 more
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