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Mutually beneficial host exploitation and ultra-biased sex ratios in quasisocial parasitoids [PDF]
, 2014 Selfish interests usually preclude resource sharing, but under some conditions collective actions enhance per capita gains. Such Allee effects underlay early explanations of social evolution but current understanding focusses on kin selection (inclusive ...
Hardy, Ian C.W. +5 more
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Single‐ and Dual‐Atom Configurations in Atomically Dispersed Catalysts for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Single‐atom and dual‐atom‐based atomically dispersed catalysts (ADCs) effectively address the shuttle effect and sluggish redox kinetics in Li–S batteries. With nearly 100% atomic utilization and tunable coordination environments, ADCs enhance LiPSs adsorption, lower conversion barriers, and accelerate sulfur redox reactions.
Haoyang Xu +4 more
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Shift in beneficial interactions during crop evolution
Evolutionary Applications, 2022 Plant domestication can be viewed as a form of co‐evolved interspecific mutualism between humans and crops for the benefit of the two partners. Here, we ask how this plant–human mutualism has, in turn, impacted beneficial interactions within crop species,
Hélène Fréville +5 more
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Suicidal altruism under random assortment [PDF]
, 2008 Questions: Can there be a selective explanation for suicide? Or are all suicides evolutionary mistakes, ever pruned by natural selection to the extent that the tendency to perform them is heritable?
Cabrales, Antonio, Pollock, Gregory B.
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Inspired by natural silicified wood, a biomimetic mineralized chitin‐derived aerogel is constructed. It can withstand 81 000 times its own weight, and its backside temperature is 130.4°C after exposure to ∼1300°C butane flame for 600 s, exhibiting high‐strength, fire‐resistance, and super thermal‐insulation properties.
Kai Xu +11 more
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The coevolution of toxin and antitoxin genes drives the dynamics of bacterial addiction complexes and intragenomic conflict [PDF]
, 2012 Bacterial genomes commonly contain ‘addiction’ gene complexes that code for both a toxin and a corresponding antitoxin. As long as both genes are expressed, cells carrying the complex can remain healthy.
Brown, Sam P. +3 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Wafer‐scale two‐dimensioanl In2Se3 oxidized into InOx on sodium‐embedded beta‐alumina enables multifunctional reconfigurable electronics. Sodium ions accumulate within distinct spatial distribution under drain‐controlle and gate‐controlled operation. Drain‐control operation gives controllability of ultraviolet‐driven optoelectronic synaptic conductance
Jinhong Min +13 more
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Sexual selection of human cooperative behaviour: an experimental study in rural Senegal. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Human cooperation in large groups and between non-kin individuals remains a Darwinian puzzle. Investigations into whether and how sexual selection is involved in the evolution of cooperation represent a new and important research direction.
Arnaud Tognetti +3 more
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Evolution of social behaviour [PDF]
, 2010 Nowak et al.1 wish to explain why the version of kin selection theory that is summarised by the formula R>c/b (c=cost of performing 'altruistic' act, b=benefit derived by recipient of act, R=relatedness between the two) is of little ...
Vidyanand Nanjundiah
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Discrimination, Crypticity, and Incipient Taxa in Entamoeba [PDF]
, 2012 Persistent difficulties in resolving clear lineages in diverging populations of prokaryotes or unicellular eukaryotes (protistan polyphyletic groups) are challenging the classical species concept.
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