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Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2012 Floral visitor species are often assumed to act either mutualistically towards plants (as pollinators) or to exploit them (as nectar-robbers or as nectar or pollen thieves).
Leif Richardson, Judith L. Bronstein
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Competition-based screening helps to secure the evolutionary stability of a defensive microbiome
BMC Biology, 2021 Background The cuticular microbiomes of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants pose a conundrum in microbiome biology because they are freely colonisable, and yet the prevalence of the vertically transmitted bacteria Pseudonocardia, which contributes to the ...
Sarah F. Worsley +9 more
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Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler +2 more
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Mutualisms as a framework for multi-robot collaboration
Frontiers in Robotics and AIBiology has inspired robotics since its inception as an academic discipline. However, the use of ecological principles in robotics is still relatively rare and in this paper, we explore how such principles can not only be of relevance to robotics, but ...
Alexander A. Nguyen +3 more
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A Structural Approach to Disentangle the Visualization of Bipartite Biological Networks
Complexity, 2018 Interactions between two different guilds of entities are pervasive in biology. They may happen at molecular level, like in a diseasome, or amongst individuals linked by biotic relationships, such as mutualism or parasitism.
J. Garcia-Algarra +3 more
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Microbiome‐blood–brain barrier interactions in aging — mechanisms and therapeutic potential
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Aging reshapes the gut microbiome (↓SCFA‐producing commensals; ↑pro‐inflammatory outputs), shifting circulating metabolites (↓SCFAs; ↑LPS, ↑TMAO, ↑PAA) that act at the BBB to increase nonspecific transcytosis, alter transport, and promote astrocyte reactivity, heightening brain vulnerability.
Daniel Cuervo‐Zanatta +3 more
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An experimental and modelling exploration of the host-sanction hypothesis in legume-rhizobia mutualism [PDF]
, 2008 Despite the importance of mutualism as a key ecological process, its persistence in nature is difficult to explain since the existence of exploitative, 'cheating' partners that could erode the interaction is common. By analogy with the proposed
Jose Ruiz-Sainz +7 more
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The major evolutionary transitions in individuality [PDF]
, 2015 We thank the Calleva Research Centre, Magdalen College, the European Research Council, the Natural Environment Research Council, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research for funding.The evolution of life on earth has been driven by a ...
Fisher, R.M. +8 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.This review focuses on the role of autophagy and mitophagy in maintaining pancreatic β‐cell function and homeostasis. We discuss how genetic defects affecting these pathways contribute to the development of type 1, type 2, monogenic, and gestational diabetes. We further explore their potential as therapeutic targets. Created in BioRender.
Yunkyeong Lee +2 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 Recent years have seen a revolution in our understanding of how cells of the immune system are modulated and regulated not only via complex interactions with other immune cells, but also through a range of potent inputs derived from diverse and varied ...
Rita G. Domingues, Matthew R. Hepworth
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