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Natural Induction: Spontaneous Adaptive Organisation without Natural Selection [PDF]
EntropyEvolution by natural selection is believed to be the only possible source of spontaneous adaptive organisation in the natural world. This places strict limits on the kinds of systems that can exhibit adaptation spontaneously, i.e., without design ...
Christopher L. Buckley +5 more
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F1000Research, 2021 Background: Synthetic engineering of bacteria to produce industrial products is a burgeoning field of research and application. In order to optimize genome design, designers need to understand which genes are essential, which are optimal for growth, and ...
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F1000Research, 2021 Background: Synthetic engineering of bacteria to produce industrial products is a burgeoning field of research and application. In order to optimize genome design, designers need to understand which genes are essential, which are optimal for growth, and ...
Granger Sutton +6 more
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F1000Research, 2021 Background: Wall teichoic acid (WTA) genes are essential for production of cell walls in gram-positive bacteria and necessary for survival and variability in the cassette has led to recent antibiotic resistance acquisition in pathogenic bacteria ...
Gary B. Fogel +6 more
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Adaptations Accumulated under Prolonged Resource Exhaustion Are Highly Transient
mSphere, 2020 Many nonsporulating bacterial species can survive for years within exhausted growth media in a state termed long-term stationary phase (LTSP). We have been carrying out evolutionary experiments aimed at elucidating the dynamics of genetic adaptation ...
Sarit Avrani +2 more
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All aboard the 'Elephant Express', a practical solution for human-elephant coexistence
Pachyderm, 2023 One of the most significant challenges for elephant conservation is managing negative interactions that occur where people and elephants use the same space and compete for resources.
Anna Songhurst +9 more
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Path-dependent selection—a bridge between natural selection and neutral selection
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Path-dependent selection follows the premise of complete symmetry in the neutral theory of selection; mutations in the natural world are entirely based on statistical randomness, lack directionality, and thus do not exhibit differences in fitness.
Rui-Wu Wang +9 more
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Identification of Follower Status Based on Male Proximity Score in Crested Macaque
Hayati Journal of Biosciences, 2020 Crested macaque live in multimale-multifemale social groups where temporary association (consortship) typically occurs. Current theory and these limited qualitative observations suggest the hypothesis that behavior functions as a means for males to gain ...
Andre Pasetha +4 more
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Natural Selection and Scale Invariance
Life, 2023 This review points out that three of the essential features of natural selection—competition for a finite resource, variation, and transmission of memory—occur in an extremely simple, thermalized molecular population, one of colliding “billiard balls ...
Adrian F. Tuck
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BMC Genomics, 2020 Background Gill health is one of the main concerns for Atlantic salmon aquaculture, and Amoebic Gill Disease (AGD), attributable to infection by the amoeba Neoparamoeba perurans, is a frequent cause of morbidity.
Diego Robledo +4 more
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