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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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COVID-19 pandemic and “survival of the fittest”
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2021 Occurrence and recurrence of COVID-19 cases have been observed globally. The complex relationship of host-pathogen and the environment plays a vital role in understanding the widespread recurrence of the SARS-CoV-2 among humans.
Richa Mukhra +2 more
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Natural selection promotes antigenic evolvability. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2013 The hypothesis that evolvability - the capacity to evolve by natural selection - is itself the object of natural selection is highly intriguing but remains controversial due in large part to a paucity of direct experimental evidence.
Christopher J Graves +4 more
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Natural Selection and Causal Productivity [PDF]
, 2013 In the recent philosophical literature, two questions have arisen concerning the status of natural selection: 1) Is it a population-level phenomenon, or is it an organism-level phenomenon?
Millstein, Roberta L. +1 more
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Phylodynamics and Codon Usage Pattern Analysis of Broad Bean Wilt Virus 2
Viruses, 2021 Broad bean wilt virus 2 (BBWV-2), which belongs to the genus Fabavirus of the family Secoviridae, is an important pathogen that causes damage to broad bean, pepper, yam, spinach and other economically important ornamental and horticultural crops ...
Zhen He +3 more
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Natural Knockouts: Natural Selection Knocked Out
Biology, 2017 In functional genomics studies, research is dedicated to unveiling the function of genes using gene-knockouts, model organisms in which a gene is artificially inactivated. The idea is that, by knocking out the gene, the provoked phenotype would inform us
Peter Borger
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Information-Geometric Optimization with Natural Selection
Entropy, 2020 Evolutionary algorithms, inspired by natural evolution, aim to optimize difficult objective functions without computing derivatives. Here we detail the relationship between classical population genetics of quantitative traits and evolutionary ...
Jakub Otwinowski +2 more
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Viruses, 2022 Porcine circoviruses (PCVs) are distributed in swine herds worldwide and represent a threat to the health of domestic pigs and the profits of the swine industry.
Hua Feng +6 more
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