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Influence of natural selection on the reproductive function in bulls [PDF]

open access: yesБіологія тварин
The article presents long-term research results on the impact of natural and sexual selection on the reproductive function in bulls under tethered and loose housing conditions.
V. S. Kozyr   +2 more
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Natural Selection and Scale Invariance

open access: yesLife, 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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Characterising the mechanisms underlying genetic resistance to amoebic gill disease in Atlantic salmon using RNA sequencing

open access: yesBMC 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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Natural Selection and Causal Productivity [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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COVID-19 pandemic and “survival of the fittest”

open access: yesJournal 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]

open access: yesPLoS 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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An experimentally introduced population of Brassica rapa (Brassicaceae). 1. Phenotypic selection over three years following colonization of a novel environment [PDF]

open access: yesPlant Ecology and Evolution, 2018
Background and aims – Despite the importance of selection in driving evolution, little is known about the consistency of selection, particularly in the early stages of colonization of novel environments. This study examines the targets and consistency of
Michael Sekor, Steven Franks
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Natural Knockouts: Natural Selection Knocked Out

open access: yesBiology, 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

open access: yesEntropy, 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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