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Supergenes and Complex Phenotypes [PDF]
Current Biology, 2014 Understanding the molecular underpinnings of evolutionary adaptations is a central focus of modern evolutionary biology. Recent studies have uncovered a panoply of complex phenotypes, including locally adapted ecotypes and cryptic morphs, divergent social behaviours in birds and insects, as well as alternative metabolic pathways in plants and fungi ...
Schwander Tanja +2 more
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The power of microRNA regulation—insights into immunity and metabolism
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.MicroRNAs are emerging as crucial regulators at the intersection of metabolism and immunity. This review examines how miRNAs coordinate glucose and lipid metabolism while simultaneously modulating T‐cell development and immune responses. Moreover, it highlights how cutting‐edge artificial intelligence applications can identify miRNA biomarkers ...
Stefania Oliveto +2 more
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Deep phenotyping in C. elegans [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Deep phenotyping study has become an emerging field to understand the gene function and the structure of biological networks. For the living animal C. elegans, recent advances in genome-editing tools, microfluidic devices and phenotypic analyses allow for a deeper understanding of the genotype-to-phenotype pathway.
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Phenotype Search Trajectory Networks for Linear Genetic Programming [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Genotype-to-phenotype mappings translate genotypic variations such as mutations into phenotypic changes. Neutrality is the observation that some mutations do not lead to phenotypic changes. Studying the search trajectories in genotypic and phenotypic spaces, especially through neutral mutations, helps us to better understand the progression of ...
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The Integrated Phenotype [PDF]
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2012 Proper functioning of complex phenotypes requires that multiple traits work together. Examination of relationships among traits within and between complex characters and how they interact to function as a whole organism is critical to advancing our understanding of evolutionary developmental plasticity.
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Why Phenotype Robustness Promotes Phenotype Evolvability [PDF]
Genome Biology and Evolution, 2017 Robustness and evolvability are fundamental characteristics of life whose relationship has intrigued generations of biologists. Studies of several genotype-phenotype maps (GPMs) such as the map between short DNA sequences and their bindings to transcription factors showed that phenotype robustness (PR) promotes phenotype evolvability (PE), but the ...
Xinzhu Wei, Jianzhi Zhang
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Macrophage Phenotype and Function in Different Stages of Atherosclerosis.
Circulation Research, 2016 The remarkable plasticity and plethora of biological functions performed by macrophages have enticed scientists to study these cells in relation to atherosclerosis for >50 years, and major discoveries continue to be made today.
I. Tabas, K. Bornfeldt
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Identification of novel small molecule inhibitors of ETS transcription factors
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.ETS transcription factors play an essential role in tumourigenesis and are indispensable for sprouting angiogenesis, a hallmark of cancer, which fuels tumour expansion and dissemination. Thus, targeting ETS transcription factor function could represent an effective, multifaceted strategy to block tumour growth. The evolutionarily conserved E‐Twenty‐Six
Shaima Abdalla +9 more
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Phenotypic robustness can increase phenotypic variability after non-genetic perturbations in gene regulatory circuits [PDF]
arXiv, 2010 Non-genetic perturbations, such as environmental change or developmental noise, can induce novel phenotypes. If an induced phenotype confers a fitness advantage, selection may promote its genetic stabilization. Non-genetic perturbations can thus initiate evolutionary innovation.
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Analysis of the human diseasome reveals phenotype modules across common, genetic, and infectious diseases [PDF]
, 2014 Phenotypes are the observable characteristics of an organism arising from its response to the environment. Phenotypes associated with engineered and natural genetic variation are widely recorded using phenotype ontologies in model organisms, as are signs and symptoms of human Mendelian diseases in databases such as OMIM and Orphanet.
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