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Evolution of Co-operation When the Strategies are Hidden: The Human Mating Game
Defection is frequently seen in co-operative systems [1-3]. Game theoretical solutions to stabilize cooperation rely on reciprocity and reputation in iterated games[4-5]. One of the basic requireme…
Received 16 August 2007 07:28 UTC; Posted 21 August 2007
Posted to: Evolutionary Biology
Roots and Emergence of Cognition in Evolution
Trying to understand when and how the cognitive phenomena arise in evolution continues being a hard problem of confronting. One important task is to find the ways in which we will be able to arrive…
Received 12 July 2007 23:44 UTC; Posted 13 July 2007
Posted to: Neuroscience, Evolutionary Biology
Third-codon transversion rate-based Nymphaea basal angiosperm phylogeny—concordance with developmental evidence
Flowering plants (angiosperms) appeared on Earth rather suddenly approximately 130 million years ago and underwent a massive expansion in the subsequent 10-12 million years. Current molecular phylo…
Received 02 July 2007 13:10 UTC; Posted 02 July 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Plant Biology, Evolutionary Biology
Evolution of malaria virulence in cross-generation transmission through selective immune pressure
Theoretical arguments and some mathematical models of host-parasite coevolution (e.g. [1- 6]) suggest host immunity as the driving source for the evolution of parasite virulence. Imperfect vaccines…
Received 23 June 2007 19:32 UTC; Posted 25 June 2007
Posted to: Immunology, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
Promoter regions of many neural- and nutrition-related genes have experienced positive selection during human evolution
Surveys of protein-coding sequences for evidence of positive selection in humans and chimpanzees have flagged surprisingly few genes known to be involved in neural or nutritional processes, despite…
Received 18 June 2007 21:04 UTC; Posted 13 July 2007
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
Adaptive evolution and then what?
Traits determining ecological interactions and dynamics are generally subject to natural selection. That genetically based individual variation in ecological traits can influence population dynamic…
Received 16 June 2007 13:48 UTC; Posted 18 June 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
Specificity and Evolvability in Eukaryotic Protein Interaction Networks
Progress in uncovering the protein interaction networks of several species has led to questions of what underlying principles might govern their organization. Few studies have tried to determine th…
Received 28 February 2007 20:11 UTC; Posted 02 March 2007
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
The likelihood that two proteins interact might depend on the proteins’ age
It has been previously shown [1] that S. cerevisiae proteins preferentially interact with proteins of the same estimated likely time of origin. To study this observation further, the protein int…
Received 22 January 2007 19:19 UTC; Posted 22 January 2007
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
Comparative genomics and disorder prediction identify biologically relevant SH3 protein interactions
Protein interaction networks are an important part of the post-genomic effort to integrate a part-list view of the cell into system-level understanding. Using a set of 11 yeast genomes we show that…
Received 19 January 2007 11:36 UTC; Posted 19 January 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
