• The course is the first course on the MSc programme in Evolutionary Biology. (lu.se)
  • Our teaching promotes active, inquiry-based learning that takes advantage of our Department's world-leading research on the evolutionary biology of microbes, plants and animals. (lu.se)
  • The course is structured around four key problem agendas in evolutionary biology. (lu.se)
  • The latest schedule for the course Evolutionary Biology - Patterns and Processes in the schedule software TimeEdit. (lu.se)
  • ANATOMICAL RECORD-ADVANCES IN INTEGRATIVE ANATOMY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, Vol. 9. (ncsu.edu)
  • On the other hand, it has been generally accepted in evolutionary biology that genes duplicated from a single gene in the ancestral vertebrate undergo sub-functionalization, neo-functionalization, or non-functionalization ( Ohno, 1970 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Now, a new study in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution , analyzing the largest molecular dataset to date, clarifies the tinamous' place on the evolutionary tree and offers clues about the origins of flightlessness. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology. (uib.no)
  • Despite its importance in evolutionary biology, studies of the pattern of disease resistance in natural populations are rare. (lu.se)
  • article{c34f0f78-02b4-4f39-a3c2-3d18e368d937, abstract = {{Despite its importance in evolutionary biology, studies of the pattern of disease resistance in natural populations are rare. (lu.se)
  • I am a researcher at Lund University with broad interests in ecology and evolutionary biology, including the fundamental processes of ecology, evolution and biogeographical processes that underpin community and ecosystem structure and dynamics. (lu.se)
  • The course is an elective second cycle component of a Master of Science degree in Biology and a compulsory second cycle component of a Master of Science degree in Biology specialising in Evolutionary Biology. (lu.se)
  • The general aim of the course is to enable students to understand the aims, theories, models and methodologies of contemporary evolutionary biology, and how these are applied to different biological systems. (lu.se)
  • The course will enable students to acquire extensive knowledge and understanding of fundamental topics in evolutionary biology. (lu.se)
  • You will learn to analyse and understand the evolutionary processes that give rise to novelty, adaptation and diversity. (lu.se)
  • If evolution is the only way this world could have been created, then the goodness of creation is intrinsically linked to the pain and evil of the evolutionary processes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Opponents of evolutionary theodicies may object to i) implied constraints on God's power ii) God's involvement in processes necessarily involving violence and suffering iii) the use of eschatology as part of a theodicy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Observing the geographic range of an individual species provides valuable information about these historical contingencies for a lineage, determining the distribution of many distantly related species in tandem provides information about large-scale constraints on evolutionary and ecological processes generally. (ncsu.edu)
  • Recent literature on the kisspeptin of non-mammalian species suggests that the kiss1 and kiss2 systems may have undergone such evolutionary processes. (frontiersin.org)
  • Spatial processes such as dispersal, gene flow and geographical range changes can produce patterns of trait evolution that do not fit the expectations of standard models, even when evolution at the localā€population level is governed by drift or a typical OU model of selection. (palass.org)
  • Using computational modelling that spatial processes can create evolutionary outcomes that depart from basic populationā€level notions from these standard macroevolutionary models. (palass.org)
  • Spatial variation interacts with evolutionary processes in ways that produce patterns of trait change that differ markedly from the expectations of standard statistical evolutionary models like Brownian motion, directional selection and adaptive peak (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck) models. (palass.org)
  • In this paper, I critically review the ways in which spatial processes cause departures from these standard evolutionary models. (palass.org)
  • Most of my research is theoretical in nature and I use eco-evolutionary simulation models to study how assembly processes across spatiotemporal scales affect community patterns. (lu.se)
  • The aim of this project is to study how biodiversity (e.g. phylobetadiversity) is generated and maintained by interacting ecological and evolutionary assembly processes along environmental gradients. (lu.se)
  • We focus on the phylogenetic distance between communities (phylobetadiversity) as it contains signals from both ecological and evolutionary processes and we construct spatially explicit eco-evolutionary community models that generate phylobetadiversity patterns, given different degrees of ecological interactions, dispersal propensity of the organism and properties of the environmental gradient. (lu.se)
  • We are looking for a student with bioinformatic skills, who also have good understanding and interest in evolutionary processes. (lu.se)
  • Specifically, our Evolutionary and Computational Virology project seeks to unravel viral host origins, the molecular signatures that promote pathogen transmission between hosts, the mechanisms of pathogen evolution within hosts, and the dynamics of spatiotemporal spread. (nih.gov)
  • Phylodynamic analysis of the local and global patterns of spread of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and identification of the factors affecting the spatial dynamics at different scales. (nih.gov)
  • The evolutionary dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in Mexican healthcare workers and patients immunized with various vaccines. (nih.gov)
  • Typical evolutionary models used in palaeontology incorporate the temporal component of these dynamics, but not the spatial. (palass.org)
  • The evolutionary dynamics that retain long neutral genomic sequences in face of indel deletion bias: a model and its application to human introns. (tau.ac.il)
  • We adopt a modeling framework for spatiotemporal predator-pest dynamics that in addition to landscape structure, explicitly includes eco-evolutionary dynamics and adaptation in functional traits (e.g. body size, feeding specialization and dispersal). (lu.se)
  • The paper also looks at theoretical issues that might limit prospects for art made by machines, in particular the role of embodiment, physicality and morphological computation in agent-based and evolutionary models. (springer.com)
  • His research lies at the conjunction of Complex Adaptive Systems, Evolutionary Computation, and Machine Learning. (ornl.gov)
  • Avoiding excess computation in asynchronous evolutionary algorithms. (ornl.gov)
  • March 1-3, 1995, San Diego, California Evolutionary programming is one of the predominate algorithms withing the rapidly expanding field of evolutionary computation. (mit.edu)
  • The papers describe both the theory and practical application of evolutionary programming, as well as other methods of evolutionary computation including evolution strategies, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, and cultural algorithms. (mit.edu)
  • The Section of Genomic Epidemiology and Evolution of Pathogens (GEEP) at DIEPS, FIC, NIH aims to answer critical questions about pathogen emergence and establishment in animal and human populations using evolutionary and epidemiological information extracted from viral genomes. (nih.gov)
  • Evolution is a fundamentally population level process in which variation, drift and selection produce both temporal and spatial patterns of change. (palass.org)
  • This general approach to explanation in Evolutionary Phonology is rooted in the view of language as a complex adaptive system whose evolution can be usefully compared to the evolution of biological organisms. (mpg.de)
  • It will explain why evolution by natural selection gives rise to adaptation, what are the causes of diversification and novelty, and how the evolutionary process itself can evolve. (lu.se)
  • Multiple analyses of these genomic data suggest that hybridization events have occurred throughout Ficus evolutionary history. (nature.com)
  • Article: An integrative approach for codon repeats evolutionary analyses Journal: International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (IJDMB) 2012 Vol.6 No.4 pp.369 - 381 Abstract: The relationship between genome characteristics and several human diseases has been a central research goal in genomics. (inderscience.com)
  • Both the similarity and distance measures are useful for full-community analyses without evolutionary information, whereas the phylogenetic community dissimilarity requires phylogenetic data. (ncsu.edu)
  • Sequencing and evolutionary analyses of four genes in an additional 42 isolates representing 23 serotypes confirmed branch specific positive selection and recombination patterns. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Finding 'good' art involves searching a phase-space of possibilities beyond astronomical proportions, which makes evolutionary algorithms potentially suitable candidates. (springer.com)
  • CI encompasses a wide spectrum of techniques including neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy systems, swarm intelligence, and more. (mdpi.com)
  • Main conclusions We infer that these differences reflect distinct evolutionary histories in each locality despite the resident species having similar life-history characteristics. (bas.ac.uk)
  • However, G. hodgsoni populations were characterized by a fragmented pattern with several 'phylogroups' (likely ancestral haplotypes present in high frequency) retaining strong ancestral linkages among present-day populations. (bas.ac.uk)
  • Twenty years ago, evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski of Michigan State University in East Lansing, US, took a single Escherichia coli bacterium and used its descendants to found 12 laboratory populations. (newscientist.com)
  • Instead, a chance event can sometimes open evolutionary doors for one population that remain forever closed to other populations with different histories. (newscientist.com)
  • We address the Lyme disease incidence may result from a disparity in the hypothesis that B. burgdorferi populations in the Northeast human invasiveness of the bacteria in the Northeast and Midwest caused by fundamentally different evolutionary and Midwest have fundamentally different evolutionary histories. (cdc.gov)
  • This news brief from January 2022, explores the evolutionary mystery at the heart of the Omicron COVID-19 surge. (berkeley.edu)
  • Using a multigene and complete genomes analysis approach, we find the evolutionary histories of sHCoVs to be more complex than previously recognized, owing to frequent recombination of CoVs, including within and between sHCoVs. (nih.gov)
  • Squamate reptiles represent ideal model systems for understanding phenotypic diversity and developmental disorders, as they exhibit an extraordinary array of life-styles, ecologies and craniofacial features representing patterns found across mammalian and non-mammalian taxa. (helsinki.fi)
  • This module will focus on the genetic and developmental basis of adaptive change and evolutionary novelty. (lu.se)
  • Growth patterns of noetiid ligaments: implications of developmental models for the origin of an evolutionary novelty among arcoid bivalves. (figshare.com)
  • Moreover, the noetiid growth pattern can simply be derived from the duplivincular pattern by a developmental switch based, for example, on a change in boundary conditions. (figshare.com)
  • Whether you have appointed the evolutionary phonology or really, if you learn your available and new sites much dealers will be general settings that are very for them. (marchewka.com)
  • Aus heutiger Sicht wohl are ehesten eine satirische Kurzgeschichte, evolutionary phonology the emergence time in Gedichtform, today in Prosa verfasst ist time Transmission Verleumdung verstorbener Politiker j. (marchewka.com)
  • Can help and Move evolutionary phonology the emergence of articles of this product to take thoughts with them. (marchewka.com)
  • Evolutionary Phonology seeks to explain why certain sound patterns have the typological distributions they do. (mpg.de)
  • Within Evolutionary Phonology, the attempt to explain recurrent sound patterns gives equal consideration to all potential sources of similarity. (mpg.de)
  • As a compendium of regular sound changes, related sound patterns, and phonetic explanations for sound patterns, the database is valuable to those working in the traditional fields of historical linguistics, phonology, and phonetics. (mpg.de)
  • A theoretical synopsis of Evolutionary Phonology (target article). (mpg.de)
  • New perspectives on English sound patterns: 'Natural' and 'Unnatural' in Evolutionary Phonology. (mpg.de)
  • And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show how this evolutionary novelty grew from the accumulation of unpredictable, chance events. (newscientist.com)
  • Here, we propose and study a spatially extended evolutionary food web model that allows us to study large spatial systems with several trophic layers. (tu-darmstadt.de)
  • We also investigate the impact of investment diversity on trust game model embedding in different network structures with different initial conditions, where we observe similarly positive evolutionary outcomes. (edpsciences.org)
  • Implications of spatial genetic patterns for conserving African leopards. (uib.no)
  • B. burgdorferi is transmitted to humans disequilibrium among genetic loci can result from several during the blood meal of an infected Ixodes tick, predomi- evolutionary and ecologic forces in addition to small popu- nantly Ixodes scapularis in North America ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • A similar case study of ceratopsid dinosaurs using phylogenetic community dissimilarity provided no evidence of a biogeographical pattern, but this case study suffers from a lack of data to accurately discriminate and/or too much temporal mixing. (ncsu.edu)
  • Statistical model fitting is now commonly used to estimate which kind of evolutionary process best explains patterns of change through time using models like Brownian motion, stabilizing selection (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck) and directional selection on traits measured from stratigraphic sequences or on phylogenetic trees. (palass.org)
  • However, it is not possible to draw reliable conclusions about the evolutionary relatedness of bacterial isolates from their PFGE "DNA fingerprints" because the targets of this method (restriction fragments with no detailed sequence information) do not contain any phylogenetic information. (cdc.gov)
  • By exploring such models, I hope to formulate theory that facilitates our understanding of the generation and maintenance of species richness, functional trait diversity, and phylogenetic patterns. (lu.se)
  • Molecular evolutionary analysis of 400+ SARS-CoV-2 sequences from Yucatan, Mexico sequenced in partnership with the Autonomous University of Yucatan and the COVID-19 International Research Team (COV-IRT) partners at the New York Genomics Center (NYGC). (nih.gov)
  • After sandblasting and pulverizing an ancient moa toe bone to chemically extract and sequence the DNA, scientists compared its DNA with that of the other species and ran multiple computer models simulating molecular evolutionary changes. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Generating Mixed Patterns of Residential Segregation: An Evolutionary Approach. (ornl.gov)
  • While new discoveries continue, the successful application of the evolutionary approach required a comprehensive summation of qualitative and quantitative aspects of sound change. (mpg.de)
  • As will be argued below, the non-mammalian kisspeptin systems show a wealth of diversity of gene expression ( kiss1 and/or kiss2 ) pattern in the brain and dynamic changes in expression according to the sex steroid milieu. (frontiersin.org)
  • However, several open questions still remain, such as, how these tandem repeats appeared in the evolutionary path or how they have evolved in orthologous genes of related organisms. (inderscience.com)
  • This chapter examines the possibilities and challenges that lie ahead for evolutionary music and art. (springer.com)
  • Rebecca Parsons examines some possible futures for the principles and practices of Evolutionary Architecture. (infoq.com)
  • Ultimately, it examines how an evolutionary perspective can be applied to phenomena at all levels of biological organisation, from molecules to ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • Endangered sound patterns: Three perspectives on theory and description. (mpg.de)
  • Our computer simulations show that the model gives rise simultaneously to several biodiversity patterns in space and time, from species abundance distributions to the waxing and waning of geographic ranges. (tu-darmstadt.de)
  • By analysing such models we hope to formulate theory that facilitates our understanding of the generation and maintenance of biodiversity patterns. (lu.se)
  • However, empirical studies that focus on the potential for interaction between animal pollination and hybridization to affect and contribute to evolutionary diversification are rare. (nature.com)
  • It is a challenge for theory to find models that can reproduce and explain the observed patterns. (tu-darmstadt.de)
  • The complex speciation pattern has made the elucidation of their relationships a challenging task, and many questions remain unanswered. (biomedcentral.com)
  • How Will Evolutionary Architecture Evolve? (infoq.com)
  • Ecological systems show a variety of characteristic patterns of biodiversity in space and time. (tu-darmstadt.de)
  • The geographic ranges in which species live is a function of many factors underlying ecological and evolutionary contingencies. (ncsu.edu)
  • Evolutionary patterns and biological mechanisms. (bvsalud.org)
  • Why are certain sound patterns extremely common, while others are rare? (mpg.de)
  • What factors play a role in determining similar sound patterns across languages? (mpg.de)
  • Present research explored the form and distribution of recurrent sound patterns, and the multiple ways sound patterns can be modeled as emergent probabilistic properties, resulting from the repeated interaction of innate perceptual and articulatory biases, self- organizing properties of sound systems, and aspects of language use within a population. (mpg.de)
  • Its purpose was to provide a searchable database for phonologists, historical linguists, and phoneticians, as well as for general linguists interested in the nature and origins of sound patterns. (mpg.de)
  • For each regular sound change, there was a summary of relevant phonetic work, as well as a summary of parallel synchronic sound patterns in the world's languages. (mpg.de)
  • Phonologists can more easily deconstruct synchronic sound patterns into natural and unnatural components, once a compendium of natural patterns exists. (mpg.de)
  • In this paper, we report patterns of infection of a viral eye disease in juvenile Swedish common lizards (Lacerta vivipara). (lu.se)
  • In doing so you will learn how to unravel the evolutionary history of biological systems. (lu.se)
  • Geographic variation in the plumage pattern of birds is widespread but poorly understood, and in very few cases has its evolutionary significance been investigated experimentally. (bioone.org)
  • We investigated the evolutionary significance of this geographic variation by experimentally decreasing or increasing the amount of white in the tail of slate-throated redstarts ( Myioborus miniatus comptus ) from Monteverde, Costa Rica, to mimic the natural extremes of tail pattern variation in this species. (bioone.org)
  • Our experiments were designed to test four hypotheses that could explain geographic variation in plumage pattern. (bioone.org)
  • Gilbert, F. & Brandt, A. 2002 The relationship between mimetic imperfection and phenotypic variation in insect colour patterns. (reading.ac.uk)
  • artificial/computational intelligence (including evolutionary multi-objective optimization, model-based optimization, large-scale optimization, etc. (mdpi.com)
  • Describe evolutionary advantages of bone structure in modern and ancient organisms. (ti.com)
  • Identify patterns seen in homologous structures in organisms to understand evolutionary relationships and patterns. (ti.com)
  • 7) Evolutionary genetics of the costs and benefits of recombination. (elte.hu)
  • This article provides some evidence of how scientists' information seeking and reading patterns are affected by using journals in these three system phases. (dlib.org)
  • We have performed journal readership surveys during each of the early, evolving and advanced phases of the journal system which demonstrates how these phases may affect scientists' information seeking and reading patterns. (dlib.org)
  • This module will explain and exemplify how scientists unravel evolutionary patterns - from the biogeography of species to the origin of new phyla. (lu.se)
  • These edited contributions to the Fourth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming are by leading scientists from academia, industry, and defense. (mit.edu)
  • The authors of the Comparative Genomics article conducted a more extensive whole genome sequence analysis, in which they compared nine outbreak-related isolates with 12 contemporary Asian or African isolates matched on PFGE pattern and 2 non-matching isolates from the Western hemisphere. (cdc.gov)
  • Thus, it is not surprising that PFGE patterns from the Haitian cholera outbreak isolates matched several others from Asia and Africa, even though they were not genetically identical. (cdc.gov)
  • More specifically, we aim to answer calls for an eco-evolutionary trait-based perspective on ecosystem services. (lu.se)
  • EvoRator: prediction of residue-level evolutionary rates from protein structures using machine learning. (tau.ac.il)
  • His dissertation work centered around the development of an explainable AI framework, Evolutionary Model Discovery, for inferring importance of individual-scale factors of decision-making from complex social phenomena. (ornl.gov)
  • Machine-learning of complex evolutionary signals improves classification of SNVs. (tau.ac.il)
  • Many studies have shown that specific gene patterns, such as amino acid repetitions, are associated with human diseases. (inderscience.com)
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