• This period was followed by attempts in the early 1980s to integrate quantitative genetics into evolutionary biology, which had spillover effects on other fields, such as behavioral ecology and ecophysiology. (wikipedia.org)
  • He was a polymath well known for his works in physiology, genetics and evolutionary biology. (boloji.com)
  • Using ideas and methods from evolutionary and quantitative genetics, physiological ecology, and comparative physiology, my lab group addresses questions on the evolution of function-valued traits, the correlated responses of multiple traits to selection, and the relative effects of selection and drift on trait evolution. (wsu.edu)
  • JERRY COYNE is a professor in the department of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago, where he works on diverse areas of evolutionary genetics. (edge.org)
  • More recently, the importance of a merger of evolutionary biology and physiology has been argued from the perspective of functional analyses, epigenetics, and an extended evolutionary synthesis. (wikipedia.org)
  • Topics include evolutionary biology and physiology, natural movement skill and barefoot science. (vivobarefoot.com)
  • Since all animals partake of a common evolutionary history, we share basic features of physiology, development and biochemistry. (edge.org)
  • Lecturers in biochemistry and physiology occasionally made reference to our evolutionary past just like they would to Newton's law of gravity. (creation.com)
  • A monument to the scientist was set up in front of I.M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1969 (sculptor D.M. Epifanov). (encspb.ru)
  • In the mid- to late 1980s, phylogenetic comparative methods started to become popular in many fields, including physiological ecology and comparative physiology. (wikipedia.org)
  • By definition, comparative physiology is broad, spanning a variety of animal taxa occurring in diverse environmental settings, and studied at many levels of biological organization (from molecular physiology to physiological ecology). (scienceblogs.com)
  • The field is closely related to comparative physiology and environmental physiology, and its findings are a major concern of evolutionary medicine. (wikipedia.org)
  • I just submitted my abstract for the Comparative Physiology meeting that will be held this October. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Comparative physiology takes advantage of the diverse evolutionary histories and ecological settings of animals. (scienceblogs.com)
  • This breadth allows comparative physiology to (a) understand basic physiological processes and (b) identify novel mechanisms used by animals to solve specific physiological challenges. (scienceblogs.com)
  • This meeting will draw comparative and evolutionary physiologists from around the world to present and discuss recent advances in animal physiology. (scienceblogs.com)
  • 2002 - defended ahead of time his PhD thesis in Pathologic Physiology entitled «Comparative evaluation of the cardioprotective efficacy of local and distant ischemic adaptation of the myocardium» dedicated to myocardial protection against ischemia injury in the experiment. (almazovcentre.ru)
  • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 1-11. (ncbs.res.in)
  • She also won the American Physiological Society's Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Section Scholander Undergraduate Award. (pitzer.edu)
  • I am a comparative anatomist, paleontologist, and evolutionary biologist. (lu.se)
  • Genus-Wide Comparative Genomics of Malassezia Delineates Its Phylogeny, Physiology, and Niche Adaptation on Human Skin. (cdc.gov)
  • Evolutionary biology is a sub-field of biology concerned with the study of the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth . (wikimedia.org)
  • Our goal is to provide a fundamentally deeper understanding of the evolution of the entire phenotype and of evolutionary processes. (wsu.edu)
  • On the Master's programme in Animal Ecology, you will learn how to analyse and understand evolutionary processes at the level of genes, individuals and populations. (lu.se)
  • You will achieve skills in analysing and understanding how evolutionary and ecological processes form appearance, physiology and behaviour in animals. (lu.se)
  • In addition, it may be the primary impacts to oyster physiology which then drives changes to the associated microbial community. (frontiersin.org)
  • After years devoted to isolating microorganisms from geothermal environments and studying their physiology, sequencing their genomes to infer metabolic pathways, formulate hypotheses and test them experimentally, and probing natural microbial communities using culture-independent approaches, new, exciting research avenues are opening up ( link to projects ). (rutgers.edu)
  • We study the metabolism, physiology, and evolutionary ecology of microbial symbioses and uncultured microorganisms. (ncsu.edu)
  • I am a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist who studies the anatomy, phylogeny, and evolution of fossil vertebrates, particularly dinosaurs, birds, and mammals. (lu.se)
  • For the past almost 30 years, our team has explored numerous functional systems (e.g., jaw muscles and feeding, vascular anatomy and thermal physiology), but our work on the deep-time evolution of neural systems and behavior began in 2003 with an article in Nature on brain structure in pterosaurs and has continued ever since. (lu.se)
  • A 1987 volume titled New Directions in Ecological Physiology had little ecology but a considerable emphasis on evolutionary topics. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1987). New directions in ecological physiology. (wikipedia.org)
  • A review of New Directions in Ecological physiology, Feder et al. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here, we review the major contributions in this field, and we focus on studies of mussels in the genus Mytilus , which are well-established models for the study of ecological physiology in fluctuating environments. (biologists.com)
  • Similarly, a thorough knowledge of physiological mechanisms can greatly enhance understanding of possible reasons for evolutionary correlations and constraints than is possible for many of the traits typically studied by evolutionary biologists (such as morphology). (wikipedia.org)
  • 2015. Genetic variation, simplicity and evolutionary constraints for function-valued traits. (wsu.edu)
  • We offer an excellent research environment, particularly in topics such as animal migration, molecular ecology, life history trade-offs, evolutionary biology, disease resistance in natural populations and host-parasite interactions. (lu.se)
  • Research in my laboratory is focused on the physiology, ecology and evolutionary history of prokaryotes that inhabit geothermal environments. (rutgers.edu)
  • You will use modern field and laboratory methods in studies of ecological and evolutionary issues applied on animals in basic research, as well as applied conservation-related research. (lu.se)
  • Evolutionary biologists study the descent of species , and the origin of new species . (wikimedia.org)
  • The growth of evolutionary physiology is also reflected in the emergence of sub-disciplines, such as evolutionary endocrinology, which addresses such hybrid questions as "What are the most common endocrine mechanisms that respond to selection on behavior or life-history traits? (wikipedia.org)
  • Introduction to the study of the diversity, physiology, ecological context, and evolutionary development of behavior of invertebrate and vertebrate animals. (bemidjistate.edu)
  • From an evolutionary perspective, sleep places humans in a state of vulnerability, and yet this behavior is shared universally by mammals. (cdc.gov)
  • Given the recent invention of modern sports, some disciplines may not require any specific evolved physical traits, that is, the evolutionary approach to sports science may be especially useful for those sports where physiological and morphological traits required also in foraging or fighting are necessary for success. (springer.com)
  • Our first participant is a professor of behavioral and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St. Andrews. (worldsciencefestival.com)
  • ur lab has interests in many aspects of animal physiology, behaviour, and ecology, especially in the context of seasonal migrations and reproduction. (evophys.ca)
  • We critically assess this claim from the perspective of ecologic immunology, a research field that analyzes immune function in an ecologic, physiologic, and evolutionary context. (cdc.gov)
  • We hypothesize that the increased metabolism and higher body temperatures of bats during flight might serve as an evolutionary adjuvant to their immune systems, providing a powerful selective force against virulence and promoting the diversity of viruses that infect bat populations. (cdc.gov)
  • 2017. Permutation tests for the equality of covariance operators of functional data with applications to evolutionary biology. (wsu.edu)
  • As much as the understanding of human health and disease is predicated on behaviors and exposures during wakefulness, several decades of research have begun to uncover the importance of sleep and its impacts on physiology and pathology. (cdc.gov)
  • Much of what is known about the circadian clock and its impacts on physiology has come from studies where the clock is desynchronized from confounding behaviors (ie, sleep, wakefulness, eating, and physical activity) and from external stimuli (eg, light exposure), which can influence physiologic rhythms. (cdc.gov)
  • Among my research interests are building large family trees of extinct species, understanding major evolutionary transitions (when organisms drastically change their body plans and expand into new environments), and using computed tomography scanning to study the biology and behaviours of extinct species. (lu.se)
  • And the #1 blog entry published thus far in 2017 discussed whether there was an evolutionary advantage to being stupid: ---- As I was looking through the scientific literature the other day, I came across an article published in 1973, "The Evolutionary Advantages of Being Stupid. (scienceblogs.com)
  • 2005. Evolutionary and ecological correlates of early seedling morphology in East African trees and shrubs. (phylodiversity.net)
  • Here we present a brief description of the theoretical bases that drives our research in the evolutionary psychobiology of sports and illustrate preliminary data on the relationship between the 5HTTLPR genotype, salivary cortisol, temperament and competition. (springer.com)
  • Since then, three other Nobel Prizes in medicine or physiology have gone for research on fruit flies. (edge.org)
  • Horin earned a presentation award for outstanding research in physiology at the 2015 Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference in the fall. (pitzer.edu)
  • His major research works dwell on the issues of evolutionary physiology, physiology of vegetative nervous system and physiology of senses. (encspb.ru)
  • This fact should give psychological mechanisms an important spotlight when studying the evolutionary function of performance. (springer.com)
  • Fundamentally, humans have an 'evolutionary physiology' that is predisposed to conserve body fat as a factor of survival," they explain. (medscape.com)
  • Shortly thereafter, selection experiments and experimental evolution became increasingly common in evolutionary physiology. (wikipedia.org)
  • It has been subject of many evolutionary studies within the group, due to its considerable ability to successfully occupy a wide range of environments and also because of its great genetic variability expressed by different markers. (scielo.br)
  • We argue that in the field of sports science the psychobiological functions that have evolved to face and deal with the complex social dynamics of competition have not been thoroughly analyzed from an evolutionary perspective. (springer.com)
  • According to Garland and Carter, evolutionary physiology arose in the late 1970s, following debates concerning the metabolic and thermoregulatory status of dinosaurs (see physiology of dinosaurs) and mammal-like reptiles. (wikipedia.org)
  • How intense was evolutionary indoctrination during your own university training? (creation.com)
  • He received a B.A. in physical education/martial arts at the International Budo (Martial Arts) University in Japan, a M.S. in human bioenergetics from Ball State University, and a Ph.D. in applied physiology from the University of Tennessee. (eurekaselect.com)
  • He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in cardiovascular physiology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. (eurekaselect.com)
  • Aside from this, I also have a general interest in evolutionary life history ecology. (lu.se)
  • The field relies on fundamental information on the natural history and evolutionary ecology of the pathogens and hosts involved. (cdc.gov)
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27:2069-2079. (wsu.edu)
  • From 1936 to 1950, he combined his multiple duties with those of the head of I.P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (memorial plaque). (encspb.ru)