• Understanding how large-scale environmental variability may shape the distribution of phenotypic variation remains central to evolutionary biology. (frontiersin.org)
  • Under our leadership, the Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology - ESEB 2022 took place on 14-19 August. (guarant.cz)
  • We would like to thank the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, all participants, speakers, partners and exhibitors for another great year of the ESEB Congress. (guarant.cz)
  • It is a sub-discipline of both physiology and evolutionary biology. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • My BSc was focused on organisms' biology and ecology while my MSc was focused on evolutionary and functional ecology, more particularly in theory and modelling. (lu.se)
  • Software and Databases for Molecular Evolutionary Biology. (who.int)
  • These data validate our hypothesis that detailed evolutionary analyses help predict the consequences of missense amino-acid variants. (nih.gov)
  • Applicants will need to make a statement (cover letter) how they are planning to contribute to the training of early career scientists in comparative and evolutionary genome analyses (and other OMICs). (dfg.de)
  • As a result, pseudogene-annotated regions are largely excluded from functional screen and genomic analyses. (reasons.org)
  • In this study, we carried out an evolutionary, transcriptional, and functional analyses of the trihelix transcription factor family. (korea.ac.kr)
  • PON1 status, determined with two-substrate analyses, reveals an individual's functional Q192R genotype and activity levels. (cdc.gov)
  • Execution Analyses to identify evolutionary first principles that make cancer cells grow, spread, and survive microenvironmental challenges. (lu.se)
  • Our results thus begin to establish a genomic basis for the evolutionary success of beetles on plants. (uni-koeln.de)
  • In March 2021, the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) established the Priority Programme "Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations (GEvol)" (SPP 2349). (dfg.de)
  • For the first time, the team, led by scientists at Uppsala University in Sweden have performed a comprehensive genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic analysis of the zebra finch GRC, uncovering its evolutionary history and function. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • By identifying specific genes and comparing them with genomic data from other species, the scientists could unravel the evolutionary history of the GRC. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • Our projects include developing tests to detect patterns of ancient selection, creating methods to integrate functional and population genomic data, and inferring demographic parameters using present-day and archaic human genomes. (google.com)
  • The ecology behind evolutionary diversification is a well studied area of research, whereas the effects of evolution on ecosystems get little attention. (diva-portal.org)
  • In line with ecological theory, evolutionary diversification of a species could influence different ecosystem aspects such as food web composition, energy flow, nutrient cycling etc. (diva-portal.org)
  • The genetic basis of the evolutionary diversification of honey bees remains largely unknown. (nih.gov)
  • The ESEB Congress, which takes place regularly every two years, attracted more than 1,600 evolutionary biologists from all over the world to the Prague Congress Centre (KCP). (guarant.cz)
  • 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)
  • Evolutionary biologists study the descent of species , and the origin of new species . (wikimedia.org)
  • We undertook genome sequencing and annotation, gene expression assays, studies of plant cell wall degrading enzymes, and other functional and comparative studies of the Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis, a globally significant invasive species capable of inflicting severe feeding damage on many important tree species. (uni-koeln.de)
  • These findings highlight the importance of within-species genetic heterogeneity in facilitating an evolutionary response to a changing climate. (nature.com)
  • Insects are the most species rich class of metazoans with a huge variation in various traits making them the ideal system to investigate general principles of the evolutionary dynamics underlying major innovations based on a comparative genomics framework. (dfg.de)
  • Wing size was associated with the genetic structure in all species, highlighting the functional importance of this trait. (frontiersin.org)
  • Prominent personalities of this year's congress were Prof. Hanna Kokko, who became famous for her research on the evolution of sexual reproduction, the evolutionary ecology of cancer and the relationship between ecology and evolution, and Prof. Roger Butlin, who made a significant contribution to the understanding of the formation of new species. (guarant.cz)
  • Wood formation is a fundamental evolutionary innovation that gave rise to countless woody species. (naturalis.nl)
  • The complex mosaic of changes in brain morphology and functional organization that have shaped the mammalian cortex during evolution, complicates attempts to chart cortical differences across species. (harvard.edu)
  • Critically, we find cross-species similarity in functional organization reflects a gradient of evolutionary change that decreases from unimodal systems and culminates with the most pronounced changes in posterior regions of the default mode network (angular gyrus, posterior cingulate and middle temporal cortices). (harvard.edu)
  • This happens in convergent evolution when two entirely separate species evolve the same functional characteristic. (chicagoboyz.net)
  • The functional diversity of the protein in different species was correlated with mutations , change in secondary structure and the evolutionary relatedness of the protein in different species. (bvsalud.org)
  • To achieve our aim, we use methods from species evolution (phylogenetics) to reconstruct the evolutionary history of individual tumours, from its founder cell up to clinical presentation, over treatment periods and at relapse. (lu.se)
  • Evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements in bdelloid rotifers. (mpg.de)
  • The role of stressors in altering eco-evolutionary dynamics. (mpg.de)
  • Dual-stressor selection alters eco-evolutionary dynamics in experimental communities. (mpg.de)
  • The aim of my PhD is to assess, through modelling, the effects that these eco-evolutionary dynamics (i.e. demographic and evolutionary dynamics) have on biological pest control. (lu.se)
  • This book formulates and provides a wealth of cross-disciplinary evidence for a radically new theoretical hypothesis regarding the evolutionary development of language. (rowman.com)
  • This has laid the foundation for my novel hypothesis, proposing drought as a major driver of the evolutionary transitions towards woodiness across most lineages. (naturalis.nl)
  • Parasitoids are important regulators of arthropod populations, including major agricultural pests and disease vectors, and Nasonia is an emerging genetic model, particularly for evolutionary and developmental genetics. (lu.se)
  • Eventually, the emerging hypotheses shall be tested by functional genetics experiments where possible. (dfg.de)
  • We are interested in using population and quantitative genetics to understand past evolutionary processes, with a particular focus on human evolution and ancient DNA. (google.com)
  • Despite the significance of this developmental feat, its evolutionary origins have remained unclear, owing largely to the fact that there has been little comparative (evolutionary) work done on this topic between the jawed vertebrates and cyclostomes-the jawless lampreys and hagfishes. (frontiersin.org)
  • New experimental and computational techniques provide exciting opportunities to study the evolutionary history of genomes using comparative genomics. (dfg.de)
  • Wherever possible, functional genomics (e.g. (dfg.de)
  • 11 University of Greifswald, Center for Functional Genomics of Microbes, 17489 Greifswald, Germany. (nih.gov)
  • Tsagkogeorga G, Cahais V, Galtier N. The population genomics of a fast evolver: high levels of diversity, functional constraint, and molecular adaptation in the tunicate Ciona intestinalis. (who.int)
  • It generated vigorous debate, and within a few years the National Science Foundation had developed a panel titled Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conclusions: Amplification and functional divergence of genes associated with specialized feeding on plants, including genes originally obtained via horizontal gene transfer from fungi and bacteria, contributed to the addition, expansion, and enhancement of the metabolic repertoire of the Asian longhorned beetle, certain other phytophagous beetles, and to a lesser degree, other phytophagous insects. (uni-koeln.de)
  • Since these out-of-place genes could not have been inherited from evolutionary ancestors, the best explanation is that God tailored them to fit and function exactly as they do in each organism. (icr.org)
  • Traditionally, life scientists have viewed pseudogenes as the remnants of once functional genes. (reasons.org)
  • Such features indicate to the investigators that these sequence elements were functional genes at one time in evolutionary history, but eventually lost function due to mutations or other biochemical processes, such as reverse transcription and DNA insertion. (reasons.org)
  • In contrast, few Arobidopsis genes showed inducible expression under abiotic stress conditions, which may indicate a functional shift. (korea.ac.kr)
  • and (3) certain genes show low polymorphism yet high divergence among independent evolutionary runs. (nyu.edu)
  • A Clostridioides difficile bacteriophage genome encodes functional binary toxin-associated genes. (cdc.gov)
  • Finally, our co-expression analysis points to the involvement of this family in various metabolic processes, implying their further functional divergence. (korea.ac.kr)
  • 1990). Moreover, the functional processes mediated by tation period of interpretational controversy. (lu.se)
  • Feng PCH , Monday SR , Lacher DW , Allison L , Siitonen A , Keys C , Genetic diversity among clonal lineages within Escherichia coli O157:H7 stepwise evolutionary model. (cdc.gov)
  • When atheists offer up religion's diversity as proof it is fictional and arbitrary, they make an evolutionary-theory rookie mistake. (chicagoboyz.net)
  • For many years to come, this highly stimulating and articulate work will be a rich source of ideas and productive insights for readers and researchers interested in the cognitive foundations and evolutionary development of the human capacity for language. (rowman.com)
  • An international team including researchers from the University of Sheffield has unravelled the evolutionary history of the germline-restricted chromosome (GRC), bringing new evolutionary insights into the early development of songbirds. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • The field is closely related to comparative physiology and environmental physiology, and its findings are a major concern of evolutionary medicine. (wikipedia.org)
  • I am a comparative anatomist, paleontologist, and evolutionary biologist. (lu.se)
  • He applies evolutionary theory to all aspects of humanity in addition to the rest of life, both in his own research and as director of EvoS, a unique campus-wide evolutionary studies program that recently received NSF funding to expand into a nationwide consortium. (binghamton.edu)
  • I used to believe it myself but in the last 15 years my ongoing study of evolutionary theory convinced me that atheists have missed one crucial piece of evidence: We don't have a vast variety of contradictory religions, we have a vast variety religions that all teach the same thing. (chicagoboyz.net)
  • Evolutionary Theory 101 states that natural selection selects solely for the phenotype and ignores the genotype . (chicagoboyz.net)
  • Escherichia coli O157:H7 Shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophages: integrations, excisions, truncations, and evolutionary implications. (cdc.gov)
  • ATAC-seq, single-cell sequencing, spatial transcriptomics) and/or functional testing of emerging hypotheses using RNAi and/or genome editing should be considered for this or the subsequent round of funding. (dfg.de)
  • Too often they regard the human genome as a repository of useless, nonfunctional DNA that arises as a vestige of evolutionary history. (reasons.org)
  • The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE) published between 1 August 2022 - 31 July 2023 which are tracked by the Nature Index. (nature.com)
  • Evolutionary Applications (2022) 15 (4): 603. (karger.com)
  • We looked for evolutionary parameters at each codon that would predict whether missense mutations were disease associated or disrupted function. (nih.gov)
  • Mutations and functional analysis of 14-3-3 stress response protein from Triticum aestivum: An evolutionary analysis through in silico structural biochemistry approach. (bvsalud.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)
  • 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)
  • infection, have been "subverted" by certain pathogens by unique evolutionary adaptations of their surface glycome to gain host entry, and the acquisition of effective mechanisms to evade the host's immune responses. (nsf.gov)
  • In her new book, Tool Intelligence as an Explanation of Cross-Linguistic Variation and Family Resemblance: An Evolutionary and Typological Investigation , Anneliese Kuhle has rendered the cognitive, linguistics, and evolutionary communities a great service. (rowman.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)
  • that is, the manner in which the functional characteristics of individuals in a population of organisms have responded to natural selection across multiple generations during the history of the population. (wikipedia.org)
  • The current p16 evolutionary substitution database is too small to determine whether observations of 'absolute conservation' are statistically significant. (nih.gov)
  • Galectins are a family of ß-galactoside-binding lectins characterized by a unique sequence motif in the carbohydrate recognition domain, and evolutionary and structural conservation from fungi to invertebrates and vertebrates, including mammals. (nsf.gov)
  • It is a machine learning-based approach and utilizes amino acid features, Gene Ontology (GO) annotations, evolutionary conservation, and annotations of functional sites. (lu.se)
  • Prior completion of Neuroscience 101/102 or 201 or Evolutionary Anthropology 101 highly recommended. (duke.edu)
  • Evolutionists published the results of their investigation in the journal Evolution , concluding that the bones are fully functional and necessary to whale reproduction. (icr.org)
  • Shortly thereafter, selection experiments and experimental evolution became increasingly common in evolutionary physiology. (wikipedia.org)
  • I am a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist who studies the anatomy, phylogeny, and evolution of fossil vertebrates, particularly dinosaurs, birds, and mammals. (lu.se)
  • We make genetic and functional maps of cancer cell evolution in patients by analysing multiple tumour samples from the same patient. (lu.se)
  • SMITH, P. K. Does play matter: Functional and evolutionary aspects of animal and human play. (bvsalud.org)
  • In Niger, data are non-existent, hence the aim of our study, which was to clarify the epidemiological, diagnostic, therapeutic and evolutionary aspects of peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM). (bvsalud.org)
  • During this evolutionary process, the experimental basis of the current (multiple) views on proteins have adapted to and exploited the unique physi- protein hydration, with an emphasis on the dynamic cal properties of liquid water (Eisenberg & Kauzmann aspects. (lu.se)
  • I am fascinated to understand the climatic and genetic drivers of wood formation that has occurred hundreds of times during evolutionary history. (naturalis.nl)
  • Form I rubisco, which is found in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, has a deep evolutionary history with the planet, going back nearly 2.4 billion years to the Great Oxygenation Event, when cyanobacteria literally transformed the Earth's atmosphere by introducing oxygen to it through photosynthesis. (lbl.gov)
  • Here we refine these evolutionary studies and expand them to the p16/Ink4a gene. (nih.gov)
  • 0.05, the evolutionary substitution database must contain at least 3(M) variants, where M equals the number of codons in the gene. (nih.gov)
  • Functional and evolutionary inference in gene networks: Does topology matter? (nyu.edu)
  • Evolutionary simulations of gene-regulatory networks, presented here, suggest that such weak or non-existent correlations are to be expected, and are likely not due to inadequacy of experimental data. (nyu.edu)
  • We argue that 'top-down' inferences of biological properties based on simple measures of network topology are of limited utility, and we present simulation results suggesting that much more detailed information about a gene's location in a regulatory network, as well as dynamic gene-expression data, are needed to make more meaningful functional and evolutionary predictions. (nyu.edu)
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  • Several common variations (polymorphisms) in the OCA2 gene reduce the amount of functional P protein that is produced. (medlineplus.gov)
  • A single SNP in an evolutionary conserved region within intron 86 of the HERC2 gene determines human blue-brown eye color. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Once a DNA sequence is labeled a pseudogene, bias sets in and researchers just assume that it lacks function-not because it has been experimentally demonstrated to be nonfunctional, but because of the stereotyping that arises out of the evolutionary paradigm. (reasons.org)
  • Neural signals are typical nonstationary data where the functional mapping between neural activities and the intentions (such as the velocity of movements) can occasionally change. (nips.cc)
  • Existing studies mostly use a fixed neural decoder, thus suffering from an unstable performance given neural functional changes. (nips.cc)
  • We propose a novel evolutionary ensemble framework (EvoEnsemble) to dynamically cope with changes in neural signals by evolving the decoder model accordingly. (nips.cc)
  • The improvement is most significant in neural signals with functional changes. (nips.cc)
  • The greatest challenge in explaining the evolutionary origins of human language arises from its unique standing in the animal kingdom. (rowman.com)
  • Interpersonal and Media Gossip from an Evolutionary Perspective. (ethesis.net)
  • The relationship between the topology of a biological network and its functional or evolutionary properties has attracted much recent interest. (nyu.edu)
  • The study showed that there was no significant difference between chara and reed ecotype in their functional role. (diva-portal.org)
  • I study the evolutionary and ecological factors that govern the dispersal abilities of community members of aseasonal ephemeral microcosms. (researchgate.net)
  • It is with reference to these components that most functional studies are interpreted. (elsevierpure.com)
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  • an evolutionary and functional analysis. (cdc.gov)
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  • Traditionally atheists have argued that religions cannot have any functional foundations because there are many different religions with so many different stories about how the universe works. (chicagoboyz.net)
  • Posterior elements of the lumbar spinal functional unit typically bear less weight than anterior elements in all positions. (medscape.com)
  • Such so-called functional amyloids are involved in hormone and toxin storage and release, formation of cell surface structures in microorganisms and scaffolding of pigment synthesis. (hal.science)
  • Other functional forms of rubisco exist in bacteria and microorganisms of the Archaea domain. (lbl.gov)