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Quantifying the Role of Population Subdivision in Evolution on Rugged Fitness Landscapes

Natural selection drives populations towards higher fitness, but crossing fitness valleys or plateaus may facilitate progress up a rugged fitness landscape involving epistasis. We investigate quantitatively the effect of subdividing an asexual population o ...

2014

Contribution of Genetic Background, Traditional Risk Factors, and HIV-Related Factors to Coronary Artery Disease Events in HIV-Positive Persons

Jacques Fellay, Amalio Telenti, Xuan Li

Background. Persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have increased rates of coronary artery disease (CAD). The relative contribution of genetic background, HIV-related factors, antiretroviral medications, and traditional risk factors to CA ...

Oxford University Press2013

Analysis of B. taurus and B. indicus admixture in Uganda as revealed by the Illumina BovineSNP50 Genotyping BeadChip

Stéphane Joost, Sylvie Stucki, Pierre Taberlet

The NextGen project investigates disease resistance in indigenous Ugandan cattle. Since population structure and stratification may produce biased results, We have investigated the genomic structure of sampled animals genotyped with the BovineSNP50 Genotyp ...

2013

The Physiological Opportunism of Desulfitobacterium hafniense Strain TCE1 towards Organohalide Respiration with Tetrachloroethene

Christof Holliger, Julien Maillard, Aurélie Duret

Desulfitobacterium hafniense strain TCE1 is capable of metabolically reducing tetra- and trichloroethenes by organohalide respiration. A previous study revealed that the pce gene cluster responsible for this process is located on an active composite transp ...

American Society for Microbiology2012

Differences in the Concept of Fitness Between Artificial Evolution and Natural Selection

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Pawel Lichocki

Evolutionary algorithms were proposed to automatically find solutions to computational problems, much like evolution discovers new adaptive traits. Lately, they have been used to address challenging questions about the evolution of modularity, the genetic ...

The MIT Press2012

A Quantitative Test of Hamilton's Rule for the Evolution of Altruism

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Markus Waibel

The evolution of altruism is a fundamental and enduring puzzle in biology. In a seminal paper Hamilton showed that altruism can be selected for when rb − c>0, where c is the fitness cost to the altruist, b is the fitness benefit to the beneficiary, and r i ...

Public Library of Science2011

The Roundtable: An Abstract Model of Conversation Dynamics

Massimo Mastrangeli

Is it possible to abstract a formal mechanism originating schisms and governing the size evolution of social conversations? In this work we propose a constructive solution to this problem: an abstract model of a generic N-party turn-taking conversation. Th ...

University of Surrey, Department of Sociology2010

Using Co-solvability to Model and Exploit Synergetic Effects in Evolution

Pawel Lichocki

We introduce, analyze, and experimentally verify the concept of co-solvability, meant as the ability of a solution maintained by an evolutionary run to solve (correctly process) a pair of fitness cases (tests). The method based on this concept can be consi ...

Springer2010

Exponential Natural Evolution Strategies

Daniël Pieter Wierstra, Tom Schaul

The family of natural evolution strategies (NES) offers a principled approach to real-valued evolutionary optimization by following the natural gradient of the expected fitness. Like the well-known CMA-ES, the most competitive algorithm in the field, NES c ...

2010

Systematic Inference of Copy-Number Genotypes from Personal Genome Sequencing Data Reveals Extensive Olfactory Receptor Gene Content Diversity

Sebastian Martin Waszak

Copy-number variations (CNVs) are widespread in the human genome, but comprehensive assignments of integer locus copy-numbers (i.e., copy-number genotypes) that, for example, enable discrimination of homozygous from heterozygous CNVs, have remained challen ...

Public Library of Science2010

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