Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "coevolution"
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Geographic distribution of the anti-parasite trait “slave rebellion”
(Springer Nature, 2012)Social parasites exploit the brood care behavior of other species and can exert strong selection pressures on their hosts. As a consequence, hosts have developed defenses to circumvent or to lower the costs of parasitism. ... -
Izumo1 and Juno: the evolutionary origins and coevolution of essential sperm–egg binding partners
(The Royal Society Publishing, 2015)Reproductive proteins are among the most rapidly evolving classes of proteins. For a subset of these, rapid evolution is driven by positive Darwinian selection despite vital, well-conserved, reproductive functions. Izumo1 ... -
Neuroscience and the Dialectics of History
(Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, 2012)Historians, like all social scientists, must make assumptions about how the brain works. This essay suggests how some of the recent findings of the brain sciences might enhance our ability to understand or describe patterns ... -
Parallel Evolution of Tetrodotoxin Resistance in Three Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Genes in the Garter Snake Thamnophis sirtalis
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Members of a gene family expressed in a single species often experience common selection pressures. Consequently, the molecular basis of complex adaptations may be expected to involve parallel evolutionary changes in ... -
Repeated Games and Direct Reciprocity Under Active Linking
(Elsevier, 2008)Direct reciprocity relies on repeated encounters between the same two individuals. Here we examine the evolution of cooperation under direct reciprocity in dynamically structured populations. Individuals occupy the vertices ... -
Specialization and Geographic Isolation among Wolbachia Symbionts from Ants and Lycaenid Butterflies
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)Wolbachia are the most prevalent and influential bacteria described among the insects to date. But despite their significance, we lack an understanding of their evolutionary histories. To describe the evolution of symbioses ... -
Temporal lags and overlap in the diversification of weevils and flowering plants
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009)The extraordinary diversity of herbivorous beetles is usually attributed to coevolution with angiosperms. However, the degree and nature of contemporaneity in beetle and angiosperm diversification remain unclear. Here we ...