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Strong signature of natural selection within an FHIT intron implicated in prostate cancer risk.
... mutation, natural selection, genetic drift, and recombination have shaped the pattern of variation in the human ...genome. Natural selection, which acts on functionally important genetic ...
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Could natural selection change the geographic range limits of light brown apple moth (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) in North America?
... If natural selection follows a pattern similar to what our research suggests, within a relatively short period, current models may underesti- mate the risk of ...
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Human fertility, molecular genetics, and natural selection in modern societies.
... The current study exploits recent advances in the field of molecular and quantitative genet- ics by applying genomic-relationship-matrix restricted maximum likelihood (GREML) meth- ods to quantify for the first time the ...
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Natural selection, not mutation: recombination in Drosophila increases diversity.
... The team’s findings were unambiguous: the rate of recombination in a region had no relationship to the genetic divergence. However, within the D. pseudoobscura ge- nome, the local rate of recombination was correlated ...
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The role of natural selection in human evolution – insights from Latin America
... of natural selection in shaping a considerable portion of the human ...of selection regimes, such as selection on standing genetic variation and the dynamics of polygenic ...
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Widespread genomic signatures of natural selection in hominid evolution.
... background selection on deleterious mutations occurring outside our designated conserved segments, including mutations in other coding or exonic sites (only 63% of annotated coding bases meet our conservation ...
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Genomic analysis of natural selection and phenotypic variation in high-altitude mongolians.
... of selection candidate genes among Buryat and DU Mongolians and two Tibetan populations yields candidate genes that may be related to metabolic factors involved in adaptation to cold, arid conditions and a ...
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Manuscrito vol.37 número2
... that natural selection is more important to functional explanations than it has been normally thought in some of the literature in philosophy of ...of natural selection in functional ...
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Ryan Simon Mohammed 1,2,5 , Cock van Oosterhout3 , Bettina Schelkle4
... Abstract: Guppies (Poecilia reticulata Peters 1859) in lakes and from captive-bred populations are predicted to show little rheotaxis compared to conspecifics in a stream environment that are regularly exposed to flash ...
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Brazil. J. Polit. Econ. vol.37 número3
... Research of Daniel Todes emphasizes how place and related variables like population density could indeed bear influence on scientific inquiry that sought to establish the forces and variables at work driving ...
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Taislene Butarello Rodrigues and João Bosco dos Santos
... that natural selection is predominant in fa- voring allele from the Carioca MG parent is in line with the fact that in Brazil this cultivar is grown in most of the area cropped with ...why natural ...
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Clinics vol.64 número5
... Darwinian natural selection purges deleterious features from organisms, and the senile process is clearly non-defensible as some kind of individual improvement? Senescence is defined by increasing mortality ...
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A FORMAÇÃO DO PROFISSIONAL EM SECRETARIADO EXECUTIVO NO MERCADO DE TRABALHO GLOBALIZADO
... A Inserção da Mulher no Mundo dos Negócios: Construindo uma Identidade (s/d). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races i[r] ...
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Evidence that mutation is universally biased towards AT in bacteria.
... If natural selection plays a strong role in determining GC content it suggests that in many bacteria there are no truly neutrally evolving ...such selection remains ...genome-wide, natural ...
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Hist. cienc. saudeManguinhos vol.8 número3
... The works of the ‘three giants’, Haldane, Fisher and Wright, so called by Crow (1987), were at the same time unified and different. Fisher (1930) and Wright (1931) built up distinctive systems. Fisher’s system was ...
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Contrasted patterns of selection on MHC-linked microsatellites in natural populations of the Malagasy plague reservoir.
... Immune genes have been shown to be strongly affected by natural selection [1,2]. In particular, the genes of the Major Histocompat- ibility Complex (MHC) have attracted the attention of evolutionary ...
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Genital evolution: why are females still understudied?
... of natural selection on other traits [3], female choice [4], sperm competition (competition between sperm from different males for an egg) [5], and sexual conflict (occurring when the two sexes have ...
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Epilepsy research 150 years after Darwin's theory of evolution
... as I believe, is that the modiied offspring of all dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to many and highly diversiied places in the economy of nature.” With these observations, he proposed a theory of ...
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Modified Genetic Algorithms Based Solution To Subset Sum Problem
... After Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are search algorithms based on the theory of natural selection with an innovative flair of human touch. The central idea of research on GAs has been robustness. This class not ...
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Book Review: The Human Mind Isn't Perfect — Who Knew?1
... For example, Marcus describes a study by Haselton and Buss (2000) proposing that men overestimate the sexual receptivity of potential partners because it has been, on average, a successful mating strategy over ...
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