Section edited by Laura Kubatko and Arne Traulsen
This section considers studies in mathematical modeling of evolutionary processes and research into theoretical areas.
Section edited by Laura Kubatko and Arne Traulsen
This section considers studies in mathematical modeling of evolutionary processes and research into theoretical areas.
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One of the dangers of global climate change to wildlife is distorting sex ratios by temperature-induced sex reversals in populations where sex determination is not exclusively genetic, potentially leading to p...
Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:16
Honeybees have extraordinary phenotypic plasticity in their senescence rate, making them a fascinating model system for the evolution of aging. Seasonal variation in senescence and extrinsic mortality results ...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:139
Tumors are widely recognized to progress through clonal evolution by sequentially acquiring selectively advantageous genetic alterations that significantly contribute to tumorigenesis and thus are termned driv...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:89
The molecular clock is an important genetic tool for estimating evolutionary timescales. However, the detection of a time-dependent effect on substitution rate estimates complicates its application. It has bee...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:78
We hypothesize prebiotic evolution of self-replicating macro-molecules (Alberts, Molecular biology of the cell, 2015; Orgel, Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 39:99-123, 2004; Hud, Nat Commun 9:5171) favoured the cons...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:75
Individuals consistently differ in behaviour, exhibiting so-called personalities. In many species, individuals differ also in their cognitive abilities. When personalities and cognitive abilities occur in dist...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:234
Mutators are common in bacterial populations, both in natural isolates and in the lab. The fate of these lineages, which mutation rate is increased up to 100 ×, has long been studied using population genetics ...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:191
Organisms are expected to respond to changing environmental conditions through local adaptation, range shift or local extinction. The process of local adaptation can occur by genetic changes or phenotypic plas...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:175
The evolution of multi-cellular animals has produced a conspicuous trend toward increased body size. This trend has introduced at least two novel problems: an expected elevated risk of somatic disorders, such ...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:172
For the understanding of human nature, the evolutionary roots of human moral behaviour are a key precondition. Our question is as follows: Can the altruistic moral rule “Risk your life to save your family memb...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:147
Local adaptation of marine and diadromous species is thought to be a product of larval dispersal, settlement mortality, and differential reproductive success, particularly in heterogeneous post-settlement habi...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:88
It has long been suggested that Darwinian evolution may have started at the molecular level and subsequently proceeded to a level with membrane boundary, i.e., of protocells. The transformation has been referr...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:84
An excess of nonsynonymous substitutions, over neutrality, is considered evidence of positive Darwinian selection. Inference for proteins often relies on estimation of the nonsynonymous to synonymous ratio (ω = d
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:22
A strong variability in cancer incidence is observed between human organs. Recently, it has been suggested that the relative contribution of organs to organism fitness (reproduction or survival) could explain ...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:185
Following recent advances in bioimaging, high-resolution 3D models of biological structures are now generated rapidly and at low-cost. To use this data to address evolutionary and ecological questions, an arra...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:184
Macroevolutionary modeling of species diversification plays important roles in inferring large-scale biodiversity patterns. It allows estimation of speciation and extinction rates and statistically testing the...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:123
Phylogenetic comparative methods allow us to test evolutionary hypotheses without the benefit of an extensive fossil record. These methods, however, make simplifying assumptions, among them that clades are alw...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:69
That population size affects the fate of new mutations arising in genomes, modulating both how frequently they arise and how efficiently natural selection is able to filter them, is well established. It is the...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:17
The reliability of signals is a key issue in the study of animal communication. Both empirical work and theoretical models show that communication need not be entirely honest, and thus signals can be deceitful...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:270
Recently, important discoveries regarding the archaeon that functioned as the “host” in the merger with a bacterium that led to the eukaryotes, its “complex” nature, and its phylogenetic relationship to eukary...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:218
Estimating the variability in isolation times across co-distributed taxon pairs that may have experienced the same allopatric isolating mechanism is a core goal of comparative phylogeography. The use of hierar...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:203
Animal and plant species can harbour microbes that provide them with protection against enemies. These beneficial microbes can be a significant component of host defence that complement or replaces a repertoir...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:190
B4galnt2 is a blood group-related glycosyltransferase that displays cis-regulatory variation for its tissue-specific expression patterns in house mice. The wild type allele, found e.g....
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:187
Hundreds of herbarium collections have accumulated a valuable heritage and knowledge of plants over several centuries. Recent initiatives started ambitious preservation plans to digitize this information and m...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:181
Phylogenetic codon models are often used to characterize the selective regimes acting on protein-coding sequences. Recent methodological developments have led to models explicitly accounting for the interplay ...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:147
Amino acid substitution models play an essential role in inferring phylogenies from mitochondrial protein data. However, only few empirical models have been estimated from restricted mitochondrial protein data...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:136
Over the last 300 years, interactions between alewives and zooplankton communities in several lakes in the U.S. have caused the alewives’ morphology to transition rapidly from anadromous to landlocked. Lakes w...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:58
Advanced cognitive abilities are widely thought to underpin cultural traditions and cumulative cultural change. In contrast, recent simulation models have found that basic social influences on learning suffice...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:49
Blindness has evolved repeatedly in cave-dwelling organisms, and many hypotheses have been proposed to explain this observation, including both accumulation of neutral loss-of-function mutations and adaptation...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:45
Gene duplication has been identified as a key process driving functional change in many genomes. Several biological models exist for the evolution of a pair of duplicates after a duplication event, and it is b...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:38
Genetic canalization reflects the capacity of an organism’s phenotype to remain unchanged in spite of mutations. As selection on genetic canalization is weak and indirect, whether or not genetic canalization c...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:239
Host resistance and viral pathogenicity are determined by molecular interactions that are part of the evolutionary arms race between viruses and their hosts. Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites and en...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:233
Colour polymorphic species provide invaluable insight into processes that generate and maintain intra-specific variation. Despite an increasing understanding of the genetic basis of discrete morphs, sources of...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:179
Social learning is potentially advantageous, but evolutionary theory predicts that (i) its benefits may be self-limiting because social learning can lead to information parasitism, and (ii) these limitations c...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:166
Human influenza virus A/H3N2 undergoes rapid adaptive evolution in response to host immunity. Positively selected amino acid substitutions have been detected mainly in the hemagglutinin (HA) segment. The genea...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:156
Biparental inbreeding, mating between two relatives, occurs at a low frequency in many natural plant populations, which also often have substantial rates of self-fertilization. Although biparental inbreeding i...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:105
Organisms have evolved a variety of defence mechanisms against natural enemies, which are typically used at the expense of other life history components. Induced defence mechanisms impose minor costs when path...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:92
Mixed dispersal syndromes have historically been regarded as a bet-hedging mechanism that enhances survivorship in unpredictable environments, ensuring that some propagules stay in the maternal environment whi...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:71
Darwin and the architects of the Modern Synthesis found sympatric speciation difficult to explain and suggested it is unlikely to occur. Increasingly, evidence over the past few decades suggest that sympatric ...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:50
Dosage balance has been described as an important process for the retention of duplicate genes after whole genome duplication events. However, dosage balance is only a temporary mechanism for duplicate gene re...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:45
Currently there is no satisfactory explanation for why bacterial insertion sequences (ISs) widely occur across prokaryotes despite being mostly harmful to their host genomes. Rates of horizontal gene transfer ...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:288
Accurately estimating the timing and mode of gene duplications along the evolutionary history of species can provide invaluable information about underlying mechanisms by which the genomes of organisms evolved...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:275
The glucose effect is a well known phenomenon whereby cells, when presented with two different nutrients, show a diauxic growth pattern, i.e. an episode of exponential growth followed by a lag phase of reduced...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:211
Recent methodological advances allow better examination of speciation and extinction processes and patterns. A major open question is the origin of large discrepancies in species number between groups of the s...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:157
The quasispecies model refers to information carriers that undergo self-replication with errors. A quasispecies is a steady-state population of biopolymer sequence variants generated by mutations from a master...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:265
The allele frequency spectrum (AFS) consists of counts of the number of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci with derived variants present at each given frequency in a sample. Multiple approaches have rec...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:254
The value of a continuous character evolving on a phylogenetic tree is commonly modelled as the location of a particle moving under one-dimensional Brownian motion with constant rate. The Brownian motion model...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:226
RNA or RNA-like polymers are the most likely candidates for having played the lead roles on the stage of the origin of life. RNA is known to feature two of the three essential functions of living entities (met...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:234
Brain signaling requires energy. The cost of maintaining and supporting energetically demanding neurons is the key constraint on brain size. The dramatic increase in brain size among mammals and birds cannot b...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:178
Drosophila Dscam1 is a cell-surface protein that plays important roles in neural development and axon tiling of neurons. It is known that thousands of isoforms bind themselves through specific homophilic interact...
Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:186
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3.252 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.198 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.531 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)