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Theoretical and applied cancer studies that use individual-based models (IBMs) have been limited by the lack of a mathematical formulation that enables rigorous analysis of these models. However, spatial cumul...
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Why We Disagree About Selfish Genes: A Reply to Welch
In his insightful commentary, Welch notes that a key reason for why the disagreement over the gene’s-eye view have proved to viable is that it is made up of both scientific and political dimensions. Here, I ad...
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Pluralism and Progress in Evolutionary Biology: A Commentary on Distin
Distin offers a fascinating account of evolvability and its vexed place in evolutionary theory. I draw on the history of social evolution to offer some suggestions how to move the debate forward.
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Genes and Organisms in the Legacy of the Modern Synthesis
The gene’s-eye view of evolution is an prominent but controversial perspective on biology. It emerged in the aftermath of the Modern Synthesis and both proponents and detractors have stressed the link between ...
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Open AccessGenetic conflicts and the case for licensed anthropomorphizing
The use of intentional language in biology is controversial. It has been commonly applied by researchers in behavioral ecology, who have not shied away from employing agential thinking or even anthropomorphism...
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Meiosis solved the problem of gerrymandering
Gerrymandering, the structuring of voting districts to favour certain politicians and political groups, undermines fair elections and presents a serious challenge to democracy. We introduce a solution to gerry...
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Reply to: Broad definitions of enforcement are unhelpful for understanding evolutionary mechanisms of cooperation
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Enforcement is central to the evolution of cooperation
Cooperation occurs at all levels of life, from genomes, complex cells and multicellular organisms to societies and mutualisms between species. A major question for evolutionary biology is what these diverse sy...
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Open AccessA naturalists guide to mobile genetic elements
Mobile DNA III, edited by Nancy L. Craig, Michael Chandler, Martin Gellert, Alan M. Lambowitz, Phoebe A. Rice, and Suzanne B. Sandmeyer. Washington: American Soci...
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Bengt Olle Bengtsson & Gunnar Broberg (red.), Bortom det acceptablas gränser. Bengt Lidforss och lundaradikalismen
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Open AccessMating system shifts and transposable element evolution in the plant genus Capsella
Despite having predominately deleterious fitness effects, transposable elements (TEs) are major constituents of eukaryote genomes in general and of plant genomes in particular. Although the proportion of the g...
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Selfish Genes and Plant Speciation
A key to understand the process of speciation is to uncover the genetic basis of hybrid incompatibilities. Selfish genetic elements (SGEs), DNA sequences that can spread in a population despite being associate...
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Sex, spite, and selfish genes
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Open AccessThe Capsella rubella genome and the genomic consequences of rapid mating system evolution
Stephen Wright, Detlef Weigel and colleagues report the whole-genome sequence of Capsella rubella, a highly selfing crucifer found throughout much of southern and western Europe. They compare mixed-stage flower b...
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Co-evolution between transposable elements and their hosts: a major factor in genome size evolution?
Most models of genome size evolution emphasize changes in relative rates of and/or the efficacy of selection on insertions and deletions. However, transposable elements (TEs) are a major contributor to genome ...
