The evolution of clonal multicellular life cycles, whose growth is constrained by competition, may lead to coexistence or multistability between several life cycles while evolutionarily stable strategies can be inferred from the analysis of a model with unconstrained growth.
Luca Casiraghi, Francesco Mambretti ... Tommaso Bellini
A variant of SELEX introduced here to induce abiotic evolution in a molecular system enables to observe and study speciation, the nature of fitness, and the interplay between use of resources and interactions between individuals.
Bertrand Ottino-Loffler, Jacob G Scott, Steven H Strogatz
Evolutionary graph theory solves the longstanding puzzle of why diverse infectious diseases and cancers show similar (approximately lognormal) distributions of their incubation periods.
Alvin X Han, Zandra C Felix Garza ... Colin A Russell
The longer duration of seasonal influenza virus infection in young children may provide opportunities for within-host evolution as a result of maintenance of genetic diversity through mutation-selection balance.
Reuben W Nowell, Christopher G Wilson ... Timothy G Barraclough
An investigation of transposable element evolution in a group of long-term asexual animals shows that many of the predicted effects of asexuality are not observed.
Farnoush Farahpour, Mohammadkarim Saeedghalati ... Daniel Hoffmann
In a minimalistic, generic model of competitive communities in which evolution is constrained by life-history trade-offs, stable biodiversity emerges with species adapted to different functional niches.
Hugo G Castelán-Sánchez, Luis Delaye ... Marina Escalera Zamudio
An in-depth exploratory analysis of the evolutionary and epidemiological dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in Mexico during the first year of the epidemic provides an overview of different virus dynamics between the developing and developed world (represented by the USA and Mexico).