Adaptation of domesticated maize and its wild relative teosinte has been facilitated by the geographically widespread exchange of beneficial alleles between them.
Basal ganglia output from the entopeduncular nucleus to the lateral habenula is not required for performance in a probabilistic switching task that requires flexible action/outcome decision making.
Mayalen Etcheverry, Clément Moulin-Frier ... Michael Levin
A novel methodology, using diversity search AI algorithms, for exploring the space of possible behaviors of gene regulatory networks, from the perspective of generic problem-solving agents navigating their environment.
Ankur Sinha, Padraig Gleeson ... Robin Angus Silver
The NeuroML model description language, with its extensive software ecosystem, supports researchers in the development of FAIR, data-driven, biologically detailed models of neural systems.
Mutagenizing sequences enriched with promoter motifs creates gene expression de novo, and helps to understand promoter logic, regulatory evolution, and the birth of de novo genes.