Farhat, Sarah Le, Phuong Kayal, Ehsan Noel, Benjamin Bigeard, Estelle Corre, Erwan Maumus, Florian Florent, Isabelle Alberti, Adriana Aury, Jean-Marc
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BMC Biology
BackgroundDinoflagellates are aquatic protists particularly widespread in the oceans worldwide. Some are responsible for toxic blooms while others live in symbiotic relationships, either as mutualistic symbionts in corals or as parasites infecting other protists and animals. Dinoflagellates harbor atypically large genomes (~ 3 to 250 Gb), with gene...
Oddie, Melissa A. Y. Burke, Ashley Dahle, Bjørn Le Conte, Yves Mondet, Fanny Locke, Barbara
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Scientific Reports
Cell recapping is a behavioural trait of honeybees (Apis mellifera) where cells with developing pupae are uncapped, inspected, and then recapped, without removing the pupae. The ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor, unarguably the most destructive pest in apiculture world-wide, invades the cells of developing pupae to feed and reproduce. Honeybees ...
Edgerton, Sean V Thongsripong, Panpim Wang, Chunling Montaya, Magelda Balmaseda, Angel Harris, Eva Bennett, Shannon N
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Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases
Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) comprise a significant and ongoing threat to human health, infecting hundreds of millions annually. Three such arboviruses include circumtropical dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses, exhibiting continuous emergence primarily via Aedes mosquito vectors. Nicaragua has experienced endemic dengue virus (DENV) tra...
Boyer, J Cautenet, A Ligier, F
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L'Encephale
Mental illness is one of the most common causes of disability, morbidity and mortality in childhood. According to the scientific literature, the prevalence of mental health disorders is an estimated 10% to 20% in the USA and similar results are found in France. Although primordial, outpatient care often appears insufficient with inequalities in its...
Brembs, Björn
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Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Nervous systems are typically described as static networks passively responding to external stimuli (i.e., the 'sensorimotor hypothesis'). However, for more than a century now, evidence has been accumulating that this passive-static perspective is wrong. Instead, evidence suggests that nervous systems dynamically change their connectivity and activ...
Levin, Michael
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Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Central to the study of cognition is being able to specify the Subject that is making decisions and owning memories and preferences. However, all real cognitive agents are made of parts (such as brains made of cells). The integration of many active subunits into a coherent Self appearing at a larger scale of organization is one of the fundamental q...
Lecocq de Pletincx, Nathan Dellicour, Simon Aron, Serge
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Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
AbstractIn eusocial insects, worker polymorphism is shaped by several factors, including colony size, queen mating frequency, and the timing of queen-worker differentiation during larval development. In a comparative study of 18 species of Cataglyphis desert ants representing a wide range of worker sizes, we used phylogenetically controlled analyse...
Fields, Archie III
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Biology & Philosophy
A number of philosophers (Rosenberg and Linquist in Anal Krit 27:136–157, 2005; Levy in J Philos 108(4):171–187, 2011; Arnold 2011, in Ethics Politics XV:101–138, 2013) have argued that agent-based, evolutionary game theory models of the evolution of cooperation fail to provide satisfying explanations of cooperation because they are too disconnecte...
Lima, Letícia Ferreira Torres, André Quintanilha Jardim, Rodrigo Mesquita, Rafael Dias Schama, Renata
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BMC Genomics
BackgroundArthropoda, the most numerous and diverse metazoan phylum, has species in many habitats where they encounter various microorganisms and, as a result, mechanisms for pathogen recognition and elimination have evolved. The Toll pathway, involved in the innate immune system, was first described as part of the developmental pathway for dorsal-...
Zheng, Wenqing Du, Liang
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BMC Genomics
BackgroundThe deubiquitinase (DUB) family constitutes a group of proteases that regulate the stability or reverse the ubiquitination of many proteins in the cell. These enzymes participate in cell-cycle regulation, cell division and differentiation, diverse physiological activities such as DNA damage repair, growth and development, and response to ...
