Search Results - "Evolution"

The evolution of morphological novelty

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Role of homeotic (Hox) genes in morphological evolution -- Arthropod evolution -- Crustacean appendages -- The role of gene regulation in evolution.…”
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Trichoplax and the origin of animal complexity

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Trichoplax and the origin of animal complexity -- Complex patterns usually evolve from more basic patterns -- Introducing the placozoan Trichoplax -- Metazoan -- Definition -- The Biology of Placozoa -- Trichoplax adhaerens: Grell clone -- Comparing Placozoa with other Metazoa -- Parallel evolution: diploblasts & triploblasts -- The new Placula hypothesis -- Hox-like genes.…”
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The diversity and evolution of ion channels

Subjects: “…Evolution, Molecular. 108757…”
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Human pathogen-driven evolution

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Natural selection at the immune system -- Signals of pathogen-driven selection in the human genome -- Human evolution and susceptibility to infectious diseases -- Autoimmune conditions and the hygiene hypothesis.…”
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How to "deconvolute" lung evolution part 2 [of 3]. The evolutionary origins of pulmonary physiology /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Cortisol, lung surfactant and lung development -- Continuum from phylogeny and ontogeny to homeostasis and repair -- Functional genomic homology between SB and lung -- PTHrP and normal lung development -- PTHrP and gravity -- The origins of life: cellular evolution -- Oxygen/stretch and positive selection pressure -- Lung PTHrP/R as "blue print" for other terrestrial exaptations.…”
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Human admixture part 1 of 2 /

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Evolutionary biology of depression

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Evolution of human mitochondrial DNA variations

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Developmental plasticity, evolution and the origins of disease

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SARS-CoV-2 evolution emergence of the "Californian" and "Indian" variants /

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Historical introduction to human diversity I

Subjects: “…Human evolution. 113974…”
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Historical introduction to human diversity II

Subjects: “…Human evolution. 113982…”
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Cross-talk between cultural and genetic evolution in humans

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Connecting aging and cancer through the lens of evolution

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Development of cancer with age -- Evolution of oncogenic mutations -- Tumor suppressive mechanisms -- Adaptive oncogenesis -- Tissue maintenance -- Risk factors for cancer.…”
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Ethnic differences in nutrition

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Nutrition and evolution of brain development -- Human diversity -- Salivary amylase and starch digestion -- Positive selection of lactase persistence -- Food globalization -- The diet-heart connection: nature versus nurture -- Health disparities -- Genetic predisposition -- Gene-environment interactions.…”
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On the utility of a mechanistic approach to physiology part 2, the evolutionary origin of endothermy /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Evolution of endothermy -- PTHrP, Glucocorticoid and β-Adrenergic Receptor gene duplications -- Hypoxia integrates respiratory and endocrine systems -- Selection pressure for integrated physiology: lung, kidney, heart -- Ontogeny-phylogeny of lung cell evolution -- Swim bladder-lung functional homology -- PTHrP is stretch-regulated -- Chemiosmosis-homeostasis and the origins of life -- Vertical integration of the effect of cholesterol on homeostasis -- Cell-cell interactions and adaptation to oxygen -- Endothermy as exaptation of oxygen adaptation -- Physiologic homology based on cell-cell interactions.…”
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Human molecular evolution since the human-chimpanzee divergence

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Human-chimpanzee similarities -- Human-chimpanzee genomic comparison -- DNA duplication in human evolution -- DNA substitution in human evolution -- Modeling molecular evolution -- 2 goals of comparative genomics -- Identifying human accelerated regions (HARs).…”
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The unicellular origins of complex physiology

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Cholesterol's critical role in the evolution of eukaryotes -- Vertical integration of calcium/lipid epistasis throughout vertebrate physiology -- The unicellular perspective: aspects of physiology simplified -- Simplification of physiology: homologies unseen by descriptive physiology -- Physiology as fractal expressions of the unicellular state -- The fractal principle: functional integration of physiology from first principles.…”
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Inference on human history through DNA

Subjects: “…Human evolution. 114018…”
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Gene copy number variation in human and primate evolution

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Primate evolution -- Human characteristics -- Molecular mechanisms underling genome evolution -- Gene duplication and evolutionary change -- Interhominoid cDNA array-based comparative genomic hybridization -- Major clusters of hominoid lineage -- Primate gene copy number changes -- Primate lineage-specific gene copy number variation -- Primate aCGH caveats.…”
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