Functional evolution of mammalian odorant receptors. by Kaylin A Adipietro, Joel D Mainland, Hiroaki Matsunami

“…Here we investigated the functional properties of primate and rodent ORs to determine how well evolutionary distance predicts functional characteristics. …”
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Morphological and functional convergence of visual projection neurons from diverse neurogenic origins in Drosophila by Rana Naja El-Danaf, Katarina Kapuralin, Raghuvanshi Rajesh, Félix Simon, Nizar Drou, Filipe Pinto-Teixeira, Mehmet Neset Özel, Claude Desplan

“…We show that this convergence of similar neurons illustrates the complexity of generating neuronal diversity, and likely reflects the evolutionary origin of each subtype that detects a specific visual feature and might influence behaviors specific to each species.…”
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Non-ammonoid cephalopods of the Early Permian Shakhtau reef (Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia) by A.Yu. Shchedukhin

“…The results obtained are of great importance for understanding and reconstructing the evolutionary pathways of the Early Permian non-ammonoid cephalopods.…”
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An Artificial Intelligence-Based Hybrid Approach to Detect the Type of Buried Objects with Broad Frequency Band Antenna Systems by Ebru Efeoğlu

“…Genetic algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Harmony search (HA), and Evolutionary search (EA), which are among the metaheuristic optimization algorithms, were preferred as search methods in attribute selection with CFS. …”
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Epidemic spread of influenza viruses: The impact of transient populations on disease dynamics by Karen R. Ríos-Soto, Baojun Song, Carlos Castillo-Chavez

“…Assessing the role of animal reservoirs, particularly reservoirs involving highly mobile populations (like migratory birds), on disease dispersal and persistence is of interests to a wide range of researchers including public health experts and evolutionary biologists. This paper studies the interactions between transient and resident bird populations and their role on dispersal and persistence. …”
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Evolution of wing scales in Diptera documented by fossils by Ewa Krzemińska, Wiesław Krzemiński, Iwona Kania-Kłosok, Jadwiga Stanek-Tarkowska, Kornelia Skibińska, Daubian Santos

“…A similar parallel evolutionary route was previously described in the Culicidae. …”
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A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization-Tuning Algorithm for the Prediction of Nanoparticle Morphology from Microscopic Images by Abhishek Singh, Thaseem Thajudeen

“…In this study, we propose a combination of evolutionary algorithm and forward tuning model to predict the best fit 3-dimensional structures of aggregates from their projection images. 2-dimensional features from a projection image are compared to the candidate projections generated using FracVAL code and optimized using Particle Swarm Optimization to obtain the 3-dimensional structure of the aggregate. …”
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Optimal Active-Reactive Power Dispatch for Distribution Network With Carbon Trading Based on Improved Multi-Objective Equilibrium Optimizer Algorithm by Furong Tu, Sumei Zheng, Kuncan Chen

“…The IMOEO algorithm incorporates a Sobol sequence initialization method, dynamic adjustment factors, and particles that employ various evolutionary strategies based on the crowding distance. …”
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Role of Chromosome Changes in Evolution and Diversity by Kornsorn Srikulnath, Watcharaporn Thapana, Narongrit Muangmai

“…These provided an important contribution of chromosomal rearrangements for the evolutionary processes of Crocodylia and Sauropsida (birds and reptiles). …”
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Review of the Book "Local History of Iran in the Islamic Period until the Seventh Century AH" by Morteza Nouraei

“…This book illustrates the evolutionary trend of local historiography in Iran until the seventh century. …”
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Cellular Harmony Search for Optimization Problems by Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar, Ahamad Tajudin Khader, Mohammed A. Awadallah, Mahmmoud Hafsaldin Alawan, Belal Zaqaibeh

“…Structured population in evolutionary algorithms (EAs) is an important research track where an individual only interacts with its neighboring individuals in the breeding step. …”
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Assembly and characterization of the complete mitogenome of Bauhinia purpurea (Leguminosae) by Siqi Xie, Yong Chen, Danjing Zheng, Shukai Luo, Shiyuan Meng, Yan Zhong

“…Here, we sequenced and assembled the mitogenome of B. purpurea to provide a useful genetic resource for further evolutionary studies. Data description We assembled and characterized the complete mitogenome of B. purpurea based on Illumina sequence data. …”
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Protein multiplicity: exemplifying an overwhelmingly likely pattern of molecular evolution? by Les Hatton, Greg Warr

“…Second, we test whether deviations from CoHSI predictions can be informative of underlying evolutionary processes. We show that observed perturbations of the CoHSI-predicted distribution are strongly associated with enterobacterial species in which rapid microevolution facilitated by the horizontal transfer of genes is prevalent.…”
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Diversity, Distribution, and Evolution of Bioluminescent Fungi by Brian A. Perry, Dennis E. Desjardin, Cassius V. Stevani

“…Multiple independent evolutionary losses explain the absence of luminescence in many species found within the five lineages and in the majority of Agaricales.…”
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A complete chloroplast genome of Sedum lushanense S. S. Lai 2004 (Crassulaceae: Crassuloideae) by En-Dian Yang, Tong-Jun Liang, Zi-Yi Lei, Jie Zhang, Xiao-Xing Zhou

“…Therefore, our study provided new genetic information on S. lushanense, contributing to a better understanding of its relationship with other related species and the evolutionary history of Crassulaceae.…”
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Predator–prey interaction in insects and arachnids: a chemical ecology perspective by Vivek Kempraj, Soo Jean Park

“…The interactions between predators and prey play out both in the present and through evolutionary time. Predators are selected to become proficient at detecting and catching prey. …”
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Feature Selection and Parameter Optimization of Support Vector Machines Based on Modified Cat Swarm Optimization by Kuan-Cheng Lin, Yi-Hung Huang, Jason C. Hung, Yung-Tso Lin

“…Cat swarm optimization (CSO) is a novel metaheuristic for evolutionary optimization algorithms based on swarm intelligence. …”
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Environmental microbial reservoir influences the bacterial communities associated with Hydra oligactis by Jay Bathia, Máté Miklós, István Gyulai, Sebastian Fraune, Jácint Tökölyi

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Detecting Communities in Complex Networks Using an Adaptive Genetic Algorithm and Node Similarity-Based Encoding by Sajjad Hesamipour, Mohammad Ali Balafar, Saeed Mousazadeh

“…The proposed method combines the similarity-based and modularity-optimization-based approaches to find communities in complex networks in an evolutionary framework. Besides the fact that the proposed encoding can avoid meaningless mutations or disconnected communities, we show that the new initial population generation function and the new adaptive mutation function can improve the convergence time of the algorithm. …”
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Sustainable regionalism: Reading the sustainability approach in the context of regionalist architecture by Elahe Zoghi Hosseini, Darab Diba, Hamed kamelnia, Mostafa Mokhtabad Ameri

“…The present study argues that regionalist architecture has entered a new phase of its evolutionary process, which is sustainable regionalism. …”
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