A Multi-Objective Bio-Inspired Optimization for Voice Disorders Detection: A Comparative Study by Maria Habib, Victor Vicente-Palacios, Pablo García-Sánchez

“…Different multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II), Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm (SPEA-II), and the Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm based on Decomposition (MOEA/D)) have been compared to detect voice disorders by optimizing two conflicting objectives: error rate and the number of features. …”
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Humerus shape evolved in cetaceans under relaxed selection and random drift by Maria Ghazali, Svitozar Davydenko, Valeriia Telizhenko, Pavlo Otriazhyi, Karina Vishnyakova, Maia Bukhsianidze, Azucena Solis-Añorve, Igor Dzeverin, Pavel Gol’din

“…This constraint is lifted for cetaceans and, therefore, can reflect other, specific evolutionary trends. To test this hypothesis, the three-dimensional shape of the humerus for 36 taxa of extinct and extant cetaceans was analyzed. …”
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Dude, everyone wants pattern analysis tools (DEWPAT): Tools for measuring visual pattern complexity from digital images by Jillian A. Sanderson, Tristan Aumentado‐Armstrong, Charles‐Olivier Dufresne‐Camaro, D. Luke Mahler

“…We demonstrate DEWPAT's key functions and applications with three empirical examples (longhorn beetles, anole lizards and flowers). …”
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Hybridization ddRAD‐sequencing and phenotypic analysis clarify the phylogeographic structure and evolution of an alpine Chrysanthemum species with a sky island distribution by Xue-Ying Hu, Wen-Xun Lu, Wen-Xun Lu, Zi-Zhao Wang, Guang-Yuan Rao

“…The divergence of its three major lineages coincided with Pliocene mountain uplifts and Pleistocene climatic fluctuations. …”
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Efficacy of Entomopathogenic Fungi Against <i>Bruchus rufimanus</i> (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Laboratory and Field Trials Using Dropleg Spraying Technique by Adrien Rodrigue Lugendo, Ibtissem Ben Fekih, Rudy Caparros Megido, Jérôme Pierreux, Frédéric Francis, Arnaud Segers

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Relationships of a new fossorial Microcambevinae catfish species from southern Brazil supporting multiple dorsal-fin losses in Listrura (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) by Wilson J. E. M. Costa, Caio R. M. Feltrin, José L. O. Mattos, Paulo J. Vilardo, Axel M. Katz

“…Here, we analyse the possible occurrence of independent evolutionary events of dorsal fin loss in Listrura, a genus of fossorial species endemic to the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil, in a molecular phylogenetic context involving all species of the genus, including three nominal species lacking a dorsal fin and another one that is described here. …”
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Functional dissection and assembly of a small, newly evolved, W chromosome-specific genomic region of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. by Caroline M S Cauret, Danielle C Jordan, Lindsey M Kukoly, Sarah R Burton, Emmanuela U Anele, Jacek M Kwiecien, Marie-Theres Gansauge, Sinthu Senthillmohan, Eli Greenbaum, Matthias Meyer, Marko E Horb, Ben J Evans

“…To better understand how sex-limited regions evolve and function, we studied a small W chromosome-specific region of the frog Xenopus laevis that contains only three genes (dm-w, scan-w, ccdc69-w) and that drives female differentiation. …”
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Cartwheel aerenchyma in Cardamine amara as a model of schizogenous tissue formation in plants by Hiroshi Kudoh, Masato Sakane, Karol Marhold, Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi, Kentaro K. Shimizu, Hidehiro Fukaki

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Author Correction: A sedimentary ancient DNA perspective on human and carnivore persistence through the Late Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Spain by Pere Gelabert, Victoria Oberreiter, Lawrence Guy Straus, Manuel Ramón González Morales, Susanna Sawyer, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Jeanne Marie Geiling, Florian Exler, Florian Brueck, Stefan Franz, Fernanda Tenorio Cano, Sophie Szedlacsek, Evelyn Zelger, Michelle Hämmerle, Brina Zagorc, Alejandro Llanos-Lizcano, Olivia Cheronet, José-Miguel Tejero, Thomas Rattei, Stephan M. Kraemer, Ron Pinhasi

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Phylogeny and divergence time estimation of the subfamily Amphipsyllinae based on the Frontopsylla diqingensis mitogenome by Ju Pu, Xiaoxia Lin, Wenge Dong

“…Nucleotide diversity and tRNAs of three species of fleas of Amphipsyllinae have differences among different species. …”
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'More tight-less tight' Patterns in the Climatic Niche Evolution of Gymnocalycium (Cactaceae): Were Pleistocene Glaciations a Prelude? by Rahul Raveendran Nair, Alicia N Sérsic, Pablo H Demaio, Solana B Perotti, Diego E Gurvich

“…Our findings reveal that (1) the climatic-niches of narrow-ranged Gymnocalycium species are not highly conserved across the phylogeny (i.e., niches are evolving), (2) the evolutionary dynamics of thermal and precipitation niches across the Gymnocalycium phylogeny do not follow similar patterns, (3) a bioregion-specific pattern of niche evolution exists, and (4) the Early-Middle Pleistocene glaciations (i.e., GPG and three Post-GPG phases) potentially drove the patterns of lineage divergence in Gymnocalycium species, triggering the evolution of climatic niches. …”
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Punishment or mercy? Tripartite game between the State, offenders, and victims in China’s environmental crime governance by Xinrui Zhang, Jiashu Zhang

“…This study explores the strategies of the State, offenders, and victims in China’s environmental crime governance and develops a three-party evolutionary game model to analyze these interactions. …”
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Benign Pigmented Dermal Basal Cell Tumor in a Namibian Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) by Sonja K. Heinrich, Bettina Wachter, Gudrun Wibbelt

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Rethinking attention: A unified perspective on top-down and bottom-up processes by Seyed Javad Saghravanian

“…This review proposes a unified framework in which attentional selection emerges from a single system guided by overlapping priorities across three timescales: evolutionary imperatives (e.g., survival), learned experiences (e.g., value-based biases), and immediate task demands. …”
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Un cas d’accouchement en occipito-pubien chez Pan troglodytes by Pierre Frémondière, Romain Lacoste, Lyna Rachid

“…Our observation, together with the three others cases of occiput anterior positions described in the literature, leads us to question the evolutionary hypotheses related to human birth. …”
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CFS-MOES Ensemble Model on Metaheuristic Search-Based Feature Selection by Santosini Bhutia, Bichitrananda Patra, Mitrabinda Ray

“…In this work, the optimal feature subsets are selected by combining the correlation-based feature selection (CFS) technique with five distinct meta-heuristic search methods: evolutionary search (ES), particle swarm optimization search (PSOS), genetic search (GS), harmony search (HS), and multiobject evolutionary search (MOES). …”
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Using COVID-19 pandemic perturbation to model RSV-hMPV interactions and potential implications under RSV interventions by Emily Howerton, Thomas C. Williams, Jean-Sébastien Casalegno, Samuel Dominguez, Rory Gunson, Kevin Messacar, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Sang Woo Park, Cécile Viboud, Bryan T. Grenfell

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Xenodiagnosis in the wild: A methodology to investigate infectiousness for tick-borne bacteria in a songbird reservoir by Jens Zarka, Dieter Heylen, Hein Sprong, Manoj Fonville, Joris Elst, Erik Matthysen

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A new, fast method to search for morphological convergence with shape data. by Silvia Castiglione, Carmela Serio, Davide Tamagnini, Marina Melchionna, Alessandro Mondanaro, Mirko Di Febbraro, Antonio Profico, Paolo Piras, Filippo Barattolo, Pasquale Raia

“…We found search.conv is some three orders of magnitude faster than a competing method for testing convergence.…”
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Using rule-based machine learning for candidate disease gene prioritization and sample classification of cancer gene expression data. by Enrico Glaab, Jaume Bacardit, Jonathan M Garibaldi, Natalio Krasnogor

“…For this purpose, we evaluate our rule-based evolutionary machine learning systems, BioHEL and GAssist, on three public microarray cancer datasets, obtaining simple rule-based models for sample classification. …”
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