• Life-history traits may affect DNA mutation rates

    Updated: 2011-06-13 19:23:43
    Back to the main animal science blog page Subscribe To Animal Science Blog RSS Feed Life-history traits may affect DNA mutation rates A composite image of 4 of the 32 mammal species whose life-history traits and DNA mutation rates are studied in the Penn State University laboratory of Kateryna Makova . From the top left corner , moving clockwise : a wild dog , a hyrax , a bat , and an elephant . Individual images are online at http : www.science.psu.edu news-and-events 2011-news Makova6-2011. Credit : Anton Nekrutenko , Makova lab , Penn State University For the first time , researchers have used large-scale DNA sequencing data to investigate a long-standing evolutionary assumption : DNA mutation rates are influenced by a set of species-specific life-history traits . These traits include

  • Evolutionary epidemiology 20 years on: Challenges and prospects

    Updated: 2011-06-08 20:34:11
    : Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Continuous In Vitro Directed Evolution of Macromolecules Evolved Tumor Suppression : Why Are We So Good at Not Getting Cancer Evolutionary epidemiology 20 years on : Challenges and prospects Jun 8th , 2011 by The Editors Evolutionary epidemiology 20 years on : Challenges and prospects By Olivier Restif   in    Infection , Genetics and Evolution Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 108-123        doi:10.1016 j.meegid.2008.09.007 Abstract : The advent of molecular biology has deeply impacted the study of infectious diseases and their epidemiology in particular . However , evolutionary biology , which provides an essential conceptual framework to understand the observed patterns of

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