The evolution of bacterial social life: From the ivory tower to the front lines of public health [0.03%]
细菌社交生活的演变：从象牙塔到公共卫生的第一线
John W Pepper
John W Pepper
Drug-resistant bacteria are a huge and growing threat to public health. A solution exists in theory, but had not yet been put to a practical test. The accompanying paper by Ross-Gillespie et al., the theory is put to a test and performs suc...
Bernard Crespi
Bernard Crespi
Katie Hinde
Katie Hinde
Troubled sleep: Night waking, breastfeeding and parent-offspring conflict [0.03%]
忧烦的睡眠：夜间醒来、母乳喂养和亲子冲突
David Haig
David Haig
Disrupted sleep is probably the most common complaint of parents with a new baby. Night waking increases in the second half of the first year of infant life and is more pronounced for breastfed infants. Sleep-related phenotypes of infants w...
Daniel E L Promislow
Daniel E L Promislow
Frequency-dependent selection drives HBeAg seroconversion in chronic hepatitis B virus infection [0.03%]
HBV慢性感染中频率依赖性选择驱动HBeAg血清学转换
Brook G Warner,William G H Abbott,Allen G Rodrigo
Brook G Warner
HBeAg seroconversion is an important stage in the evolution of a chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection that usually leads to control of viral replication and a reduced risk for liver cirrhosis and cancer. Since current therapies for the...
Evidence for independent evolution of functional progesterone withdrawal in primates and guinea pigs [0.03%]
灵长类和 Guinea 猪的前列腺素撤退功能独立进化的证据
Mauris C Nnamani,Silvia Plaza,Roberto Romero et al.
Mauris C Nnamani et al.
Background and objectives: Cervix remodeling (CRM) is a critical process in preparation for parturition. Early cervix shortening is a powerful clinical predictor of preterm birth, and thus understanding how CRM is regulat...
Windfalls and pitfalls: Applications of population genetics to the search for disease genes [0.03%]
机遇与挑战：群体遗传学在疾病基因搜索中的应用
Michael D Edge,Prakash Gorroochurn,Noah A Rosenberg
Michael D Edge
Association mapping can be viewed as an application of population genetics and evolutionary biology to the problem of identifying genes causally connected to phenotypes. However, some population-genetic principles important to the design an...