Not just a theory--the utility of mathematical models in evolutionary biology.

Autor: Maria R Servedio, Yaniv Brandvain, Sumit Dhole, Courtney L Fitzpatrick, Emma E Goldberg, Caitlin A Stern, Jeremy Van Cleve, D Justin Yeh

Publikováno v: PLoS Biology, Vol 12, Iss 12, p e1002017 (2014)

Progress in science often begins with verbal hypotheses meant to explain why certain biological phenomena exist. An important purpose of mathematical models in evolutionary research, as in many other fields, is to act as “proof-of-concept” tests

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Dynamics of beneficial epidemics

Autor: Daniel B. Larremore, Caterina De Bacco, Yoav Kallus, Andrew Berdahl, Brendan D. Tracey, Eleanor A. Power, Vanessa Ferdinand, Caitlin A. Stern, Eric Libby, Marion Dumas, Joshua A. Grochow, Christopher P. Kempes, Artemy Kolchinsky, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Christa Brelsford

Publikováno v: Scientific Reports, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2019)
Scientific Reports

Pathogens can spread epidemically through populations. Beneficial contagions, such as viruses that enhance host survival or technological innovations that improve quality of life, also have the potential to spread epidemically. How do the dynamics of

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http://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-019-50039-w

Direct detection of male quality can facilitate the evolution of female choosiness and indicators of good genes: Evolution across a continuum of indicator mechanisms

Autor: Sumit Dhole, Maria R. Servedio, Caitlin A. Stern

Publikováno v: Evolution. 72:770-784

The evolution of mating displays as indicators of male quality has been the subject of extensive theoretical and empirical research for over four decades. Research has also addressed the evolution of female mate choice favoring such indicators. Yet,

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https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13466

Cognitive Phenotypes and the Evolution of Animal Decisions

Autor: Rebecca J. Safran, Courtney L. Fitzpatrick, Jeffrey R. Stevens, Rafael L. Rodríguez, Mark E. Hauber, Tamra C. Mendelson, Caitlin A. Stern, Charles H. Pence

Publikováno v: Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 31:850-859

Despite the clear fitness consequences of animal decisions, the science of animal decision making in evolutionary biology is underdeveloped compared with decision science in human psychology. Specifically, the field lacks a conceptual framework that

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.08.008

Theory Meets Empiry: A Citation Network Analysis

Autor: Michael Kopp, Tamra C. Mendelson, Courtney L. Fitzpatrick, Laurel B. Symes, Rafael L. Rodríguez, Rebecca J. Safran, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Caitlin A. Stern, Elizabeth S. C. Scordato, Maria R. Servedio

Publikováno v: Bioscience
Bioscience, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018, 68 (10), pp.805-812. ⟨10.1093/biosci/biy083⟩
Bioscience, 2018, 68 (10), pp.805-812. ⟨10.1093/biosci/biy083⟩

International audience; According to a recent survey, ecologists and evolutionary biologists feel that theoretical and empirical research should coexist in a tight feedback loop but believe that the two domains actually interact very little. We evalu

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https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02075739