«These fascinating, clinically relevant results argue for more in - depth and broad - spectrum analyses
of the coevolutionary relationships between hosts and the microbes that colonize and infect them.
His research seeks to understand the forms
of coevolutionary selection created by interactions between species - plants and pollinators, hosts and parasites, predators and prey - and the importance of this selection over the evolutionary history of life on Earth.
First, the stronger the importance
of coevolutionary selection between partners, the greater the importance of indirect effects on overall evolution throughout the network.
The same sort
of coevolutionary arms race happens in humans and other mammals.
Not exact matches
The work «represents a significant step in understanding human microbiota
coevolutionary history,» says Justin Sonnenburg
of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who was not involved with the research.
The South Hills crossbill, potentially a newly discovered species
of finch, has evolved over the past 6,000 years with a unique dependence on its food source, the Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine, in a
coevolutionary arms race that also changed the tree, according to a genomic study led by Tom Parchman, a biologist at the University
of Nevada, Reno.
He and his collaborators present evidence that a
coevolutionary arms race has led to genetic differentiation and is causing the evolution
of a new species, perhaps over a remarkably short time period.
«The birds counter-evolved against those defenses as evolution favored deeper - beaked crossbills, resulting in a
coevolutionary arms race that has driven evolutionary divergence
of this unique bird population.»
Understanding the
coevolutionary dynamics
of mutualism with population genomics.
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Implications
of the current findings for understanding culture — gene coevolution
of human brain and behaviour as well as how this
coevolutionary process may contribute to global variation in pathogen prevalence and epidemiology
of affective disorders, such as anxiety and depression, are discussed.
Although well studied with computational modelling approaches (Smith et al. 2008), the study
of culture — gene
coevolutionary theory
of human behaviour has not yet received widespread empirical attention.
Taken together, these studies underscore the utility
of incorporating cultural traits, such as individualism — collectivism, in macro -(e.g. cross-population) and micro-scale (e.g. within - population) models
of GxE factors underlying complex affective disorders and the importance
of culture — gene
coevolutionary theory for understanding typical and atypical human behaviour, more broadly construed.