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Genetic variation of European mouflon depends on admixture of introduced individuals
In the early twentieth century, European mouflon was introduced in Croatia, while all introductions in Slovenia occurred in the 1950s and 1960s....
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Conservation genomics of the wild pumpkin Cucurbita radicans in Central Mexico: The influence of a changing environment on the genetic diversity and differentiation of a rare species
The genetic diversity found in natural populations is the result of the evolutionary forces in response to historical and contemporary factors. The...
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Historical Evolution of Academic Selection
This chapter outlines the historical developments that led to the introduction of the grammar school entrance tests in the United Kingdom, with a...
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Conservation and Management of Fruit and Nut Genetic Resources
Genetic resource conservation and the use of fruit and nut crops are complex, owing to their perennial nature and the vast genetic diversity and...
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Genetic footprints of a rapid and large-scale range expansion: the case of cyclic common vole in Spain
In the Anthropocene, many species are rapidly shifting their ranges in response to human-driven habitat modifications. Studying patterns and genetic...
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Education, Competing Discourses, Historical Narratives, and Civic Attitudes
This chapter critically engages with key theoretical approaches related to how humans interact with historical narratives, with a focus on theories...
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Post-COVID-19 pandemic and the Paris agreement: a socioeconomic analysis and carbon emissions forecasting in developed and developing countries
The COVID-19 pandemic caused profound impacts on the global economy, resulting in a sharp drop in carbon emissions as energy demand fell. The...
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Historical perspective and recent progress in cardiac ion channelopathies research and clinical practice in Hong Kong
Cardiac ion channelopathies encompass a set of inherited or acquired conditions that are due to dysfunction in ion channels or their associated...
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Simulation of functional additive and non-additive genetic effects using statistical estimates from quantitative genetic models
Stochastic simulation software is commonly used to aid breeders designing cost-effective breeding programs and to validate statistical models used in...
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Genetic ancestry and population structure of vaccinia virus
Vaccinia virus (VACV) was used for smallpox eradication, but its ultimate origin remains unknown. The genetic relationships among vaccine stocks are...
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Syntax of Agreement in Ekid
Subject-verb agreement technically known as Concord is a common feature of languages and operates differently in these languages. This Chapter...
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Historical Ecology in Amazonia
Historical ecology is at the heart of the ongoing debate about the degree to which pre-Columbian humans transformed Amazonian ecosystems. For more...
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A historical stepping-stone path for an island-colonizing cactus across a submerged “bridge” archipelago
Here we use population genomic data (ddRAD-Seq) and ecological niche modeling to test biogeographic hypotheses for the divergence of the...
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Genetic Algorithm
In general, genetic algorithm (GA) is more suitable for optimization (maximizing and minimizing) problems in numerical and random sequences with much...
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GHG mitigation strategies on China’s diverse dish consumption are key to meet the Paris Agreement targets
Combatting climate change depends on demand-side mitigation strategies related to food, which is in turn contingent on explicit estimation and...
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Two kinds of historical explanation in Evolutionary Biology
Historical explanations in evolutionary biology are commonly characterized as narrative explanations. Examples include explanations of the evolution...
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On Roth’s “human fossil” from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina: morphological and genetic analysis
The “human fossil” from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, is a collection of skeleton parts first recovered by the paleontologist Santiago...
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Allostatic load: historical origins, promises and costs of a recent biosocial approach
This article provides a critical and genealogical analysis of the allostatic load research framework. AL research is used as a case study to analyse...
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Accessing biological control genetic resources and sharing benefits resulting from their utilization
With the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1992, the sovereign rights of states over their natural resources were...
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Community concerns about genetic discrimination in life insurance persist in Australia: A survey of consumers offered genetic testing
Fears of genetic discrimination in life insurance continue to deter some Australians from genetic testing. In July 2019, the life insurance industry...
