Dietary restriction (DR) decreases body weight, improves health, and extends lifespan. DR can be achieved by controlling how much and/or when food is provided, as well as by adjusting nutritional composition. Because these factors are often combined duri
6]. Through WGD events, tandem repeats, transposable element-mediated repeats, and retrotransposon duplications, genomes can increase in size and gene number. This results in the generation of structurally and functionally similar gene copies and formation of gene...
the Extended Church-Turing Thesis remains on extremely solid ground. If we accept this, then there's a well-defined notion of "solvable in polynomial time," which is independent of the low-level details of the computer's architecture: the instruction set, the specific rules for accessing memor...
Heterosis occurs in a variety of species and has been observed and recorded in China since ancient times. For example, Jia Sixie described in“The Manual of Important Arts for the People”that interbreeding between horses and donkeys produced stronger mules, and the famous agricultural work“Tian...