Literature covered: early 2000s to late 2017 Bacteria frequently exchange metabolites with
other micro-and macro-organisms. In these often obligate cross-feeding interactions, primary …

Bottlenecks in population size can reduce fitness and evolutionary potential, yet introduced
species often become invasive. This poses a dilemma referred to as the genetic paradox of …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Living things are organized in a hierarchy of levels. Genes group together in cells, cells
group together in organisms, and organisms group together in societies. Even different …

The occurrence of cooperation poses a problem for the biological and social sciences.
However, many aspects of the biological and social science literatures on this subject have …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Natural selection operates both directly, via the impact of a trait upon the individual's own
fitness, and indirectly, via the impact of the trait upon the fitness of the individual's genetically …

Covering the major topics of evolutionary game theory, Game-Theoretical Models in Biology,
Second Edition presents both abstract and practical mathematical models of real biological …

Although similar to any other organism, prokaryotes can transfer genes vertically from
mother cell to daughter cell, they can also exchange certain genes horizontally. Genes can …

The genetic evolution of altruism (ie, a behavior resulting in a net reduction of the survival
and/or reproduction of an actor to benefit a recipient) once perplexed biologists because it …