Martin Bülow: response

Response to Theissen and Martin

This evolutionarily and functionally sharp distinction between organelles and endosymbionts — protein import, or not — was crisply articulated by CavalierSmith and Lee [9]. It has proven to be exquisitely robust. Unless the Paulinella endosymbiont can be shown to possess a protein import apparatus, it is just another member in a long list of known cases of endosymbionts: the proteobacterial end...

Mammography, Martin Yaffe, and me: response and appreciation.

I thank Dr. Martin Yaffe for his many constructive comments in his thoughtful review1 of my previous invited editorial2, providing valuable insights into the complex and controversial issues of the current mammography debate. Although I take up here several important issues that he raises, the serious reader is strongly advised to give his response the closest of readings to uncover the many ot...

The plant science decadal vision: response to the Martin commentary.

Martin Rama

Tunisia’s unemployment rate has been among the highest in the world for almost two decades. This article claims that such a high rate reflects measurement problems rather than labor market inefficiency. After discussing the reasons why unemployment rates may not be comparable across countries and reviewing the tools that are available to analyze unemployment in a specific country, the article p...

Ryan Martin

The focus of my research is extremal graph theory and random combinatorial structures. I have also worked in a variety of other areas, including intersecting hypergraphs, the theory of positional games and Ramsey theory. Combinatorics, and particularly graph theory, has a wide variety of applications. My own research in the edit distance of graphs has applications in biology and computer scienc...