Rates of Evolution in Developmental Processes

the effect of e-64 on the developmental competence of sheep cocs during in vitro maturation

in the present study, the effect of e-64 at different concentrations (0.5, 1, 5 and 10 µm) added to (1) the ivm medium on oocyte nuclear maturation and developmental competence of ovine oocytes, and (2) to the ivc medium on embryonic development of ovine embryos were investigated.

'Biogeneric' developmental processes: drivers of major transitions in animal evolution.

Using three examples drawn from animal systems, I advance the hypothesis that major transitions in multicellular evolution often involved the constitution of new cell-based materials with unprecedented morphogenetic capabilities. I term the materials and formative processes that arise when highly evolved cells are incorporated into mesoscale matter 'biogeneric', to reflect their commonality wit...

Developmental processes and canine dimorphism in primate evolution.

Understanding the evolutionary history of canine sexual dimorphism is important for interpreting the developmental biology, socioecology and phylogenetic position of primates. All current evidence for extant primates indicates that canine dimorphism is achieved through bimaturism rather than via differences in rates of crown formation time. Using incremental growth lines, we charted the ontogen...

Time Series Evolution for Integrating Developmental Burglary Processes

Material and virtual entities alike undergo developmental processes. If they replicate, they evolve and adapt to a variety of developmental processes. Based on the notion that these processes rarely constitute a direct translation from one state to the next, we have taken a step towards formally capturing evolutionary development of time series. We iteratively extend the Knapsack Problem to con...

Developing Adaptive Differential Evolution as a New Evolutionary Algorithm, Application in Optimization of Chemical Processes