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Re-imagining the Hardy-Weinberg Law

Under random mating, a progeny's alleles are independently sampled from the parental gene pools. Here is a new proof which avoids the usual algebraic complexity, based on a restated Mendel's First Law. Another simplified proof along the old approach led to the discovery that allelic independence can hold under random mating and fertility selection. The theoretical existence and number of such s...

Re-infestation of houses by Triatoma dimidiata after intra-domicile insecticide application in the Yucatán peninsula, Mexico.

In most countries, Chagas disease transmission control remains based on domestic insecticide application. We thus evaluated the efficacy of intra-domicile cyfluthrin spraying for the control of Triatoma dimidiata, the only Chagas disease vector in the Yucatán peninsula, Mexico, and monitored potential re-infestation every 15 days for up to 9 months. We found that there was a re-infestation of h...

Re-examination of the "3/4-law" of metabolism.

We examine the scaling law B is proportional to M(alpha)which connects organismal resting metabolic rate B with organismal mass M, where alpha is commonly held to be 3/4. Since simple dimensional analysis suggests alpha = 2/3, we consider this to be a null hypothesis testable by empirical studies. We re-analyse data sets for mammals and birds compiled by Heusner, Bennett and Harvey, Bartels, He...

Re-examination of the 993/4-law:: of Metabolism

We examine the scaling law BJMa which connects organismal resting metabolic rate B with organismal mass M, where a is commonly held to be 3/4. Since simple dimensional analysis suggests a"2/3, we consider this to be a null hypothesis testable by empirical studies. We re-analyse data sets for mammals and birds compiled by Heusner, Bennett and Harvey, Bartels, Hemmingsen, Brody, and Kleiber, and ...