systems in which reaction terms are coupled to diffusion and advection transports arise in awide range of chemical engineering applications, physics, biology and environmental. in these cases, thecomponents of the unknown can denote concentrations or population sizes which represent quantities andthey need to remain positive. classical finite difference schemes may produce numerical drawbacks s...

TPB welcomes submissions from authors new to the journal, whom we hope to aid in preparing high-quality manuscripts that will succeed in our editorial process. Previous editorials described the topics of emphasis over the course of the journal’s history (Rosenberg, 2013) and commented on three features expected in TPB papers: motivation from a biological perspective, significant mathematical co...

Knowledge of the breeding biology grassland birds is important given accelerated rate transformation their habitats, which has led to noticeable population declines many species. Al...

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With the massive amount of sequence and structural data being produced, new avenues emerge for exploiting the information therein for applications in several fields. Fold distributions can be mapped onto entire genomes to learn about the nature of the protein universe and many of the interactions between proteins can now be predicted solely on the basis of the genomic context of their genes. Fu...

This paper provides two families of flexible and simple galaxy models. Representatives of many of the families possess the important cosmological cusps, with the density behaving like r−1 or r−4/3 or r−3/2 at small radii. The density falls off between r−3 and r−5 at large radii. We provide analytic and anisotropic distribution functions for all the models. Unlike many existing methods, our algo...

Many new terms have come into use for intra-species groups of animals defined with genetic criteria including subspecies, evolutionarily significant units, evolutionary units, management units, metapopulations, distinct population segments, populations, and subpopulations. These terms have redundant meanings and can lead to confusion for biologists, managers, and policy makers. I propose that f...

admirable contribution to the study of infectious diseases and parasitology. It amply illustrates that focusing on simple host– parasite species pairs is often insufficient for understanding the emergence and prevalence of diseases, in both human and wildlife populations. Taking a community perspective not only broadens our knowledge but it also provides for a much sounder predictive theory of ...

A central goal of computational biology is the prediction of phenotype from DNA and protein sequence data. Recent models of sequence change use in silico prediction systems to incorporate the effects of phenotype on evolutionary rates. These models have been designed for analyzing sequence data from different species and have been accompanied by statistical techniques for estimating model param...