Although antagonists are hypothesized to impede the evolution of mutualisms, they may simultaneously exert selection favouring the evolution of alternative mutualistic interactions. We found that increases in limber pine (Pinus flexilis) seed defences arising from selection exerted by a pre-dispersal seed predator (red squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) reduced the efficacy of limber pine's prim...

1 Rhododendron ponticum is a serious invasive alien plant in the British Isles and is of 2 significant conservation and economic concern. Here, we integrate information on both the 3 life-history and spatial dynamics of this species within an individual-based, spatially-explicit 4 model and investigate the effectiveness of different control strategies. Importantly, we 5 simulate seed movement a...

Genomics studies routinely depend on similarity searches based on the strategy of finding short seed matches (contiguous k bases) which are then extended. The particular choice of the seed length, k, is determined by the tradeoff between search speed (larger k reduces chance hits) and sensitivity (smaller k finds weaker similarities). A novel idea of using a single deterministic optimized space...