Balanced lethal systems are more than biological curiosities: as theory predicts, they should quickly be eliminated through the joint forces of recombination and selection. That such systems might become fixed in natural populations poses a challenge to evolutionary theory. Here we address the case of a balanced lethal system fixed in crested newts and related species, which makes 50% of offspr...

Risk prediction in diabetes Michael Stern (San Antonio, TX) discussed risk prediction in diabetes, addressing the use of biomarkers and approaches with risk calculation engines. In general, he noted, the state of wellness is inherently asymptomatic without functional impairments, and many individual with diagnosed diabetes, hypertension, and even with cardiovascular disease (CVD) are “well.” Fo...

and the frequency characteristics of the prototype FB. Also, the lengths and the passband delays of the analysis/synthesis filters This paper proposes a new design method for a class of can be made closer to each other, which simplifies practical two-channel 2D non-separable perfect reconstruction (PR) filter implementation and reduces the number of additional delay banks (FBs) using the multi-...