Programmed cell death (PCD) is a process of organized destruction of cells, essential for the development and maintenance of cellular homeostasis of multicellular organisms. Cells undergoing PCD begin a degenerative process in response to internal or external signals, whereby the nucleus becomes one of the targets. The process of nuclear dismantling includes events affecting the nuclear envelop...

I a hyper-connected world, systemic instability, based on cascading effects, can seriously undermine the functionality of networks (1). The quick global spread of rumors and fake news may be seen as a recent example (2), while the spread of epidemics is a problem that has been around much longer (3–6). It is well-known that the network structure, for example the exponent characterizing scale-fr...

1. Informatics and Mathematical Modelling Department, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen. Richard Petersens Plads, Bygning 305, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark. 2. Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution (UM2-CNRS-IRD), Université Montpellier 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, CC 065, Montpellier cedex 34095, France. Running title: Dismantling the Mantel tests. ∗ Corresponding author: [email protected] Word c...