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Stephen P. De Lisle, Daniel I. Bolnick, Edmund D. Brodie, Allen J. Moore + 1 more
Coevolution occurs when species interact to influence one another’s fitness, resulting in reciprocal evolutionary change. In many coevolving lineages, trait expression in one species is modified by the genotypes and phenotypes of the other, forming feedback loops reminiscent of models of intraspecific social evolution.…
Katy D. Heath, Scott L. Nuismer
Predicting how species interactions evolve requires that we understand the mechanistic basis of coevolution, and thus the functional genotype-by-genotype interactions (G × G) that drive reciprocal natural selection. Theory on host-parasite coevolution provides testable hypotheses for empiricists, but depends upon…
Yichao Zeng, David H. Hembry
Coevolution can occur as a result of species interactions. However, it remains unclear how coevolutionary processes translate into the accumulation of species richness over macroevolutionary timescales. Assuming speciation occurs in a metacommunity as a result of genetic differentiation across communities due to…
Lydia J. Buckingham, Ben Ashby
Many coevolutionary processes, including host-parasite and host-symbiont interactions, involve one species or trait which evolves much faster than the other. Whether or not a coevolutionary trajectory converges depends on the relative rates of evolutionary change in the two species, and so current adaptive dynamics…
Javier Falgueras-Cano, Juan-Antonio Falgueras-Cano, Andrés Moya, Andreas Wagner
'Andreas Wagner'] Simple Summary We present a program that simulates the coevolution of digital organisms competing for limited resources. The rules of competition and collaboration implicit in the code have been inspired by the underlying mechanisms that generate natural selection. The simplest, most general, and…
Victoria Caudill, Peter L. Ralph
Coevolution between two species can lead to exaggerated phenotypes that vary in a cor-related manner across space. However, the conditions under which we expect such spatially varying coevolutionary patterns in polygenic traits are not well-understood. We investigate the coevolutionary dynamics between two species…
John J. Dennehy
The outcomes of host-parasite interactions depend on the coevolutionary forces acting upon them, but because every host-parasite relation is enmeshed in a web of biotic and abiotic interactions across a heterogeneous landscape, host-parasite coevolution has proven difficult to study. Simple laboratory phage-bacteria…
Kyle Harrington, Jordan Pollack
The escalation of complexity is a commonly cited benefit of coevolutionary systems, but computational simulations generally fail to demonstrate this capacity to a satisfactory degree. We draw on a macroevolutionary theory of escalation to develop a set of criteria for coevolutionary systems to exhibit escalation of…
Ricard V. Solé, Josep Sardanyés
Species do not merely evolve, they also coevolve with other organisms. Coevolution is a major force driving interacting species to continuously evolve exploring their fitness landscapes. Coevolution involves the coupling of species fitness landscapes, linking species genetic changes with their inter-specific ecological…
Juste Raimbault
The emerging field of morphogenetic engineering proposes to design complex heterogeneous system focused on the paradigm of emergence. Necessarily at the interface of disciplines, its concepts can be defined through multiple viewpoints. This contribution aims at linking a coevolutionary perspective on such systems with…
Irun R. Cohen
The evolution of species, according to Darwin, is driven by struggle - by competition between variant autonomous individuals for survival of the fittest and reproductive advantage; the outcome of this struggle for survival is natural selection. The Neo-Darwinians reframed natural selection in terms of DNA: inherited…
julio coll
Drug-spaces of nine crystallographic protein / ligand models have been comparatively explored by including Toxicity Risk assessment during computational co-evolution. Tens of thousands children were randomly generated from parent ligands and iteratively selected for higher affinities, increased specificities and low…
Genki Ichinose, Masaya Saito, Shinsuke Suzuki, Petter Holme
Cooperation is one of the essential factors for all biological organisms in major evolutionary transitions. Recent studies have investigated the effect of migration for the evolution of cooperation. However, little is known about whether and how an individuals’ cooperativeness coevolves with mobility. One possibility…
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Because of the emergence of F13L mutations in MonkeyPox Virus (MPXV)-infected patients with resistances to Tecovirimat-treatment, alternative drugs are actively searched. Aiming to help on these searches, computational strategies to generate rather than screen for new drug-like ligand candidates were explored here.…
Martin M. Turcotte, Michael S. C. Corrin, Marc T. J. Johnson
Multi-species interactions can influence evolution in ways that are unpredictable from studies that focus on simpler communities because direct and indirect species interactions alter the strength and direction of selection.
Mathias Franz, Oliver Schülke, Julia Ostner
Background It is often assumed that evolution takes place on very large timescales. Countering this assumption, rapid evolutionary dynamics are increasingly documented in biological systems, e.g. in the context of predator-prey interactions, species coexistence and invasion. It has also been shown that rapid evolution…
Conor Houghton
A challenging simulation of evolutionary dynamics based on a three-state cellular automaton is used as a test of how cooperation can drive the evolution of complex traits. Building on the approach of Wolfram (2025), the fitness of a cellular automaton is determined by the number of updates it endures before returning…
Adi Livnat
How does new genetic information arise? Traditional thinking holds that mutation happens by accident and then spreads in the population by either natural selection or random genetic drift. There have been at least two fundamental conceptual problems with imagining an alternative. First, it seemed that the only…
Xiaoliang Wang, Andrew Harrison
This article considers a mechanism to explain the emergence and evolution of social cooperation. Selfish individuals tend to benefit themselves, which makes it hard for the maintenance of cooperation between unrelated individuals. We propose and validate that a smart group strategy can effectively facilitate the…
Adi Livnat
The theory of interaction-based evolution argues that, at the most basic level of analysis, there is a third alternative for how adaptive evolution works besides a) accidental mutation and natural selection and b) Lamarckism, namely, c) information provided by natural selection on the fit between the organism and its…
Joseph P. Bielawski
The concept of synaptation is introduced to explain a distinct evolutionary origin of selected effects, in which natural selection operates through emergent cross-level interactions within collectives lacking shared inheritance. The traditional framework excludes such origins from the adaptation–exaptation taxonomy.…
Marvin A Böttcher, Jan Nagler
Multilevel selection is an important organizing principle that crucially underlies evolutionary processes from the emergence of cells to eusociality and the economics of nations. Previous studies on multilevel selection assumed that the effective higher-level selection emerges from lower-level reproduction. This leads…
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Machine olfaction—the artificial replication of the sense of smell—faces significant challenges due to the absence of large, standardized training datasets. Unlike vision, language, and audio models, which benefit from extensive corpora such as ImageNet, GLUE, and AudioSet, olfaction lacks scaled equivalents and…
Octavio Miramontes, Og DeSouza
Cooperation is a widespread natural phenomenon yet current evolutionary thinking is dominated by the paradigm of selfish competition. Recent advances in many fronts of Biology and Non-linear Physics are helping to bring cooperation to its proper place. In this contribution, the most important controversies and open…
Amit Kahana, Lior Segev, Doron Lancet
The origin of life must have involved an unlikely transition from chaotic chemistry to reproducing supramolecular structures. Previous quantitative analyses of reproducing mutually catalytic networks made of simple molecules have led to increasing popularity of this pre-RNA scenario for life’s origin. Here, we…
Andre KY Low, Flore Mekki-Berrada, Aleksandr Ostudin, Jiaxun Xie + 7 more
The development of automated high-throughput experimental platforms has enabled fast sampling of high-dimensional decision spaces. To reach target properties efficiently, these platforms are increasingly paired with intelligent experimental design. When solving optimization problems, Bayesian-based optimizers are often…