Search Results - "Oliveira, Viviane M. de"
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Multifractal fluctuations in zebrafish (Danio rerio) polarization time series
Published in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter and biological physics (01-05-2024)“…In this work, we study the polarization time series obtained from experimental observation of a group of zebrafish ( Danio rerio ) confined in a circular tank…”
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Contributions to the Taxonomy of Arlesminthurus Bretfeld and Calvatomina Yosii (Collembola, Symphypleona, Appendiciphora), with the Description of New Species from Northeastern Brazil
Published in Insects (Basel, Switzerland) (11-05-2021)“…Arlesminthurus Bretfeld is a small genus of Neotropical Bourletiellidae, with only four described species so far. Calvatomina Yosii is a widespread taxon of…”
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Speckle statistics as a tool to distinguish collective behaviors of Zebrafish shoals
Published in Scientific reports (09-07-2024)“…Zebrafish have become an important model animal for studying the emergence of collective behavior in nature. Here, we show how to properly analyze the…”
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Effect of Landscape Structure on Species Diversity
Published in PloS one (19-06-2013)“…The effects of habitat fragmentation and their implications for biodiversity is a central issue in conservation biology which still lacks an overall…”
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Environmental Heterogeneity Enhances Clonal Interference
Published in Evolution (01-06-2008)“…Clonal interference (CI) is a phenomenon that may be important in several asexual microbes. It occurs when population sizes are large and mutation rates to new…”
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The effect of spatially correlated environments on genetic diversity–area relationships
Published in Journal of theoretical biology (07-11-2011)“…Understanding the spatial patterns of genetic diversity and what causes them is an important outstanding question in ecology. Here we investigate the roles of…”
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Neutral communities in fragmented landscapes
Published in Oikos (01-11-2012)“…Habitat fragmentation displays a crucial role in conservation biology. Despite this, little is known about the detailed ecological consequences of habitat…”
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Complementarity and diversity in a soluble model ecosystem
Published in Physical review letters (30-09-2002)“…Complementarity among species with different traits is one of the basic processes affecting biodiversity, defined as the number of species in the ecosystem. We…”
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Habitat fragmentation effects on biodiversity patterns
Published in Physica A (01-09-2010)“…We study the effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity patterns by means of a simple spatial model which considers selective geographic colonization,…”
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Population turnover and adaptation in heterogeneous environments
Published in Physica A (01-02-2012)“…We study adaptive dynamics in a structured population model of asexual individuals which takes into account environmental heterogeneity among the…”
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Adaptation of asexual populations in correlated environments
Published in Physica A (15-12-2010)“…We introduce two computational models of subdivided populations of asexual organisms which present variability in selection pressure. In both models one can…”
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MUTATIONAL EFFECTS ON THE CLONAL INTERFERENCE PHENOMENON
Published in Evolution (01-05-2004)“…We study the process of fixation of beneficial mutations in an asexual population by means of a theoretical model. Particularly, we wish to investigate how the…”
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Epistasis and environmental heterogeneity in the speciation process
Published in Ecological modelling (24-10-2010)“…The study of evolutionary mechanisms driving evolution of natural populations is a central issue in evolutionary biology. In this context the question of…”
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Emergence of prime numbers as the result of evolutionary strategy
Published in Physical review letters (27-08-2004)“…We investigate by means of a simple theoretical model the emergence of prime numbers as life cycles, as those seen for some species of cicadas. The cicadas,…”
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Scale-free networks in evolution
Published in Physica A (15-07-2003)“…In this paper we address the emergence of scale-free behavior in a simple evolutionary model. We model a growing population that starts from a small number of…”
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Diversity behavior in a community model with spatial heterogeneity
Published in Physics letters. A (06-05-2022)“…•We study how spatial heterogeneity combined with mutation events affect the diversity.•In our model the resource distribution is carried out by using a…”
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Gene phylogenies and protein–protein interactions: possible artifacts resulting from shared protein interaction partners
Published in Journal of theoretical biology (21-11-2004)“…The study of gene families critically depends on the correct reconstruction of gene genealogies, as for instance in the case of transcription factor genes like…”
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Evolving division of labor in a response threshold model
Published in Ecological complexity (01-05-2024)“…The response threshold model explains the emergence of division of labor (i.e., task specialization) in an unstructured population by assuming that the…”
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The interplay of tradeoffs within the framework of a resource-based modelling
Published in Ecological modelling (24-09-2018)“…Tradeoffs are supposed to play a key role in driving the maintenance and the generation of biodiversity. Although an extensive literature exists on the effect…”
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The emergence of division of labor in a structured response threshold model
Published in Physica A (01-03-2019)“…We a propose an adaptive population model, which is structured in groups, to investigate the appearance of division of labor. In the model, the individuals…”
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