School of Life and Environmental Sciences: Recent submissions
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An emergent clade of SARS-CoV-2 linked to returned travellers from Iran
Published 2020The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic has rapidly spread outside China with major outbreaks occurring in Italy, South Korea and Iran. Phylogenetic analyses of whole genome sequencing data identified a distinct SARS-CoV-2 clade linked ...Preprint -
Telehealth for ‘non-critical’ Patients with Chronic Diseases during the Pandemic (Preprint)
Published 2020During the recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, telehealth has received greater attention due to its role in reducing hospital visits from patients with COVID-19 or other conditions, while supporting home isolation ...Article -
Mathematical Models of Fertilization—An Eco-Evolutionary Perspective
Published 2019-01-01Mathematical models of fertilization have been developed for many taxa, for both external and internal fertilizers. They estimate the proportion or number of fertilized gametes based on gamete concentrations and parameters ...Open AccessArticle -
Superorganismal anisogamy: Queen-male dimorphism in eusocial insects
Published 2020-01-01Colonies of insects such as ants and honeybees are commonly viewed as ‘superorganisms’, with division of labour between reproductive ‘germline-like’ queens and males and ‘somatic’ workers. On this view, properties of the ...Article -
Evolution of the Two Sexes under Internal Fertilization and Alternative Evolutionary Pathways
Published 2019-01-01Transition from isogamy to anisogamy, hence males and females, leads to sexual selection, sexual conflict, sexual dimorphism, and sex roles. Gamete dynamics theory links biophysics of gamete limitation, gamete competition, ...Open AccessArticle