Mauro Santos

The Evolution of cooperation (2009)

Mauro Santos, Eörs Szathmáry

L'aproximació a l'evolució centrada en el gen o del gen egoista aparentment entra en conflicte amb l'observació que la cooperació és freqüent en les interaccions socials humanes i també es pot...

Switch Mode Power Supply Design Constraints for Space Applications (2008)

Mauro Santos, Hugo Ribeiro, M. Martins, J. Guilherme

Abstract – This paper describes the design trade-offs presented in DC-DC power converters used in space applications. The major concern, in the design of power supplies for space applications, is...

Genetic hitchhiking can promote the initial spread of strong altruism (2008)

Santos, Mauro, Szathmáry, Eörs

Abstract Background The evolutionary origin of strong altruism (where the altruist pays an absolute cost in terms of fitness) towards non-kin has never been satisfactorily explained since no...

Thermal evolution of gene expression profiles in Drosophila subobscura (2007)

Laayouni, Hafid, García-Franco, Francisco, Chávez-Sandoval, Blanca E, Trotta, Vincenzo, Beltran, Sergi, Corominas, Montserrat, ...

Abstract Background Despite its pervasiveness, the genetic basis of adaptation resulting in variation directly or indirectly related to temperature (climatic) gradients is poorly understood. By using...

Thermal evolution of gene expression profiles in Drosophila subobscura (2007)

Laayouni, Hafid, García-Franco, Francisco, Chávez-Sandoval, Blanca E, Trotta, Vincenzo, Beltran, Sergi, Corominas, Montserrat, ...

Abstract Background Despite its pervasiveness, the genetic basis of adaptation resulting in variation directly or indirectly related to temperature (climatic) gradients is poorly understood. By using...

Thermal evolution of gene expression profiles in Drosophila subobscura (2007)

Laayouni, Hafid, García-Franco, Francisco, Chávez-Sandoval, Blanca E., Trotta, Vincenzo, Beltran I Agulló, Sergi, Corominas Guiu, Montserrat, ...

Background: Despite its pervasiveness, the genetic basis of adaptation resulting in variation directly or indirectly related to temperature (climatic) gradients is poorly understood. By using 3-fold...

Genetics and geometry of canalization and developmental stability in Drosophila subobscura (2005)

Santos, Mauro, Iriarte, Pedro, Céspedes, Walkiria

Abstract Background Many properties of organisms show great robustness against genetic and environmental perturbations. The terms canalization and developmental stability were originally proposed to...

Uso de aditivos na nutrição de ruminantes (Additive use in the nutrition of ruminants) (2005)

Mauro Santos

Aditivos alimentares ainda é um grande desafio para os pesquisadores. O benefício do uso, de muitos, são comprovados, e reputáveis, e existe ainda uma ampla gama de aditivos alimentares a serem...

The Evolutionary History of Drosophila buzzatii. XXXV. Inversion Polymorphism and Nucleotide Variability in Different Regions of the Second-Chromosome (2003)

Laayouni, Hafid, Hasson, Esteban, Santos, Mauro, Fontdevila, Antonio

Inversions are portions of chromosome where the gene order is reversed relative to a standard reference orientation. Because of reduced levels of recombination in heterokaryotypes, inversions have a...

The Evolutionary History of Drosophila buzzatii. XXXV. Inversion Polymorphism and Nucleotide Variability in Different Regions of the Second Chromosome (2003)

Laayouni, Hafid, Hasson, Esteban, Santos, Mauro, Fontdevila, Antonio

Inversions are portions of a chromosome where the gene order is reversed relative to a standard reference orientation. Because of reduced levels of recombination in heterokaryotypes, inversions have...

The Evolutionary History of Drosophila buzzatii. XXXV. Inversion Polymorphism and Nucleotide Variability in Different Regions of the Second-Chromosome (2003)

Laayouni, Hafid, Hasson, Esteban, Santos, Mauro, Fontdevila, Antonio

Inversions are portions of chromosome where the gene order is reversed relative to a standard reference orientation. Because of reduced levels of recombination in heterokaryotypes, inversions have a...

FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY IS NONGENETICALLY RELATED TO MATING SUCCESS IN DROSOPHILA BUZZATII (2001)

Mauro Santos

To date, there is still no consensus on the real significance of fluctuating asymmetry (FA) in evolutionary biology. Some studies have established links between FA and Darwinian fitness, and in a...

Biochemical Differences between Products of the Adh Locus in Drosophila

McDonald, John F., Anderson, Steven M., Santos, Mauro

An analysis of the molecular properties of the major alcohol dehydrogenase (E.C.1.1.1.1) allozyme variants found segregating in natural populations of D. melanogaster is presented. Our results...

Biochemical Differences between Products of the Adh Locus in Drosophila

McDonald, John F., Anderson, Steven M., Santos, Mauro

An analysis of the molecular properties of the major alcohol dehydrogenase (E.C.1.1.1.1) allozyme variants found segregating in natural populations of D. melanogaster is presented. Our results...

Recombination Load in a Chromosomal Inversion Polymorphism of Drosophila subobscura

Santos, Mauro

Chromosomal inversions suppress recombination in heterokaryotypes and may help to maintain positive epistatic interactions among groups of alleles at loci contained in the inversion. Here I evaluate...