Kin selection and multilevel selection are two major frameworks in evolutionary biology that aim at explaining the evolution of social behaviors.However, the relationship between these two theories has been plagued by controversy for almost half a century and debates about their relevance and usefulness in explaining social evolution seem to rekind

The liver is a digestive and metabolic organ, and several factors can induce liver damage, which is a severe threat to human health.As a natural polyphenolic compound, mangiferin belongs to xanthone glucoside and mainly exists in many plants, such as mango.It is notorious that mangiferin has remarkable pharmacological two tone woven basket activiti

Previous studies on prostate cancer modeling under hormonal therapy successfully fit clinical serum androgen data, under the assumption that the levels of intracellular and serum androgen are similar.However, such an assumption may not hold throughout the course of treatment.In this paper, we propose a model that directly accounts for serum androge

ABSTRACT Human exploitation and destruction of tropical resources are currently threatening innumerable wild animal species, altering natural ecosystems and thus, food resources, skin of the flayed one with profound effects on gut microbiota.Given their conservation status and the importance to tropical ecosystems, wild nonhuman primates make excel

To accurately estimate past terrestrial carbon pools is the key to understanding the global carbon cycle and its relationship with the climate system.SoilGen2 is a useful tool to obtain aspects of soil properties (including carbon content) by simulating soil formation processes; thus it offers an opportunity for both past soil carbon pool reconstru