Questions tagged [literature]
Questions about scientific journal papers, books or other written sources, or for requests for references.
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Time spent in phases of cell cycle
I am looking for references to papers containing the time intervals spent in different phases of the cell cycle (ej., G0, G1, S, G2, M for eukaryotes) for different cells. In particular, I am ...
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What is needed for a G-matrix?
I have been doing a lot of reading on quantitative genetics and the G- (and B-) matrix lately. I get the principle behind performing the analysis now but I am still not sure how to do it. I'd like to ...
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Modern reference for Kropotkin's lazy bees
I have been reading through Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution and he mentions a curious fact about bees (bolding by me for emphasis):
predatory instincts and laziness continue to ...
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How does species diversity vs Earth total biomass relate?
Are there any laws/theoretical foundations about how diversity of species relate with total biomass on Earth?
While there is a lot of esoteric sort of talk "humanity dis-balances the live on the ...
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A source for leaf architecture of different plant species/genus?
I'm currently working on extracting some features of the leaf architecture based on their images (like L:W ratio, laminar shape, ...). I use the Manual of Leaf Architecture as the reference. It is ...
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Visual maps of the neuronal membrane
There are lots of visual maps of the brain as a whole, especially the cortex, that show the distribution of "features" over a two-dimensional map, e.g. the Brodman areas (their morphology and their ...
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How to decipher references in natural history works of the late Renaissance and early Modernity?
Old botany books from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries (and maybe also some later ones) enumerating lists of species used to give references to their sources as abbreviations consisting of one or few ...
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Introductory literature for synthetic / systems biology
I am a computer engineer (MSc in Computer Engineering) who's looking to switch into the field of synthetic / systems biology. I have a comprehensive layman's understanding of evolution, genetics, ...
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Book/source for learning bioinformatics, focused on genomics?
Does anyone know of sources for learning bioinformatics, focused on genomics? I would like to learn a lot of skills I could apply potently in the workforce if I ever became adept at the fields. My ...
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What is the difference between organelle membranes?
Cells and organelles are contained in lipid bilayers. I'm particularly interested in eukaryotic organelle bilayers and the biophysicochemical differences between them.
Many papers assume a ...
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Modern immunology textbooks
I am looking for recommendations to good textbooks introducing modern immunology. Review articles, preferably modern (post 2000) would also be useful.
Please, include a brief comment with each book ...
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Evolution of diversity and extinction resistance
I saw a comment on an answer to another question that touched on an interesting topic:
keeping diversity is useful for parameter exploration or to adapt to future environmental change
My initial ...
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Where can I find a list of common enzyme cofactors and/or co-enzymes?
Where can I find a list of enzyme cofactors and/or co-enzymes, ordered by how common they are?
For example, $O_2$, $H_2O$, $ATP$, $ADP$, $NAD$, should be ranked in the first places, because they ...
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References for historical momentum in asexual species definitions
For sexually reproducing organisms, the scope of a species is somewhat fixed by reproductive compatibility.
However, this all collapses for organisms that exclusively reproduce asexually.
Here, my ...
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Which texts are good for beginners to understand evolution on the genetic scope?
Are there good texts to study the evolution, how it works, and how mutations and changes lead to evolution of the organism ?
And how does the information increase through the long time using ...
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List of Asymmetric Animals
The (male) Fiddler Crab is a famous example of an animal whose morphology exhibits neither mirror nor radial symmetry:
(Image source)
List of animals featuring external asymmetry is a Wikipedia ...
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Can a chicken really be hatched outside of the egg?
This YouTube video (screenshots attached) claims to show Japanese schoolchildren breaking an egg into a kind of clingfilm "hammock in a cup", and then growing and hatching a chick from it in an ...
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What are the major differences between good study habits for biology vs mathematics? [closed]
I'm a math prof. But, I've always loved reading about biology (the paleobiology of microbes and some small animals mostly) it's my hobby but I want to learn more maybe take a course. My longer term ...
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Want reference for a convention
This answer to another question satisfactorily answer one of my major confusion.
The convention is that in indicating any sequence feature† in a protein-coding gene on double-stranded DNA, a ...
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