[HTML][HTML] The importance of selection in the evolution of blindness in cavefish

RA Cartwright, RS Schwartz, AL Merry… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2017 - Springer
Background Blindness has evolved repeatedly in cave-dwelling organisms, and many
hypotheses have been proposed to explain this observation, including both accumulation of …

Strong Selection is Necessary for Evolution of Blindness in Cave Dwellers

RS Schwartz, AL Merry, MM Howell, RA Cartwright - bioRxiv, 2015 - biorxiv.org
Blindness has evolved repeatedly in cave-dwelling organisms, and investigating loss of sight
presents an opportunity to understand the operation of fundamental evolutionary processes…

Mitochondrial-derived peptides in energy metabolism

TL Merry, A Chan, JST Woodhead… - American Journal …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Mitochondrial-derived peptides (MDPs) are small bioactive peptides encoded by short open-reading
frames (sORF) in mitochondrial DNA that do not necessarily have traditional …

Pattern graph rewrite systems

A Kissinger, A Merry, M Soloviev - arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.6695, 2012 - arxiv.org
String diagrams are a powerful tool for reasoning about physical processes, logic circuits,
tensor networks, and many other compositional structures. Dixon, Duncan and Kissinger …

Strong Selection is Necessary for Evolution of Blindness in Cave Dwellers

RA Cartwright, RS Schwartz, AL Merry, MM Howell - 2015 - europepmc.org
Blindness has evolved repeatedly in cave-dwelling organisms, and investigating the loss of
sight in cave dwellers presents an opportunity to understand the operation of fundamental …

The GHZ/W-calculus contains rational arithmetic

B Coecke, A Kissinger, A Merry, S Roy - arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.2812, 2011 - arxiv.org
Graphical calculi for representing interacting quantum systems serve a number of purposes:
compositionally, intuitive graphical reasoning, and a logical underpinning for automation. …

Exercise intensity does not influence the efficacy of eccentric exercise as a behavioural adjuvant to vaccination

…, C Downes, JE Long, JA Lumb, A Merry… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Acute exercise prior to vaccination can improve the antibody response to influenza vaccination.
However, both the optimal exercise protocol and the mechanisms underpinning this …

Plasma mitochondrial derived peptides MOTS-c and SHLP2 positively associate with android and liver fat in people without diabetes

…, LD Plank, P Cohen, SD Poppitt, TL Merry - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mitochondrial-derived peptides (MDPs) are encoded by the mitochondrial genome and
hypothesised to form part of a retrograde signalling network that modulates adaptive responses …

[BOOK][B] Iowa's archaeological past

LM Alex - 2010 - books.google.com
… Drawing on the discoveries of many avocational and professional scientists, Lynn Alex
that make up the archaeological record, Alex describes the nature of the earliest settlements in …

High-intensity interval exercise increases humanin, a mitochondrial encoded peptide, in the plasma and muscle of men

…, AJR Hickey, CJ Mitchell, TL Merry - Journal of applied …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Humanin is a small regulatory peptide encoded within the 16S ribosomal RNA gene (MT-RNR2)
of the mitochondrial genome that has cellular cyto- and metabolo-protective properties …