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Gahm K, Nguyen R, Acácio M, Anglister N, Vaadia G, Spiegel O, Pinter-Wollman N. A wrap-around movement path randomization method to distinguish social and spatial drivers of animal interactions. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2024; 379:20220531. [PMID: 39230446 PMCID: PMC11449205 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2023] [Revised: 01/08/2024] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 09/05/2024] Open
Abstract
Studying the spatial-social interface requires tools that distinguish between social and spatial drivers of interactions. Testing hypotheses about the factors determining animal interactions often involves comparing observed interactions with reference or 'null' models. One approach to accounting for spatial drivers of social interactions in reference models is randomizing animal movement paths to decouple spatial and social phenotypes while maintaining environmental effects on movements. Here, we update a reference model that detects social attraction above the effect of spatial constraints. We explore the use of our 'wrap-around' method and compare its performance to the previous approach using agent-based simulations. The wrap-around method provides reference models that are more similar to the original tracking data, while still distinguishing between social and spatial drivers. Furthermore, the wrap-around approach results in fewer false-positives than its predecessor, especially when animals do not return to one place each night but change movement foci, either locally or directionally. Finally, we show that interactions among GPS-tracked griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) emerge from social attraction rather than from spatial constraints on their movements. We conclude by highlighting the biological situations in which the updated method might be most suitable for testing hypotheses about the underlying causes of social interactions. This article is part of the theme issue 'The spatial-social interface: a theoretical and empirical integration'.
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- Kaija Gahm
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- School of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- School of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- School of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- School of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Pandey A, Wojan C, Feuka A, Craft ME, Manlove K, Pepin KM. The influence of social and spatial processes on the epidemiology of environmentally transmitted pathogens in wildlife: implications for management. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2024; 379:20220532. [PMID: 39230447 PMCID: PMC11449208 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2024] [Revised: 04/29/2024] [Accepted: 05/07/2024] [Indexed: 09/05/2024] Open
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Social and spatial structures of host populations play important roles in pathogen transmission. For environmentally transmitted pathogens, the host space use interacts with both the host social structure and the pathogen's environmental persistence (which determines the time-lag across which two hosts can transmit). Together, these factors shape the epidemiological dynamics of environmentally transmitted pathogens. While the importance of both social and spatial structures and environmental pathogen persistence has long been recognized in epidemiology, they are often considered separately. A better understanding of how these factors interact to determine disease dynamics is required for developing robust surveillance and management strategies. Here, we use a simple agent-based model where we vary host mobility (spatial), host gregariousness (social) and pathogen decay (environmental persistence), each from low to high levels to uncover how they affect epidemiological dynamics. By comparing epidemic peak, time to epidemic peak and final epidemic size, we show that longer infectious periods, higher group mobility, larger group size and longer pathogen persistence lead to larger, faster growing outbreaks, and explore how these processes interact to determine epidemiological outcomes such as the epidemic peak and the final epidemic size. We identify general principles that can be used for planning surveillance and control for wildlife host-pathogen systems with environmental transmission across a range of spatial behaviour, social structure and pathogen decay rates. This article is part of the theme issue 'The spatial-social interface: a theoretical and empirical integration'.
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- Aakash Pandey
- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University , East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul , MN 55108, USA
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- National Wildlife Research Center, USDA-APHIS, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul , MN 55108, USA
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- Department of Wildland Resources and Ecology Center, Utah State University, 5200 Old Main Hill , Logan, UT 84322, USA
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- National Wildlife Research Center, USDA-APHIS, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
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Schultz EA, Ellison‐Neary N, Boudreau MR, Street GM, Jones LR, Evans KO, Iglay RB. On the move: Influence of animal movements on count error during drone surveys. Ecol Evol 2024; 14:e70287. [PMID: 39355112 PMCID: PMC11439628 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.70287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2024] [Revised: 08/20/2024] [Accepted: 08/29/2024] [Indexed: 10/03/2024] Open
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The use of remote sensing to monitor animal populations has greatly expanded during the last decade. Drones (i.e., Unoccupied Aircraft Systems or UAS) provide a cost- and time-efficient remote sensing option to survey animals in various landscapes and sampling conditions. However, drone-based surveys may also introduce counting errors, especially when monitoring mobile animals. Using an agent-based model simulation approach, we evaluated the error associated with counting a single animal across various drone flight patterns under three animal movement strategies (random, directional persistence, and biased toward a resource) among five animal speeds (2, 4, 6, 8, 10 m/s). Flight patterns represented increasing spatial independence (ranging from lawnmower pattern with image overlap to systematic point counts). Simulation results indicated that flight pattern was the most important variable influencing count accuracy, followed by the type of animal movement pattern, and then animal speed. A awnmower pattern with 0% overlap produced the most accurate count of a solitary, moving animal on a landscape (average count of 1.1 ± 0.6) regardless of the animal's movement pattern and speed. Image overlap flight patterns were more likely to result in multiple counts even when accounting for mosaicking. Based on our simulations, we recommend using a lawnmower pattern with 0% image overlap to minimize error and augment drone efficacy for animal surveys. Our work highlights the importance of understanding interactions between animal movements and drone survey design on count accuracy to inform the development of broad applications among diverse species and ecosystems.
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- Emma A. Schultz
- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and AquacultureMississippi State UniversityMississippi StateMississippiUSA
- Quantitative Ecology and Spatial Technologies LabMississippi State UniversityMississippi StateMississippiUSA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and AquacultureMississippi State UniversityMississippi StateMississippiUSA
- Quantitative Ecology and Spatial Technologies LabMississippi State UniversityMississippi StateMississippiUSA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and AquacultureMississippi State UniversityMississippi StateMississippiUSA
- Quantitative Ecology and Spatial Technologies LabMississippi State UniversityMississippi StateMississippiUSA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and AquacultureMississippi State UniversityMississippi StateMississippiUSA
- Quantitative Ecology and Spatial Technologies LabMississippi State UniversityMississippi StateMississippiUSA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and AquacultureMississippi State UniversityMississippi StateMississippiUSA
- Quantitative Ecology and Spatial Technologies LabMississippi State UniversityMississippi StateMississippiUSA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and AquacultureMississippi State UniversityMississippi StateMississippiUSA
- Quantitative Ecology and Spatial Technologies LabMississippi State UniversityMississippi StateMississippiUSA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and AquacultureMississippi State UniversityMississippi StateMississippiUSA
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Wang Y, Leiberg K, Kindred N, Madan CR, Poirier C, Petkov CI, Taylor PN, Mota B. Neuro-evolutionary evidence for a universal fractal primate brain shape. eLife 2024; 12:RP92080. [PMID: 39347569 PMCID: PMC11441977 DOI: 10.7554/elife.92080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/01/2024] Open
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The cerebral cortex displays a bewildering diversity of shapes and sizes across and within species. Despite this diversity, we present a universal multi-scale description of primate cortices. We show that all cortical shapes can be described as a set of nested folds of different sizes. As neighbouring folds are gradually merged, the cortices of 11 primate species follow a common scale-free morphometric trajectory, that also overlaps with over 70 other mammalian species. Our results indicate that all cerebral cortices are approximations of the same archetypal fractal shape with a fractal dimension of df = 2.5. Importantly, this new understanding enables a more precise quantification of brain morphology as a function of scale. To demonstrate the importance of this new understanding, we show a scale-dependent effect of ageing on brain morphology. We observe a more than fourfold increase in effect size (from two standard deviations to eight standard deviations) at a spatial scale of approximately 2 mm compared to standard morphological analyses. Our new understanding may, therefore, generate superior biomarkers for a range of conditions in the future.
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- Yujiang Wang
- CNNP Lab (https://www.cnnp-lab.com), School of Computing, Newcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUnited Kingdom
- Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUnited Kingdom
- UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen SquareLondonUnited Kingdom
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- CNNP Lab (https://www.cnnp-lab.com), School of Computing, Newcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUnited Kingdom
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- Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUnited Kingdom
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- Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUnited Kingdom
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- Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUnited Kingdom
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of IowaDes MoinesUnited States
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- CNNP Lab (https://www.cnnp-lab.com), School of Computing, Newcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUnited Kingdom
- Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUnited Kingdom
- UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen SquareLondonUnited Kingdom
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- metaBIO Lab, Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)Rio de JaneiroBrazil
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Malul D, Berman H, Solodoch A, Tal O, Barak N, Mizrahi G, Berenshtein I, Toledo Y, Lotan T, Sher D, Shavit U, Lehahn Y. Directional swimming patterns in jellyfish aggregations. Curr Biol 2024; 34:4033-4038.e5. [PMID: 39106864 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2024] [Revised: 06/30/2024] [Accepted: 07/08/2024] [Indexed: 08/09/2024]
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Having a profound influence on marine and coastal environments worldwide, jellyfish hold significant scientific, economic, and public interest.1,2,3,4,5 The predictability of outbreaks and dispersion of jellyfish is limited by a fundamental gap in our understanding of their movement. Although there is evidence that jellyfish may actively affect their position,6,7,8,9,10 the role of active swimming in controlling jellyfish movement, and the characteristics of jellyfish swimming behavior, are not well understood. Consequently, jellyfish are often regarded as passively drifting or randomly moving organisms, both conceptually2,11 and in process studies.12,13,14 Here we show that the movement of jellyfish is modulated by distinctly directional swimming patterns that are oriented away from the coast and against the direction of surface gravity waves. Taking a Lagrangian viewpoint from drone videos that allows the tracking of multiple adjacent jellyfish, and focusing on the scyphozoan jellyfish Rhopilema nomadica as a model organism, we show that the behavior of individual jellyfish translates into a synchronized directional swimming of the aggregation as a whole. Numerical simulations show that this counter-wave swimming behavior results in biased correlated random-walk movement patterns that reduce the risk of stranding, thus providing jellyfish with an adaptive advantage critical to their survival. Our results emphasize the importance of active swimming in regulating jellyfish movement and open the way for a more accurate representation in model studies, thus improving the predictability of jellyfish outbreaks and their dispersion and contributing to our ability to mitigate their possible impact on coastal infrastructure and populations.
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- Dror Malul
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Technion City, Haifa 10587, Israel; Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa, Abba Khoushy Ave, Haifa 3498838, Israel; The Inter-university Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat 8810302, Israel
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- Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa, Abba Khoushy Ave, Haifa 3498838, Israel
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- Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Technion City, Haifa 10587, Israel
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- Department of Marine Biology, University of Haifa, Abba Khoushy Ave, Haifa 3498838, Israel
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- Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa, Abba Khoushy Ave, Haifa 3498838, Israel
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- Department of Marine Biology, University of Haifa, Abba Khoushy Ave, Haifa 3498838, Israel
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- Department of Marine Biology, University of Haifa, Abba Khoushy Ave, Haifa 3498838, Israel
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- Department of Marine Biology, University of Haifa, Abba Khoushy Ave, Haifa 3498838, Israel
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Technion City, Haifa 10587, Israel
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- Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa, Abba Khoushy Ave, Haifa 3498838, Israel.
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Can A, Kızılbey K. Green Synthesis of ZnO Nanoparticles via Ganoderma Lucidum Extract: Structural and Functional Analysis in Polymer Composites. Gels 2024; 10:576. [PMID: 39330178 PMCID: PMC11431147 DOI: 10.3390/gels10090576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2024] [Revised: 08/22/2024] [Accepted: 08/25/2024] [Indexed: 09/28/2024] Open
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Metallic nanoparticles are of growing interest due to their broad applications. This study presents the green synthesis of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles (ZnNPs) using Ganoderma Lucidum mushroom extract, characterized by DLS, SEM, XRD, and FTIR spectroscopy analyses. The synthesis parameters, including extract/salt ratio and mixing time, significantly influenced nanoparticle yield, size, and polydispersity, with longer mixing times leading to larger, more varied particles. Specifically, the sizes of ZnNPs synthesized at a 1:1 extract/ZnCl2 ratio after 3 h and 24 h were 90.0 nm and 243.3 nm, with PDI values of 48.69% and 51.91%, respectively. At a 1:2 ratio, the sizes were 242.3 nm at 3 h (PDI: 43.19%) and a mixture of 1.5 nm, 117.4 nm, and 647.9 nm at 24 h (PDI: 2.72%, 10.97%, and 12.43%). Polymer films incorporating PVA, chitosan, and ZnNPs were analyzed for their morphological, spectroscopic, and mechanical properties. Chitosan reduced tensile strength and elongation due to its brittleness, while ZnNPs further increased film brittleness and structural degradation. A comparison of the tensile strength of films A and C revealed that the addition of chitosan to the PVA film resulted in an approximately 10.71% decrease in tensile strength. Similarly, the analysis of films B1 and B2 showed that the tensile strength of the B2 film decreased by 10.53%. Swelling tests showed that ZnNPs initially enhanced swelling, but excessive amounts led to reduced capacity due to aggregation. This pioneering study demonstrates the potential of Ganoderma Lucidum extract in nanoparticle synthesis and provides foundational insights for future research, especially in wound dressing applications.
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- Ayça Can
- Biomedical Engineering Department, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Acıbadem University, İstanbul 34752, Türkiye
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Acıbadem University, İstanbul 34752, Türkiye
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Chua GNL, Watters JW, Olinares PDB, Begum M, Vostal LE, Luo JA, Chait BT, Liu S. Differential dynamics specify MeCP2 function at nucleosomes and methylated DNA. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2024:10.1038/s41594-024-01373-9. [PMID: 39164525 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-024-01373-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 07/16/2024] [Indexed: 08/22/2024]
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Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2) is an essential chromatin-binding protein whose mutations cause Rett syndrome (RTT), a severe neurological disorder that primarily affects young females. The canonical view of MeCP2 as a DNA methylation-dependent transcriptional repressor has proven insufficient to describe its dynamic interaction with chromatin and multifaceted roles in genome organization and gene expression. Here we used single-molecule correlative force and fluorescence microscopy to directly visualize the dynamics of wild-type and RTT-causing mutant MeCP2 on DNA. We discovered that MeCP2 exhibits distinct one-dimensional diffusion kinetics when bound to unmethylated versus CpG methylated DNA, enabling methylation-specific activities such as co-repressor recruitment. We further found that, on chromatinized DNA, MeCP2 preferentially localizes to nucleosomes and stabilizes them from mechanical perturbation. Our results reveal the multimodal behavior of MeCP2 on chromatin that underlies its DNA methylation- and nucleosome-dependent functions and provide a biophysical framework for dissecting the molecular pathology of RTT mutations.
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- Gabriella N L Chua
- Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology, New York, NY, USA
- Laboratory of Chemistry and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.
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Tixier MS, Raeckelboom A, Tabary L, Douin M, Navajas M, Navia D. Ambulatory dispersal of Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) recki Wainstein (Acari: Phytoseiidae) along Solanceae stem. EXPERIMENTAL & APPLIED ACAROLOGY 2024:10.1007/s10493-024-00946-z. [PMID: 39088130 DOI: 10.1007/s10493-024-00946-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2024] [Accepted: 06/29/2024] [Indexed: 08/02/2024]
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Tomato crops are attacked by several pests, including mites. While the main predatory mites are not effective enough to control mite pests, recent studies have shown encouraging results with the European endemic phytoseiid Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) recki. The first objective of the study was to assess the ability of this species to disperse along the tomato stem, considering six genotypes of Solanum lycopersicum, S. peruvianum and S. cheesmaniae with contrasted trichome numbers and types of stem trichomes, accuratetly characterised in a previous study. The second objective was to determine how predator morphological traits can explain dispersal along the tomato stem. For this, ambulatory dispersal ability of females (stem crossing rate success, hesitation and escape behavior, mobility periods) was tested in lab conditions on the eight Solanum genotypes, at four period of time after the predator introduction (10, 25, 55 and 100 min), with a video observation of 5 min at each period. The females were then mounted on slides and body length and width (at the fore hind, middle and back parts) measured. No effect of the tomato genotypes was observed on the dispersal ability of the predator. However, specimens that succeeded in crossing the stem, had a higher percentage of mobility time (79.36%) than those that failed (43.60%). Furthermore, body width at midbody (DSW2) and dorsal shield length (DSL) were negatively correlated with dispersal ability. The mean DSL and DSW2 of the females that succeed to cross were 342.3 and 160.9 μm, respectively vs. 345.6 and 164.9 μm, for females that did not succeed. This suggests that the more slender and relatively small the specimens, the more are mobile and able to successfully cross the stem. The number of glandular trichomes type (GT) VI and to a lesser extent GT I and IV, and non-glandular trichomes (NGT) II&III appear to limit dispersal. The GT VI seems to have a repellent effect. On the opposite, the number of NGT V were positively correlated with high mobility and stem crossing rates. Assuming that the main barrier to biological control efficiency is dispersal along tomato stems, these preliminary results should have implications for biological control success. The proportion of mites with 'optimal dimensions' appears to be low and further studies should be undertaken to better assess the proportion of mites with such ideal dimensions in different populations and also to determine whether these morphological traits are associated with different feeding abilities and/or abiotic conditions.
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- M-S Tixier
- CBGP, Institut Agro Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
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- CBGP, INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Institut Agro Montpellier, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- CBGP, Institut Agro Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- CBGP, Institut Agro Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- CBGP, INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Institut Agro Montpellier, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- CBGP, INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Institut Agro Montpellier, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Fu D, Reif J. A biomimetic branching signal-passing tile assembly model with dynamic growth and disassembly. J R Soc Interface 2024; 21:20230755. [PMID: 39163031 PMCID: PMC11335017 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2023.0755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2023] [Accepted: 05/01/2024] [Indexed: 08/21/2024] Open
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Natural biological branching processes can form tree-like structures at all scales and, moreover, can perform various functions to achieve specific goals; these include receiving stimuli, performing two-way communication along their branches, and dynamically reforming (extending or retracting branches). They underlie many biological systems with considerable diversity, frequency, and geometric complexity; these include networks of neurons, organ tissue, mycorrhizal fungal networks, plant growth, foraging networks, etc. This paper presents a biomimetic DNA tile assembly model (Y-STAM) to implement dynamic branching processes. The Y-STAM is a relatively compact mathematical model providing a design space where complex, biomimetic branch-like growth and behaviour can emerge from the appropriate parametrization of the model. We also introduce a class of augmented models (Y-STAM+) that provide time- and space-dependent modulations of tile glue strengths, which enable further diverse behaviours that are not possible in the Y-STAM; these additional behaviours include refinement of network assemblies, obstacle avoidance, and programmable growth patterns. We perform and discuss extensive simulations of the Y-STAM and the Y-STAM+. We envision that these models could be applied at the mesoscale and the molecular scale to dynamically assemble branching DNA nanostructures and offer insights into complex biological self-assembly processes.
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- Daniel Fu
- Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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Hurst AL, O Brien AL, Miller ND, Peachey AMW, Yoder JM, De Faveri SG, Cheesman J, Manoukis NC, Siderhurst MS. Tracking and modeling the movement of Queensland fruit flies, Bactrocera tryoni, using harmonic radar in papaya fields. Sci Rep 2024; 14:17521. [PMID: 39080311 PMCID: PMC11289093 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-67372-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 07/10/2024] [Indexed: 08/02/2024] Open
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Determining movement parameters for pest insects such as tephritid fruit flies is critical to developing models which can be used to increase the effectiveness of surveillance and control strategies. In this study, harmonic radar was used to track wild-caught male Queensland fruit flies (Qflies), Bactrocera tryoni, in papaya fields. Experiment 1 continuously tracked single flies which were prodded to induce movement. Qfly movements from this experiment showed greater mean squared displacement than predicted by both a simple random walk (RW) or a correlated random walk (CRW) model, suggesting that movement parameters derived from the entire data set do not adequately describe the movement of individual Qfly at all spatial scales or for all behavioral states. This conclusion is supported by both fractal and hidden Markov model (HMM) analysis. Lower fractal dimensions (straighter movement paths) were observed at larger spatial scales (> 2.5 m) suggesting that Qflies have qualitatively distinct movement at different scales. Further, a two-state HMM fit the observed movement data better than the CRW or RW models. Experiment 2 identified individual landing locations, twice a day, for groups of released Qflies, demonstrating that flies could be tracked over longer periods of time.
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- Anika L Hurst
- Department of Biology, Eastern Mennonite University, 1200 Park Road, Harrisonburg, VA, 22802, USA
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- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Bridgewater College, 402 East College Street, Bridgewater, VA, 22812, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Eastern Mennonite University, 1200 Park Road, Harrisonburg, VA, 22802, USA
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- Department of Biology, Eastern Mennonite University, 1200 Park Road, Harrisonburg, VA, 22802, USA
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- Department of Biology, Eastern Mennonite University, 1200 Park Road, Harrisonburg, VA, 22802, USA
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- Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland Government, 26-40 Delancey Street, Cleveland, Queensland, 4163, Australia
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- Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland Government, 28 Peters Street, Mareeba, QLD, 4880, Australia
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- Daniel K. Inouye US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Hilo, HI, 96720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Eastern Mennonite University, 1200 Park Road, Harrisonburg, VA, 22802, USA.
- Daniel K. Inouye US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Hilo, HI, 96720, USA.
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Zhu Y, Ning C, Zhang N, Wang M, Zhang Y. GSRF-DTI: a framework for drug-target interaction prediction based on a drug-target pair network and representation learning on a large graph. BMC Biol 2024; 22:156. [PMID: 39020316 PMCID: PMC11256582 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-024-01949-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2023] [Accepted: 07/01/2024] [Indexed: 07/19/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Identification of potential drug-target interactions (DTIs) with high accuracy is a key step in drug discovery and repositioning, especially concerning specific drug targets. Traditional experimental methods for identifying the DTIs are arduous, time-intensive, and financially burdensome. In addition, robust computational methods have been developed for predicting the DTIs and are widely applied in drug discovery research. However, advancing more precise algorithms for predicting DTIs is essential to meet the stringent standards demanded by drug discovery. RESULTS We proposed a novel method called GSRF-DTI, which integrates networks with a deep learning algorithm to identify DTIs. Firstly, GSRF-DTI learned the embedding representation of drugs and targets by integrating multiple drug association information and target association information, respectively. Then, GSRF-DTI considered the influence of drug-target pair (DTP) association on DTI prediction to construct a drug-target pair network (DTP-NET). Next, we utilized GraphSAGE on DTP-NET to learn the potential features of the network and applied random forest (RF) to predict the DTIs. Furthermore, we conducted ablation experiments to validate the necessity of integrating different types of network features for identifying DTIs. It is worth noting that GSRF-DTI proposed three novel DTIs. CONCLUSIONS GSRF-DTI not only considered the influence of the interaction relationship between drug and target but also considered the impact of DTP association relationship on DTI prediction. We initially use GraphSAGE to aggregate the neighbor information of nodes for better identification. Experimental analysis on Luo's dataset and the newly constructed dataset revealed that the GSRF-DTI framework outperformed several state-of-the-art methods significantly.
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- Yongdi Zhu
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shandong University, Weihai, Shandong, China
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shandong University, Weihai, Shandong, China
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shandong University, Weihai, Shandong, China
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- Department of Central Lab, Weihai Municipal Hospital, Weihai, Shandong, China.
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shandong University, Weihai, Shandong, China.
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Kessler F, Frankenstein J, Rothkopf CA. Human navigation strategies and their errors result from dynamic interactions of spatial uncertainties. Nat Commun 2024; 15:5677. [PMID: 38971789 PMCID: PMC11227593 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49722-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/14/2024] [Indexed: 07/08/2024] Open
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Goal-directed navigation requires continuously integrating uncertain self-motion and landmark cues into an internal sense of location and direction, concurrently planning future paths, and sequentially executing motor actions. Here, we provide a unified account of these processes with a computational model of probabilistic path planning in the framework of optimal feedback control under uncertainty. This model gives rise to diverse human navigational strategies previously believed to be distinct behaviors and predicts quantitatively both the errors and the variability of navigation across numerous experiments. This furthermore explains how sequential egocentric landmark observations form an uncertain allocentric cognitive map, how this internal map is used both in route planning and during execution of movements, and reconciles seemingly contradictory results about cue-integration behavior in navigation. Taken together, the present work provides a parsimonious explanation of how patterns of human goal-directed navigation behavior arise from the continuous and dynamic interactions of spatial uncertainties in perception, cognition, and action.
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- Fabian Kessler
- Centre for Cognitive Science & Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.
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- Centre for Cognitive Science & Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Centre for Cognitive Science & Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
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Lecheval V, Robinson EJH, Mann RP. Random walks with spatial and temporal resets can explain individual and colony-level searching patterns in ants. J R Soc Interface 2024; 21:20240149. [PMID: 39081113 PMCID: PMC11289642 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2024] [Revised: 05/07/2024] [Accepted: 06/06/2024] [Indexed: 08/02/2024] Open
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Central place foragers, such as many ants, exploit the environment around their nest. The extent of their foraging range is a function of individual movement, but how the movement patterns of large numbers of foragers result in an emergent colony foraging range remains unclear. Here, we introduce a random walk model with stochastic resetting to depict the movements of searching ants. Stochastic resetting refers to spatially resetting at random times the position of agents to a given location, here the nest of searching ants. We investigate the effect of a range of resetting mechanisms and compare the macroscopic predictions of our model to laboratory and field data. We find that all returning mechanisms very robustly ensure that scouts exploring the surroundings of a nest will be exponentially distributed with distance from the nest. We also find that a decreasing probability for searching ants to return to their nest is compatible with empirical data, resulting in scouts going further away from the nest as the number of foraging trips increases. Our findings highlight the importance of resetting random walk models for depicting the movements of central place foragers and nurture novel questions regarding the searching behaviour of ants.
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- Valentin Lecheval
- Department of Biology, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Science of Intelligence, Research Cluster of Excellence, Berlin, Germany
- School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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Mai U, Hu G, Raphael BJ. Maximum likelihood phylogeographic inference of cell motility and cell division from spatial lineage tracing data. Bioinformatics 2024; 40:i228-i236. [PMID: 38940146 PMCID: PMC11211844 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/29/2024] Open
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MOTIVATION Recently developed spatial lineage tracing technologies induce somatic mutations at specific genomic loci in a population of growing cells and then measure these mutations in the sampled cells along with the physical locations of the cells. These technologies enable high-throughput studies of developmental processes over space and time. However, these applications rely on accurate reconstruction of a spatial cell lineage tree describing both past cell divisions and cell locations. Spatial lineage trees are related to phylogeographic models that have been well-studied in the phylogenetics literature. We demonstrate that standard phylogeographic models based on Brownian motion are inadequate to describe the spatial symmetric displacement (SD) of cells during cell division. RESULTS We introduce a new model-the SD model for cell motility that includes symmetric displacements of daughter cells from the parental cell followed by independent diffusion of daughter cells. We show that this model more accurately describes the locations of cells in a real spatial lineage tracing of mouse embryonic stem cells. Combining the spatial SD model with an evolutionary model of DNA mutations, we obtain a phylogeographic model for spatial lineage tracing. Using this model, we devise a maximum likelihood framework-MOLLUSC (Maximum Likelihood Estimation Of Lineage and Location Using Single-Cell Spatial Lineage tracing Data)-to co-estimate time-resolved branch lengths, spatial diffusion rate, and mutation rate. On both simulated and real data, we show that MOLLUSC accurately estimates all parameters. In contrast, the Brownian motion model overestimates spatial diffusion rate in all test cases. In addition, the inclusion of spatial information improves accuracy of branch length estimation compared to sequence data alone. On real data, we show that spatial information has more signal than sequence data for branch length estimation, suggesting augmenting lineage tracing technologies with spatial information is useful to overcome the limitations of genome-editing in developmental systems. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The python implementation of MOLLUSC is available at https://github.com/raphael-group/MOLLUSC.
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- Uyen Mai
- Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, 35 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, 35 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, 35 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
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Maroudas-Sklare N, Goren N, Yochelis S, Jung G, Keren N, Paltiel Y. Probing the design principles of photosynthetic systems through fluorescence noise measurement. Sci Rep 2024; 14:13877. [PMID: 38880795 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-64068-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2024] [Accepted: 06/05/2024] [Indexed: 06/18/2024] Open
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Elucidating the energetic processes which govern photosynthesis, the engine of life on earth, are an essential goal both for fundamental research and for cutting-edge biotechnological applications. Fluorescent signal of photosynthetic markers has long been utilised in this endeavour. In this research we demonstrate the use of fluorescent noise analysis to reveal further layers of intricacy in photosynthetic energy transfer. While noise is a common tool analysing dynamics in physics and engineering, its application in biology has thus far been limited. Here, a distinct behaviour in photosynthetic pigments across various chemical and biological environments is measured. These changes seem to elucidate quantum effects governing the generation of oxidative radicals. Although our method offers insights, it is important to note that the interpretation should be further validated expertly to support as conclusive theory. This innovative method is simple, non-invasive, and immediate, making it a promising tool to uncover further, more complex energetic events in photosynthesis, with potential uses in environmental monitoring, agriculture, and food-tech.
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- Naama Maroudas-Sklare
- Department of Applied Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel
- Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Applied Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Applied Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 84105, Beer Sheva, Israel
- Instytut Fizyki PAN, 02668, Warszawa, Poland
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- Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Applied Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Puri D, Allison KR. Escherichia coli self-organizes developmental rosettes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2315850121. [PMID: 38814871 PMCID: PMC11161754 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2315850121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 05/01/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024] Open
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Rosettes are self-organizing, circular multicellular communities that initiate developmental processes, like organogenesis and embryogenesis, in complex organisms. Their formation results from the active repositioning of adhered sister cells and is thought to distinguish multicellular organisms from unicellular ones. Though common in eukaryotes, this multicellular behavior has not been reported in bacteria. In this study, we found that Escherichia coli forms rosettes by active sister-cell repositioning. After division, sister cells "fold" to actively align at the 2- and 4-cell stages of clonal division, thereby producing rosettes with characteristic quatrefoil configuration. Analysis revealed that folding follows an angular random walk, composed of ~1 µm strokes and directional randomization. We further showed that this motion was produced by the flagellum, the extracellular tail whose rotation generates swimming motility. Rosette formation was found to require de novo flagella synthesis suggesting it must balance the opposing forces of Ag43 adhesion and flagellar propulsion. We went on to show that proper rosette formation was required for subsequent morphogenesis of multicellular chains, rpoS gene expression, and formation of hydrostatic clonal-chain biofilms. Moreover, we found self-folding rosette-like communities in the standard motility assay, indicating that this behavior may be a general response to hydrostatic environments in E. coli. These findings establish self-organization of clonal rosettes by a prokaryote and have implications for evolutionary biology, synthetic biology, and medical microbiology.
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- Devina Puri
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA30322
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA30322
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA30322
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de Almeida GRM, Amaral N, Buarque ARC, Dias WS. Noise correlations behind superdiffusive quantum walks. Phys Rev E 2024; 109:064151. [PMID: 39020965 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.109.064151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/03/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024]
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We study how discrete-time quantum walks behave under short-range correlated noise. By considering noise as a source of inhomogeneity of quantum gates, we introduce a primitive relaxation in the assumption of uncorrelated stochastic noise: binary pair correlations manifesting in the random distribution. Using different quantum gates, we examined the transport properties for both spatial and temporal noise regimes. For spatial inhomogeneities, we unveil noise correlations driving quantum walks from the well-known exponentially localized regime to superdiffusive spreading. This scenario displays an intriguing performance in which the superdiffusive exponent is almost invariant to the degree of inhomogeneity. The time-asymptotic regime and the finite-size scaling also unveil an emergent superdiffusive behavior for quantum walks undergoing temporal noise correlation, replacing the diffusive regime exhibited when noise is random and uncorrelated. However, some quantum gates are insensitive to correlations, contrasting with the spatial noise scenario. Numerical and analytical results provide valuable insights into the underlying mechanism of superdiffusive quantum walks, including those arising from deterministic aperiodic inhomogeneities.
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 57072-900 Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
- Quantum Industrial Innovation, Centro de Competência Embrapii Cimatec, SENAI CIMATEC, Av. Orlando Gomes, 1845 Salvador-BA, Brazil
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Klimek A, Mondal D, Block S, Sharma P, Netz RR. Data-driven classification of individual cells by their non-Markovian motion. Biophys J 2024; 123:1173-1183. [PMID: 38515300 PMCID: PMC11140416 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2024.03.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2024] [Revised: 03/11/2024] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024] Open
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We present a method to differentiate organisms solely by their motion based on the generalized Langevin equation (GLE) and use it to distinguish two different swimming modes of strongly confined unicellular microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The GLE is a general model for active or passive motion of organisms and particles that can be derived from a time-dependent general many-body Hamiltonian and in particular includes non-Markovian effects (i.e., the trajectory memory of its past). We extract all GLE parameters from individual cell trajectories and perform an unbiased cluster analysis to group them into different classes. For the specific cell population employed in the experiments, the GLE-based assignment into the two different swimming modes works perfectly, as checked by control experiments. The classification and sorting of single cells and organisms is important in different areas; our method, which is based on motion trajectories, offers wide-ranging applications in biology and medicine.
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- Anton Klimek
- Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; Department of Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Boyer D, Majumdar SN. Active particle in one dimension subjected to resetting with memory. Phys Rev E 2024; 109:054105. [PMID: 38907397 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.109.054105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 06/24/2024]
Abstract
The study of diffusion with preferential returns to places visited in the past has attracted increased attention in recent years. In these highly non-Markov processes, a standard diffusive particle intermittently resets at a given rate to previously visited positions. At each reset, a position to be revisited is randomly chosen with a probability proportional to the accumulated amount of time spent by the particle at that position. These preferential revisits typically generate a very slow diffusion, logarithmic in time, but still with a Gaussian position distribution at late times. Here we consider an active version of this model, where between resets the particle is self-propelled with constant speed and switches direction in one dimension according to a telegraphic noise. Hence there are two sources of non-Markovianity in the problem. We exactly derive the position distribution in Fourier space, as well as the variance of the position at all times. The crossover from the short-time ballistic regime, dominated by activity, to the long-time anomalous logarithmic growth induced by memory is studied. We also analytically derive a large deviation principle for the position, which exhibits a logarithmic time scaling instead of the usual algebraic form. Interestingly, at large distances, the large deviations become independent of time and match the nonequilibrium steady state of a particle under resetting to its starting position only.
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- Denis Boyer
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México 04510, México
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- LPTMS, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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Simpson MJ, Murphy KM, McCue SW, Buenzli PR. Discrete and continuous mathematical models of sharp-fronted collective cell migration and invasion. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2024; 11:240126. [PMID: 39076824 PMCID: PMC11286127 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.240126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2024] [Accepted: 02/22/2024] [Indexed: 07/31/2024]
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Mathematical models describing the spatial spreading and invasion of populations of biological cells are often developed in a continuum modelling framework using reaction-diffusion equations. While continuum models based on linear diffusion are routinely employed and known to capture key experimental observations, linear diffusion fails to predict well-defined sharp fronts that are often observed experimentally. This observation has motivated the use of nonlinear degenerate diffusion; however, these nonlinear models and the associated parameters lack a clear biological motivation and interpretation. Here, we take a different approach by developing a stochastic discrete lattice-based model incorporating biologically inspired mechanisms and then deriving the reaction-diffusion continuum limit. Inspired by experimental observations, agents in the simulation deposit extracellular material, which we call a substrate, locally onto the lattice, and the motility of agents is taken to be proportional to the substrate density. Discrete simulations that mimic a two-dimensional circular barrier assay illustrate how the discrete model supports both smooth and sharp-fronted density profiles depending on the rate of substrate deposition. Coarse-graining the discrete model leads to a novel partial differential equation (PDE) model whose solution accurately approximates averaged data from the discrete model. The new discrete model and PDE approximation provide a simple, biologically motivated framework for modelling the spreading, growth and invasion of cell populations with well-defined sharp fronts. Open-source Julia code to replicate all results in this work is available on GitHub.
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- Matthew J. Simpson
- School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Liu Y, Jiao Y, Li X, Li G, Wang W, Liu Z, Qin D, Zhong L, Liu L, Shuai J, Li Z. An entropy-based approach for assessing the directional persistence of cell migration. Biophys J 2024; 123:730-744. [PMID: 38366586 PMCID: PMC10995411 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2024.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Revised: 01/23/2024] [Accepted: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 02/18/2024] Open
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Cell migration, which is primarily characterized by directional persistence, is essential for the development of normal tissues and organs, as well as for numerous pathological processes. However, there is a lack of simple and efficient tools to analyze the systematic properties of persistence based on cellular trajectory data. Here, we present a novel approach, the entropy of angular distribution , which combines cellular turning dynamics and Shannon entropy to explore the statistical and time-varying properties of persistence that strongly correlate with cellular migration modes. Our results reveal the changes in the persistence of multiple cell lines that are tightly regulated by both intra- and extracellular cues, including Arpin protein, collagen gel/substrate, and physical constraints. Significantly, some previously unreported distinctive details of persistence have also been captured, helping to elucidate how directional persistence is distributed and evolves in different cell populations. The analysis suggests that the entropy of angular distribution-based approach provides a powerful metric for evaluating directional persistence and enables us to better understand the relationships between cellular behaviors and multiscale cues, which also provides some insights into the migration dynamics of cell populations, such as collective cell invasion.
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- Yanping Liu
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Big Data for Bio Intelligence, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China
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- Materials Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Big Data for Bio Intelligence, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Environmental Materials and Remediation Technologies, College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Big Data for Bio Intelligence, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Big Data for Bio Intelligence, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Big Data for Bio Intelligence, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China
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- School of Medical Information and Engineering, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Smart Materials, College of Physics, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China; Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou, China.
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Big Data for Bio Intelligence, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China.
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Harman RR, Kim TN. Differentiating spillover: an examination of cross-habitat movement in ecology spillover in ecology. Proc Biol Sci 2024; 291:20232707. [PMID: 38351801 PMCID: PMC10865012 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024] Open
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Organisms that immigrate into a recipient habitat generate a movement pattern that affects local population dynamics and the environment. Spillover is the pattern of unidirectional movement from a donor habitat to a different, adjacent recipient habitat. However, ecological definitions are often generalized to include any cross-habitat movement, which limits within- and cross-discipline collaboration. To assess spillover nomenclature, we reviewed 337 studies within the agriculture, disease, fisheries and habitat fragmentation disciplines. Each study's definition of spillover and the methods used were analysed. We identified four descriptors (movement, habitat type and arrangement, and effect) used that differentiate spillover from other cross-habitat movement patterns (dispersal, foray loops and edge movement). Studies often define spillover as movement (45%) but rarely measure it as such (4%), particularly in disease and habitat fragmentation disciplines. Consequently, 98% of studies could not distinguish linear from returning movement out of a donor habitat, which can overestimate movement distance. Overall, few studies (12%) included methods that matched their own definition, revealing a distinct mismatch. Because theory shows that long-term impacts of the different movement patterns can vary, differentiating spillover from other movement patterns is necessary for effective long-term and inter-disciplinary management of organisms that use heterogeneous landscapes.
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- Rachel R. Harman
- Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, 123 W. Waters Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, 123 W. Waters Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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Jurth C, Lichtner G, Bienert T, von Dincklage F. The variability in nociceptive flexion reflex threshold measurement is mostly caused by probabilistic effects of the estimation algorithms: a simulation study. Int J Neurosci 2024:1-10. [PMID: 38315138 DOI: 10.1080/00207454.2024.2312991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 01/27/2024] [Indexed: 02/07/2024]
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OBJECTIVES The nociceptive flexion reflex (NFR) and its threshold are frequently used to investigate spinal nociception in humans. Since this threshold (NFRT) is a probabilistic measure, specific algorithms are used for NFRT estimation based on the stochastic occurrence of reflexes at different stimulus intensities. We used a validated simulation model of the NFR to investigate the amount of NFRT measurement variability induced by different estimation algorithms in a steady setting of reduced external influences. METHODS We simulated the behavior of different estimation algorithms in subjects with an artificially steady baseline NFRT variability (standard deviation: 0 mA) or low baseline NFRT variability (standard deviation: 0.156 mA), equaling a quiet experimental setting. The obtained data were analyzed for NFRT measurement variability caused by the algorithms compared to the baseline variability reflecting other physiological influences. RESULTS The standard deviation of the NFRT estimated by the different algorithms ranged between 0.381 and 3.464 mA with 96.8% to 99.6% of the measurement variability attributed to the algorithm used. Out of the investigated algorithms the dynamic staircase algorithm was most precise. CONCLUSION The NFRT measurement variability observed during quiet and steady experimental sessions is mostly caused by the properties of the estimation algorithms, due to the probabilistic nature of the reflex occurrence. Our results give reference for choosing the optimal estimation algorithm to improve measurement precision.
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- Carlo Jurth
- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Sandhu S, Mikheev V, Pasternak A, Taskinen J, Morozov A. Revisiting the role of behavior-mediated structuring in the survival of populations in hostile environments. Commun Biol 2024; 7:93. [PMID: 38216662 PMCID: PMC10786947 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05731-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/14/2024] Open
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Increasing the population density of target species is a major goal of ecosystem and agricultural management. This task is especially challenging in hazardous environments with a high abundance of natural enemies such as parasites and predators. Safe locations with lower mortality have been long considered a beneficial factor in enhancing population survival, being a promising tool in commercial fish farming and restoration of threatened species. Here we challenge this opinion and revisit the role of behavior structuring in a hostile environment in shaping the population density. We build a mathematical model, where individuals are structured according to their defensive tactics against natural enemies. The model predicts that although each safe zone enhances the survival of an individual, for an insufficient number of such zones, the entire population experiences a greater overall mortality. This is a result of the interplay of emergent dynamical behavioral structuring and strong intraspecific competition for safe zones. Non-plastic structuring in individuals' boldness reduces the mentioned negative effects. We demonstrate emergence of non-plastic behavioral structuring: the evolutionary branching of a monomorphic population into a dimorphic one with bold/shy strains. We apply our modelling approach to explore fish farming of salmonids in an environment infected by trematode parasites.
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- Simran Sandhu
- School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK.
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
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Ren ZH, Yu CQ, Li LP, You ZH, Li ZW, Zhang SW, Zeng X, Shang YF. SiSGC: A Drug Repositioning Prediction Model Based on Heterogeneous Simplifying Graph Convolution. J Chem Inf Model 2024; 64:238-249. [PMID: 38103039 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.3c01665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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Drug repositioning plays a key role in disease treatment. With the large-scale chemical data increasing, many computational methods are utilized for drug-disease association prediction. However, most of the existing models neglect the positive influence of non-Euclidean data and multisource information, and there is still a critical issue for graph neural networks regarding how to set the feature diffuse distance. To solve the problems, we proposed SiSGC, which makes full use of the biological knowledge information as initial features and learns the structure information from the constructed heterogeneous graph with the adaptive selection of the information diffuse distance. Then, the structural features are fused with the denoised similarity information and fed to the advanced classifier of CatBoost to make predictions. Three different data sets are used to confirm the robustness and generalization of SiSGC under two splitting strategies. Experiment results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves superior performance compared with the six leading methods and four variants. Our case study on breast neoplasms further indicates that SiSGC is trustworthy and robust yet simple. We also present four drugs for breast cancer treatment with high confidence and further give an explanation for demonstrating the rationality. There is no doubt that SiSGC can be used as a beneficial supplement for drug repositioning.
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- Zhong-Hao Ren
- College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- School of Information Engineering, Xijing University, Xi'an 710123, China
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- College of Agriculture and Forestry, Longdong University, Qingyang 745000, China
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- School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710129, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
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- School of Information Engineering, Xijing University, Xi'an 710123, China
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- College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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Majumdar SN, Mori F, Vivo P. Nonlinear-cost random walk: Exact statistics of the distance covered for fixed budget. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:064122. [PMID: 38243551 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.064122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 11/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
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We consider the nonlinear-cost random-walk model in discrete time introduced in Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 237102 (2023)10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.237102, where a fee is charged for each jump of the walker. The nonlinear cost function is such that slow or short jumps incur a flat fee, while for fast or long jumps the cost is proportional to the distance covered. In this paper we compute analytically the average and variance of the distance covered in n steps when the total budget C is fixed, as well as the statistics of the number of long or short jumps in a trajectory of length n, for the exponential jump distribution. These observables exhibit a very rich and nonmonotonic scaling behavior as a function of the variable C/n, which is traced back to the makeup of a typical trajectory in terms of long or short jumps, and the resulting entropy thereof. As a by-product, we compute the asymptotic behavior of ratios of Kummer hypergeometric functions when both the first and last arguments are large. All our analytical results are corroborated by numerical simulations.
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- Satya N Majumdar
- LPTMS, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, and Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Mathematics, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
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Ramadan Q, Hazaymeh R, Zourob M. Immunity-on-a-Chip: Integration of Immune Components into the Scheme of Organ-on-a-Chip Systems. Adv Biol (Weinh) 2023; 7:e2200312. [PMID: 36866511 DOI: 10.1002/adbi.202200312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2022] [Revised: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 03/04/2023]
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Studying the immune system in vitro aims to understand how, when, and where the immune cells migrate/differentiate and respond to the various triggering events and the decision points along the immune response journey. It becomes evident that organ-on-a-chip (OOC) technology has a superior capability to recapitulate the cell-cell and tissue-tissue interaction in the body, with a great potential to provide tools for tracking the paracrine signaling with high spatial-temporal precision and implementing in situ real-time, non-destructive detection assays, therefore, enabling extraction of mechanistic information rather than phenotypic information. However, despite the rapid development in this technology, integration of the immune system into OOC devices stays among the least navigated tasks, with immune cells still the major missing components in the developed models. This is mainly due to the complexity of the immune system and the reductionist methodology of the OOC modules. Dedicated research in this field is demanded to establish the understanding of mechanism-based disease endotypes rather than phenotypes. Herein, we systemically present a synthesis of the state-of-the-art of immune-cantered OOC technology. We comprehensively outlined what is achieved and identified the technology gaps emphasizing the missing components required to establish immune-competent OOCs and bridge these gaps.
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- Qasem Ramadan
- Alfaisal University, Riyadh, 11533, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Almaarefa University, Diriyah, 13713, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Van Calck L, Pacheco A, Strobel V, Dorigo M, Reina A. A blockchain-based information market to incentivise cooperation in swarms of self-interested robots. Sci Rep 2023; 13:20417. [PMID: 37990126 PMCID: PMC10663462 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-46238-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/23/2023] Open
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Robot swarms are generally considered to be composed of cooperative agents that, despite their limited individual capabilities, can perform difficult tasks by working together. However, in open swarms, where different robots can be added to the swarm by different parties with potentially competing interests, cooperation is but one of many strategies. We envision an information market where robots can buy and sell information through transactions stored on a distributed blockchain, and where cooperation is encouraged by the economy itself. As a proof of concept, we study a classical foraging task, where exchanging information with other robots is paramount to accomplish the task efficiently. We illustrate that even a single robot that lies to others-a so-called Byzantine robot-can heavily disrupt the swarm. Hence, we devise two protection mechanisms. Through an individual-level protection mechanism, robots are more sceptical about others' information and can detect and discard Byzantine information, at the cost of lower efficiency. Through a systemic protection mechanism based on economic rules regulating robot interactions, robots that sell honest information acquire over time more wealth than Byzantines selling false information. Our simulations show that a well-designed robot economy penalises misinformation spreading and protects the swarm from Byzantine behaviour. We believe economics-inspired swarm robotics is a promising research direction that exploits the timely opportunity for decentralised economies offered by blockchain technology.
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- Ludéric Van Calck
- Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle (IRIDIA), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle (IRIDIA), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
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- Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle (IRIDIA), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle (IRIDIA), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle (IRIDIA), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
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Goko H, Yamanaka O, Shiraishi M, Nishimori H. Characteristics of daily foraging activity of Camponotus japonicus via time series analysis. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0293455. [PMID: 37971994 PMCID: PMC10653500 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 10/12/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023] Open
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Social insects often share tasks among individuals. In this study, we analyzed the foraging activity of ants (Camponotus japonicus) and recorded the daily passage event counts of individual workers between a nest chamber and a foraging arena in five monodomous colonies. We proposed two hypotheses on the time series of foraging frequency by individual worker ants as follows: (i) for the time series of foraging frequency by individual worker ants, the foraging frequency on a certain day could be expressed by the product of the foraging frequency on the previous day and the exponential of a random number. (ii) The random numbers are correlated between some pairs of worker ants. The results for the five tested ant colonies showed that the probability of total daily passage counts (the sum of an individual's passage count) followed a log-normal distribution. The worker ants behaved differently in terms of active days and foraging frequency. However, for > 54% of the worker ants, the probability of the daily passage count was characterized by a log-normal distribution, and these worker ants performed > 72% of the tasks in each colony. Furthermore, for > 73% of the worker ants, the time development of the passage count was mathematically modeled; the logarithmic first difference between the passage counts on a certain day and those on the previous day was a random normal variable. These results support hypothesis (i). Additionally, the random numbers that were equivalent to the logarithmic first difference were correlated for some pairs of worker ants. These results support hypothesis (ii).
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- Hiromichi Goko
- Frontier Research Center, Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota, Aichi, Japan
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- Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University, Nakano, Tokyo Japan
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- Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University, Nakano, Tokyo Japan
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- Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University, Nakano, Tokyo Japan
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Zhang N, Yong EH. Dynamics, statistics, and task allocation of foraging ants. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:054306. [PMID: 38115539 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.054306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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Ant foraging is one of the most fascinating examples of cooperative behavior observed in nature. It is well studied from an entomology viewpoint, but there is currently a lack of mathematical synthesis of this phenomenon. We address this by constructing an ant foraging model that incorporates simple behavioral rules within three task groups of the ant colony during foraging (foragers, transporters, and followers), pheromone trails, and memory effects. The motion of an ant is modeled as a discrete correlated random walk, with a characteristic zigzag path that is congruent with experimental data. We simulate the foraging cycle, which consists of ants searching for food, transporting food, and depositing chemical trails to recruit and orient more ants (en masse) to the food source. This allows us to gain insights into the basic mechanism of the cooperative interactions between ants and the dynamical division of labor within an ant colony during foraging to achieve optimal efficiency. We observe a disorder-order phase transition from the start to the end of a foraging process, signaling collective motion at the population level. Finally, we present a set of time delay ODEs that corroborates with numerical simulations.
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- Nuoya Zhang
- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
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Evans A, Ferrer AJ, Fradkov E, Shomar JW, Forer J, Klein M. Temperature sensitivity and temperature response across development in the Drosophila larva. Front Mol Neurosci 2023; 16:1275469. [PMID: 37965044 PMCID: PMC10641456 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2023.1275469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/05/2023] [Indexed: 11/16/2023] Open
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The surrounding thermal environment is highly important for the survival and fitness of animals, and as a result most exhibit behavioral and neural responses to temperature changes. We study signals generated by thermosensory neurons in Drosophila larvae and also the physical and sensory effects of temperature variation on locomotion and navigation. In particular we characterize how sensory neuronal and behavioral responses to temperature variation both change across the development of the larva. Looking at a wide range of non-nociceptive isotropic thermal environments, we characterize the dependence of speed, turning rate, and other behavioral components on temperature, distinguishing the physical effects of temperature from behavior changes based on sensory processing. We also characterize the strategies larvae use to modulate individual behavioral components to produce directed navigation along thermal gradients, and how these strategies change during physical development. Simulations based on modified random walks show where thermotaxis in each developmental stage fits into the larger context of possible navigation strategies. We also investigate cool sensing neurons in the larva's dorsal organ ganglion, characterizing neural response to sine-wave modulation of temperature while performing single-cell-resolution 3D imaging. We determine the sensitivity of these neurons, which produce signals in response to extremely small temperature changes. Combining thermotaxis results with neurophysiology data, we observe, across development, sensitivity to temperature change as low as a few thousandths of a °C per second, or a few hundredths of a °C in absolute temperature change.
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- Anastasiia Evans
- Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
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Lötsch J, Hummel T, Ultsch A. A perspective of randomness in a clinical test of olfactory performance. Sci Rep 2023; 13:17923. [PMID: 37864001 PMCID: PMC10589308 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-45135-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 10/22/2023] Open
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Random walks describe stochastic processes characterized by a sequence of unpredictable changes in a random variable with no correlation to past changes. This report describes the random walk component of a clinical sensory test of olfactory performance. The precise definition of this stochastic process allows the establishment of precise diagnostic cut-offs for the identification of olfactory loss. Within the Sniffin`Sticks olfactory test battery, odor discrimination (D) and odor identification (I) are assessed by four- and three-alternative forced-choice designs, respectively. Meanwhile, the odor threshold (T) test integrates a three-alternative forced-choice paradigm within a staircase paradigm with seven turning points. We explored this paradigm through computer simulations and provided a formal description. The odor threshold assessment test consists of two sequential components, the first of which sets the starting point for the second. Both parts can be characterized as biased random walks with significantly different probabilities of moving to higher (11%) or lower (89%) values. The initial odor concentration step for the first phase of the test and the length of the subsequent random walk in the second phase significantly affect the probability of randomly achieving high test scores. Changing the odor concentration from where the starting point determination for the second test part begins has raised the current cut-off for anosmia, represented as T + D + I < 16, from the 87th quantile of random test scores to the 97th quantile. Analogous findings are likely applicable to other sensory tests that use the staircase paradigm characterized as random walk.
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- Jörn Lötsch
- Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Goethe-University, Theodor Stern Kai 7, 60590, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60596, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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- Smell & Taste Clinic, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Universitätsklinik Gustav Carl Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307, Dresden, Germany
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- DataBionics Research Group, University of Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 22, 35032, Marburg, Germany
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Wang S, Li J, Wang D, Xu D, Jin J, Wang Y. Predicting Drug-Disease Associations Through Similarity Network Fusion and Multi-View Feature Projection Representation. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2023; 27:5165-5176. [PMID: 37527303 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2023.3300717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/03/2023]
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Predicting drug-disease associations (DDAs) through computational methods has become a prevalent trend in drug development because of their high efficiency and low cost. Existing methods usually focus on constructing heterogeneous networks by collecting multiple data resources to improve prediction ability. However, potential association possibilities of numerous unconfirmed drug-related or disease-related pairs are not sufficiently considered. In this article, we propose a novel computational model to predict new DDAs. First, a heterogeneous network is constructed, including four types of nodes (drugs, targets, cell lines, diseases) and three types of edges (associations, association scores, similarities). Second, an updating and merging-based similarity network fusion method, termed UM-SF, is presented to fuse various similarity networks with diverse weights. Finally, an intermediate layer-mediated multi-view feature projection representation method, termed IM-FP, is proposed to calculate the predicted DDA scores. This method uses multiple association scores to construct multi-view drug features, then projects them into disease space through the intermediate layer, where an intermediate layer similarity constraint is designed to learn the projection matrices. Results of comparative experiments reveal the effectiveness of our innovations. Comparisons with other state-of-the-art models by the 10-fold cross-validation experiment indicate our model's advantage on AUROC and AUPR metrics. Moreover, our proposed model successfully predicted 107 novel high-ranked DDAs.
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Margolis A, Gordus A. A stochastic explanation for observed local-to-global foraging states in Caenorhabditis elegans. ARXIV 2023:arXiv:2309.15174v1. [PMID: 37808097 PMCID: PMC10557789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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Abrupt changes in behavior can often be associated with changes in underlying behavioral states. When placed off food, the foraging behavior of C. elegans can be described as a change between an initial local-search behavior characterized by a high rate of reorientations, followed by a global-search behavior characterized by sparse reorientations. This is commonly observed in individual worms, but when numerous worms are characterized, only about half appear to exhibit this behavior. We propose an alternative model that predicts both abrupt and continuous changes to reorientation that does not rely on behavioral states. This model is inspired by molecular dynamics modeling that defines the foraging reorientation rate as a decaying parameter. By stochastically sampling from the probability distribution defined by this rate, both abrupt and gradual changes to reorientation rates can occur, matching experimentally observed results. Crucially, this model does not depend on behavioral states or information accumulation. Even though abrupt behavioral changes do occur, they may not necessarily be indicative of abrupt changes in behavioral states, especially when abrupt changes are not universally observed in the population.
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- Andrew Margolis
- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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Xie S, Xie X, Zhao X, Liu F, Wang Y, Ping J, Ji Z. HNSPPI: a hybrid computational model combing network and sequence information for predicting protein-protein interaction. Brief Bioinform 2023; 24:bbad261. [PMID: 37480553 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbad261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2023] [Revised: 06/24/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/24/2023] Open
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Most life activities in organisms are regulated through protein complexes, which are mainly controlled via Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs). Discovering new interactions between proteins and revealing their biological functions are of great significance for understanding the molecular mechanisms of biological processes and identifying the potential targets in drug discovery. Current experimental methods only capture stable protein interactions, which lead to limited coverage. In addition, expensive cost and time consuming are also the obvious shortcomings. In recent years, various computational methods have been successfully developed for predicting PPIs based only on protein homology, primary sequences of protein or gene ontology information. Computational efficiency and data complexity are still the main bottlenecks for the algorithm generalization. In this study, we proposed a novel computational framework, HNSPPI, to predict PPIs. As a hybrid supervised learning model, HNSPPI comprehensively characterizes the intrinsic relationship between two proteins by integrating amino acid sequence information and connection properties of PPI network. The experimental results show that HNSPPI works very well on six benchmark datasets. Moreover, the comparison analysis proved that our model significantly outperforms other five existing algorithms. Finally, we used the HNSPPI model to explore the SARS-CoV-2-Human interaction system and found several potential regulations. In summary, HNSPPI is a promising model for predicting new protein interactions from known PPI data.
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- Shijie Xie
- College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, No. 1 Weigang Rd, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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- College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, No. 1 Weigang Rd, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety of Ministry of Education & Single Molecule Nanometry Laboratory (Sinmolab), Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biological Interactions and Crop Health, Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, 210095, Nanjing, China
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- MOE International Joint Collaborative Research Laboratory for Animal Health and Food Safety & Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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- College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, No. 1 Weigang Rd, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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Gayford JH, Pearse WD, De La Parra Venegas R, Whitehead DA. Quantifying the behavioural consequences of shark ecotourism. Sci Rep 2023; 13:12938. [PMID: 37679396 PMCID: PMC10485054 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-39560-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023] Open
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Shark populations globally are facing catastrophic declines. Ecotourism has been posited as a potential solution to many of the issues facing shark conservation, yet increasingly studies suggest that such activity may negatively influence aspects of shark ecology and so further pressure declining populations. Here we combine UAV videography with deep learning algorithms, multivariate statistics and hidden Markov models (HMM) to quantitatively investigate the behavioural consequences of ecotourism in the whale shark (Rhincodon typus). We find that ecotourism increases the probability of sharks being in a disturbed behavioural state, likely increasing energetic expenditure and potentially leading to downstream ecological effects. These results are only recovered when fitting models that account for individual variation in behavioural responses and past behavioural history. Our results demonstrate that behavioural responses to ecotourism are context dependent, as the initial behavioural state is important in determining responses to human activity. We argue that models incorporating individuality and context-dependence should, wherever possible, be incorporated into future studies investigating the ecological impacts of shark ecotourism, which are only likely to increase in importance given the expansion of the industry and the dire conservation status of many shark species.
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- Joel H Gayford
- Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, London, UK.
- Shark Measurements, London, UK.
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- Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Seckler H, Szwabiński J, Metzler R. Machine-Learning Solutions for the Analysis of Single-Particle Diffusion Trajectories. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:7910-7923. [PMID: 37646323 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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Single-particle traces of the diffusive motion of molecules, cells, or animals are by now routinely measured, similar to stochastic records of stock prices or weather data. Deciphering the stochastic mechanism behind the recorded dynamics is vital in understanding the observed systems. Typically, the task is to decipher the exact type of diffusion and/or to determine the system parameters. The tools used in this endeavor are currently being revolutionized by modern machine-learning techniques. In this Perspective we provide an overview of recently introduced methods in machine-learning for diffusive time series, most notably, those successfully competing in the anomalous diffusion challenge. As such methods are often criticized for their lack of interpretability, we focus on means to include uncertainty estimates and feature-based approaches, both improving interpretability and providing concrete insight into the learning process of the machine. We expand the discussion by examining predictions on different out-of-distribution data. We also comment on expected future developments.
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- Henrik Seckler
- Institute of Physics & Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Hugo Steinhaus Center, Faculty of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Institute of Physics & Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
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Pike TW, Burman OHP. Simulating individual movement in fish. Sci Rep 2023; 13:14581. [PMID: 37666895 PMCID: PMC10477313 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-40420-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 09/06/2023] Open
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Accurately quantifying an animal's movement is crucial for developing a greater empirical and theoretical understanding of its behaviour, and for simulating biologically plausible movement patterns. However, we have a relatively poor understanding of how animals move at fine temporal scales and in three-dimensional environments. Here, we collected high temporal resolution data on the three-dimensional spatial positions of individual three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus), allowing us to derive statistics describing key geometric characteristics of their movement and to quantify the extent to which this varies between individuals. We then used these statistics to develop a simple model of fish movement and evaluated the biological plausibility of simulated movement paths using a Turing-type test, which quantified the association preferences of live fish towards animated conspecifics following either 'real' (i.e., based on empirical measurements) or simulated movements. Live fish showed no difference in their response to 'real' movement compared to movement simulated by the model, although significantly preferred modelled movement over putatively unnatural movement patterns. The model therefore has the potential to facilitate a greater understanding of the causes and consequences of individual variation in movement, as well as enabling the construction of agent-based models or real-time computer animations in which individual fish move in biologically feasible ways.
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- Thomas W Pike
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, LN6 7DL, UK.
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, LN6 7DL, UK
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Benhamou S, Courbin N. Accounting for central place foraging constraints in habitat selection studies. Ecology 2023; 104:e4134. [PMID: 37386731 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2022] [Revised: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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Habitat selection studies contrast actual space use with the expected use under the null hypothesis of no selection (hereafter neutral use). Neutral use is most often equated to the relative frequencies with which environmental features occur. This generates a considerable bias when studying habitat selection by foragers that perform numerous trips back and forth to a central place (CP). Indeed, the increased space use close to the CP with respect to distant places reflects a mechanical effect, rather than a true selection for the closest habitats. Yet, correctly estimating habitat selection by CP foragers is of paramount importance for a better understanding of their ecology and to properly plan conservation actions. We show that including the distance to the CP as a covariate in unconditional Resource Selection Functions, as applied in several studies, is ineffective to correct for the bias. This bias can be eliminated only by contrasting the actual use to an appropriate neutral use that considers the CP forager behavior. We also show that the need to specify an appropriate neutral use overall distribution can be bypassed by relying on a conditional approach, where the neutral use is assessed locally regardless of the distance to the CP.
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- Simon Benhamou
- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS, Montpellier, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS, Montpellier, France
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Mastandrea C, Chien CC. Localization of quantum walks with classical randomness: Comparison between manual methods and supervised machine learning. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:035308. [PMID: 37849155 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.035308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2023] [Accepted: 09/14/2023] [Indexed: 10/19/2023]
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A transition of quantum walk induced by classical randomness changes the probability distribution of the walker from a two-peak structure to a single-peak one when the random parameter exceeds a critical value. We first establish the generality of the localization by showing its emergence in the presence of random rotation or translation. The transition point can be located manually by examining the probability distribution, momentum of inertia, and inverse participation ratio. As a comparison, we implement three supervised machine learning methods, the support vector machine (SVM), multilayer perceptron neural network, and convolutional neural network with the same data and show they are able to identify the transition. While the SVM sometimes underestimates the exponents compared to the manual methods, the two neural-network methods show more deviations for the case with random translation due to the fluctuating probability distributions. Our work illustrates potentials and challenges facing machine learning of physical systems with mixed quantum and classical probabilities.
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Merced, California 95343, USA
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van Klinken RD, Gladish DW, Manoukis NC, Caley P, Hill MP. Simulation to investigate site-based monitoring of pest insect species for trade. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 2023; 116:1296-1306. [PMID: 37312603 PMCID: PMC10413999 DOI: 10.1093/jee/toad112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2023] [Revised: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Pest insect surveillance using lures is widely used to support market access requirements for traded articles that are hosts or carriers of quarantine pests. Modeling has been used extensively to guide the design of surveillance to support pest free area claims but is less commonly applied to provide confidence in pest freedom or low pest prevalence within sites registered for trade. Site-based surveillance typically needs to detect pests that are already present in the site or that may be entering the site from surrounding areas. We assessed the ability of site-based surveillance strategies to detect pests originating from within or outside the registered site using a probabilistic trapping network simulation model with random-walk insect movement and biologically realistic parameters. For a given release size, time-dependent detection probability was primarily determined by trap density and lure attractiveness, whereas mean step size (daily dispersal) had limited effect. Results were robust to site shape and size. For pests already within the site, detection was most sensitive using regularly spaced traps. Perimeter traps performed best for detecting pests moving into the site, although the importance of trap arrangement decreased with time from release, and random trap placement performed relatively well compared to regularly spaced traps. High detection probabilities were achievable within 7 days using realistic values for lure attractiveness and trap density. These findings, together with the modeling approach, can guide the development of internationally agreed principles for designing site-based surveillance of lure-attractant pests that is calibrated against the risk of non-detection.
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- Tropical Crop and Commodity Protection Research Unit, Daniel K. Inouye U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Centre, Hilo, HI, USA
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- CSIRO Data61, GPO Box 1700 Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, GPO Box 1700, Black Mountain, ACT 2601, Australia
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Yu J, Dancausse S, Paz M, Faderin T, Gaviria M, Shomar JW, Zucker D, Venkatachalam V, Klein M. Continuous, long-term crawling behavior characterized by a robotic transport system. eLife 2023; 12:e86585. [PMID: 37535068 PMCID: PMC10400072 DOI: 10.7554/elife.86585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 08/04/2023] Open
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Detailed descriptions of behavior provide critical insight into the structure and function of nervous systems. In Drosophila larvae and many other systems, short behavioral experiments have been successful in characterizing rapid responses to a range of stimuli at the population level. However, the lack of long-term continuous observation makes it difficult to dissect comprehensive behavioral dynamics of individual animals and how behavior (and therefore the nervous system) develops over time. To allow for long-term continuous observations in individual fly larvae, we have engineered a robotic instrument that automatically tracks and transports larvae throughout an arena. The flexibility and reliability of its design enables controlled stimulus delivery and continuous measurement over developmental time scales, yielding an unprecedented level of detailed locomotion data. We utilize the new system's capabilities to perform continuous observation of exploratory search behavior over a duration of 6 hr with and without a thermal gradient present, and in a single larva for over 30 hr. Long-term free-roaming behavior and analogous short-term experiments show similar dynamics that take place at the beginning of each experiment. Finally, characterization of larval thermotaxis in individuals reveals a bimodal distribution in navigation efficiency, identifying distinct phenotypes that are obfuscated when only analyzing population averages.
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- James Yu
- Department of Physics, Northeastern UniversityBostonUnited States
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- Department of Physics and Department of Biology, University of MiamiCoral GablesUnited States
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- Department of Physics, Northeastern UniversityBostonUnited States
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- Department of Physics, Northeastern UniversityBostonUnited States
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- Department of Physics and Department of Biology, University of MiamiCoral GablesUnited States
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- Department of Physics and Department of Biology, University of MiamiCoral GablesUnited States
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- Department of Physics and Department of Biology, University of MiamiCoral GablesUnited States
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Wu J, Xu C, Ye Z, Chen H, Wang Y, Yang K, Yuan B. Transition between Different Diffusion Modes of Individual Lipids during the Membrane-Specific Action of As-CATH4 Peptides. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023; 19:e2301713. [PMID: 37093200 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202301713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2023] [Revised: 04/02/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The cell membrane permeabilization ability of immune defense antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) is widely applied in biomedicine. Although the mechanisms of peptide-membrane interactions have been widely investigated, analyses at the molecular level are still lacking. Herein, the membrane-specific action of a native AMP, As-CATH4, is investigated using a single-lipid tracking method in combination with live cell and model membrane assays conducted at different scales. The peptide-membrane interaction process is characterized by analyzing single-lipid diffusion behaviors. As-CATH4 exhibits potent antimicrobial activity through bacterial membrane permeabilization, with moderate cytotoxicity against mammalian cells. In-plane diffusion analyses of individual lipids show that the lipid molecules exhibit non-Gaussian and heterogeneous diffusion behaviors in both pristine and peptide-treated membranes, which can be decomposed into two Gaussian subgroups corresponding to normal- and slow-diffusive lipids. Assessment of the temporal evolution of these two diffusion modes of lipids reveal that the peptide action states of As-CATH4 include surface binding, transmembrane defect formation, and dynamic equilibrium. The action mechanisms of As-CATH4 at varying concentrations and against different membranes are distinguished. This work resolves the simultaneous mixed diffusion mechanisms of single lipids in biomimetic cell membranes, especially during dynamic membrane permeabilization by AMPs.
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- Jinfeng Wu
- Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research & School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215006, P. R. China
- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong, 523808, P. R. China
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- Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research & School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215006, P. R. China
- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong, 523808, P. R. China
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- Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, P. R. China
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- Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research & School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215006, P. R. China
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- Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, P. R. China
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- Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research & School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215006, P. R. China
- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong, 523808, P. R. China
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- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong, 523808, P. R. China
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Larroya F, Díaz O, Sagarra O, Colomer Simón P, Ferré S, Moro E, Perelló J. Home-to-school pedestrian mobility GPS data from a citizen science experiment in the Barcelona area. Sci Data 2023; 10:428. [PMID: 37402776 PMCID: PMC10319877 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02328-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/06/2023] Open
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The analysis of pedestrian GPS datasets is fundamental to further advance on the study and the design of walkable cities. The highest resolution GPS data can characterize micro-mobility patterns and pedestrians' micro-motives in relation to a small-scale urban context. Purposed-based recurrent mobility data inside people's neighbourhoods is an important source in these sorts of studies. However, micro-mobility around people's homes is generally unavailable, and if data exists, it is generally not shareable often due to privacy issues. Citizen science and its public involvement practices in scientific research are valid options to circumvent these challenges and provide meaningful datasets for walkable cities. The study presents GPS records from single-day home-to-school pedestrian mobility of 10 schools in the Barcelona Metropolitan area (Spain). The research provides pedestrian mobility from an age-homogeneous group of people. The study shares processed records with specific filtering, cleaning, and interpolation procedures that can facilitate and accelerate data usage. Citizen science practices during the whole research process are reported to offer a complete perspective of the data collected.
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Grants
- FIS2016-78904-C3-2-P Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación)
- PID2019-106811GB-C33 (AEI/10.13039/501100011033) Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación)
- PID2019-106811GB-C32 (AEI/10.13039/501100011033) Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación)
- 2017 SGR 608 Departament d'Innovació, Universitats i Empresa, Generalitat de Catalunya (Department of Innovation, Education and Enterprise, Government of Catalonia)
- 2021 SGR 00856 Departament d'Innovació, Universitats i Empresa, Generalitat de Catalunya (Department of Innovation, Education and Enterprise, Government of Catalonia)
- 2017 SGR 608 Departament d'Innovació, Universitats i Empresa, Generalitat de Catalunya (Department of Innovation, Education and Enterprise, Government of Catalonia)
- 2021 SGR 00856 Departament d'Innovació, Universitats i Empresa, Generalitat de Catalunya (Department of Innovation, Education and Enterprise, Government of Catalonia)
- Departament d'Innovació, Universitats i Empresa, Generalitat de Catalunya (Department of Innovation, Education and Enterprise, Government of Catalonia)
- -Horizon Europe ERA-Net Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC) program [OPUSH, contract number 101003758] -Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCIN, Spain), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR [grant number PCI2022-132996] -Horizon Europe WIDERA program [SENSE, contract number 101058507] -Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCIN, Spain), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 [grant number] PID2019-106811GB-C33
- BarcelonActiva (Impulsem el que fas 2017)
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- Ferran Larroya
- OpenSystems, Departament de Física de la Matèria Condensada, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès, 1, 08028, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Dribia Data Research, Llacuna, 162, 08018, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Dribia Data Research, Llacuna, 162, 08018, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Dribia Data Research, Llacuna, 162, 08018, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Eduscopi, Esglèsia, 69, 08901, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain
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- MIT Connection Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Mathematics and GISC, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Leganés, Spain
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- OpenSystems, Departament de Física de la Matèria Condensada, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès, 1, 08028, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
- Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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Ioannou CC, Carvalho LAB, Budleigh C, Ruxton GD. Virtual prey with Lévy motion are preferentially attacked by predatory fish. Behav Ecol 2023; 34:695-699. [PMID: 37434636 PMCID: PMC10332449 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arad039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2022] [Revised: 04/13/2023] [Accepted: 04/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023] Open
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Of widespread interest in animal behavior and ecology is how animals search their environment for resources, and whether these search strategies are optimal. However, movement also affects predation risk through effects on encounter rates, the conspicuousness of prey, and the success of attacks. Here, we use predatory fish attacking a simulation of virtual prey to test whether predation risk is associated with movement behavior. Despite often being demonstrated to be a more efficient strategy for finding resources such as food, we find that prey displaying Lévy motion are twice as likely to be targeted by predators than prey utilizing Brownian motion. This can be explained by the predators, at the moment of the attack, preferentially targeting prey that were moving with straighter trajectories rather than prey that were turning more. Our results emphasize that costs of predation risk need to be considered alongside the foraging benefits when comparing different movement strategies.
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- Christos C Ioannou
- School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
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- School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Sir Harold Mitchell Building, Greenside Place, St Andrews KY16 9TH, UK
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Coppola CM, Strong JB, O'Reilly L, Dalesman S, Akanyeti O. Robot Programming from Fish Demonstrations. Biomimetics (Basel) 2023; 8:248. [PMID: 37366843 DOI: 10.3390/biomimetics8020248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2023] [Revised: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
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Fish are capable of learning complex relations found in their surroundings, and harnessing their knowledge may help to improve the autonomy and adaptability of robots. Here, we propose a novel learning from demonstration framework to generate fish-inspired robot control programs with as little human intervention as possible. The framework consists of six core modules: (1) task demonstration, (2) fish tracking, (3) analysis of fish trajectories, (4) acquisition of robot training data, (5) generating a perception-action controller, and (6) performance evaluation. We first describe these modules and highlight the key challenges pertaining to each one. We then present an artificial neural network for automatic fish tracking. The network detected fish successfully in 85% of the frames, and in these frames, its average pose estimation error was less than 0.04 body lengths. We finally demonstrate how the framework works through a case study focusing on a cue-based navigation task. Two low-level perception-action controllers were generated through the framework. Their performance was measured using two-dimensional particle simulations and compared against two benchmark controllers, which were programmed manually by a researcher. The fish-inspired controllers had excellent performance when the robot was started from the initial conditions used in fish demonstrations (>96% success rate), outperforming the benchmark controllers by at least 3%. One of them also had an excellent generalisation performance when the robot was started from random initial conditions covering a wider range of starting positions and heading angles (>98% success rate), again outperforming the benchmark controllers by 12%. The positive results highlight the utility of the framework as a research tool to form biological hypotheses on how fish navigate in complex environments and design better robot controllers on the basis of biological findings.
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- Department of Life Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion SY23 3DA, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion SY23 3DA, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion SY23 3DB, UK
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Majumdar SN, Mori F, Vivo P. Cost of Diffusion: Nonlinearity and Giant Fluctuations. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:237102. [PMID: 37354426 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.237102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2023] [Revised: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 06/26/2023]
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We introduce a simple model of diffusive jump process where a fee is charged for each jump. The nonlinear cost function is such that slow jumps incur a flat fee, while for fast jumps the cost is proportional to the velocity of the jump. The model-inspired by the way taxi meters work-exhibits a very rich behavior. The cost for trajectories of equal length and equal duration exhibits giant fluctuations at a critical value of the scaled distance traveled. Furthermore, the full distribution of the cost until the target is reached exhibits an interesting "freezing" transition in the large-deviation regime. All the analytical results are corroborated by numerical simulations. Our results also apply to elastic systems near the depinning transition, when driven by a random force.
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- Satya N Majumdar
- LPTMS, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Mathematics, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
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Klappstein NJ, Thomas L, Michelot T. Flexible hidden Markov models for behaviour-dependent habitat selection. MOVEMENT ECOLOGY 2023; 11:30. [PMID: 37270509 PMCID: PMC10239607 DOI: 10.1186/s40462-023-00392-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND There is strong incentive to model behaviour-dependent habitat selection, as this can help delineate critical habitats for important life processes and reduce bias in model parameters. For this purpose, a two-stage modelling approach is often taken: (i) classify behaviours with a hidden Markov model (HMM), and (ii) fit a step selection function (SSF) to each subset of data. However, this approach does not properly account for the uncertainty in behavioural classification, nor does it allow states to depend on habitat selection. An alternative approach is to estimate both state switching and habitat selection in a single, integrated model called an HMM-SSF. METHODS We build on this recent methodological work to make the HMM-SSF approach more efficient and general. We focus on writing the model as an HMM where the observation process is defined by an SSF, such that well-known inferential methods for HMMs can be used directly for parameter estimation and state classification. We extend the model to include covariates on the HMM transition probabilities, allowing for inferences into the temporal and individual-specific drivers of state switching. We demonstrate the method through an illustrative example of plains zebra (Equus quagga), including state estimation, and simulations to estimate a utilisation distribution. RESULTS In the zebra analysis, we identified two behavioural states, with clearly distinct patterns of movement and habitat selection ("encamped" and "exploratory"). In particular, although the zebra tended to prefer areas higher in grassland across both behavioural states, this selection was much stronger in the fast, directed exploratory state. We also found a clear diel cycle in behaviour, which indicated that zebras were more likely to be exploring in the morning and encamped in the evening. CONCLUSIONS This method can be used to analyse behaviour-specific habitat selection in a wide range of species and systems. A large suite of statistical extensions and tools developed for HMMs and SSFs can be applied directly to this integrated model, making it a very versatile framework to jointly learn about animal behaviour, habitat selection, and space use.
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- N J Klappstein
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
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Bell-Davies MCR, Curran A, Liu Y, Dullens RPA. Dynamics of a colloidal particle driven by continuous time-delayed feedback. Phys Rev E 2023; 107:064601. [PMID: 37464682 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.107.064601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2023] [Indexed: 07/20/2023]
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We perform feedback experiments and simulations in which a colloidal dumbbell particle, acting as a particle on a ring, is followed by a repulsive optical trap controlled by a continuous-time-delayed feedback protocol. The dynamics are described by a persistent random walk similarly to that of an active Brownian particle, with a transition from predominantly diffusive to driven behavior at a critical delay time. We model the dynamics in the short and long delay regimes using stochastic delay differential equations and derive a condition for stable driven motion. We study the stochastic thermodynamic properties of the system, finding that the maximum work done by the trap coincides with a local minimum in the mutual information between the trap and the particle position at the onset of stable driven dynamics.
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- Miranda C R Bell-Davies
- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
- Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
- Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
- Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Hu Y, Becker ML, Willits RK. Quantification of cell migration: metrics selection to model application. Front Cell Dev Biol 2023; 11:1155882. [PMID: 37255596 PMCID: PMC10225508 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1155882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Cell migration plays an essential role in physiological and pathological states, such as immune response, tissue generation and tumor development. This phenomenon can occur spontaneously or it can be triggered by an external stimuli, including biochemical, mechanical, or electrical cues that induce or direct cells to migrate. The migratory response to these cues is foundational to several fields including neuroscience, cancer and regenerative medicine. Various platforms are available to qualitatively and quantitatively measure cell migration, making the measurements of cell motility straight-forward. Migratory behavior must be analyzed by multiple metrics and then models to connect the measurements to physiological meaning. This review will focus on describing and quantifying cell movement for individual cell migration.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yang Hu
- Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Departments of Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering and Orthopedic Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Bioengineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
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