The burden of cancer, government strategic policies, and challenges in Pakistan: A comprehensive review

A Ali, MF Manzoor, N Ahmad, RM Aadil, H Qin… - Frontiers in …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Cancer is a severe condition characterized by uncontrolled cell division and increasing
reported mortality and diagnostic cases. In 2040, an estimated 28.4 million cancer cases are …

Individuals and populations: the role of long-term, individual-based studies of animals in ecology and evolutionary biology

T Clutton-Brock, BC Sheldon - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2010‏ - cell.com
Many important questions in ecology and evolutionary biology can only be answered with
data that extend over several decades and answering a substantial proportion of questions …

Starvation physiology: reviewing the different strategies animals use to survive a common challenge

MD McCue - Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
All animals face the possibility of limitations in food resources that could ultimately lead to
starvation-induced mortality. The primary goal of this review is to characterize the various …

Estimating genetic parameters in natural populations using the 'animal model'

LEB Kruuk - … Transactions of the Royal Society of …, 2004‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Estimating the genetic basis of quantitative traits can be tricky for wild populations in natural
environments, as environmental variation frequently obscures the underlying evolutionary …

The evolution of predictive adaptive responses in human life history

D Nettle, WE Frankenhuis… - Proceedings of the …, 2013‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many studies in humans have shown that adverse experience in early life is associated with
accelerated reproductive timing, and there is comparative evidence for similar effects in …

Early environment influences later performance in fishes

B Jonsson, N Jonsson - Journal of Fish Biology, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Conditions fish encounter during embryogenesis and early life history can leave lasting
effects not only on morphology, but also on growth rate, life‐history and behavioural traits …

Predictive adaptive responses and human evolution

PD Gluckman, MA Hanson, HG Spencer - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2005‏ - cell.com
The importance of a single genotype being able to produce different phenotypes in different
environments (phenotypic plasticity) is widely recognized in evolutionary theory and its …

Nestling telomere shortening, but not telomere length, reflects developmental stress and predicts survival in wild birds

JJ Boonekamp, GA Mulder… - … of the Royal …, 2014‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Developmental stressors often have long-term fitness consequences, but linking offspring
traits to fitness prospects has remained a challenge. Telomere length predicts mortality in …

Epigenetics and transgenerational transfer: a physiological perspective

DH Ho, WW Burggren - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2010‏ - journals.biologists.com
Epigenetics, the transgenerational transfer of phenotypic characters without modification of
gene sequence, is a burgeoning area of study in many disciplines of biology. However, the …

Towards an evolutionary ecology of sexual traits

CK Cornwallis, T Uller - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2010‏ - cell.com
Empirical studies of sexual traits continue to generate conflicting results, leading to a
growing awareness that the current understanding of this topic is limited. Here we argue that …