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Selfishness As Second-Order Altruism, Omar Tonsi Eldakar, David Sloan Wilson May 2008

Selfishness As Second-Order Altruism, Omar Tonsi Eldakar, David Sloan Wilson

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Selfishness is seldom considered a group-beneficial strategy. In the typical evolutionary formulation, altruism benefits the group, selfishness undermines altruism, and the purpose of the model is to identify mechanisms, such as kinship or reciprocity, that enable altruism to evolve. Recent models have explored punishment as an important mechanism favoring the evolution of altruism, but punishment can be costly to the punisher, making it a form of second-order altruism. This model identifies a strategy called “selfish punisher” that involves behaving selfishly in first-order interactions and altruistically in second-order interactions by punishing other selfish individuals. Selfish punishers cause selfishness to be a …


Construction, Alignment And Analysis Of Twelve Framework Physical Maps That Represent The Ten Genome Types Of The Genus Oryza, Hyeran Kim, Bonnie Hurwitz, Yeisoo Yu, Kristi Collura, Navdeep Gill, Phillip Sanmiguel, James C. Mullikin, Christopher Maher, William Nelson, Marina Wissotski, Michele Braidotti, David Kudrna, José Luis Goicoechea, Lincoln Stein, Doreen Ware, Scott A. Jackson, Carol Soderlund, Rod A. Wing Feb 2008

Construction, Alignment And Analysis Of Twelve Framework Physical Maps That Represent The Ten Genome Types Of The Genus Oryza, Hyeran Kim, Bonnie Hurwitz, Yeisoo Yu, Kristi Collura, Navdeep Gill, Phillip Sanmiguel, James C. Mullikin, Christopher Maher, William Nelson, Marina Wissotski, Michele Braidotti, David Kudrna, José Luis Goicoechea, Lincoln Stein, Doreen Ware, Scott A. Jackson, Carol Soderlund, Rod A. Wing

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We describe the establishment and analysis of a genus-wide comparative framework composed of 12 bacterial artificial chromosome fingerprint and end-sequenced physical maps representing the 10 genome types of Oryza aligned to the O. sativa ssp. japonica reference genome sequence. Over 932 Mb of end sequence was analyzed for repeats, simple sequence repeats, miRNA and single nucleotide variations, providing the most extensive analysis of Oryza sequence to date.