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Francisco J. Ayala

Presidente de honor de la Cátedra Francisco José Ayala. Universidad Pontificia de Comillas …
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Pseudogenes: are they “junk” or functional DNA?

ES Balakirev, FJ Ayala - Annual review of genetics, 2003 - annualreviews.org
… However, Balakirev & Ayala (12, 16) found premature stop codons within the Est-P coding
region and some other indications … This work is supported by NIH grant GM42397 to FJ Ayala. …

Frequency-dependent selection

FJ Ayala, CA Campbell - Annual review of Ecology and …, 1974 - annualreviews.org
Ayala (14) suggested that it might be more appropriate to incorporate the outcomes of all
frequencies tested into a single statistic. Significant chi-square tests at several, and even at all …

Chromosome speciation: Humans, Drosophila, and mosquitoes

FJ Ayala, M Coluzzi - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Chromosome rearrangements (such as inversions, fusions, and fissions) may play
significant roles in the speciation between parapatric (contiguous) or partly sympatric (geographically …

A clonal theory of parasitic protozoa: the population structures of Entamoeba, Giardia, Leishmania, Naegleria, Plasmodium, Trichomonas, and Trypanosoma and their …

…, F Kjellberg, FJ Ayala - Proceedings of the …, 1990 - National Acad Sciences
We propose a general theory of clonal reproduction for parasitic protozoa, which has important
medical and biological consequences. Many parasitic protozoa have been assumed to …

ENZYME VARIABILITY IN THE DROSOPHILA WILLISTONI GROUP. IV. GENIC VARIATION IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA WILLISTONI

FJ Ayala, JR Powell, ML Tracey, CA Mourão… - Genetics, 1972 - academic.oup.com
We describe allelic variation at 28 gene loci in natural populations of D. willistoni. Seventy
samples were studied from localities extending from Mexico and Florida, through Central …

Two-stage ignition in HCCI combustion and HCCI control by fuels and additives

S Tanaka, F Ayala, JC Keck, JB Heywood - Combustion and flame, 2003 - Elsevier
A Rapid Compression Machine (RCM) has been used to study the effects of fuel structure and
additives on the Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) of pure hydrocarbon …

Global models of growth and competition

ME Gilpin, FJ Ayala - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 1973 - National Acad Sciences
Very precise data on the dynamics of a competitive system of two species of Drosophila
have been obtained. By a curvilinear regression approach, analytical models of competition …

The Myth of Eve: Molecular Biology and Human Origins: FJ Ayala

FJ Ayala - Science, 1995 - science.org
It has been proposed that modern humans descended from a single woman, the" mitochondrial
Eve" who lived in Africa 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. The human immune system …

Evolutionary and geographical history of the Leishmania donovani complex with a revision of current taxonomy

…, M Oborník, A Horák, FJ Ayala… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Leishmaniasis is a geographically widespread severe disease, with an increasing
incidence of two million cases per year and 350 million people from 88 countries at risk. The …

Teleological explanations in evolutionary biology

FJ Ayala - Philosophy of science, 1970 - cambridge.org
… is to enable S in environment E to engage in process F" can be formulated more explicitly; "…
F; if S with organization C and in environment E does not have A, then S cannot engage in F; …