Title: | "Natural search algorithms as a bridge between organisms, evolution, and ecology" |
Author(s): | Hein AM; Carrara F; Brumley DR; Stocker R; Levin SA; |
Address: | "Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; ahein@princeton.edu. Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; Institute of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering, Eidgenossiche Technische Hoschule (ETH) Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544;" |
ISSN/ISBN: | 1091-6490 (Electronic) 0027-8424 (Print) 0027-8424 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "The ability to navigate is a hallmark of living systems, from single cells to higher animals. Searching for targets, such as food or mates in particular, is one of the fundamental navigational tasks many organisms must execute to survive and reproduce. Here, we argue that a recent surge of studies of the proximate mechanisms that underlie search behavior offers a new opportunity to integrate the biophysics and neuroscience of sensory systems with ecological and evolutionary processes, closing a feedback loop that promises exciting new avenues of scientific exploration at the frontier of systems biology" |
Keywords: | "*Algorithms Animals Biological Evolution Chemotaxis/physiology Decision Making/*physiology Ecology Escherichia coli/physiology Exploratory Behavior/*physiology Mating Preference, Animal/*physiology *Pattern Recognition, Physiological Reproduction/*physiol;neuroscience;" |
Notes: | "MedlineHein, Andrew M Carrara, Francesco Brumley, Douglas R Stocker, Roman Levin, Simon A eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. 2016/08/09 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Aug 23; 113(34):9413-20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1606195113. Epub 2016 Aug 5" |