Climate change is having profound effects on the distributions of species globally. Trait-based assessments predict that specialist and range-restricted are among those most likely to be at risk extinction from such changes. Understanding individual species’ responses climate therefore critical for informing conservation planning. We use an established Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) proto...

This paper presents a novel hybrid algorithm named Since Cosine Crow Search Algorithm. To propose the SCCSA, two novel algorithms are considered including Crow Search Algorithm (CSA) and Since Cosine Algorithm (SCA). The advantages of the two algorithms are considered and utilize to design an efficient hybrid algorithm which can perform significantly better in various benchmark functions. The c...

The Perspectives column was initiated in 1987 when Jan Drake, Editor-in-Chief of GENETICS, invited Jim Crow and William Dove to serve as coeditors of "Anecdotal, Historical, and Critical Commentaries." As the series evolved over 21 years, under the guidance of Crow and Dove, the input of stories told by geneticists from many countries created a panorama of 20th-century genetics. Three recurrent...

Integrated quantum optical circuits are now seen as one of the most promising approaches with which to realize single-photon quantum information processing. Many of the core elements for such circuits have been realized, including sources, gates and detectors. However, a significant missing function necessary for photonic quantum information processing on-chip is a buffer, where single photons ...

Introduction The dopamine (DA) hypothesis of schizophrenia has gained much ground in the last decade. The emphasis on DA hypothesis of schizophrenia is based on the ability of the DA releasing agent, amphetamine, to mimic the clinical picture of paranoid schizophrenia (Snyder 1972; Carlsson 1978 and Crow 1982). Catecholamine precursor L Dopa also is known to produce symptoms of schizophrenia (C...

When James Crow passed away last January at the age of 95, genetics lost one of its pre-eminent pioneers. One month before Professor Crow’s death, the journal Genetics launched a series of articles honoring him. In an introductory editorial, Michael Turelli and Charles Langley referred to Professor Crow as “a living link between our generations and the founders of population genetics,” and enum...

Interactions between species can lead to the evolution of interspecific communication. Non-verbal communication by humans, both intentional and unintentional, can be interpreted by other species. We tested whether American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) were sensitive to human facial features under field conditions by comparing flight initiation distances and urgency of escape behavior to human ...