S. Shibasaki

Food web complexity modulates environmental impacts on food chain length

The paper investigates how food web complexity influences environmental impacts on food chain length, finding that species richness and motifs modulate these effects.

PTEN-induced kinase 1 gene single-nucleotide variants as biomarkers in adjuvant chemotherapy for colorectal cancer

The paper identifies two single-nucleotide variants in the PTEN-induced kinase 1 gene associated with lower recurrence rates in colorectal cancer patients undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy.

Exclusion of the fittest predicts microbial community diversity in fluctuating environments

The paper models microbial community diversity under fluctuating environments, finding that extinction probabilities and beta diversity depend on switching rates and species resilience.

Controlling evolutionary dynamics to optimize microbial bioremediation

The paper models microbial bioremediation as an evolutionary game, showing how environmental parameters can control dynamics to optimize detoxification.

The evolutionary game theory of interspecific mutualism in the multi-species model

The paper models evolutionary dynamics of multi-species mutualism and shows that faster evolution can be disfavored for fast species, while slow species' fates depend on fast species' dynamics.

Cyclic dominance emerges from the evolution of two inter-linked cooperative behaviours in the social amoeba

The paper models the evolution of two cooperative behaviors in Dictyostelium discoideum and shows cyclic dominance arises from their coupling, maintaining cooperation even when it would otherwise fail.