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Dynamic workforce modulation and foraging efficiency in Eusocial insect colonies

by Daniel Campos, Javier Cristín, Pol Fernández-López, Roger Lloret-Cabot, Meritxell Genovart, Frederic Bartumeus

Understanding the fitness advantages conferred by eusociality remains a central challenge in behavioral ecology. One promising approach is to identify collective strategies that shift efficiency within social groups. Here, we explore the hypothesis that reser...

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How does explicit reliability guide choices? Effect of trustworthiness on choice and metacognition

by Keiji Ota, Anthony Ciston, Patrick Haggard, Thibault Gajdos Preuss, Lucie Charles

A key challenge in today’s fast-paced digital world is to integrate information from various sources, which differ in their reliability. Yet, little is known about how explicit probabilistic information about the likelihood that a source provides correct information is used in decision-m...

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Process bigraphs and the architecture of compositional systems biology

by Eran Agmon, Ryan K. Spangler

Building multiscale biological models requires the integration of independently developed submodels, which means moving shared variables between them and coordinating when each submodel runs. Existing tools typically address isolated biological mechanisms with specific numerical methods, rarely specify which variables each model reads and ...

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A statistical damage model for coupled mechano-electrophysiological axonal injury

by Zexuan Chen, Liqun Tang, Bao Yang, Yiping Liu, Zhenyu Jiang, Licheng Zhou, Zejia Liu

Deformation-induced injury of white matter nerve bundles is prevalent in central nervous system injuries, leading to a series of neurological dysfunctions. To describe the effect of deformation injury on the physiological electrical signals of neurons, several axonal electrophysiologi...

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Hyper-mutational processes provide a head-start for weak cancer drivers: Explaining atypical KRAS variants

by Michael D. Nicholson, Ian Tomlinson

Hypermutant cancers frequently contain atypical driver gene variants, which may provide sub-optimal oncogenic advantages. The reason why weak cancer drivers prevail and are not outcompeted by stronger alternatives is unclear. Here, using mathematical modelling, we show that aberrant mutational processes alone can account for the det...

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