Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Stress Responses

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Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Stress Responses

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Psychosomatic response to acute emotional stress in healthy students

Regulation of sedimentation rate shapes the evolution of multicellularity in a close unicellular relative of animals

IMVEST, an immersive multimodal virtual environment stress test for humans that adjusts challenge to individual's performance

Effective stress for unsaturated active clays and in-situ effective stress estimation methodology

Protein Structural Information and Evolutionary Landscape by In Vitro Evolution

LPA1 receptor and chronic stress: Effects on behaviour and the genes involved in the hippocampal excitatory/inhibitory balance

The evolution of the type VI secretion system as a disintegration weapon

A coupled hydro – mechanical approach for modelling the volume change behaviour of compacted bentonite

Sexual conflict drives male manipulation of female postmating responses in Drosophila melanogaster

The diversity of moral preferences: Evolutionary foundations and some implications in environmental economics

Low vagal tone in two rat models of psychopathology involving high or low corticosterone stress responses

Anisotropic behaviour of shallow opalinus clay

Diet modulates cecum bacterial diversity and physiological phenotypes across the BXD mouse genetic reference population

Likelihood-free Inference of Population Genetic Parameters from Time-Sampled Genetic Data

Impact of individual differences in glucocorticoid adaptation to stress on behavior, neurophysiology and metabolism

The evolution of multiple active site configurations in a designed enzyme

An energetic view of stress: Focus on mitochondria

High anxiety trait: A vulnerable phenotype for stress-induced depression

Stress-Induced Depression: Is Social Rank a Predictive Risk Factor?

Experimental evolution of slowed cognitive aging in Drosophila melanogaster