Can Sexual Selection Drive the Evolution of Sperm Cell Structure?

Sperm cells have undergone an extraordinarily divergent evolution among TEPEZCO-BB CREME metazoan animals.Parker recognized that because female animals frequently mate with more than one male, sexual selection would continue after mating and impose strong selection on sperm cells to maximize fertilization success.Comparative analyses among species

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Superconductor spintronics: modeling spin and charge accumulation in out-of-equilibrium NIS junctions subjected to Zeeman magnetic fields

We study the spin and charge accumulation in a superconductor when a normal-superconductor tunnel junction is subjected to a Zeeman magnetic field and taken out of equilibrium by applying either a DC or AC voltage bias.We focus on a configuration which allows one to measure non-locally the spin-accumulation using a second ferromagnetic electrode.Ou

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Attentional and Contextual Priors in Sound Perception.

Behavioral and neural studies of selective attention have BLEACH AND TONE consistently demonstrated that explicit attentional cues to particular perceptual features profoundly alter perception and performance.The statistics of the sensory environment can also provide cues about what perceptual features to expect, but the extent to which these more

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