2 papers
q-bio.TO2020
Aging-induced fragility of the immune system
Eric W. Jones, Jiming Sheng, Jean M. Carlson +1
The adaptive and innate branches of the vertebrate immune system work in close collaboration to protect organisms from harmful pathogens. As an organism ages its immune system unde…
q-bio.PE2019
Tuning environmental timescales to evolve and maintain generalists
Vedant Sachdeva, Kabir Husain, Jiming Sheng +2
Natural environments can present diverse challenges, but some genotypes remain fit across many environments. Such `generalists' can be hard to evolve, out-competed by specialists f…