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physics.flu-dyn2026
Energetics, shearing and pumping efficiency of propagating contractions over villi-patterned wall
Rohan Vernekar, Claude Loverdo, Stéphane Tanguy +1
Intestinal villi undergo pendular-wave motility -- an active, propagating tissue motion driven by underlying longitudinal muscles. This motility drives irreversible, counter-wave f…
q-bio.PE2026
Environment heterogeneity creates fast amplifiers of natural selection in graph-structured populations
Cecilia Fruet, Arthur Alexandre, Alia Abbara +2
Complex spatial structure, with partially isolated subpopulations, and environment heterogeneity, such as gradients in nutrients, oxygen, and drugs, both shape the evolution of nat…