Natural search algorithms as a bridge between organisms, evolution, and ecology

作者：Hein Andrew M^*; Carrara Francesco; Brumley Douglas R; Stocker Roman; Levin Simon A

来源：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016, 113(34): 9413-9420.

DOI：10.1073/pnas.1606195113

• sensing
• navigation
• evolutionary strategy
• encounter rates
• exploration-exploitation

The ability to navigate is a hallmark of living systems, from single cells to higher animals. Searching for targets, such as food or mates in particular, is one of the fundamental navigational tasks many organisms must execute to survive and reproduce. Here, we argue that a recent surge of studies of the proximate mechanisms that underlie search behavior offers a new opportunity to integrate the biophysics and neuroscience of sensory systems with ecological and evolutionary processes, closing a feedback loop that promises exciting new avenues of scientific exploration at the frontier of systems biology.

• 出版日期2016-8-23
• 单位MIT