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      Island biogeography is not a single-variable discipline: The small island effect debate 

      Triantis, Kostas A.; Sfenthourakis, Spyros (2012)
      In some island systems, an 'anomalous' feature of species richness on smaller islands, in comparison with larger ones, has been observed. This has been described as the small island effect (SIE). The precise meaning of the ...
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      Nature and consequences of biological reductionism for the immunological study of infectious diseases 

      Rivas, A. L.; Leitner, G.; Jankowski, M. D.; Hoogesteijn, A. L.; Iandiorio, M. J.; Chatzipanagiotou, S.; Ioannidis, A.; Blum, S. E.; Piccinini, R.; Antoniades, Athos; Fazio, J. C.; Apidianakis, Yiorgos; Fair, J. M.; Van Regenmortel, M. H. V. (2017)
      Evolution has conserved "economic" systems that perform many functions, faster or better, with less. For example, three to five leukocyte types protect from thousands of pathogens. To achieve so much with so little, ...