Publications
2023
De Vries, C.=, Erten, E.Y.=, & Kokko, H. (2023). Does symmetry preclude the evolution of senescence? A comment on Pen and Flatt 2021. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290(1991), 20221101. = Co-first author
Tags: senescence, symmetry, multicellularity
2022
Majic, P., Erten, E.Y., & Payne, J. L. (2022). The adaptive potential of nonheritable somatic mutations. The American Naturalist, 200(6), 755-772.
Tags: somatic mutations, development, multilevel selection
2021
Erten, E.Y., & Kokko, H. (2021). Cancer risk and sexual conflict as constraints to body size evolution. bioRxiv, 2021-01.
Tags: cancer eco-evo, sexual conflict
2020
Aubier, T.G., Galipaud, M., Erten, E.Y., & Kokko, H. (2020). Transmissible cancers and the evolution of sex under the Red Queen hypothesis. PLoS biology, 18(11), e3000916.
Tags: cancer eco-evo, evolution of sex, transmissible cancer
Erten, E.Y., Tollis, M., & Kokko, H. (2020). Bird size with dinosaur-level cancer defences: can evolutionary lags during miniaturisation explain cancer robustness in birds?. bioRxiv, 2020-10.
Tags: cancer eco-evo, macroevolution, evolutionary lags, maladaptation
Erten, E.Y., & Kokko, H. (2020). From zygote to a multicellular soma: Body size affects optimal growth strategies under cancer risk. Evolutionary applications, 13(7), 1593-1604.
Tags: cancer eco-evo, comparative oncology
2019
Erten, E.Y., & Kokko, H. (2019). Diverse ways to think about cancer: What can we learn about cancer by studying it across the tree of life?. Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, (10), 201-205.
Tags: cancer eco-evo, comparative oncology, outreach
2018
Cliff, O.M., Harding, N., Piraveenan, M., Erten, E.Y., Gambhir, M., & Prokopenko, M. (2018). Investigating spatiotemporal dynamics and synchrony of influenza epidemics in Australia: an agent-based modelling approach. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 87, 412-431.
Tags: epidemiology, critical dynamics, complex systems
Erten, E.Y.=, van den Berg, P.=, & Weissing, F.J. (2018). Acculturation orientations affect the evolution of a multicultural society. Nature communications, 9(1), 58. = Co-first author
Tags: cultural evolution, acculturation
2017
Erten, E.Y., Lizier, J.T., Piraveenan, M., & Prokopenko, M. (2017). Criticality and Information Dynamics in Epidemiological Models. Entropy, 19(5), 194.
Tags: epidemiology, critical dynamics, complex systems