Merlijn Staps, Pearson W. Miller, Corina E. Tarnita, and Ricardo Mallarino . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 120 (45), e2312077120 (2023) doi · pdf . In this work, we describe the diversity of rodent stripe patterns and explain it from simple developmental principles. We do so by using an integrated approach that combines ...

→ Staps et al 2019 on emergence of life cycles at the origin of multicellularity. Theme 2: Developmental strategies to cope with environmental variability. No organism faces a completely stable environment. As a result, developmental strategies have evolved that allow flexible responses to changing conditions.

Merlijn Staps. Princeton University. Home · Research · Publications · Teaching · CV. CV. I was born and raised in The Netherlands, where I lived until moving to the United States in 2018. I completed my bachelor's and master's degrees at Utrecht University, where, unable to choose one over the other, I studied mathematics and biology in ...

Recent publications Ecological principles for the evolution of communication in collective systems Merlijn Staps, Corina E. Tarnita, and Mari Kawakatsu Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291: 20241562 (2024) doi · pdf We derive ecological conditions for the evolution of communication in a collective context and show how ...

Merlijn Staps. Princeton University. Home · Research · Publications · Teaching · CV. Teaching. I find teaching one of the most rewarding aspects of my work. I mostly enjoy teaching mathematical biology and statistics, because they are beautiful topics in their own right and also lend themselves well to help biology students develop the ...

Merlijn Staps. Postdoctoral researcher, Princeton University. Home · Research · Publications · Teaching · CV. What is Academicons? What is Academicons? Academicons is a specialist icon font for academics. It contains icons for websites and organisations related to academia that are often missing from mainstream font packages.