Books

A.V. Korotaev, N.L. Komarova and D.A. Khaltourina (2006) The Laws of History. Century-long cycles and millennial trends. Demography, Economy, Wars. Moscow: URSS (in Russian).

Papers

65. Komarova NL. (2007) Viral reproductive strategies: How can lytic viruses be evolutionarily competitive? Jour Theor Biol. 249(4):766-84.

64. Komarova, N.L. and Wodarz, D. (2007) Effect of cellular quiescence on the success of targeted CML therapy. PloS ONE, 2(10):e990.

63. Komarova, N.L. and Wodarz, D. (2007) Stochastic modeling of cellular colonies with quiescence: an application to drug resistance in cancer. Theor Popul Bio. 72(4):523-38.

62. Komarova, N.L., Sadovsky, A.V. and Wan, F.M.Y. (2007) Selective pressures for and against genetic instability in cancer: a time-dependent problem. Jour. of the Royal Society Interface, 5(18): 105-21.

61. Komarova, N.L. and Wodarz, D. (2007) Cancer as a microevolutionary process. To appear in Evolution in health and disease, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press (Ed: Stephen Stearns and Jacob Koella).

60. Komarova, N.L., Wodarz, D., Boland, C.R. & Goel, A. (2007) Genetic and epigenetic pathways to colon cancer: relating experimental evidence with modeling. To appear in Nicola Bellomo, Mark Chaplain, and Elena De Angelis (Eds), Selected topics on cancer modeling: genesis - evolution - immune competition - therapy. Birkhauser, Boston.

59. Komarova, N.L. (2007) Stochastic Modelling of Loss- and Gain-of-Function Mutations in Cancer. To appear in Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences 17S: 1647-1773.

58. Komarova, N.L. (2007) Loss- and gain-of-function mutations in cancer: mass-action, spatial and hierarchical models. Jour. Stat. Phys. 128, pp. 413-446.

57. Wodarz, D. and Komarova, N.L. (2007) Can loss of apoptosis protect against cancer? Trends in Genetics 23(5), pp. 232-7.

56. Komarova, N.L., Baldi, P. and Wu, L. (2007) The fixed-size Luria-Delbruck model with a nonzero death rate. Math. Biosciences 210(1):253-90.

55. Komarova, N.L., Zou, X., Nie, Q. & Bardwell, L. (2007) Mathematical Models of Specificity in Cell Signaling. Biophys Jour. 92(10), pp. 3425-41

54. Komarova, N.L., Jameson, K.A. and Narens, L. (2007) Evolutionary models of color categorization based on discrimination. Journal of Math Psychology 51(6):359--382.

53. Komarova, N.L. (2006) Spatial stochastic models of cancer initiation and progression. Bull. Math. Biol. DOI: 10.1007/s11538-005-9046-8, pp. 1-27.

52. Komarova, N.L. & Cheng, P. (2006) Epithelial tissue architecture protects against cancer. Math Biosciences , 200(1), pp 90-117.

51. Komarova, N.L. (2006) Oscillations in population sizes - from ecology to history (a commentary). Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences , 1(1), Article 8.

50. Komarova, N.L. (2006) Population dynamics of human language: a complex system. Frontiers of engineering: reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2005 symposium, The National Academy Press, pp. 89-98.

49. Komarova, N.L. (2006) Stochastic modeling of drug resistance in cancer. Jour. Theor. Biol. , 239(3), pp. 351-366

48. Komarova, N.L., Zou, X., Nie, Q. & Bardwell, L. (2005) A theoretical framework for specificity in cell signaling. Molecular Systems Biol. doi:10.1038/msb4100031, E1-E5

47. Wodarz, D. and Komarova, N.L. (2005) Evolutionary dynamics of drug resistance in cancer (review). Gene Therapy and Mol. Biol. 9, pp. 247-256.

46. Komarova, N.L. (2005) Cancer, aging and the optimal tissue design. Semin Cancer Biol., 15(6), pp. 494-505.

45. Wodarz, D. & Komarova, N.L. (2005) Emergence and prevention of resistance against small molecule inhibitors. Semin Cancer Biol. 15(6), pp. 506-14.

44. Komarova, N.L. & Wodarz, D. (2005) Drug resistance in cancer: principles of emergence and prevention. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102 (27), pp. 9714-9.

43. Komarova, N.L. & Soffer, A. (2005) Nonlinear waves in double-stranded DNA. Bull. Math. Biol. 67(4), pp. 701-718, also arXiv:cond-mat/0411621

42. Komarova, N.L. & Mironov, V. (2005) On the role of endothelial progenitor cells in tumor neovascularization. Jour. Theor. Biol. 235 (3), pp. 338-49

41. Komarova, N.L. (2005) Mathematical modeling of tumorigenesis: mission possible. Curr. Oncology 17(1), pp. 39-43.

40. Iwasa, Y., Michor, F., Komarova, N.L. and Nowak, M. (2005) Population genetics of tumor suppressor genes. Jour. Theor. Biol. 233 pp. 15-23.

39. Korotayev, A.V. and Komarova, N.L. (2005) Historical macrodynamics of China, in Korotayev, A.V., Malkov, A.S. and Khaltourina, D.A. The Laws of History. Mathematical Modeling of Historical Macroprocesses. Demography, Economy, Wars. Moscow: URSS (in Rusian).

38. Khaltourina, D.A., Korotayev, A.V. and Komarova, N.L. (2005) Demographic growth and civil wars in modern Sub-Saharan Africa: mathematical modeling, in Korotayev, A.V., Malkov, A.S. and Khaltourina, D.A. The Laws of History. Mathematical Modeling of Historical Macroprocesses. Demography, Economy, Wars. Moscow: URSS (in Rusian).

27. Nowak, M.A. and Komarova, N.L. (2005) The evolution of altruism: from game theory to human language, in C. Harper (ed.) Spiritual Information: 100 perspectives, Templeton Foundation Press.

36. Wodarz, D., Iwasa, Y., and Komarova, N.L. (2004) On the emergence of multifocal cancers. Jour. of Carcinogenesis 3(1) 13.

35. Komarova, N.L. & Wang, L. (2004). Initiation of colorectal cancer: where do the two hits hit? Cell Cycle 3(13).

34. Komarova, N.L. (2004) Genomic Instability in Cancer: Biological and Mathematical Approaches. Cell Cycle 3(8) 1081-5.

33. Komarova, N.L. (2004) Does cancer solve an optimization problem? Cell cycle 3(7).

32. Nowak, M.A., Michor, F., Komarova, N.L. & Iwasa, Y. (2004) Dynamics of tumor suppressor gene inactivation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 101, pp. 10635-10638.

31. Komarova, N.L. (2004) Replicator-mutator equation, universality property and population dynamics of learning. Jour. of Theor. Biol. 230(2), pp. 227-239.

30. Komarova, N.L. & Wodarz, D. (2004) The optimal rate of chromosome loss for cancer initiation and progression. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 101(18), pp. 7017-7021.

29. Komarova, N.L. and Niyogi, P. (2004) Optimizing the mutual intelligibility of linguistic agents in a shared world. Jour. of Artificial Intelligence, 154(1-2), pp. 1-42.

28. Komarova, N.L. and Rivin, I. (2003) Harmonic mean, random polynomials and stochastic matrices. Advances in Appl. Math. 31(2), pp.501-526 (math.PR/0105236)

27. Komarova, N.L. & Wodarz, D. (2003) Evolutionary dynamics of mutator phenotypes in cancer: implications for chemotherapy. Cancer Research 63(20), pp. 6635-42.

26. Komarova, N.L., Sengupta, A. & Nowak, M.A. (2003) Mutation-selection networks of cancer initiation: tumor suppressor genes and chromosomal instability. Jour. of Theor. Biol. 223(4), pp. 433-450.

25. Komarova, N.L. & Nowak, M.A. (2003) Language dynamics in finite populations. Jour. of Theor. Biol. 221, pp. 445-457.

24. Krakauer, D.C. and Komarova, N.L. (2003) Levels of selection in positive strand virus dynamics. Journ. Evol. Biol. 16(1), p. 64-73.

23. Michor, F., Iwasa, Y., Komarova, N.L. & Nowak, M.A. (2003) Local regulation of homeostasis favors chromosomal instability. Current Biology, 13, pp. 581-584.

22. Wei, X., Decker, J.M., Wang, S., Hui, H., Kappes, J.C., Wu, X., Salazar, J.F., Salazar, M.G., Kilby, J.M., Saag, M.S., Komarova, N.L., Nowak, M.A., Hahn, B.H., Kwong, P.D. & Shaw, G.M. (2003) Antibody Neutralization and Escape by HIV-1. Nature, 422, pp.307-312.

21. Komarova, N.L., Barnes, E., Klenerman, P. & Wodarz, D. (2003) Boosting immunity by anti-viral drug therapy: a simple relationship between timing, efficacy and success. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100(4), pp.1855-1860.

19. Komarova, N.L. and Nowak, M.A. (2003) Language, learning and evolution, in S. Kirby & M. Christiansen (eds.) Language Evolution: The States of the Art, pp. 317-337, Oxford University Press.

18. Komarova, N.L., Lengauer, C., Vogelstein, B. & Nowak, M.A. (2002) Dynamics of genetic instability in sporadic and familial colorectal cancer. Cancer Biology and Therapy , 1(6), pp. 685-692.

17. Nowak, M.A., Komarova, N.L., Sengupta, A., Jallepalli, P.V., Shih, I.-M., Vogelstein, B. & Lengauer, C. (2002) The role of chromosomal instability in tumor initiation, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 99(25), pp. 16226-16231.

16. Komarova, N.L. and Nowak, M.A. (2001) Population dynamics of grammar acquisition, in A. Cangelosi & D. Parisi (eds.) Simulating the Evolution of Language, pp. 149-164, Springer Verlag, London.

15. Nowak, M.A., Komarova, N.L. & Niyogi, P. (2002) Computational and evolutionary aspects of language, Nature, 417, pp. 611-617.

14. Komarova, N.L. and Hauser, M. (2001) Building the tower of babble. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(10), pp. 412-413.

13. Nowak, M.A., Komarova, N.L. (2001) Toward an evolutionary theory of language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(7), pp. 288-295.

12. Komarova, N.L., Nowak, M.A. (2001) Natural selection of the critical period for grammar acquisition. Proc. Royal Soc. B, 268 , No. 1472, pp. 1189-1196.

11. Komarova, N.L. and Nowak, M.A. (2001) Evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix. Bull. Math. Biol, 63(3), pp. 451-485.

10. Komarova, N.L., Niyogi, P. and Nowak, M.A. (2001) Evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition. Jour. Theor. Biol, 209(1), pp. 43-59.

9. Nowak, M.A., Komarova, N.L. and Niyogi, P. (2001) Evolution of universal grammar. Science, 291, pp. 114-118.

8. Komarova, N.L. and Newell, A.C. (2000) Nonlinear dynamics of sand waves and sand banks. Jour. Fluid Mech., 415, pp. 285-321.

7. Komarova, N.L. and Hulscher, S.J.M.H. (2000) Linear mechanisms for sand wave formation. Jour. Fluid Mech., 413, pp. 219-246.

6. Komarova, N.L. and Newell, A.C. (1999) The competition between nonlinearity, dispersion and randomness in signal propagation. IMA Journ. of Appl. Math., 63, pp. 1-20.

5. Komarova, N.L. (1998) Essays on nonlinear waves: patterns under water; pulse propagation through random media, PhD Thesis, The University of Arizona.

4. Komarova, N.L., Malomed, B.A., Moloney, J.V. and Newell, A.C. (1997) Resonant quasiperiodic patterns in a three-dimensional lasing medium. Phys. Rev. A 56, pp. 803-812.

3. Komarova, N.L. and Newell, A.C. (1995) The mean flow driven by sandbar instabilities, in A. Doelman & A. van Harten (eds.) Nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation in the natural environment, pp. 147-167, Longman Publ.

2. Komarova, N.L. and Loskutov, A.Yu. (1995) Chaos and non-feedback controlling of oscillating chemical reactions. Math. Modeling 7, N. 10, pp. 133-142 (in Russian).

1. Komarova, N.L. and Loskutov, A.Yu. (1994) Stabilization of chaotic oscillations in dynamical systems. Proc. of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 2037, pp. 71-80.