High correlation between the turnover of nucleotides under mutational pressure and the DNA composition.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mitochondria of contemporary organisms contain fewer genes than the ancestral bacteria are predicted to have contained. Because most of the mitochondrial proteins are encoded in the nucleus, the genes would have been transferred from the mitochondrion to the nucleus at some stage of evolution and they mu...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kubo N,Fujimoto M,Arimura S,Hirai M,Tsutsumi N

更新日期：2008-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Self-powered flight is one of the most energy-intensive types of locomotion found in vertebrates. It is also associated with a range of extreme morpho-physiological adaptations that evolved independently in three different vertebrate groups. Considering that development acts as a bridge between the genotype ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： López-Aguirre C,Hand SJ,Koyabu D,Son NT,Wilson LAB

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Species complexes or aggregates consist of a set of closely related species often of different ploidy levels, whose relationships are difficult to reconstruct. The N Hemisphere Achillea millefolium aggregate exhibits complex morphological and genetic variation and a broad ecological amplitude. To understand ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Guo YP,Wang SZ,Vogl C,Ehrendorfer F

更新日期：2012-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:LNX (Ligand of Numb Protein-X) proteins typically contain an amino-terminal RING domain adjacent to either two or four PDZ domains - a domain architecture that is unique to the LNX family. LNX proteins function as E3 ubiquitin ligases and their domain organisation suggests that their ubiquitin ligase activit...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Flynn M,Saha O,Young P

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although homologous recombination affects the efficacy of selection in populations, the pattern of recombination rate evolution and its effects on genome evolution across plants are largely unknown. Recombination can reduce genome size by enabling the removal of LTR retrotransposons, alter codon usage by GC ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tiley GP,Burleigh JG

更新日期：2015-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tanabin, transitin and nestin are type VI intermediate filament (IF) proteins that are developmentally regulated in frogs, birds and mammals, respectively. Tanabin is expressed in the growth cones of embryonic vertebrate neurons, whereas transitin and nestin are found in myogenic and neurogenic cells. Anothe...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Guérette D,Khan PA,Savard PE,Vincent M

更新日期：2007-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Species are considered the fundamental unit in many ecological and evolutionary analyses, yet accurate, complete, accessible taxonomic frameworks with which to identify them are often unavailable to researchers. In such cases DNA sequence-based species delimitation has been proposed as a means of estimating ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Reid NM,Carstens BC

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term monitoring of the biological impacts of the radioactive pollution caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011 is required to understand what has occurred in organisms living in the polluted areas. Here, we investigated spatial and temporal changes of the abnormality rate (AR) in both fie...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hiyama A,Taira W,Nohara C,Iwasaki M,Kinjo S,Iwata M,Otaki JM

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maternal care (egg-nymph guarding behavior) has been recorded in some genera of Acanthosomatidae. However, the origin of the maternal care in the family has remained unclear due to the lack of phylogenetic hypotheses. Another reproductive mode is found in non-caring species whose females smear their eggs bef...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tsai JF,Kudo S,Yoshizawa K

更新日期：2015-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A multiscale network of two galectins Galectin-1 (Gal-1) and Galectin-8 (Gal-8) patterns the avian limb skeleton. Among vertebrates with paired appendages, chondrichthyan fins typically have one or more cartilage plates and many repeating parallel endoskeletal elements, actinopterygian fins have more varied ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bhat R,Chakraborty M,Glimm T,Stewart TA,Newman SA

更新日期：2016-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evolution of metabolism occurs through the acquisition and loss of genes whose products acts as enzymes in metabolic reactions, and from a presumably simple primordial metabolism the organisms living today have evolved complex and highly variable metabolisms. We have studied this phenomenon by comparing the ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bernhardsson S,Gerlee P,Lizana L

更新日期：2011-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene and genome duplication is the principle creative force in evolution. Recently, protein subcellular relocalization, or neolocalization was proposed as one of the mechanisms responsible for the retention of duplicated genes. This hypothesis received support from the analysis of yeast genomes, but has not ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wang X,Huang Y,Lavrov DV,Gu X

更新日期：2009-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Very little is known on how changes in circadian rhythms evolve. The noctuid moth Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) consists of two strains that exhibit allochronic differentiation in their mating time, which acts as a premating isolation barrier between the strains. We investigated the genetic ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hänniger S,Dumas P,Schöfl G,Gebauer-Jung S,Vogel H,Unbehend M,Heckel DG,Groot AT

更新日期：2017-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metallothionein (mt) transcription is elevated in heavy metal tolerant field populations of Orchesella cincta (Collembola). This suggests that natural selection acts on transcriptional regulation of mt in springtails at sites where cadmium (Cd) levels in soil reach toxic values This study investigates the na...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Janssens TK,Mariën J,Cenijn P,Legler J,van Straalen NM,Roelofs D

更新日期：2007-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ants of the genus Lasius are ecologically important and an important system for evolutionary research. Progress in evolutionary research has been hindered by the lack of a well-founded phylogeny of the subgenera, with three previous attempts disagreeing. Here we employed two mitochondrial genes (cytochrome c...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Maruyama M,Steiner FM,Stauffer C,Akino T,Crozier RH,Schlick-Steiner BC

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The discovery of restriction endonucleases and modification DNA methyltransferases, key instruments of genetic engineering, opened a new era of molecular biology through development of the recombinant DNA technology. Today, the number of potential proteins assigned to type II restriction enzymes alone is bey...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Mokrishcheva ML,Solonin AS,Nikitin DV

更新日期：2011-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Remipedia were initially seen as a primitive taxon within Pancrustacea based on characters considered ancestral, such as the homonomously segmented trunk. Meanwhile, several morphological and molecular studies proposed a more derived position of Remipedia within Pancrustacea, including a sister group relatio...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Stemme T,Iliffe TM,von Reumont BM,Koenemann S,Harzsch S,Bicker G

更新日期：2013-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polyplacophora, or chitons, have long fascinated malacologists for their distinct and rather conserved morphology and lifestyle compared to other mollusk classes. However, key aspects of their phylogeny and evolution remain unclear due to the few morphological, molecular, or combined phylogenetic analyses, p...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Irisarri I,Uribe JE,Eernisse DJ,Zardoya R

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:PHOSPHATE1 (PHO1) gene family members have diverse roles in plant growth and development, and they have been studied in Arabidopsis, rice, and Physcomitrella. However, it has yet to be described in other plants. Therefore, we surveyed the evolutionary patterns of genomes within the plant PHO1 gene family, fo...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： He L,Zhao M,Wang Y,Gai J,He C

更新日期：2013-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rosids are a major clade in the angiosperms containing 13 orders and about one-third of angiosperm species. Recent molecular analyses recognized two major groups (i.e., fabids with seven orders and malvids with three orders). However, phylogenetic relationships within the two groups and among fabids, malvids...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Zhu XY,Chase MW,Qiu YL,Kong HZ,Dilcher DL,Li JH,Chen ZD

更新日期：2007-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dispersal is often associated with a suite of phenotypic traits that might reduce dispersal costs, but can be energetically costly themselves outside dispersal. Hence, dispersing and philopatric individuals might differ throughout their life cycle in their management of energy production. Because higher ener...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Récapet C,Zahariev A,Blanc S,Arrivé M,Criscuolo F,Bize P,Doligez B

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Histone modification is an epigenetic mechanism that influences gene regulation in eukaryotes. In particular, histone modifications in CpG islands (CGIs) are associated with different chromatin states and with transcription activity. Changes in gene expression play a crucial role in adaptation and evolution....

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Akhtar MM,Scala G,Cocozza S,Miele G,Monticelli A

更新日期：2013-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular and genetic analyses conducted in model organisms such as Drosophila and vertebrates, have provided a wealth of information about how networks of transcription factors control the proper development of these species. Much less is known, however, about the evolutionary origin of these elaborated net...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Simionato E,Ledent V,Richards G,Thomas-Chollier M,Kerner P,Coornaert D,Degnan BM,Vervoort M

更新日期：2007-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGPase), which catalyses a rate limiting step in starch synthesis, is a heterotetramer comprised of two identical large and two identical small subunits in plants. Although the large and small subunits are equally sensitive to activity-altering amino acid changes when expressed...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Georgelis N,Braun EL,Hannah LC

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transposable elements (TE) have attracted much attention since they shape the genome and contribute to species evolution. Organisms have evolved mechanisms to control TE activity. Testis expressed 19 (Tex19) represses TE expression in mouse testis and placenta. In the human and mouse genomes, Tex19 and Secre...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bianchetti L,Tarabay Y,Lecompte O,Stote R,Poch O,Dejaegere A,Viville S

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein domains are the structural, functional and evolutionary units of the protein. Protein domain architectures are the linear arrangements of domain(s) in individual proteins. Although the evolutionary history of protein domain architecture has been extensively studied in microorganisms, the evolutionary...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Zhang XC,Wang Z,Zhang X,Le MH,Sun J,Xu D,Cheng J,Stacey G

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) is a small unisexual fish that has been suspected of being threatened by extinction from the stochastic accumulation of slightly deleterious mutations that is caused by Muller's ratchet in non-recombining populations. However, no detailed quantification of the extent of th...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Loewe L,Lamatsch DK

更新日期：2008-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The histone H2A family encompasses the greatest number of core histone variants of which the replacement variant H2A.Z is currently one of the most heavily studied. No clear mechanism for the functional variability that H2A.Z imparts to chromatin has yet been proposed. While most of the past studies have ref...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Eirín-López JM,González-Romero R,Dryhurst D,Ishibashi T,Ausió J

更新日期：2009-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The right sampling of homologous sequences for phylogenetic or molecular evolution analyses is a crucial step, the quality of which can have a significant impact on the final interpretation of the study. There is no single way for constructing datasets suitable for phylogenetic analysis, because this task in...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Dereeper A,Audic S,Claverie JM,Blanc G

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the evolution of species limits is important in ecology, evolution, and conservation biology. Despite its likely importance in the evolution of these limits, little is known about phenotypic covariance in geographically marginal populations, and the degree to which it constrains, or facilitates...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Caley MJ,Cripps E,Game ET

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00