DNA methylation and Mycoplasma genomes.

abstract：:We provide here evidence for a conserved regulatory element for transcription of the β-family globin genes based on a comparative study of 32 genes from 16 mammals. The element is characterized by the appearance of AA or TT dinucleotides in the A + T-rich region located 200-400 bp upstream of the cap sites. G-tracts 3...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Kiyama R,Wada-Kiyama Y

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male sex genes have shown a pattern of rapid interspecies divergence at both the coding and gene expression level. A common outcome from crosses between closely-related species is hybrid male sterility. Phenotypic and genetic studies in Drosophila sterile hybrid males have shown that spermatogenesis arrest is postmeio...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Sundararajan V,Civetta A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA encoding the adhesive protein of the mussel Mytilus coruscus (Mcfp1) was isolated. The coding region encoded 848 amino acids (a.a.) comprising the 20-a.a. signal peptide, the 21-a.a. nonrepetitive linker, and the 805-a.a. repetitive domain. Although the first 204 nucleotides and the 3'-untranslated region of Mcfp...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Inoue K,Takeuchi Y,Takeyama S,Yamaha E,Yamazaki F,Odo S,Harayama S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents an essentially new method used to construct phylogenetic trees from related amino acid sequences. The method is based on a new distance measure which describes sequence relationships by means of typical steric and physicochemical properties of the amino acids and is advantageous in some essential p...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Schmidt W

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-fly polymerase chain reaction amplification and direct DNA sequencing revealed high levels of length polymorphism in the threonine-glycine encoding repeat region of the period (per) gene in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. DNA comparison of two alleles of identical lengths gave a high number of s...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Costa R,Peixoto AA,Thackeray JR,Dalgleish R,Kyriacou CP

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertions and deletions of entire codons have recently been discovered as a mechanism by which B cells, in addition to conventional base substitution, evolve the antibodies produced by their immunoglobulin genes. These events frequently seem to involve repetitive sequence motifs in the antibody-encoding genes, and it...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Lantto J,Ohlin M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The usage of synonymous codons and the frequencies of amino acids were investigated in the complete genome of the bacterium Thermotoga maritima using a multivariate statistical approach. The GC3 content of each gene was the most prominent source of variation of codon usage. Surprisingly the usage of UGU and UGC (synon...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Zavala A,Naya H,Romero H,Musto H

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L1 elements are retrotransposons that have been replicating and evolving in mammalian genomes since before the mammalian radiation. Rattus norvegicus shares the young L1mlvi2 clade only with its sister taxon, Rattus cf moluccarius. Here we compared the L1mlvi2 clade in these recently diverged species and found that it...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Cabot EL,Angeletti B,Usdin K,Furano AV

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using all currently predicted coding regions in the honeybee genome, a novel form of synonymous codon bias is presented that affects the usage of particular codons dependent on the surrounding nucleotides in the coding region. Nucleotides at the third codon site are correlated, dependent on their weak (adenine [A] or ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Cutler RW,Chantawannakul P

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of sequences homologous to the Drosophila melanogaster gypsy transposable element was carried out in Drosophila subobscura (gypsyDS). They were found to be widely distributed among natural populations of this species. From Southern blot and in situ analyses, these sequences appear to be mobile in this...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Alberola TM,de Frutos R

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life is based on biopolymers that have the ability to replicate themselves. Here we consider how a self-replicating RNA system may have originated. We consider a reaction system in which polymerization is possible by the addition of an activated monomer to the end of a chain. We suppose that a small fraction of polyme...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Wu M,Higgs PG

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear DNA contents were estimated by microdensitometry in five species of Akodon rodents: Arodon molinae, A. dolores, A. mollis, A. azarae, Bolomys obscurus) and in three chromosomal varieties of A. molinae (2n = 42; 2n = 43, 2n = 22). The data obtained showed that the species with the highest DNA content was B. obs...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Bianchi NO,Redi C,Garagna C,Capanna E,Manfredi-Romanini MG

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the roles of gene conversion followed by natural selection and balancing selection for point mutations in polymorphisms at major histocompatibility complex (MHC) loci, DNA sequences of several mammalian taxa were analyzed. Synonymous and nonsynonymous diversities were estimated separately for the an...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Ohta T

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination has been suggested to be an important factor for the genetic variation of bacterial genes, but few studies have dealt with intragenic recombination between the same or closely related species of cyanobacteria. Here we provide strong evidence for recombination in the microcystin synthetase (mcy) gene clus...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Tanabe Y,Kaya K,Watanabe MM

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At least two polymorphic Alu insertions have been previously identified and characterized within the class I region of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). We have identified another two new polymorphic Alu insertions, AluyHJ and AluyHF, located near HLA-J and HLA-F, respectively, within the a block of the MHC....

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Dunn DS,Naruse T,Inoko H,Kulski JK

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Darwinian theory requires that mutations be produced in a nonanticipatory manner; it is nonetheless consistent to suggest that mutations that have repeatedly led to nonviable phenotypes would be introduced less frequently than others-if under appropriate genetic control. Immunoglobulins produced during infection acqui...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Cowell LG,Kim HJ,Humaljoki T,Berek C,Kepler TB

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trnT-trnF region is located in the large single-copy region of the chloroplast genome. It consists of the trnL intron, a group I intron, and the trnT-trnL and trnL-trnF intergenic spacers. We analyzed the evolution of the region in the three genera of the gymnosperm lineage Gnetales (Gnetum, Welwitschia, and Ephed...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Won H,Renner SS

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatogenesis is one of the most complex biological processes undergone by any organism, making it susceptible to perturbations that result in male sterility. Research has demonstrated that mutant phenotypes can be obtained from the disruption of epigenetic modifications, which are commonly microRNA guided. Employin...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Madison-Villar MJ,Michalak P

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary relationships of four eukaryotic kingdoms--Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, and Protista--remain unclear. In particular, statistical support for the closeness of animals to fungi rather than to plants is lacking, and a preferred branching order of these and other eukaryotic lineages is still controversial ev...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Kumar S,Rzhetsky A

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of the mitochondrial small subunit ribosomal RNA (rns) gene of five species of the fungal genus Leptographium revealed that the gene has been invaded at least once at position 952 by a group II intron encoding a LAGLIDADG homing endonuclease gene. Phylogenetic analyses of the intron and homing endonuclease...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Mullineux ST,Willows K,Hausner G

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liverworts are well supported as the sister group to all other land plants (embryophytes) by molecular data. Observations strongly supporting this earliest dichotomy in embryophyte evolution are the strikingly different introns occurring in the mitochondrial DNAs of liverworts versus non-liverwort embryophytes (NLE), ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Volkmar U,Knoop V

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2550-bp portion of the mitochondrial genome of a Demosponge, genus Tetilla, was amplified from whole genomic DNA extract and sequenced. The sequence was found to code for the 3' end of the 16S rRNA gene, cytochrome c oxidase subunit II, a lysine tRNA, ATPase subunit 8, and a 5' portion of ATPase subunit 6. The Porif...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Watkins RF,Beckenbach AT

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer RNA (tRNA) is the central intellectual property in the evolution of life on Earth. tRNA evolved from repeats and inverted repeats of known sequence. The anticodon and the T stem-loop-stems are homologs with significant conserved sequence identity. A number of models have been advanced to explain tRNA evolutio...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Burton ZF

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work detailed statistics on ancestral gene duplication and gene conservation in completely sequenced cellular genomes are presented. Analysis of open reading frame (ORF) products having simultaneous matches in several distinct organisms showed a significant correlation between duplication and conservation. Sys...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Tekaia F,Dujon B

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The codons in four mammalian messenger RNAs (rabbit beta hemoglobin, rat pre-proinsulin, rat pre-growth hormone and human chorionic somatomammotropin) show a predominance of C and G in third nucleotide positions. The C:U ratio is about 2 to 1, and the G:A ratio is about 4 to 1. The possibility is discussed that this d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Jukes TH

更新日期：1978-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the traditional concept for the origin of life as proposed by Oparin and Haldane in the 1920s, prebiotic reactants became slowly concentrated in the primordial oceans and life evolved slowly from a series of highly protracted chemical reactions during the first billion years of Earth's history. However, chemical e...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Oberbeck VR,Marshall J,Shen T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present phylogenetic evidence that a group I intron in an angiosperm mitochondrial gene arose recently by horizontal transfer from a fungal donor species. A 1,716-bp fragment of the mitochondrial coxI gene from the angiosperm Peperomia polybotrya was amplified via the polymerase chain reaction and sequenced. Compar...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Vaughn JC,Mason MT,Sper-Whitis GL,Kuhlman P,Palmer JD

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An emergent problem in the study of pathogen evolution is our ability to determine the extent to which their rapidly evolving genomes recombine. Such information is necessary and essential for locating pathogenicity loci using association studies, and it also directs future screening, therapeutic and vaccination strat...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Greenspan G,Geiger D,Gotch F,Bower M,Patterson S,Nelson M,Gazzard B,Stebbing J

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two families of high-cysteine chorion proteins in Bombyx mori are encoded in 15 tandemly arranged nonidentical gene pairs. It is assumed that this locus arose by duplication with subsequent sequence divergence. We have compared DNA sequences from two such neighboring pairs of genes in an attempt to understand the mann...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Rodakis GC,Lecanidou R,Eickbush TH

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaucocystophyte algae (sensu Kies, Berl. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 92, 1979) contain plastids (cyanelles) that retain the peptidoglycan wall of the putative cyano-bacterial endosymbiont; this and other ultrastructural characters (e.g., unstacked thylakoids, phycobilisomes) have suggested that cyanelles are "primitive" plast...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Helmchen TA,Bhattacharya D,Melkonian M

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00