TREEFINDER: a powerful graphical analysis environment for molecular phylogenetics.

abstract：BACKGROUND:A complex of incipient species with different degrees of morphological or ecological differentiation provides an ideal model for studying species divergence. We examined the phylogeography and the evolutionary history of the Rhododendron pseudochrysanthum s. l. RESULTS:Systematic inconsistency was detected ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Huang CC,Hung KH,Hwang CC,Huang JC,Lin HD,Wang WK,Wu PY,Hsu TW,Chiang TY

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glycolysis and subsequent fermentation is the main energy source for many anaerobic organisms. The glycolytic pathway consists of ten enzymatic steps which appear to be universal amongst eukaryotes. However, it has been shown that the origins of these enzymes in specific eukaryote lineages can differ, and so...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Stechmann A,Baumgartner M,Silberman JD,Roger AJ

更新日期：2006-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Freshwater unionoidean bivalves, and species representing two marine bivalve orders (Mytiloida and Veneroida), exhibit a mode of mtDNA inheritance involving distinct maternal (F) and paternal (M) transmission routes concomitant with highly divergent gender-associated mtDNA genomes. Additionally, male unionoi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Chapman EG,Piontkivska H,Walker JM,Stewart DT,Curole JP,Hoeh WR

更新日期：2008-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The classification of royal ferns (Osmundaceae) has long remained controversial. Recent molecular phylogenies indicate that Osmunda is paraphyletic and needs to be separated into Osmundastrum and Osmunda s.str. Here, however, we describe an exquisitely preserved Jurassic Osmunda rhizome (O. pulchella sp. nov...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bomfleur B,Grimm GW,McLoughlin S

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Marburg virus (MARV) has a negative-sense single-stranded RNA genome, belongs to the family Filoviridae, and is responsible for several outbreaks of highly fatal hemorrhagic fever. Codon usage patterns of viruses reflect a series of evolutionary changes that enable viruses to shape their survival rates a...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nasrullah I,Butt AM,Tahir S,Idrees M,Tong Y

更新日期：2015-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analyzing regulation of bacteriophage gene expression historically lead to establishing major paradigms of molecular biology, and may provide important medical applications in the future. Temporal regulation of bacteriophage transcription is commonly analyzed through a labor-intensive combination of biochemi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Guzina J,Djordjevic M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sexual selection has initially been thought to occur exclusively at the precopulatory stage in terms of contests among males and female mate choice, but research over the last four decades revealed that it often continues after copulation through sperm competition and cryptic female choice. However, studying...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Marie-Orleach L,Janicke T,Vizoso DB,Eichmann M,Schärer L

更新日期：2014-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Morphological diversity among closely related animals can be the result of differing growth patterns. The Australian radiation of agamid lizards (Amphibolurinae) exhibits great ecological and morphological diversity, which they have achieved on a continent-wide scale, in a relatively short period of time (30...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Gray JA,Sherratt E,Hutchinson MN,Jones MEH

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the gene encoding for glutamine synthetase (glnA) is essential in several organisms, multiple glnA copies have been identified in bacterial genomes such as those of the phylum Actinobacteria, notably the mycobacterial species. Intriguingly, previous reports have shown that only one copy (glnA1) is e...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hayward D,van Helden PD,Wiid IJ

更新日期：2009-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drosophila is an important model for studying the evolution of animal immunity, due to the powerful genetic tools developed for D. melanogaster. However, Drosophila is an incredibly speciose lineage with a wide range of ecologies, natural histories, and diverse natural enemies. Surprisingly little functional...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hanson MA,Hamilton PT,Perlman SJ

更新日期：2016-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A genome-wide comparative analysis of human and mouse gene expression patterns was performed in order to evaluate the evolutionary divergence of mammalian gene expression. Tissue-specific expression profiles were analyzed for 9,105 human-mouse orthologous gene pairs across 28 tissues. Expression profiles wer...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tsaparas P,Mariño-Ramírez L,Bodenreider O,Koonin EV,Jordan IK

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many species with sexual and asexual variants show a pattern of geographic parthenogenesis where asexuals have broader and higher-latitude distribution than sexuals. Because sexual reproduction is often considered a costly evolutionary strategy that is advantageous in the face of selection by coevolving pest...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Verhoeven KJ,Biere A

更新日期：2013-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The APOBEC3 (A3) genes play a key role in innate antiviral defense in mammals by introducing directed mutations in the DNA. The human genome encodes for seven A3 genes, with multiple splice alternatives. Different A3 proteins display different substrate specificity, but the very basic question on how discern...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Münk C,Willemsen A,Bravo IG

更新日期：2012-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The world is rapidly urbanizing, and only a subset of species are able to succeed in stressful city environments. Efficient genome-enabled stress response appears to be a likely prerequisite for urban adaptation. Despite the important role ants play in the ecosytem, only the genomes of ~13 have been sequence...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Konorov EA,Nikitin MA,Mikhailov KV,Lysenkov SN,Belenky M,Chang PL,Nuzhdin SV,Scobeyeva VA

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Function prediction by transfer of annotation from the top database hit in a homology search has been shown to be prone to systematic error. Phylogenomic analysis reduces these errors by inferring protein function within the evolutionary context of the entire family. However, accuracy of function prediction ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Krishnamurthy N,Brown D,Sjölander K

更新日期：2007-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many animals live in groups. One proposed reason is that grouping allows cooperative food finding. Group foraging models suggest that grouping could increase food finding rates, but that such group processes could be evolutionarily unstable. These models assume discrete food patches which are fully detectabl...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： van der Post DJ,Semmann D

更新日期：2011-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Septins are cytoskeletal GTPase proteins first discovered in the fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae where they organize the septum and link nuclear division with cell division. More recently septins have been found in animals where they are important in processes ranging from actin and microtubule organization ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pan F,Malmberg RL,Momany M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genus Corbicula is one of the most invasive groups of molluscs. It includes both sexual and androgenetic lineages. The present study re-assessed the different morphotypes and haplotypes of West European Corbicula in order to clarify their taxonomic identification and phylogenetic relationships with Ameri...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pigneur LM,Marescaux J,Roland K,Etoundi E,Descy JP,Van Doninck K

更新日期：2011-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Marine threespine sticklebacks colonized and adapted to brackish and freshwater environments since the last Pleistocene glacial. Throughout the Holarctic, three lateral plate morphs are observed; the low, partial and completely plated morph. We test if the three plate morphs in the brackish water Lake Engerv...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Østbye K,Taugbøl A,Ravinet M,Harrod C,Pettersen RA,Bernatchez L,Vøllestad LA

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies highlighted the role of Pleistocene climatic cycles in polyploid speciation and of southern Alpine refugia as reservoirs of diversity during glacial maxima. The polyploid Primula marginata, endemic to the southwestern Alps, includes both hexaploid and dodecaploid cytotypes that show no ecologi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Casazza G,Granato L,Minuto L,Conti E

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A protein-protein interaction network (PIN) was suggested to be a disassortative network, in which interactions between high- and low-degree nodes are favored while hub-hub interactions are suppressed. It was postulated that a disassortative structure minimizes unfavorable cross-talks between different hub-c...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hase T,Niimura Y,Tanaka H

更新日期：2010-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In most species, males compete to gain both matings (via pre-copulatory competition) and fertilizations (via post-copulatory competition) to maximize their reproductive success. However, the quantity of resources devoted to sexual traits is finite, and so males are predicted to balance their investment betwe...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Ferrandiz-Rovira M,Lemaître JF,Lardy S,López BC,Cohas A

更新日期：2014-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While the pathogenesis and epidemiology of tuberculosis are well studied, relatively little is known about the evolution of the infectious agent Mycobacterium tuberculosis, especially at the within-host level. The insertion sequence IS6110 is a genetic marker that is widely used to track the transmission of ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tanaka MM

更新日期：2004-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The availability of multiple complete genome sequences from diverse taxa prompts the development of new phylogenetic approaches, which attempt to incorporate information derived from comparative analysis of complete gene sets or large subsets thereof. Such attempts are particularly relevant because of the ma...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wolf YI,Rogozin IB,Grishin NV,Tatusov RL,Koonin EV

更新日期：2001-10-20 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:The majority of DNA contained within vertebrate genomes is non-coding, with a certain proportion of this thought to play regulatory roles during development. Conserved Non-coding Elements (CNEs) are an abundant group of putative regulatory sequences that are highly conserved across divergent groups and thus ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Davies KT,Tsagkogeorga G,Rossiter SJ

更新日期：2014-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:South China encompasses complex and diverse landforms, giving rise to high biological diversity and endemism from the Hengduan Mountains to Taiwan Island. Many species are widely distributed across South China with similar disjunct distribution patterns. To explore the causes of these disjunct distribution p...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lv X,Cheng J,Meng Y,Chang Y,Xia L,Wen Z,Ge D,Liu S,Yang Q

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a set of publications described flea fossils from Jurassic and Early Cretaceous geological strata in northeastern China, which were suggested to have parasitized feathered dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and early birds or mammals. In support of these fossils being fleas, a recent publication in BMC Evolutionary Biol...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Dittmar K,Zhu Q,Hastriter MW,Whiting MF

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The regulation of cellular membrane trafficking in all eukaryotes is a very complex mechanism, mostly regulated by the Rab family proteins. Among all membrane-enclosed organelles, melanosomes are the cellular site for synthesis, storage and transport of melanin granules, making them an excellent model for st...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Coppola U,Annona G,D'Aniello S,Ristoratore F

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extended parental care is a complex reproductive strategy in which progenitors actively look after their offspring up to - or beyond - the first juvenile stage in order to maximize their fitness. Although the euarthropod fossil record has produced several examples of brood-care, the appearance of extended pa...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Fu D,Ortega-Hernández J,Daley AC,Zhang X,Shu D

更新日期：2018-09-29 00:00:00