Many independent origins of trans splicing of a plant mitochondrial group II intron.

abstract：:Androgen effects mediated by the androgen receptor (AR) are essential for male reproductive development and virilization. Comparison of AR DNA coding sequence from five primate species, Homo sapiens (human), Pan troglodytes (chimpanzee), Papio hamadryas (baboon), Macaca fascicularis (macaque), and Eulemur fulvus colla...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Choong CS,Kemppainen JA,Wilson EM

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout history, remote archipelagos have repeatedly been designated natural laboratories to study evolutionary processes. The extensive, geographically structured, morphological variation within Galápagos' Opuntia cacti has been presumed to be another example of how such processes shape diversity. However, recent ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Helsen P,Verdyck P,Van Dongen S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin is remarkable for its ubiquitous distribution and its extreme protein sequence conservation. Ubiquitin genes comprise direct repeats of the ubiquitin coding unit with no spacers. The nucleotide sequences of several ubiquitin repeats from each of humans, chicken, Xenopus, Drosophila, barley, and yeast have re...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Sharp PM,Li WH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incomplete correlation between the organismal complexities and the number of genes among eukaryotic organisms can be partially explained by multiple protein products of a gene created by alternative splicing. One type of alternative splicing involves alternative selection of mutually exclusive exons and creates pr...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Chen YC,Lin WH,Tzeng DW,Chow WY

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the phylogenetic position of Vestimentifera (tube worms), 346-bp fragments of the elongation factor-1 alpha (EF-1 alpha) gene (939-1286 according to the numbering of the human gene) of a vestimentiferan, Lamellibrachia sp., a sternaspid polychaete, Sternaspis scutata, an earthworm, Pheretima sp., and a gast...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Kojima S,Hashimoto T,Hasegawa M,Murata S,Ohta S,Seki H,Okada N

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group selection is a matter of acute controversy among evolutionary biologists. The most well-publicized debate in this regard is that between Edward O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins. As is widely known, Edward O. Wilson is very excited about the idea of social selection and eusociality; by contrast Richard Dawkins favor...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Voskarides K

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rooted phylogenetic trees for a total of 34 genes encoding the stimulatory (s alpha), inhibitory (i alpha), transducin (t alpha), Gx (x alpha), Gz (z alpha), G11 (alpha 11), G12 (alpha 12), G13 (alpha 13), G16 (alpha 16), Gq (q alpha), and other (o alpha) G protein alpha subunits have been constructed. The analysis sh...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Yokoyama S,Starmer WT

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covarion processes allow changes in evolutionary rates at sites along the branches of a phylogenetic tree. Covarion-like evolution is increasingly recognized as an important mode of protein evolution. Several recent reports suggest that maximum likelihood estimation employing covarion models may support different opti...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Wang HC,Susko E,Spencer M,Roger AJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are the remnants of ancient germ cell infection by exogenous retroviruses and occupy up to 8% of the human genome. It has been suggested that HERV sequences have contributed to primate evolution by regulating the expression of cellular genes and mediating chromosome rearrangements...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Macfarlane C,Simmonds P

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the genetic code first was determined, many have claimed that it is organized adaptively, so as to assign similar codons to similar amino acids. This claim has proved difficult to establish due to the absence of relevant comparative data on alternative primordial codes and of objective measures of amino acid exc...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Stoltzfus A,Yampolsky LY

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:Several algae that were previously classified in the phylum Xanthophyta (yellow-green algae) were assigned in 1971 to a new phylum, Eustigmatophyta. It was anticipated that the number of algae reclassified to Eustigmatophyta would increase. However, due to the fact that the morphological characteristics that segregate...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Ehara M,Hayashi-Ishimaru Y,Inagaki Y,Ohama T

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene (fus) coding for elongation factor G (EF-G) of the extremely thermophilic eubacterium Thermotoga maritima was identified and sequenced. The EF-G coding sequence (2046 bp) was found to lie in an operon-like structure between the ribosomal protein S7 gene (rpsG) and the elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) gene (tuf). ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Tiboni O,Cantoni R,Creti R,Cammarano P,Sanangelantoni AM

更新日期：1991-08-01 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：:Computational and experimental attempts tried to characterize a universal core of genes representing the minimal set of functional needs for an organism. Based on the increasing number of available complete genomes, comparative genomics has concluded that the universal core contains < 50 genes. In contrast, experiment...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Carbone A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization of histone gene clusters of the duck Cairina moschata was studied in the DNA inserts of two recombinant phage that overlap and feature identical histone gene arrangements but differ in sequence details and in the extent of repetition of an AT-rich motif in one of the nontranscribed spacer regions. The...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Tönjes R,Munk K,Doenecke D

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA has a myriad of biological roles in contemporary life. We use the RNA paradigm for genotype-phenotype mappings to study the evolution of multiple coding in dependence to mutation rates. We study three different one-to-many genotype-phenotype mappings which have the potential to encode the information for multiple ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： de Boer FK,Hogeweg P

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary divergence times can be inferred from molecular distances if a molecular clock can be assumed and if the substitution rate can be estimated. We present new evidence from relative rate tests that the rate of substitution at fourfold degenerate sites of nuclear genome-coding DNA is uniform in primate and ro...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Easteal S,Herbert G

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The best reconstructions of the history of life will use both molecular time estimates and fossil data. Errors in molecular rate estimation typically are unaccounted for and no attempts have been made to quantify this uncertainty comprehensively. Here, focus is primarily on fossil calibration error because this error ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： van Tuinen M,Hadly EA

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:tRNA with a terminal UCCA-3' forms a structure in which the 3'-sequence folds back. The adenine of glycyl-AMP can base-pair with the uridine of the UCCA-3' region, which places the glycine residue in close proximity to the 3'-terminal adenosine of tRNA, possibly enabling the transfer of glycine from glycyl-AMP to tRNA...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Tamura K

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assay based on derivative analysis of thermal denaturation (melting) behavior of reassociated DNA was developed in an attempt to characterize the sequence relationships in repeated DNA families according to the homogeneous or heterogeneous models of Bendich and Anderson (1977). The validity of the technique was con...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Preisler RS,Thompson WF

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutral theory of molecular evolution states that most mutations are deleterious or neutral. It results that the evolutionary rate of a given position in an alignment is a function of the level of constraint acting on this position. Inferring evolutionary rates from a set of aligned sequences is hence a powerful m...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Dutheil J

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed precursor messenger RNAs (pre-mRNAs) of 12 eukaryotic species. In each species, three groups of highly expressed genes, ribosomal proteins, heat shock proteins, and amino-acyl tRNA synthetases, were compared with a control group (randomly selected genes). The purine-pyrimidine (R-Y) composition of pre-mRNA...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Paz A,Mester D,Nevo E,Korol A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gas chromatograph mass spectrometer instrument of the Viking mission has demonstrated the absence of organic compounds in the immediate surface layer of the two landing sites. The demonstration of the successful operation of the instrument (comparison of ground-based test data with those obtained during interplane...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Biemann K

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minerals may have played a significant role in chemical evolution. In the course of investigating the chemistry of phosphonoacetaldehyde (PAL), an analogue of glycolaldehyde phosphate, we have observed a striking case of catalysis by the layered hydroxide mineral hydrotalcite ([Mg2Al(OH)6][Cl.nH2O]). In neutral or mod...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： De Graaf RM,Visscher J,Xu Y,Arrhenius G,Schwartz AW

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since their discovery in Metazoa, the three nuclear RNA polymerases (RNAPs) have been found in fungi, plants, and diverse protists. In all eukaryotes studied to date, RNAPs I, II, and III collectively transcribe all major RNAs made in the nucleus. We have found genes for the largest subunit (RPD1/RPE1) of a new DNA-de...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Luo J,Hall BD

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：:Selection pressures on proteins are usually measured by comparing homologous nucleotide sequences (Zuckerkandl and Pauling 1965). Recently we introduced a novel method, termed volatility, to estimate selection pressures on proteins on the basis of their synonymous codon usage (Plotkin and Dushoff 2003; Plotkin et al. ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Plotkin JB,Dushoff J,Desai MM,Fraser HB

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00