The mutually exclusive flip and flop exons of AMPA receptor genes were derived from an intragenic duplication in the vertebrate lineage.

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：:Several distinct families of endogenous retroviruses exist in the genomes of primates. Most of them are remnants of ancient germ-line infections. The human endogenous retrovirus family HERV-K represents the unique known case of endogenous retrovirus that amplified in the human genome after the divergence of human and ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Costas J

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orphan genes, lacking detectable homologs in outgroup species, typically represent 10-30% of eukaryotic genomes. Efforts to find the source of these young genes indicate that de novo emergence from non-coding DNA may in part explain their prevalence. Here, we investigate the roots of orphan gene emergence in the Droso...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Heames B,Schmitz J,Bornberg-Bauer E

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human S100 gene family encodes the EF-hand superfamily of calcium-binding proteins, with at least 14 family members clustered relatively closely together on chromosome 1q21. We have analyzed the most recently available genomic sequence of the human S100 gene cluster for evidence of tandem gene duplications during ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Kulski JK,Lim CP,Dunn DS,Bellgard M

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：:Nucleotide polymorphisms in two North American balsam poplars (Populus trichocarpa Torr. & Gray and P. balsamifera L.; section Tacamahaca), and one Eurasian aspen (P. tremula L.; section Populus) were compared using nine loci involved in defense, stress response, photoperiodism, freezing tolerance, and housekeeping. N...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Ismail M,Soolanayakanahally RY,Ingvarsson PK,Guy RD,Jansson S,Silim SN,El-Kassaby YA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary prolactin, like growth hormone (GH) and several other protein hormones, shows an episodic pattern of molecular evolution in which sustained bursts of rapid change contrast with long periods of slow evolution. A period of rapid change occurred in the evolution of prolactin in primates, leading to marked seque...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Wallis OC,Mac-Kwashie AO,Makri G,Wallis M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All modern mammals contain a distinctive, highly repeated (> or = 50,000 members) family of long interspersed repeated DNA called the L1 (LINE 1) family. While the modern L1 families were derived from a common ancestor that predated the mammalian radiation approximately 80 million years ago, most of the members of the...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Pascale E,Liu C,Valle E,Usdin K,Furano AV

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen-free aqueous solutions of NH4CN (0.1 M, pH9) were exposed to gamma rays from a 60Co source, the mixture of nonvolatile products was fractionated, and the fractions were analyzed. The procedures were chosen to make effective investigations of radiolytic products, and to minimize the contributions of chemical cha...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Draganić ZD,Niketić V,Jovanović S,Draganić IG

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PIGSFEAST (PF) exon of the Drosophila dumpy gene is undergoing concerted evolution by the process of unequal crossing over. We have developed a long-range PCR-based assay to amplify the approximately 12 kb long exon which contains variable numbers of 303 or 306 nt long repeats in a tandem array. We applied this pr...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Carmon A,Larson M,Wayne M,MacIntyre R

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copia is a retrotransposon that appears to be distributed widely among the Drosophilidae subfamily. Evolutionary analyses of regulatory regions have indicated that the Copia retrotransposon evolved through both positive and purifying selection, and that horizontal transfer (HT) could also explain its patchy distributi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： de Setta N,Van Sluys MA,Capy P,Carareto CM

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin pigmentation is a complex, conspicuous, highly variable human trait that exhibits a remarkable correlation with latitude. The evolutionary history and genetic basis of skin color variation has been the subject of intense research in the last years. This article reviews the major hypotheses explaining skin color d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Rocha J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian clock regulates a multitude of plant developmental and metabolic processes. In crop species, it contributes significantly to plant performance and productivity and to the adaptation and geographical range over which crops can be grown. To understand the clock in barley and how it relates to the component...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Calixto CP,Waugh R,Brown JW

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One crucial event during evolution to multicellularity was the development of either direct cell-cell contact or indirect interaction via extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules. The identification of those polypeptides provides conclusive data on the phylogenetic relationship of metazoan phyla and helps us to understand...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Schütze J,Skorokhod A,Müller IM,Müller WE

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Annotated, complete DNA sequences are available for 213 mitochondrial genomes from 132 species. These provide an extensive sample of evolutionary adjustment of codon usage and meaning spanning the history of this organelle. Because most known coding changes are mitochondrial, such data bear on the general mechanism of...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Knight RD,Landweber LF,Yarus M

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 (archaeal) rhodopsins and related rhodopsin-like proteins had been described in a few halophile archaea, gamma-proteobacteria, a single cyanobacteria, some fungi, and a green alga. In exhaustive database searches, we detected rhodopsin-related sequences derived not only from additional fungal species but also f...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Ruiz-González MX,Marín I

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the nucleotide sequence of the 26S large subunit (LSU) rRNA genes for two Tetrahymena species, T. thermophila and T. pyriformis. The inferred rRNA sequences are presented in their most probable secondary structures based on compensatory mutations, energy, and conservation criteria. The majority of t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Engberg J,Nielsen H,Lenaers G,Murayama O,Fujitani H,Higashinakagawa T

更新日期：1990-06-01 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：:The efficiency of obtaining the correct tree by the maximum likelihood method (Felsenstein 1981) for inferring trees from DNA sequence data was compared with trees obtained by distance methods. It was shown that the maximum likelihood method is superior to distance methods in the efficiency particularly when the evolu...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Hasegawa M,Kishino H,Saitou N

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared with the X chromosome, the mammalian Y chromosome is considerably diminished in size and has lost most of its ancestral genes during evolution. Interestingly, for the X-degenerate region on the Y chromosome, human has retained all 16 genes, while chimpanzee has lost 4 of the 16 genes since the divergence of t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Goto H,Peng L,Makova KD

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:A new type of repeat unit was isolated from Balbiani ring 1 of Chironomus pallidivittatus and designated BR1 beta repeat. It consists of a constant and a subrepeated part, like previously described units belonging to the core blocks of the BR genes. The subrepeated part contains 10-codon subrepeats with an arrangement...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Saiga H,Botella L,Edström JE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutational bias toward expansion or contraction of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) is referred to as directionality of SSR evolution. In this communication, we report the mutational bias exhibited by mononucleotide SSRs occurring in the non-coding regions of several prokaryotic genomes. Our investigations revealed that...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Kumar P,Nagarajaram HA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies during the last 20 years have shown that the chromosomes of many organisms, especially those of higher vertebrates, consist of a series of segments having different properties. These can be recognized as, for example, G- and R-bands. Recent studies have indicated that genes tend to lie in the R-bands rather th...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Sumner AT,de la Torre J,Stuppia L

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalyzed by a family of enzymes called glycosyltransferases, glycosylation reactions are essential for the bioactivities of secondary metabolites such as antibiotics. Due to the special characters of antibiotic glycosyltransferases (AGts), antibiotics can function by attaching some unusual deoxy-sugars to their aglyc...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Liang D,Qiao J

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships of genome organization among elongated (rod-shaped and filamentous) plant viruses have been analyzed. Sequences in coding and noncoding regions of barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV) RNAs 1, 2, and 3 were compared with those of the monopartite RNA genomes of potato virus X (PVX), white clover mosaic vi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Morozov SYu,Dolja VV,Atabekov JG

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycosylation characteristics of the digestive enzyme ribonuclease are summarized. The evolutionary role of this posttranslational modification is discussed and evidence is presented that selection has much influence on the presence or absence of carbohydrate in glycoproteins and on the positions of the carbohydra...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Beintema JJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin is a calcium-binding EF-hand protein that is an activator of many enzymes as well as ion pumps and channels. Due to its multiple targets and its central role in the cell, understanding the evolutionary history of calmodulin genes should provide insights into the origin of genetic complexity in eukaryotes. W...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Karabinos A,Bhattacharya D

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution rates of mtDNA in early metazoans hold important implications for DNA barcoding. Here, we present a comprehensive analysis of intra- and interspecific COI variabilities in Porifera and Cnidaria (separately as Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Scyphozoa) using a data set of 619 sequences from 224 species. We found ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Huang D,Meier R,Todd PA,Chou LM

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the distribution of P-element sequences among members of the closely related willistoni and saltans species groups of the subgenus Sophophora. Gel-blotting analyses showed that many, but not all, species from each of these groups possess sequences with homology to the P transposable element of Dr...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Daniels SB,Strausbaugh LD

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00