Phylogenetic signal and functional categories in Proteobacteria genomes.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently we proposed an evolutionary explanation for a spinal pathology that afflicts many people, intervertebral disc herniation (Plomp et al. [2015] BMC Evolutionary Biology 15, 68). Using 2D data, we found that the bodies and pedicles of lower vertebrae of pathological humans were more similar in shape to...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Plomp KA,Dobney K,Weston DA,Strand Viðarsdóttir U,Collard M

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tracking newly emergent virulent populations in agroecosystems provides an opportunity to increase our understanding of the co-evolution dynamics of pathogens and their hosts. On the one hand host plants exert selective pressure on pathogen populations, thus dividing them into subpopulations of different vir...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Michalecka M,Masny S,Leroy T,Puławska J

更新日期：2018-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cyanobacteria are one of the oldest and morphologically most diverse prokaryotic phyla on our planet. The early development of an oxygen-containing atmosphere approximately 2.45-2.22 billion years ago is attributed to the photosynthetic activity of cyanobacteria. Furthermore, they are one of the few prokaryo...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Schirrmeister BE,Antonelli A,Bagheri HC

更新日期：2011-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myzostomids are marine annelids, nearly all of which live symbiotically on or inside echinoderms, chiefly crinoids, and to a lesser extent asteroids and ophiuroids. These symbionts possess a variety of adult body plans and lifestyles. Most described species live freely on the exterior of their hosts as adult...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Summers MM,Rouse GW

更新日期：2014-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The scavenger receptor cysteine rich (SRCR) domain is an ancient and conserved protein domain. CD163 and WC1 molecules are classed together as group B SRCR superfamily members, along with Spalpha, CD5 and CD6, all of which are expressed by immune system cells. There are three known types of CD163 molecules i...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Herzig CT,Waters RW,Baldwin CL,Telfer JC

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nuclear progesterone receptor (nPR) is an evolutionary innovation in vertebrates that mediates genomic responses to progesterone. Vertebrates also respond to progesterone via membrane progesterone receptors (mPRs) or membrane associated progesterone receptors (MAPRs) through rapid nongenomic mechanisms. Lamp...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Ren J,Chung-Davidson YW,Jia L,Li W

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Scalidophora (Kinorhyncha, Loricifera and Priapulida) have an important phylogenetic position as early branching ecdysozoans, yet the architecture of their nervous organ systems is notably underinvestigated. Without such information, and in the absence of a stable phylogenetic context, we are inhibited f...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Herranz M,Leander BS,Pardos F,Boyle MJ

更新日期：2019-04-08 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:The Carpathians and the Alps are the largest mountain ranges of the European Alpine System and important centres of endemism. Among the distinctive endemic species of this area is Saxifraga wahlenbergii, a Western Carpathians member of the speciose genus Saxifraga. It was frequently considered a taxonomicall...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tkach N,Röser M,Suchan T,Cieślak E,Schönswetter P,Ronikier M

更新日期：2019-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Developing lepidopteran microsatellite DNA markers can be problematical, as markers often exhibit multiple banding patterns and high frequencies of non-amplifying "null" alleles. Previous studies identified sequences flanking simple sequence repeat (SSR) units that are shared among many lepidopteran species ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tay WT,Behere GT,Batterham P,Heckel DG

更新日期：2010-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evolution of the coding exome is a major driving force of functional divergence both between species and between protein isoforms. Exons at different positions in the transcript or in different transcript isoforms may (1) mutate at different rates due to variations in DNA methylation level; and (2) serve...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Chen FC,Chuang TJ,Lin HY,Hsu MK

更新日期：2014-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial populations are highly successful at colonizing new habitats and adapting to changing environmental conditions, partly due to their capacity to evolve novel virulence and metabolic pathways in response to stress conditions and to shuffle them by horizontal gene transfer (HGT). A common theme in the...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Fernandez FJ,Garces F,López-Estepa M,Aguilar J,Baldomà L,Coll M,Badia J,Vega MC

更新日期：2011-09-26 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 composition and expression of vertebrate gene families is shaped by species specific gene loss in combination with a number of gene and genome duplication events (R1, R2 in all vertebrates, R3 in teleosts) and depends on the ecological and evolutionary context. In this study we analyzed the evolutionary ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Gesemann M,Lesslauer A,Maurer CM,Schönthaler HB,Neuhauss SC

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many earthworm species demonstrate significant cryptic diversity, with several highly diverged mitochondrial lineages found within most of the taxa studied to date. The status of differences between these lineages on the nuclear level is still unclear. Because of widespread polyploidy in earthworms, most stu...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Shekhovtsov SV,Ershov NI,Vasiliev GV,Peltek SE

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate delimitation of plant pathogenic fungi is critical for the establishment of quarantine regulations, screening for genetic resistance to plant pathogens, and the study of ecosystem function. Concatenation analysis of multi-locus DNA sequence data represents a powerful and commonly used approach to re...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Liu F,Wang M,Damm U,Crous PW,Cai L

更新日期：2016-04-14 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:Teleost radiation in the oceans required specific physiological adaptations in eggs and early embryos to survive in the hyper-osmotic seawater. Investigating the evolution of aquaporins (AQPs) in these vertebrates should help to elucidate how mechanisms for water homeostasis evolved. The marine teleost gilth...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tingaud-Sequeira A,Chauvigné F,Fabra M,Lozano J,Raldúa D,Cerdà J

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The flat periwinkles, Littorina fabalis and L. obtusata, are two sister species widely distributed throughout the Northern Atlantic shores with high potential to inform us about the process of ecological speciation in the intertidal. However, whether gene flow has occurred during their divergence is still a ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Sotelo G,Duvetorp M,Costa D,Panova M,Johannesson K,Faria R

更新日期：2020-02-10 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:Selective pressure from pathogens is thought to shape the allelic diversity of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes in vertebrates. In particular, both local adaptation to pathogens and gene flow are thought to explain a large part of the intraspecific variation observed in MHC allelic diversity. To ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Gillingham MA,Béchet A,Courtiol A,Rendón-Martos M,Amat JA,Samraoui B,Onmuş O,Sommer S,Cézilly F

更新日期：2017-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The bananaquit (Coereba flaveola) is a small nectivorous and frugivorous emberizine bird (order Passeriformes) that is an abundant resident throughout the Caribbean region. We used multi-gene analyses to investigate the evolutionary history of this species throughout its distribution in the West Indies and i...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bellemain E,Bermingham E,Ricklefs RE

更新日期：2008-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL; E.C.4.3.1.5) is a key enzyme of the phenylpropanoid pathway in plant development, and it catalyses the deamination of phenylalanine to trans-cinnamic acid, leading to the production of secondary metabolites. This enzyme has been identified in many organisms, ranging from pro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wu Z,Gui S,Wang S,Ding Y

更新日期：2014-05-09 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:Many butterflies possess striking structures called eyespots on their wings, and several studies have sought to understand the selective forces that have shaped their evolution. Work over the last decade has shown that a major function of eyespots is their ability to reduce predation by being intimidating to...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Mukherjee R,Kodandaramaiah U

更新日期：2015-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evolutionary transitions from terrestrial to aquatic life history cause drastic changes in sensory systems. Indeed, the drastic changes in vision have been reported in many aquatic amniotes, convergently. Recently, the opsin genes of the full-aquatic sea snakes have been reported. However, those of the amphi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Seiko T,Kishida T,Toyama M,Hariyama T,Okitsu T,Wada A,Toda M,Satta Y,Terai Y

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Life at high altitude results in physiological and metabolic challenges that put strong evolutionary pressure on performance due to oxidative stress, UV radiation and other factors dependent on the natural history of the species. To look for genes involved in altitude adaptation in a large herbivore, this st...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hendrickson SL

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genus Ilex (Aquifoliaceae) has a near-cosmopolitan distribution in mesic habitats from tropical to temperate lowlands and in alpine forests. It has a high rate of hybridization and plastid capture, and comprises four geographically structured plastid groups. A previous study showed that the plastid rbcL ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Yao X,Tan YH,Yang JB,Wang Y,Corlett RT,Manen JF

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant genomes contain a high proportion of duplicated genes as a result of numerous whole, segmental and local duplications. These duplications lead up to the formation of gene families, which are the usual material for many evolutionary studies. However, all characterized genomes include single-copy (unique...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Armisén D,Lecharny A,Aubourg S

更新日期：2008-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Pomatiopsidae are reported from northern India into southern China and Southeast Asia, with two sub-families, the Pomatiopsinae (which include freshwater, amphibious, terrestrial and marine species) and the freshwater Triculinae. Both include species acting as intermediate host for species of the blood-f...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Liu L,Huo GN,He HB,Zhou B,Attwood SW

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00