Recombinational micro-evolution of functionally different metallothionein promoter alleles from Orchesella cincta.

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:Although most insect species are specialized on one or few groups of plants, there are phytophagous insects that seem to use virtually any kind of plant as food. Understanding the nature of this ability to feed on a wide repertoire of plants is crucial for the control of pest species and for the elucidation ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Celorio-Mancera Mde L,Wheat CW,Huss M,Vezzi F,Neethiraj R,Reimegård J,Nylin S,Janz N

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The L-lactate and D-lactate dehydrogenases, which are involved in the reduction of pyruvate to L(-)-lactate and D(+)-lactate, belong to evolutionarily unrelated enzyme families. The genes encoding L-LDH have been used as a model for gene duplication due to the multiple paralogs found in eubacteria, archaebac...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Cristescu ME,Innes DJ,Stillman JH,Crease TJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Marine invertebrates are abundant and diverse on the continental shelf in Antarctica, but little is known about their parasitic counterparts. Endoparasites are especially understudied because they often possess highly modified body plans that pose problems for their identification. Asterophila, a genus of en...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Layton KKS,Rouse GW,Wilson NG

更新日期：2019-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have revealed an unexpected diversity of domain architecture among FcR-like receptors that presumably fulfill regulatory functions in the immune system. Different species of mammals, as well as chicken and catfish have been found to possess strikingly different sets of these receptors. To bett...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Guselnikov SV,Ramanayake T,Erilova AY,Mechetina LV,Najakshin AM,Robert J,Taranin AV

更新日期：2008-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Xenarthra (sloths, armadillos and anteaters) represent one of four currently recognized Eutherian mammal supraorders. Some phylogenomic studies point to the possibility of Xenarthra being at the base of the Eutherian tree, together or not with the supraorder Afrotheria. We performed painting with human autos...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Azevedo NF,Svartman M,Manchester A,de Moraes-Barros N,Stanyon R,Vianna-Morgante AM

更新日期：2012-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sex chromosomes exhibit many unusual patterns in sequence and gene expression relative to autosomes. Birds have evolved a female heterogametic sex system (male ZZ, female ZW), through stepwise suppression of recombination between chrZ and chrW. To address the broad patterns and complex driving forces of Z ch...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wang Z,Zhang J,Yang W,An N,Zhang P,Zhang G,Zhou Q

更新日期：2014-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asparagine N-Glycosylation is one of the most important forms of protein post-translational modification in eukaryotes. This metabolic pathway can be subdivided into two parts: an upstream sub-pathway required for achieving proper folding for most of the proteins synthesized in the secretory pathway, and a d...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Dall'Olio GM,Laayouni H,Luisi P,Sikora M,Montanucci L,Bertranpetit J

更新日期：2012-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sex differences in lifespan are ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom but the causes underlying this phenomenon remain poorly understood. Several explanations based on asymmetrical inheritance patterns (sex chromosomes or mitochondrial DNA) have been proposed, but these ideas have rarely been tested exper...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bilde T,Maklakov AA,Meisner K,la Guardia L,Friberg U

更新日期：2009-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genes associated with the neurodevelopmental disorder microcephaly display a strong signature of adaptive evolution in primates. Comparative data suggest a link between selection on some of these loci and the evolution of primate brain size. Whether or not either positive selection or this phenotypic associa...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Montgomery SH,Mundy NI

更新日期：2014-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The presence of non-coding introns is a characteristic feature of most eukaryotic genes. While the size of the introns, number of introns per gene and the number of intron-containing genes can vary greatly between sequenced eukaryotic genomes, the structure of a gene with reference to intron presence and pos...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Parvathaneni RK,DeLeo VL,Spiekerman JJ,Chakraborty D,Devos KM

更新日期：2017-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The TRIM family is composed of multi-domain proteins that display the Tripartite Motif (RING, B-box and Coiled-coil) that can be associated with a C-terminal domain. TRIM genes are involved in ubiquitylation and are implicated in a variety of human pathologies, from Mendelian inherited disorders to cancer, a...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Sardiello M,Cairo S,Fontanella B,Ballabio A,Meroni G

更新日期：2008-08-01 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:Opsins are G protein-coupled receptors used for both visual and non-visual photoreception, and these proteins evolutionarily date back to the base of the bilaterians. In the current sequencing age, phylogenomic analysis has proven to be a powerful tool, facilitating the increase in knowledge about diversity ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lowe EK,Garm AL,Ullrich-Lüter E,Cuomo C,Arnone MI

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sequencing of the genome of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum revealed an unusual expansion of the miRNA machinery, with two argonaute-1, two dicer-1 and four pasha gene copies. In this report, we have undertaken a deeper evolutionary analysis of the phylogenetic timing of these gene duplications and of ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Ortiz-Rivas B,Jaubert-Possamai S,Tanguy S,Gauthier JP,Tagu D,Claude R

更新日期：2012-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The plastid is a semiautonomous organelle with its own genome. Plastid genomes have been widely used as models for studying phylogeny, speciation and adaptive evolution. However, most studies focus on comparisons of plastid genome evolution at high taxonomic levels, and comparative studies of the process of ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Li ZH,Ma X,Wang DY,Li YX,Wang CW,Jin XH

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lymnaeidae snails play a prominent role in the transmission of helminths, mainly trematodes of medical and veterinary importance (e.g., Fasciola liver flukes). As this family exhibits a great diversity in shell morphology but extremely homogeneous anatomical traits, the systematics of Lymnaeidae has long bee...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Correa AC,Escobar JS,Durand P,Renaud F,David P,Jarne P,Pointier JP,Hurtrez-Boussès S

更新日期：2010-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the great importance of lepidopteran wing patterns in various biological disciplines, homologies between wing pattern elements in different moth and butterfly lineages are still not understood. Among other reasons, this may be due to an incomplete understanding of the relationship between color patte...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Schachat SR,Brown RL

更新日期：2016-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Animals have a greater diversity of signalling pathways than their unicellular relatives, consistent with the evolution and expansion of these pathways occurring in parallel with the origin of animal multicellularity. However, the genomes of sponges and ctenophores - non-bilaterian basal animals - typically ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Krishnan A,Degnan BM,Degnan SM

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During past glacial periods, many species of forest-dwelling animals experienced range contractions. In contrast, species living outside such moist habitats appear to have reacted to Quaternary changes in different ways. The Atlantic Forest represents an excellent opportunity to test phylogeographic hypothes...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Cardoso DC,Cristiano MP,Tavares MG,Schubart CD,Heinze J

更新日期：2015-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most analysis programs for inferring molecular phylogenies are difficult to use, in particular for researchers with little programming experience. RESULTS:TREEFINDER is an easy-to-use integrative platform-independent analysis environment for molecular phylogenetics. In this paper the main features of TREEFI...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Jobb G,von Haeseler A,Strimmer K

更新日期：2004-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many diurnal animals exhibit a mid-day 'siesta', generally thought to be an adaptive response aimed at minimizing exposure to heat on warm days, suggesting that in regions with cooler climates mid-day siestas might be a less prominent feature of animal behavior. Drosophila melanogaster exhibits thermal plast...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Cao W,Edery I

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent models suggest that escalating reciprocal selection among antagonistically interacting species is predicted to occur in areas of higher resource productivity. In a putatively coevolved interaction between a freshwater snail (Mexipyrgus churinceanus) and a molluscivorous cichlid (Herichthys minckleyi),...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Johnson SG,Hulsey CD,de León FJ

更新日期：2007-03-30 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:Probabilistic methods have progressively supplanted the Maximum Parsimony (MP) method for inferring phylogenetic trees. One of the major reasons for this shift was that MP is much more sensitive to the Long Branch Attraction (LBA) artefact than is Maximum Likelihood (ML). However, recent work by Kolaczkowski...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Philippe H,Zhou Y,Brinkmann H,Rodrigue N,Delsuc F

更新日期：2005-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although phylogenomic analyses are increasingly used to reveal evolutionary relationships among ciliates, relatively few nuclear protein-coding gene markers have been tested for their suitability as candidates for inferring phylogenies within this group. In this study, we investigate the utility of the heat-...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Zhang Q,Xu J,Warren A,Yang R,Shen Z,Yi Z

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rate of nucleotide substitutions is not constant across the Tree of Life, and departures from a molecular clock have been commonly reported. Within parmelioid lichens, the largest group of macrolichens, large discrepancies in branch lengths between clades were found in previous studies. Using an extended...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lumbsch HT,Hipp AL,Divakar PK,Blanco O,Crespo A

更新日期：2008-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite considerable effort, progress in spider molecular systematics has lagged behind many other comparable arthropod groups, thereby hindering family-level resolution, classification, and testing of important macroevolutionary hypotheses. Recently, alternative targeted sequence capture techniques have pro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hamilton CA,Lemmon AR,Lemmon EM,Bond JE

更新日期：2016-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Species complexes or aggregates consist of a set of closely related species often of different ploidy levels, whose relationships are difficult to reconstruct. The N Hemisphere Achillea millefolium aggregate exhibits complex morphological and genetic variation and a broad ecological amplitude. To understand ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Guo YP,Wang SZ,Vogl C,Ehrendorfer F

更新日期：2012-01-03 00:00:00

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