A web-database of mammalian morphology and a reanalysis of placental phylogeny.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Orb-web weaving spiders and their relatives use multiple types of task-specific silks. The majority of spider silk studies have focused on the ultra-tough dragline silk synthesized in major ampullate glands, but other silk types have impressive material properties. For instance, minor ampullate silks of orb-...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Vienneau-Hathaway JM,Brassfield ER,Lane AK,Collin MA,Correa-Garhwal SM,Clarke TH,Schwager EE,Garb JE,Hayashi CY,Ayoub NA

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lateral genetic transfer can lead to disagreements among phylogenetic trees comprising sequences from the same set of taxa. Where topological discordance is thought to have arisen through genetic transfer events, tree comparisons can be used to identify the lineages that may have shared genetic information. ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Beiko RG,Hamilton N

更新日期：2006-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) is an important pathogen that infects a variety of decapod species and causes a highly contagious disease in penaeid shrimps. Mass mortalities caused by WSSV have pronounced commercial impact on shrimp aquaculture. Until now WSSV is the only known member of the virus fami...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Rozenberg A,Brand P,Rivera N,Leese F,Schubart CD

更新日期：2015-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The subfamily Stevardiinae is a diverse and widely distributed clade of freshwater fishes from South and Central America, commonly known as "tetras" (Characidae). The group was named "clade A" when first proposed as a monophyletic unit of Characidae and later designated as a subfamily. Stevardiinae includes ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Thomaz AT,Arcila D,Ortí G,Malabarba LR

更新日期：2015-07-21 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:Gene duplication and subsequent functional divergence especially expression divergence have been widely considered as main sources for evolutionary innovations. Many studies evidenced that genetic regulatory network evolved rapidly shortly after gene duplication, thus leading to accelerated expression diverg...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Zou Y,Su Z,Huang W,Gu X

更新日期：2012-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The compatible solute trehalose is a non-reducing disaccharide, which accumulates upon heat, cold or osmotic stress. It was commonly accepted that trehalose is only present in extremophiles or cryptobiotic organisms. However, in recent years it has been shown that although higher plants do not accumulate tre...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Avonce N,Mendoza-Vargas A,Morett E,Iturriaga G

更新日期：2006-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Self-powered flight is one of the most energy-intensive types of locomotion found in vertebrates. It is also associated with a range of extreme morpho-physiological adaptations that evolved independently in three different vertebrate groups. Considering that development acts as a bridge between the genotype ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： López-Aguirre C,Hand SJ,Koyabu D,Son NT,Wilson LAB

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adaptive radiation theory posits that ecological opportunity promotes rapid proliferation of phylogenetic and ecological diversity. Given that adaptive radiation proceeds via occupation of available niche space in newly accessed ecological zones, theory predicts that: (i) evolutionary diversification follows...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pincheira-Donoso D,Harvey LP,Ruta M

更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evolutionary history of a species is frequently derived from molecular sequences, and the resulting phylogenetic trees do not include explicit functional information. Here, we aimed to assess the functional relationships among bacteria in the Spirochaetes phylum, based on the biological processes of 42,4...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Estrada-Peña A,Cabezas-Cruz A

更新日期：2019-02-13 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: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:Complete mitochondrial genome sequences have become important tools for the study of genome architecture, phylogeny, and molecular evolution. Despite the rapid increase in available mitogenomes, the taxonomic sampling often poorly reflects phylogenetic diversity and is often also biased to represent deeper (...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Gotzek D,Clarke J,Shoemaker D

更新日期：2010-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computer-assisted analyses have shown that all bacterial genomes contain a small percentage of open reading frames with a frameshift or in-frame stop codon We report here a comparative analysis of these interrupted coding sequences (ICDSs) in six isolates of M. tuberculosis, two of M. bovis and one of M. afr...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Deshayes C,Perrodou E,Euphrasie D,Frapy E,Poch O,Bifani P,Lecompte O,Reyrat JM

更新日期：2008-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proteins of the mammalian PYHIN (IFI200/HIN-200) family are involved in defence against infection through recognition of foreign DNA. The family member absent in melanoma 2 (AIM2) binds cytosolic DNA via its HIN domain and initiates inflammasome formation via its pyrin domain. AIM2 lies within a cluster of r...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Cridland JA,Curley EZ,Wykes MN,Schroder K,Sweet MJ,Roberts TL,Ragan MA,Kassahn KS,Stacey KJ

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In gnathostomes, chemosensory receptors (CR) expressed in olfactory epithelia are encoded by evolutionarily dynamic gene families encoding odorant receptors (OR), trace amine-associated receptors (TAAR), V1Rs and V2Rs. A limited number of OR-like sequences have been found in invertebrate chordate genomes. Wh...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Libants S,Carr K,Wu H,Teeter JH,Chung-Davidson YW,Zhang Z,Wilkerson C,Li W

更新日期：2009-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA editing is a post-transcriptional process that, in seed plants, involves a cytosine to uracil change in messenger RNA, causing the translated protein to differ from that predicted by the DNA sequence. RNA editing occurs extensively in plant mitochondria, but large differences in editing frequencies are f...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Cuenca A,Petersen G,Seberg O,Davis JI,Stevenson DW

更新日期：2010-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Development of phylogenetic methods that do not rely on fossils for the study of evolutionary processes through time have revolutionized the field of evolutionary biology and resulted in an unprecedented expansion of our knowledge about the tree of life. These methods have helped to shed light on the macroev...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Fabre PH,Hautier L,Dimitrov D,Douzery EJ

更新日期：2012-06-14 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:Dispersal is often associated with a suite of phenotypic traits that might reduce dispersal costs, but can be energetically costly themselves outside dispersal. Hence, dispersing and philopatric individuals might differ throughout their life cycle in their management of energy production. Because higher ener...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Récapet C,Zahariev A,Blanc S,Arrivé M,Criscuolo F,Bize P,Doligez B

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) is a mitochondrial anion carrier, expressed in brown adipose tissue (BAT) of Eutherians. UCP1 is responsible for uncoupling mitochondrial proton transport from the production of ATP, thereby dissipating heat; it is essential for non-shivering thermogenesis (NST) in mammalian BAT. ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hughes DA,Jastroch M,Stoneking M,Klingenspor M

更新日期：2009-01-07 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:The multiplicity or loss of the vitellogenin (vtg) gene family in vertebrates has been argued to have broad implications for the mode of reproduction (placental or non-placental), cleavage pattern (meroblastic or holoblastic) and character of the egg (pelagic or benthic). Earlier proposals for the existence ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Finn RN,Kolarevic J,Kongshaug H,Nilsen F

更新日期：2009-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although homologous recombination affects the efficacy of selection in populations, the pattern of recombination rate evolution and its effects on genome evolution across plants are largely unknown. Recombination can reduce genome size by enabling the removal of LTR retrotransposons, alter codon usage by GC ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tiley GP,Burleigh JG

更新日期：2015-09-16 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: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: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：BACKGROUND:Considerable attention has focused on how selection on dispersal and other core life-history strategies (reproductive effort, survival ability, colonization capacity) may lead to so-called dispersal syndromes. Studies on genetic variation in these syndromes within species could importantly increase our under...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Fjerdingstad EJ,Schtickzelle N,Manhes P,Gutierrez A,Clobert J

更新日期：2007-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The gene regulatory network involved in tooth morphogenesis has been extremely well described in mammals and its modeling has allowed predictions of variations in regulatory pathway that may have led to evolution of tooth shapes. However, very little is known outside of mammals to understand how this regulat...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Debiais-Thibaud M,Chiori R,Enault S,Oulion S,Germon I,Martinand-Mari C,Casane D,Borday-Birraux V

更新日期：2015-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The completion of 19 insect genome sequencing projects spanning six insect orders provides the opportunity to investigate the evolution of important gene families, here tubulins. Tubulins are a family of eukaryotic structural genes that form microtubules, fundamental components of the cytoskeleton that media...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nielsen MG,Gadagkar SR,Gutzwiller L

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00