Evolution of dispersal and life history strategies--Tetrahymena ciliates.

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: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:Monoculture farming poses significant disease challenges, but fungus-farming termites are able to successfully keep their monoculture crop free from contamination by other fungi. It has been hypothesised that obligate gut passage of all plant substrate used to manure the fungal symbiont is key to accomplish ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bos N,Guimaraes L,Palenzuela R,Renelies-Hamilton J,Maccario L,Silue SK,Koné N'A,Poulsen M

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sex-ratio distorting parasites are of interest due to their effects upon host population dynamics and their potential to influence the evolution of host sex determination systems. In theory, the ability to distort host sex-ratios allows a parasite with efficient vertical (hereditary) transmission to dispense...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Ironside JE,Smith JE,Hatcher MJ,Dunn AM

更新日期：2011-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The PE and PPE multigene families of Mycobacterium tuberculosis comprise about 10% of the coding potential of the genome. The function of the proteins encoded by these large gene families remains unknown, although they have been proposed to be involved in antigenic variation and disease pathogenesis. Interes...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Gey van Pittius NC,Sampson SL,Lee H,Kim Y,van Helden PD,Warren RM

更新日期：2006-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The spatial distribution of genetic diversity and structure has important implications for conservation as it reveals a species' strong and weak points with regard to stability and evolutionary capacity. Temporal genetic stability is rarely tested in marine species other than commercially important fishes, b...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Jueterbock A,Coyer JA,Olsen JL,Hoarau G

更新日期：2018-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small insertions and deletions occur in humans at a lower rate compared to nucleotide changes, but evolve under more constraint than nucleotide changes. While the evolution of insertions and deletions have been investigated using ape outgroups, the now available genome of a Neandertal can shed light on the e...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Chintalapati M,Dannemann M,Prüfer K

更新日期：2017-08-04 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:Survival in microrefugia represents an important paradigm in phylogeography for explaining rapid postglacial re-colonization by species in temperate regions. Microrefugia may allow populations to persist in areas where the climatic conditions on the surface have become unfavourable. Caves generally contain s...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bryson RW Jr,Prendini L,Savary WE,Pearman PB

更新日期：2014-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alternative splicing (AS) generates various transcripts from a single gene and thus plays a significant role in transcriptomic diversity and proteomic complexity. Alu elements are primate-specific transposable elements (TEs) and can provide a donor or acceptor site for AS. In a study on TE-mediated AS, we re...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Choe SH,Park SJ,Cho HM,Park HR,Lee JR,Kim YH,Huh JW

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The entire evolutionary history of life can be studied using myriad sequences generated by genomic research. This includes the appearance of the first cells and of superkingdoms Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya. However, the use of molecular sequence information for deep phylogenetic analyses is limited by mut...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kim KM,Caetano-Anollés G

更新日期：2012-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular clock dates, which place the origin of animal phyla deep in the Precambrian, have been used to reject the hypothesis of a rapid evolutionary radiation of animal phyla supported by the fossil record. One possible explanation of the discrepancy is the potential for fast substitution rates early in th...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Fontanillas E,Welch JJ,Thomas JA,Bromham L

更新日期：2007-06-26 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Remipedia were initially seen as a primitive taxon within Pancrustacea based on characters considered ancestral, such as the homonomously segmented trunk. Meanwhile, several morphological and molecular studies proposed a more derived position of Remipedia within Pancrustacea, including a sister group relatio...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Stemme T,Iliffe TM,von Reumont BM,Koenemann S,Harzsch S,Bicker G

更新日期：2013-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid reductases (OPRs) are enzymes that catalyze the reduction of double-bonds in alpha, beta-unsaturated aldehydes or ketones and are part of the octadecanoid pathway that converts linolenic acid to jasmonic acid. In plants, OPRs belong to the old yellow enzyme family and form multig...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Li W,Liu B,Yu L,Feng D,Wang H,Wang J

更新日期：2009-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNA sequences afford access to the evolutionary pathways of life. Particularly mobile elements that constantly co-evolve in genomes encrypt recent and ancient information of their host's history. In mammals there is an extraordinarily abundant activity of mobile elements that occurs in a dynamic succession o...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Churakov G,Grundmann N,Kuritzin A,Brosius J,Makałowski W,Schmitz J

更新日期：2010-12-02 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:The existence of "ancient asexuals", taxa that have persisted for long periods of evolutionary history without sexual recombination, is both controversial and important for our understanding of the evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction. A lack of sex has consequences not only for the ecology of th...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lunt DH

更新日期：2008-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prions are transmissible, propagating alternative states of proteins, and are usually made from the fibrillar, beta-sheet-rich assemblies termed amyloid. Prions in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae propagate heritable phenotypes, uncover hidden genetic variation, function in large-scale gene regulat...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： An L,Fitzpatrick D,Harrison PM

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Rhinopomatidae, traditionally considered to be one of the most ancient chiropteran clades, remains one of the least known groups of Rhinolophoidea. No relevant fossil record is available for this family. Whereas there have been extensive radiations in related families Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae, th...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hulva P,Horácek I,Benda P

更新日期：2007-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The functional repertoire of the human proteome is an incremental collection of functions accomplished by protein domains evolved along the Homo sapiens lineage. Therefore, knowledge on the origin of these functionalities provides a better understanding of the domain and protein evolution in human. The lack ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pal LR,Guda C

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Toll-like receptors represent a large superfamily of type I transmembrane glycoproteins, some common to a wide range of species and others are more restricted in their distribution. Most members of the Toll-like receptor superfamily have few paralogues; the exception is the TLR1 gene family with four clo...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Huang Y,Temperley ND,Ren L,Smith J,Li N,Burt DW

更新日期：2011-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proteomes of thermophilic prokaryotes have been instrumental in structural biology and successfully exploited in biotechnology, however many proteins required for eukaryotic cell function are absent from bacteria or archaea. With Chaetomium thermophilum, Thielavia terrestris and Thielavia heterothallica thre...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： van Noort V,Bradatsch B,Arumugam M,Amlacher S,Bange G,Creevey C,Falk S,Mende DR,Sinning I,Hurt E,Bork P

更新日期：2013-01-10 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:G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute a large family of integral transmembrane receptor proteins that play a central role in signal transduction in eukaryotes. The genome of the protochordate Ciona intestinalis has a compact size with an ancestral complement of many diversified gene families of vert...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kamesh N,Aradhyam GK,Manoj N

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene duplication has been identified as a key process driving functional change in many genomes. Several biological models exist for the evolution of a pair of duplicates after a duplication event, and it is believed that gene duplicates can evolve in different ways, according to one process, or a mix of pro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Stark TL,Liberles DA,Holland BR,O'Reilly MM

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chordate evolution is a history of innovations that is marked by physical and behavioral specializations, which led to the development of a variety of forms from a single ancestral group. Among other important characteristics, vertebrates obtained a well developed brain, anterior sensory structures, a closed...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kurtenbach S,Mayer C,Pelz T,Hatt H,Leese F,Neuhaus EM

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A protein-protein interaction network (PIN) was suggested to be a disassortative network, in which interactions between high- and low-degree nodes are favored while hub-hub interactions are suppressed. It was postulated that a disassortative structure minimizes unfavorable cross-talks between different hub-c...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hase T,Niimura Y,Tanaka H

更新日期：2010-11-18 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: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