Evolution of plant senescence.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous biological functions of long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) have been identified. However, the contribution of lincRNAs to the domestication process has remained elusive. Following domestication from their wild ancestors, animals display substantial changes in many phenotypic traits. Therefor...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wang YM,Xu HB,Wang MS,Otecko NO,Ye LQ,Wu DD,Zhang YP

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanism by which duplicate genes originate - whether by duplication of a whole genome or of a genomic segment - influences their genetic fates. To study events that trigger duplicate gene persistence after whole genome duplication in vertebrates, we have analyzed molecular evolution and expression of h...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Chain FJ,Ilieva D,Evans BJ

更新日期：2008-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Effects of polyploidisation on gene flow between natural populations are little known. Central European diploid and tetraploid populations of Arabidopsis arenosa and A. lyrata are here used to study interspecific and interploidal gene flow, using a combination of nuclear and plastid markers. RESULTS:Ploidal...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Jørgensen MH,Ehrich D,Schmickl R,Koch MA,Brysting AK

更新日期：2011-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Synonymous or silent mutations are usually thought to evolve neutrally. However, accumulating recent evidence has demonstrated that silent mutations may destabilize RNA structures or disrupt cis regulatory motifs superimposed on coding sequences. Such observations suggest the existence of stretches of codon ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Mayrose I,Stern A,Burdelova EO,Sabo Y,Laham-Karam N,Zamostiano R,Bacharach E,Pupko T

更新日期：2013-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phenotypic and molecular genetic data often provide conflicting patterns of intraspecific relationships confounding phylogenetic inference, particularly among birds where a variety of environmental factors may influence plumage characters. Among diurnal raptors, the taxonomic relationship of Buteo jamaicensi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hull JM,Mindell DP,Talbot SL,Kay EH,Hoekstra HE,Ernest HB

更新日期：2010-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Raphidioptera (snakeflies) is a holometabolous order of the superorder Neuropterida characterized by the narrowly elongate adult prothorax and the long female ovipositor. Mesozoic snakeflies were markedly more diverse than the modern ones are. However, the evolutionary history of Raphidioptera is largely une...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Liu X,Ren D,Yang D

更新日期：2014-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rosids are a major clade in the angiosperms containing 13 orders and about one-third of angiosperm species. Recent molecular analyses recognized two major groups (i.e., fabids with seven orders and malvids with three orders). However, phylogenetic relationships within the two groups and among fabids, malvids...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Zhu XY,Chase MW,Qiu YL,Kong HZ,Dilcher DL,Li JH,Chen ZD

更新日期：2007-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pleistocene climate fluctuations have shaped the patterns of genetic diversity observed in many extant species. In montane habitats, species' ranges may have expanded and contracted along an altitudinal gradient in response to environmental fluctuations leading to alternating periods of genetic isolation and...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Qu Y,Luo X,Zhang R,Song G,Zou F,Lei F

更新日期：2011-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phenotypic integration among different anatomical parts of the head is a common phenomenon across vertebrates. Interestingly, despite centuries of research into the factors that contribute to the existing variation in brain size among vertebrates, little is known about the role of phenotypic integration in b...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tsuboi M,Gonzalez-Voyer A,Kolm N

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Runt-related transcription factor 2 (RUNX2) is a transcription factor essential for skeletal development. Variation within the RUNX2 polyglutamine / polyalanine (QA) repeat is correlated with facial length within orders of placental mammals and is suggested to be a major driver of craniofacial diversity. How...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Newton AH,Feigin CY,Pask AJ

更新日期：2017-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antarctic notothenioids are an impressive adaptive radiation. While they share recent common ancestry with several species-depauperate lineages that exhibit a relictual distribution in areas peripheral to the Southern Ocean, an understanding of their evolutionary origins and biogeographic history is limited ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Near TJ,Dornburg A,Harrington RC,Oliveira C,Pietsch TW,Thacker CE,Satoh TP,Katayama E,Wainwright PC,Eastman JT,Beaulieu JM

更新日期：2015-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Through its ability to open pores in cell membranes, perforin-1 plays a key role in the immune system. Consistent with this role, the gene encoding perforin shows hallmarks of complex evolutionary events, including amplification and pseudogenization, in multiple species. A large proportion of these events oc...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Araujo-Voces M,Quesada V

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies highlighted the role of Pleistocene climatic cycles in polyploid speciation and of southern Alpine refugia as reservoirs of diversity during glacial maxima. The polyploid Primula marginata, endemic to the southwestern Alps, includes both hexaploid and dodecaploid cytotypes that show no ecologi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Casazza G,Granato L,Minuto L,Conti E

更新日期：2012-04-24 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:The genus Rattus is highly speciose and has a complex taxonomy that is not fully resolved. As shown previously there are two major groups within the genus, an Asian and an Australo-Papuan group. This study focuses on the Australo-Papuan group and particularly on the Australian rats. There are uncertainties r...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Robins JH,McLenachan PA,Phillips MJ,McComish BJ,Matisoo-Smith E,Ross HA

更新日期：2010-12-02 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:Protein sequence evolution is constrained by the biophysics of folding and function, causing interdependence between interacting sites in the sequence. However, current site-independent models of sequence evolutions do not take this into account. Recent attempts to integrate the influence of structure and bi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Grahnen JA,Nandakumar P,Kubelka J,Liberles DA

更新日期：2011-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability of an immune system to remember pathogens improves the chance of the host to survive a second exposure to the same pathogen. This immunological memory has evolved in response to the pathogen environment of the hosts. In vertebrates, the memory of previous infection is physiologically accomplished...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Graw F,Magnus C,Regoes RR

更新日期：2010-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The acquisition of complex transcriptional regulatory abilities and epigenetic machinery facilitated the transition of the ancestor of apicomplexans from a free-living organism to an obligate parasite. The ability to control sophisticated gene expression patterns enabled these ancient organisms to evolve sev...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kishore SP,Stiller JW,Deitsch KW

更新日期：2013-02-11 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 gene for odontogenic ameloblast-associated (ODAM) is a member of the secretory calcium-binding phosphoprotein gene family. ODAM is primarily expressed in dental tissues including the enamel organ and the junctional epithelium, and may also have pleiotropic functions that are unrelated to teeth. Here, we ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Springer MS,Emerling CA,Gatesy J,Randall J,Collin MA,Hecker N,Hiller M,Delsuc F

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Populations of herbivorous insects may become genetically differentiated because of local adaptation to different hosts and climates as well as historical processes, and further genetic divergence may occur following the development of reproductive isolation among populations. Here we investigate the populat...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wang YZ,Li BY,Hoffmann AA,Cao LJ,Gong YJ,Song W,Zhu JY,Wei SJ

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The segmented RNA genome of avian Influenza viruses (AIV) allows genetic reassortment between co-infecting viruses, providing an evolutionary pathway to generate genetic innovation. The genetic diversity (16 haemagglutinin and 9 neuraminidase subtypes) of AIV indicates an extensive reservoir of influenza vir...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lu L,Lycett SJ,Leigh Brown AJ

更新日期：2014-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic breaks separating regional lineages of marine organisms with potentially high broadcasting abilities are generally attributed either to dispersal barriers such as currents or upwelling, or to behavioural strategies promoting self-recruitment. We investigated whether such patterns could potentially al...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Teske PR,Papadopoulos I,Newman BK,Dworschak PC,McQuaid CD,Barker NP

更新日期：2008-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been shown for an evolutionarily distant genomic comparison that the number of protein-protein interactions a protein has correlates negatively with their rates of evolution. However, the generality of this observation has recently been challenged. Here we examine the problem using protein-protein int...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Fraser HB,Wall DP,Hirsh AE

更新日期：2003-05-23 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：: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:An early dispersal of biologically and behaviorally modern humans from their African origins to Australia, by at least 45 thousand years via southern Asia has been suggested by studies based on morphology, archaeology and genetics. However, mtDNA lineages sampled so far from south Asia, eastern Asia and Aust...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kumar S,Ravuri RR,Koneru P,Urade BP,Sarkar BN,Chandrasekar A,Rao VR

更新日期：2009-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Perception of sugars is an invaluable ability for insects which often derive quickly accessible energy from these molecules. A distinctive subfamily of eight proteins within the gustatory receptor (Gr) family has been identified as sugar receptors (SRs) in Drosophila melanogaster (Gr5a, Gr61a, and Gr64a-f). ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kent LB,Robertson HM

更新日期：2009-02-18 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