Bridging gaps in the molecular phylogeny of the Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), vectors of Fascioliasis.

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:Local adaptation, the differential success of genotypes in their native versus foreign environment, arises from various evolutionary processes, but the importance of concurrent abiotic and biotic factors as drivers of local adaptation has only recently been investigated. Local adaptation to biotic interactio...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Rúa MA,Antoninka A,Antunes PM,Chaudhary VB,Gehring C,Lamit LJ,Piculell BJ,Bever JD,Zabinski C,Meadow JF,Lajeunesse MJ,Milligan BG,Karst J,Hoeksema JD

更新日期：2016-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can be divided into four subspecies. Substantial phylogenetic evidence suggests that these subspecies can be grouped into two distinct lineages: a western African group that includes P. t. verus and P. t. ellioti and a central/eastern African group that includes P. t. troglodyte...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Mitchell MW,Locatelli S,Ghobrial L,Pokempner AA,Sesink Clee PR,Abwe EE,Nicholas A,Nkembi L,Anthony NM,Morgan BJ,Fotso R,Peeters M,Hahn BH,Gonder MK

更新日期：2015-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evolution and origin of cave organisms is a recurring issue in evolutionary studies, but analyses are often hindered by the inaccessibility of caves, morphological convergence, and complex colonization processes. Here we investigated the evolutionary history of Nesticella cave spiders, which are mainly d...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Zhang Y,Li S

更新日期：2013-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In plants the hormone cytokinin is perceived by members of a small cytokinin receptor family, which are hybrid sensor histidine kinases. While the immediate downstream signaling pathway is well characterized, the domain of the receptor responsible for ligand binding and which residues are involved in this pr...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Heyl A,Wulfetange K,Pils B,Nielsen N,Romanov GA,Schmülling T

更新日期：2007-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hotspots of angiosperm species richness and endemism in Mediterranean-climate regions are among the most striking, but least well-understood, geographic patterns of biodiversity. Recent studies have emphasized the importance of rapid diversification within hotspots, compared to non-hotspot regions, as a majo...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Cardillo M,Pratt R

更新日期：2013-08-19 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:Patterns of genetic diversity between and within natural plant populations and their driving forces are of great interest in evolutionary biology. However, few studies have been performed on the genetic structure and population divergence in wild emmer wheat using a large number of EST-related single nucleot...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Ren J,Chen L,Sun D,You FM,Wang J,Peng Y,Nevo E,Beiles A,Sun D,Luo MC,Peng J

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lepidosauria (lizards, snakes, tuatara) is a globally distributed and ecologically important group of over 9,000 reptile species. The earliest fossil records are currently restricted to the Late Triassic and often dated to 227 million years ago (Mya). As these early records include taxa that are relatively d...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Jones ME,Anderson CL,Hipsley CA,Müller J,Evans SE,Schoch RR

更新日期：2013-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While the pathogenesis and epidemiology of tuberculosis are well studied, relatively little is known about the evolution of the infectious agent Mycobacterium tuberculosis, especially at the within-host level. The insertion sequence IS6110 is a genetic marker that is widely used to track the transmission of ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tanaka MM

更新日期：2004-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our aim is to understand the evolution of species-rich plant groups that shifted from tropical into cold/temperate biomes. It is well known that climate affects evolutionary processes, such as how fast species diversify, species range shifts, and species distributions. Many plant lineages may have gone extin...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nürk NM,Uribe-Convers S,Gehrke B,Tank DC,Blattner FR

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Volvocine algae provide a suitable model for investigation of the evolution of multicellular organisms. Within this group, evolution of the body plan from flattened to spheroidal colonies is thought to have occurred independently in two different lineages, Volvocaceae and Astrephomene. Volvocacean species un...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Yamashita S,Nozaki H

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vertebrate SWS1 visual pigments mediate visual transduction in response to light at short wavelengths. Due to their importance in vision, SWS1 genes have been isolated from a surprisingly wide range of vertebrates, including lampreys, teleosts, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The SWS1 genes exhibit...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： van Hazel I,Santini F,Müller J,Chang BS

更新日期：2006-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evolution of larger brain volumes relative to body size in Mammalia is the subject of an extensive amount of research. Early on palaeontologists were interested in the brain of cave bears, Ursus spelaeus, and described its morphology and size. However, until now, it was not possible to compare the absolu...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Veitschegger K

更新日期：2017-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The past decade has witnessed remarkable progress towards resolution of the Tree of Life. However, despite the increased use of genomic scale datasets, some phylogenetic relationships remain difficult to resolve. Here we employ anchored phylogenomics to capture 107 nuclear loci in 29 species of acanthomorph ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Eytan RI,Evans BR,Dornburg A,Lemmon AR,Lemmon EM,Wainwright PC,Near TJ

更新日期：2015-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular studies have revealed that many putative 'species' are actually complexes of multiple morphologically conservative, but genetically divergent 'cryptic species'. In extreme cases processes such as non-adaptive diversification (speciation without divergent selection) could mask the existence of ancie...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Oliver PM,Adams M,Doughty P

更新日期：2010-12-15 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:Amongst the most commonly used molecular markers for plant phylogenetic studies are the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacers (ITS). Intra-individual variability of these multicopy regions is a very common phenomenon in plants, the causes of which are debated in literature. Phylogenetic reconstructi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Göker M,Grimm GW

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The histone H2A family encompasses the greatest number of core histone variants of which the replacement variant H2A.Z is currently one of the most heavily studied. No clear mechanism for the functional variability that H2A.Z imparts to chromatin has yet been proposed. While most of the past studies have ref...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Eirín-López JM,González-Romero R,Dryhurst D,Ishibashi T,Ausió J

更新日期：2009-02-04 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: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: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 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：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:The coincidence of long distance dispersal (LDD) and biome shift is assumed to be the result of a multifaceted interplay between geographical distance and ecological suitability of source and sink areas. Here, we test the influence of these factors on the dispersal history of the flowering plant genus Erica ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pirie MD,Kandziora M,Nürk NM,Le Maitre NC,Mugrabi de Kuppler A,Gehrke B,Oliver EGH,Bellstedt DU

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selection pressure governs the relative mutability and the conservedness of a protein across the protein family. Biomolecules (DNA, RNA and proteins) continuously evolve under the effect of evolutionary pressure that arises as a consequence of the host parasite interaction. IPCS (Inositol phosphorylceramide ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Mandlik V,Shinde S,Singh S

更新日期：2014-06-21 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: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: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: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