Phylogeny and adaptive evolution of the brain-development gene microcephalin (MCPH1) in cetaceans.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome degradation of host-restricted mutualistic endosymbionts has been attributed to inactivating mutations and genetic drift while genes coding for host-relevant functions are conserved by purifying selection. Unlike their free-living relatives, the metabolism of mutualistic endosymbionts and endosymbiont...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Valadez-Cano C,Olivares-Hernández R,Resendis-Antonio O,DeLuna A,Delaye L

更新日期：2017-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Timing the origin of human malarias has been a focus of great interest. Previous studies on the mitochondrial genome concluded that Plasmodium in primates, including those parasitic to humans, radiated relatively recently during a process where host switches were common. Those investigations, however, assume...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pacheco MA,Battistuzzi FU,Junge RE,Cornejo OE,Williams CV,Landau I,Rabetafika L,Snounou G,Jones-Engel L,Escalante AA

更新日期：2011-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sexual selection favours the evolution of male bioactive substances transferred during mating to enhance male reproductive success by affecting female physiology. These effects are mainly well documented for separate-sexed species. In simultaneous hermaphrodites, one of the most peculiar examples of transfer...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lodi M,Koene JM

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genus Corbicula is one of the most invasive groups of molluscs. It includes both sexual and androgenetic lineages. The present study re-assessed the different morphotypes and haplotypes of West European Corbicula in order to clarify their taxonomic identification and phylogenetic relationships with Ameri...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pigneur LM,Marescaux J,Roland K,Etoundi E,Descy JP,Van Doninck K

更新日期：2011-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA molecules, through their dual appearance as sequence and structure, represent a suitable model to study evolutionary properties of quasispecies. The essential ingredient in this model is the differentiation between genotype (molecular sequences which are affected by mutation) and phenotype (molecular str...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Stich M,Briones C,Manrubia SC

更新日期：2007-07-09 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:Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are products of heat shock response and of other stress responses, and ubiquitous in all three domains of life, archaea, bacteria, and eukarya. They mainly function as molecular chaperones to protect proteins from being denatured in extreme conditions. Study on insect sHSPs ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Li ZW,Li X,Yu QY,Xiang ZH,Kishino H,Zhang Z

更新日期：2009-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Factors promoting the emergence of sharp phylogeographic breaks include restricted dispersal, habitat discontinuity, physical barriers, disruptive selection, mating incompatibility, genetic surfing and secondary contact. Disentangling the role of each in any particular system can be difficult, especially whe...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Neiva J,Pearson GA,Valero M,Serrão EA

更新日期：2012-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evolution of reproductive isolation between herbivorous insect populations is often initiated by shifts to novel host-plants, a process that underlies some of the best examples of ecological speciation. However, it is not well understood why host-shifts occur. Arguably the most common hypothesis is that ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Augustyn WJ,Anderson B,van der Merwe JF,Ellis AG

更新日期：2017-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is often proposed that females should select genetically dissimilar mates to maximize offspring genetic diversity and avoid inbreeding. Several recent studies have provided mixed evidence, however, and in some instances females seem to prefer genetically similar males. A preference for genetically similar...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bichet C,Penn DJ,Moodley Y,Dunoyer L,Cellier-Holzem E,Belvalette M,Grégoire A,Garnier S,Sorci G

更新日期：2014-03-12 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:Myzostomids are marine annelids, nearly all of which live symbiotically on or inside echinoderms, chiefly crinoids, and to a lesser extent asteroids and ophiuroids. These symbionts possess a variety of adult body plans and lifestyles. Most described species live freely on the exterior of their hosts as adult...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Summers MM,Rouse GW

更新日期：2014-08-28 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:The Visayan Tarictic Hornbill (Penelopides panini) and the Walden's Hornbill (Aceros waldeni) are two threatened hornbill species endemic to the western islands of the Visayas that constitute - between Luzon and Mindanao - the central island group of the Philippine archipelago. In order to evaluate their gen...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Sammler S,Ketmaier V,Havenstein K,Krause U,Curio E,Tiedemann R

更新日期：2012-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A multiscale network of two galectins Galectin-1 (Gal-1) and Galectin-8 (Gal-8) patterns the avian limb skeleton. Among vertebrates with paired appendages, chondrichthyan fins typically have one or more cartilage plates and many repeating parallel endoskeletal elements, actinopterygian fins have more varied ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bhat R,Chakraborty M,Glimm T,Stewart TA,Newman SA

更新日期：2016-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disparity in the timing of biological events occurs across a variety of systems, yet the understanding of genetic basis underlying diverse phenologies remains limited. Variation in maturation timing occurs in steelhead trout, which has been associated with greb1L, an oestrogen target gene. Previous technique...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Micheletti SJ,Hess JE,Zendt JS,Narum SR

更新日期：2018-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stripes and other high contrast patterns found on animals have been hypothesised to cause "motion dazzle", a type of defensive coloration that operates when in motion, causing predators to misjudge the speed and direction of object movement. Several recent studies have found some support for this idea, but l...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hughes AE,Troscianko J,Stevens M

更新日期：2014-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Refugial populations in Quaternary glaciations are critical to understanding the evolutionary history and climatic interactions of many extant species. Compared with the well-studied areas of Europe and Northern America, refugia of species in eastern Asia remain largely unknown. Here, we investigated the phy...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Song W,Cao LJ,Li BY,Gong YJ,Hoffmann AA,Wei SJ

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Within Chordata, the subphyla Vertebrata and Cephalochordata (lancelets) are characterized by a remarkable stability of the mitochondrial (mt) genome, with constancy of gene content and almost invariant gene order, whereas the limited mitochondrial data on the subphylum Tunicata suggest frequent and extensiv...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Iannelli F,Griggio F,Pesole G,Gissi C

更新日期：2007-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The population genetic structure of a parasite, and consequently its ability to adapt to a given host, is strongly linked to its own life history as well as the life history of its host. While the effects of parasite life history on their population genetic structure have received some attention, the effect ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： van Schaik J,Kerth G,Bruyndonckx N,Christe P

更新日期：2014-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clear examples of ecological speciation exist, often involving divergence in trophic morphology. However, substantial variation also exists in how far the ecological speciation process proceeds, potentially linked to the number of ecological axes, traits, or genes subject to divergent selection. In addition,...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Roy D,Seehausen O,Nosil P

更新日期：2013-07-03 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:Adenosine deaminase enzymes of the ADAR family are conserved in metazoans. They convert adenine into inosine in dsRNAs and thus alter both structural properties and the coding potential of their substrates. Acting on exogenous dsRNAs, ADAR1 exerts a pro- or anti-viral role in vertebrates and Drosophila. RES...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Rosani U,Bai CM,Maso L,Shapiro M,Abbadi M,Domeneghetti S,Wang CM,Cendron L,MacCarthy T,Venier P

更新日期：2019-07-23 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: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：: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:Phylogeography is an important tool that can be used to reveal cryptic biodiversity and to better understand the processes that promote lineage diversification. We studied the phylogeographic history of the Arboreal Salamander (Aneides lugubris), a wide-ranging species endemic to the California floristic pro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Reilly SB,Corl A,Wake DB

更新日期：2015-11-04 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:Drosophila melanogaster often shows correlations between latitude and phenotypic or genetic variation on different continents, which suggests local adaptation with respect to a heterogeneous environment. Previous phenotypic analyses of latitudinal clines have investigated mainly physiological, morphological,...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Svetec N,Zhao L,Saelao P,Chiu JC,Begun DJ

更新日期：2015-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oceans are high gene flow environments that are traditionally believed to hamper the build-up of genetic divergence. Despite this, divergence appears to occur occasionally at surprisingly small scales. The Galápagos archipelago provides an ideal opportunity to examine the evolutionary processes of local dive...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wolf JB,Harrod C,Brunner S,Salazar S,Trillmich F,Tautz D

更新日期：2008-05-16 00:00:00