The evolution of intron size in amniotes: a role for powered flight?

abstract：:The genus Campylobacter includes some of the most relevant pathogens for human and animal health; the continuous effort in their characterization has also revealed new species putatively involved in different kind of infections. Nowadays, the available genomic data for the genus comprise a wide variety of species with...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Iraola G,Pérez R,Naya H,Paolicchi F,Pastor E,Valenzuela S,Calleros L,Velilla A,Hernández M,Morsella C

更新日期：2014-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the human Y chromosome has effectively shown utility in uncovering facets of human evolution and population histories, the ascertainment bias present in early Y-chromosome variant data sets limited the accuracy of diversity and TMRCA estimates obtained from them. The advent of next-generation sequencing, howe...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Naidoo T,Xu J,Vicente M,Malmström H,Soodyall H,Jakobsson M,Schlebusch CM

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective impact of pathogen epidemics on host defenses can be strong but remains transient. By contrast, life-history shifts can durably and continuously modify the balance between costs and benefits of immunity, which arbitrates the evolution of host defenses. Their impact on the evolutionary dynamics of host im...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Glander S,He F,Schmitz G,Witten A,Telschow A,de Meaux J

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene duplication may be an important mechanism for the evolution of new functions and for the adaptive modulation of gene expression via dosage effects. Here, we analyzed the fate of gene duplicates for two strains of a novel group of cyanobacteria (genus Acaryochloris) that produces the far-red light absorbing chloro...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Miller SR,Wood AM,Blankenship RE,Kim M,Ferriera S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase) is the key regulator of fatty acid biosynthesis. In most plants, ACCase exists in two locations (cytosol and plastids) and in two forms (homomeric and heteromeric). Heteromeric ACCase comprises four subunits, three of them (ACCA-C) are nuclear encoded (nr) and the fourth (ACCD) is usual...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Sudianto E,Chaw SM

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematodes are highly abundant animals with diverse habitats and lifestyles. Some are free living whereas others parasitize animals or plants, and among the latter, infection abilities change across developmental stages to infect hosts and complete life cycles. To determine the relationship between transcriptome evolut...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Lu MR,Lai CK,Liao BY,Tsai IJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome reduction is a hallmark of symbiotic genomes, and the rate and patterns of gene loss associated with this process have been investigated in several different symbiotic systems. However, in long-term host-associated coevolving symbiont clades, the genome size differences between strains are normally quite small ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Gottlieb Y,Lalzar I,Klasson L

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of its highly repetitive nature, the human male-specific Y chromosome remains understudied. It is important to investigate variation on the Y chromosome to understand its evolution and contribution to phenotypic variation, including infertility. Approximately 20% of the human Y chromosome consists of ampliconi...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Ye D,Zaidi AA,Tomaszkiewicz M,Anthony K,Liebowitz C,DeGiorgio M,Shriver MD,Makova KD

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory suggests that biological modularity and robustness allow for maintenance of fitness under mutational change, and when this change is adaptive, for evolvability. Empirical demonstrations that these traits promote evolvability in nature remain scant however. This is in part because modularity, robustness, and evo...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Rorick MM,Wagner GP

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of conserved syntenic regions enables discovery of predicted locations for orthologous and homeologous genes, even when no such gene is present. This capability means that synteny-based methods are far more effective than sequence similarity-based methods in identifying true-negatives, a necessity f...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Tang H,Bomhoff MD,Briones E,Zhang L,Schnable JC,Lyons E

更新日期：2015-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Population bottlenecks leading to a drastic reduction of the population size are common in the evolutionary dynamics of natural populations; their occurrence is known to have implications for genome evolution due to genetic drift, the consequent reduction in genetic diversity, and the rate of adaptation. Nevertheless,...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Wein T,Dagan T

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is one of the most common nosocomial pathogens worldwide. Although the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) P. aeruginosa is a critical problem in medical practice, the key features involved in the emergence and spread of MDR P. aeruginosa remain unknown. This study utilized wh...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Miyoshi-Akiyama T,Tada T,Ohmagari N,Viet Hung N,Tharavichitkul P,Pokhrel BM,Gniadkowski M,Shimojima M,Kirikae T

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because natural selection is likely to act on multiple genes underlying a given phenotypic trait, we study here the potential effect of ongoing and past selection on the genetic diversity of human biological pathways. We first show that genes included in gene sets are generally under stronger selective constraints tha...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Daub JT,Dupanloup I,Robinson-Rechavi M,Excoffier L

更新日期：2015-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites are sometimes able to manipulate the behavior of their hosts. However, the molecular cues underlying this phenomenon are poorly documented. We previously reported that the parasitoid wasp Leptopilina boulardi which develops from Drosophila larvae is often infected by an inherited DNA virus. In addition to be...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Lepetit D,Gillet B,Hughes S,Kraaijeveld K,Varaldi J

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each animal microRNA (miRNA) targets many genes for repression. Down-regulation of most of these targets is weak and has no detectable individual phenotypic effect. Whether this extensive weak repression is biologically relevant is a central issue in the debate on miRNA functionality. In the "small (target) pool" view...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Zhao Y,Lin P,Liufu Z,Yang H,Lyu Y,Shen X,Wu CI,Tang T

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishment of multicellularity represents a major transition in eukaryote evolution. A subgroup of Amoebozoa, the dictyosteliids, has evolved a relatively simple aggregative multicellular stage resulting in a fruiting body supported by a stalk. Protosteloid amoeba, which are scattered throughout the amoebozoan tree...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Hillmann F,Forbes G,Novohradská S,Ferling I,Riege K,Groth M,Westermann M,Marz M,Spaller T,Winckler T,Schaap P,Glöckner G

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The colonization of novel environments often involves changes in gene expression, protein coding sequence, or both. Studies of how populations adapt to novel conditions, however, often focus on only one of these two processes, potentially missing out on the relative importance of different parts of the evolutionary pr...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Brown AP,Arias-Rodriguez L,Yee MC,Tobler M,Kelley JL

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylum Apicomplexa is a quintessentially parasitic lineage, whose members infect a broad range of animals. One exception to this may be the apicomplexan genus Nephromyces, which has been described as having a mutualistic relationship with its host. Here we analyze transcriptome data from Nephromyces and its parasi...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Paight C,Slamovits CH,Saffo MB,Lane CE

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hundreds of endemic species of cichlid fishes in the East African Great Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi, and Victoria are a prime model system in evolutionary biology. With five genomes currently being sequenced, eastern African cichlids also represent a forthcoming genomic model for evolutionary studies of genotype-to-p...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Baldo L,Santos ME,Salzburger W

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nemerteans are one of few animal groups that have evolved the ability to utilize toxins for both defense and subduing prey, but little is known about specific nemertean toxins. In particular, no study has identified specific toxin genes even though peptide toxins are known from some nemertean species. Information abou...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Whelan NV,Kocot KM,Santos SR,Halanych KM

更新日期：2014-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish use olfaction to sense a variety of nonvolatile chemical signals in water. However, the evolutionary importance of olfaction in species-rich cichlids is controversial. Here, we determined an almost complete sequence of the vomeronasal type 2 receptor-like (OlfC: putative amino acids receptor in teleosts) gene clu...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Nikaido M,Suzuki H,Toyoda A,Fujiyama A,Hagino-Yamagishi K,Kocher TD,Carleton K,Okada N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant mitochondrial genomes vary widely in size. Although many plant mitochondrial genomes have been sequenced and assembled, the vast majority are of angiosperms, and few are of gymnosperms. Most plant mitochondrial genomes are smaller than a megabase, with a few notable exceptions. We have sequenced and assembled th...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Jackman SD,Coombe L,Warren RL,Kirk H,Trinh E,MacLeod T,Pleasance S,Pandoh P,Zhao Y,Coope RJ,Bousquet J,Bohlmann J,Jones SJM,Birol I

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection against inflammation and oxidative stress is key in slowing down aging processes. The honey bee (Apis mellifera) shows flexible aging patterns linked to the social role of individual bees. One molecular factor associated with honey bee aging regulation is vitellogenin, a lipoglycophosphoprotein with anti-in...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Salmela H,Stark T,Stucki D,Fuchs S,Freitak D,Dey A,Kent CF,Zayed A,Dhaygude K,Hokkanen H,Sundström L

更新日期：2016-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the complete mitochondrial (mt) genomes of three evaniomorph species, Ceraphron sp. (Ceraphronoidea), Gasteruption sp. (Evanioidea), and Orthogonalys pulchella (Trigonalyoidea) as well as the nearly complete mt genome from another evaniomorph species, Megalyra sp. (Megalyroidea). Each of them possesses d...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Mao M,Gibson T,Dowton M

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tandem repeats (TRs) are highly dynamic regions of the genome. Mutations at these loci represent a significant source of genetic variation and can facilitate rapid adaptation. Bumblebees are important pollinating insects occupying a wide range of habitats. However, to date, molecular mechanisms underlying the potentia...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Zhao X,Su L,Schaack S,Sadd BM,Sun C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is an evolutionary ancient epigenetic modification that is phylogenetically widespread. Comparative studies of the methylome across a diverse range of non-conventional and conventional model organisms is expected to help reveal how the landscape of DNA methylation and its functions have evolved. Here, ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Kvist J,Gonçalves Athanàsio C,Shams Solari O,Brown JB,Colbourne JK,Pfrender ME,Mirbahai L

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoebiasis is the third-most common cause of mortality worldwide from a parasitic disease. Although the primary etiological agent of amoebiasis is the obligate human parasite Entamoeba histolytica, other members of the genus Entamoeba can infect humans and may be pathogenic. Here, we present the first annotated refere...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Wilson IW,Weedall GD,Lorenzi H,Howcroft T,Hon CC,Deloger M,Guillén N,Paterson S,Clark CG,Hall N

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise localization of CaV2 voltage-gated calcium channels at the synapse active zone requires various interacting proteins, of which, Rab3-interacting molecule or RIM is considered particularly important. In vertebrates, RIM interacts with CaV2 channels in vitro via a PDZ domain that binds to the extreme C-termi...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Piekut T,Wong YY,Walker SE,Smith CL,Gauberg J,Harracksingh AN,Lowden C,Novogradac BB,Cheng HM,Spencer GE,Senatore A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lycopodiophyta-consisting of three orders, Lycopodiales, Isoetales and Selaginellales, with different types of shoot apical meristems (SAMs)-form the earliest branch among the extant vascular plants. They represent a sister group to all other vascular plants, from which they differ in that their leaves are microphylls...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Evkaikina AI,Berke L,Romanova MA,Proux-Wéra E,Ivanova AN,Rydin C,Pawlowski K,Voitsekhovskaja OV

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prokaryote genomes are the result of a dynamic flux of genes, with increases achieved via horizontal gene transfer and reductions occurring through gene loss. The ecological and selective forces that drive this genomic flexibility vary across species. Bacillus subtilis is a naturally competent bacterium that occupies ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Brito PH,Chevreux B,Serra CR,Schyns G,Henriques AO,Pereira-Leal JB

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00