Intron gains and losses in the evolution of Fusarium and Cryptococcus fungi.

abstract：:The adaptive significance of human brain evolution has been frequently studied through comparisons with other primates. However, the evolution of increased brain size is not restricted to the human lineage but is a general characteristic of primate evolution. Whether or not these independent episodes of increased brai...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Boddy AM,Harrison PW,Montgomery SH,Caravas JA,Raghanti MA,Phillips KA,Mundy NI,Wildman DE

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene duplication is the primary source of new genes, but the mechanisms underlying the functional divergence and retention of duplicate genes are not well understood. Because eukaryotic proteins are localized to subcellular structures and localization can be altered by a single amino acid replacement, it was recently ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Qian W,Zhang J

更新日期：2009-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear-encoded pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins are site-specific factors for C-to-U RNA editing in plant organelles coevolving with their targets. Losing an editing target by C-to-T conversion allows for eventual loss of its editing factor, as recently confirmed for editing factors CLB19, CRR28, and RARE1 tar...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Hein A,Brenner S,Knoop V

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oldest contemporary human mitochondrial lineages arose in Africa. The earliest divergent extant maternal offshoot, namely haplogroup L0d, is represented by click-speaking forager peoples of southern Africa. Broadly defined as Khoesan, contemporary Khoesan are today largely restricted to the semidesert regions of N...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Morris AG,Heinze A,Chan EK,Smith AB,Hayes VM

更新日期：2014-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Organelle DNA is no stranger to palindromic repeats. But never has a mitochondrial or plastid genome been described in which every coding region is part of a distinct palindromic unit. While sequencing the mitochondrial DNA of the nonphotosynthetic green alga Polytomella magna, we uncovered precisely this type of geni...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Smith DR,Hua J,Archibald JM,Lee RW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the rate of protein evolution and identifying the causes of its variation across the genome are powerful ways to understand forces that are important for genome evolution. By using a multitissue transcriptome data set from great tit (Parus major), we analyzed patterns of molecular evolution between two pas...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Gossmann TI,Santure AW,Sheldon BC,Slate J,Zeng K

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolbachia is a widely distributed intracellular bacterial endosymbiont among invertebrates. The wStriCN, the Wolbachia strain that naturally infects an agricultural pest Laodelphax striatellus, has a "Jekyll and Hyde" mode of infection pattern with positive and negative effects: It not only kills many offspring by ind...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Bing XL,Zhao DS,Sun JT,Zhang KJ,Hong XY

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cichlid fishes are an ideal model system for studying biological diversification because they provide textbook examples of rapid speciation. To date, there has been little focus on the role of gene regulation during cichlid speciation. However, in recent years, gene regulation has been recognized as a powerful force l...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Franchini P,Xiong P,Fruciano C,Meyer A

更新日期：2016-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence from sequence data from various environments, including the human gut, suggests the existence of a previously unknown putative seventh order of methanogens. The first genomic data from members of this lineage, Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis and "Candidatus Methanomethylophilus alvus," provide in...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Borrel G,O'Toole PW,Harris HM,Peyret P,Brugère JF,Gribaldo S

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Genomic structural variants (SVs) are distributed nonrandomly across the human genome. The "hotspots" of SVs have been implicated in evolutionary innovations, as well as medical conditions. However, the evolutionary and biomedical features of these hotspots remain incompletely understood. Here, we analyzed data from 2...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Lin YL,Gokcumen O

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals interact with a diverse array of both beneficial and detrimental microorganisms. In insects, these symbioses in many cases allow feeding on nutritionally unbalanced diets. It is, however, still not clear how are obligate symbioses maintained at the cellular level for up to several hundred million years. Exact ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Husnik F,Hypsa V,Darby A

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic analysis of many nonmodel species has uncovered an incredible diversity of sex chromosome systems, making it possible to empirically test the rich body of evolutionary theory that describes each stage of sex chromosome evolution. Classic theory predicts that sex chromosomes originate from a pair of homologous ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Furman BLS,Metzger DCH,Darolti I,Wright AE,Sandkam BA,Almeida P,Shu JJ,Mank JE

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although heterokaryons have been reported in nature, multicellular organisms are generally assumed genetically homogeneous. Here, we investigate the case of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) that form symbiosis with plant roots. The growth advantages they confer to their hosts are of great potential benefit to sustai...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Boon E,Halary S,Bapteste E,Hijri M

更新日期：2015-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of genomic diversity along the X chromosome and of its correlation with autosomal diversity can facilitate understanding of evolutionary forces in shaping sex-linked genomic architecture. Strong selective sweeps and accelerated genetic drift on the X-chromosome have been inferred in primates and other model s...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Chen ZH,Zhang M,Lv FH,Ren X,Li WR,Liu MJ,Nam K,Bruford MW,Li MH

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoreception is a widespread biological function that is essential for the survival, reproduction, and social communication of animals. Though the molecular mechanisms underlying chemoreception are relatively well known in insects, they are poorly studied in the other major arthropod lineages. Current availability o...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Vizueta J,Rozas J,Sánchez-Gracia A

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major mode of gene expression evolution is based on changes in cis-regulatory elements (CREs) whose function critically depends on the presence of transcription factor-binding sites (TFBS). Because CREs experience extensive TFBS turnover even with conserved function, alignment-based studies of CRE sequence evolution...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Otto W,Stadler PF,López-Giraldéz F,Townsend JP,Lynch VJ,Wagner GP

更新日期：2009-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoebae have been considered as a genetic "melting pot" for its symbionts, facilitating genetic exchanges of the bacteria that co-inhabit the same host. To test the "melting pot" hypothesis, we analyzed six genomes of amoeba endosymbionts within Rickettsiales, four of which belong to Holosporaceae family and two to Ca...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Wang Z,Wu M

更新日期：2017-11-01 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 large repABC plasmids of the order Rhizobiales with Class I quorum-regulated conjugative transfer systems often define the nature of the bacterium that harbors them. These otherwise diverse plasmids contain a core of highly conserved genes for replication and conjugation raising the question of their evolutionary ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Wetzel ME,Olsen GJ,Chakravartty V,Farrand SK

更新日期：2015-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi expressing P450nor, an unconventional nitric oxide (NO) reducing cytochrome P450, are considered significant contributors to environmental nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. Despite extensive efforts, fungal contributions to N2O emissions remain uncertain. For example, the majority of N2O emitted from antibiotic-ame...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Higgins SA,Schadt CW,Matheny PB,Löffler FE

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation and chromatin states play key roles in development and disease. However, the extent of recent evolutionary divergence in the human epigenome and the influential factors that have shaped it are poorly understood. To determine the links between genome sequence and human epigenome evolution, we examined t...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Prendergast JG,Chambers EV,Semple CA

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously discovered that lagging strand genes evolve faster in Bacillus subtilis (and potentially other bacteria). Lagging strand genes are transcribed in the head-on orientation with respect to DNA replication, leading to collisions between the two machineries that stall replication and can destabilize genomes. ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Merrikh CN,Weiss E,Merrikh H

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short endogenous RNA molecules that regulate gene expression at the posttranscriptional level and have been shown to play critical roles during animal development. The identification and comparison of miRNAs in metazoan species are therefore paramount for our understanding of the evolution of bo...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Marco A,Hui JH,Ronshaugen M,Griffiths-Jones S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coevolution between hosts and pathogens generates strong selection pressures to maintain resistance and infectivity, respectively. Genomes of plant pathogens often encode major effect loci for the ability to successfully infect specific host genotypes. Hence, spatial heterogeneity in host genotypes coupled with abioti...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Mohd-Assaad N,McDonald BA,Croll D

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydiae are an example of obligate intracellular bacteria that possess highly reduced, compact genomes (1.0-3.5 Mbp), reflective of their abilities to sequester many essential nutrients from the host that they no longer need to synthesize themselves. The Chlamydiae is a phylum with a very wide host range spanning m...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Taylor-Brown A,Pillonel T,Greub G,Vaughan L,Nowak B,Polkinghorne A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predominantly aquatic order Alismatales, which includes approximately 4,500 species within Araceae, Tofieldiaceae, and the core alismatid families, is a key group in investigating the origin and early diversification of monocots. Despite their importance, phylogenetic ambiguity regarding the root of the Alismatale...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Luo Y,Ma PF,Li HT,Yang JB,Wang H,Li DZ

更新日期：2016-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:North Borneo (NB) is home to more than 40 native populations. These natives are believed to have undergone local adaptation in response to environmental challenges such as the mosquito-abundant tropical rainforest. We attempted to trace the footprints of natural selection from the genomic data of NB native populations...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Hoh BP,Zhang X,Deng L,Yuan K,Yew CW,Saw WY,Hoque MZ,Aghakhanian F,Phipps ME,Teo YY,Subbiah VK,Xu S

更新日期：2020-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Many organisms have a global mechanism for dosage compensation (DC) operating along the entire male X chromosome, which equalizes gene expression on the male X with that on the two Xs in females and/or on autosomes. At the initial stage of sex chromosome evolution, however, gene-by-gene (or localized) DC may also be n...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Nozawa M,Ikeo K,Gojobori T

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of heterogametic sex chromosomes is often-but not always-accompanied by the evolution of dosage compensating mechanisms that mitigate the impact of sex-specific gene dosage on levels of gene expression. One emerging view of this process is that such mechanisms may only evolve in male-heterogametic (XY) s...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Walters JR,Hardcastle TJ,Jiggins CD

更新日期：2015-09-02 00:00:00