Being Aquifex aeolicus: Untangling a hyperthermophile's checkered past.

abstract：:RNA recombination is a major driving force for the evolution of RNA viruses and is significantly implicated in the adaptation of viruses to new hosts, changes of virulence, as well as in the emergence of new viruses including drug-resistant and escape mutants. However, the molecular details of recombination in animal ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Kleine Büning M,Meyer D,Austermann-Busch S,Roman-Sosa G,Rümenapf T,Becher P

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologous recombination is a major driver of bacterial speciation. Genetic divergence and host association are important factors influencing homologous recombination. Here, we study these factors for Campylobacter fetus, which shows a distinct intraspecific host dichotomy. Campylobacter fetus subspecies fetus (Cff) a...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Gilbert MJ,Duim B,van der Graaf-van Bloois L,Wagenaar JA,Zomer AL

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：: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：:Retrotransposons, DNA sequences capable of creating copies of themselves, compose about half of the human genome and played a central role in the evolution of mammals. Their current position in the host genome is the result of the retrotranscription process and of the following host genome evolution. We apply a model ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Riba A,Fumagalli MR,Caselle M,Osella M

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive prediction is a capability of diverse organisms, including microbes, to sense a cue and prepare in advance to deal with a future environmental challenge. Here, we investigated the timeframe over which adaptive prediction emerges when an organism encounters an environment with novel structure. We subjected yea...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： López García de Lomana A,Kaur A,Turkarslan S,Beer KD,Mast FD,Smith JJ,Aitchison JD,Baliga NS

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coliphage phi1, which was isolated for phage therapy in the Republic of Georgia, is closely related to the T-like myovirus RB49. The approximately 275 open reading frames encoded by each phage have an average level of amino acid identity of 95.8%. RB49 lacks 7 phi1 genes while 10 phi1 genes are missing from RB49. Most...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Arbiol C,Comeau AM,Kutateladze M,Adamia R,Krisch HM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rieske/cytochrome b (Rieske/cytb) complexes are proton pumping quinol oxidases that are present in most bacteria and Archaea. The phylogeny of their subunits follows closely the 16S-rRNA phylogeny, indicating that chemiosmotic coupling was already present in the last universal common ancestor of Archaea and bacteria. ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Baymann F,Schoepp-Cothenet B,Lebrun E,van Lis R,Nitschke W

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venoms are among the most biologically active secretions known, and are commonly believed to evolve under extreme positive selection. Many venom gene families, however, have undergone duplication, and are often deployed in doses vastly exceeding the LD50 for most prey species, which should reduce the strength of posit...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Aird SD,Arora J,Barua A,Qiu L,Terada K,Mikheyev AS

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene duplication generates new genetic material, which has been shown to lead to major innovations in unicellular and multicellular organisms. A whole-genome duplication occurred in the ancestor of Saccharomyces yeast species but 92% of duplicates returned to single-copy genes shortly after duplication. The persisting...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Fares MA,Sabater-Muñoz B,Toft C

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:Sex chromosomes contribute substantially to key evolutionary processes such as speciation and adaptation. Several theories suggest that evolution could occur more rapidly on sex chromosomes, but currently our understanding of whether and how this occurs is limited. Here, we present an analysis of the great tit (Parus ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Hayes K,Barton HJ,Zeng K

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To fulfill their physiological functions, bile acids are conjugated with amino acids. In humans, conjugation is catalyzed by bile acid coenzyme A: amino acid N-acyltransferase (BAAT), an enzyme with a highly conserved catalytic triad in its active site. Interestingly, the conjugated amino acids are highly variable amo...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Kirilenko BM,Hagey LR,Barnes S,Falany CN,Hiller M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations spawn genetic variation which, in turn, fuels evolution. Hence, experimental investigations into the rate and fitness effects of spontaneous mutations are central to the study of evolution. Mutation accumulation (MA) experiments have served as a cornerstone for furthering our understanding of spontaneous mut...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Katju V,Bergthorsson U

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria can evolve rapidly under positive selection owing to their vast numbers, allowing their genes to diversify by adapting to different environments. We asked whether the same genes that evolve rapidly in the long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) with Escherichia coli have also diversified extensively in nature. ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Maddamsetti R,Hatcher PJ,Green AG,Williams BL,Marks DS,Lenski RE

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome of the soft coral Paraminabea aldersladei (Alcyoniidae) revealed a unique gene order, the fifth mt gene arrangement now known within the cnidarian subclass Octocorallia. At 19,886 bp, the mt genome of P. aldersladei is the second largest known for octocorals; its gene co...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Brockman SA,McFadden CS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal gene transfer is a common mechanism in Bacteria that has contributed to the genomic content of existing organisms. Traditional methods for estimating bacterial phylogeny, however, assume only vertical inheritance in the evolution of homologous genes, which may result in errors in the estimated phylogenies. ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Coimbra NDR,Goes-Neto A,Azevedo V,Ouangraoua A

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Asian honey bee (Apis dorsata) is distinct from its more widely distributed cousin Apis mellifera by a few key characteristics. Most prominently, A. dorsata, nest in the open by forming a colony clustered around the honeycomb, whereas A. mellifera nest in concealed cavities. Additionally, the worker and reproducti...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Oppenheim S,Cao X,Rueppel O,Krongdang S,Phokasem P,DeSalle R,Goodwin S,Xing J,Chantawannakul P,Rosenfeld JA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The loss of Y-linked genes during sex chromosome evolution creates a potentially deleterious low gene dosage in males. Recent studies have reported different strategies of dosage compensation. Unfortunately, most of these studies investigated taxa with comparatively old sex chromosome systems, which may limit insights...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Schultheiß R,Viitaniemi HM,Leder EH

更新日期：2015-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane NADPH oxidases (NOXs) are key producers of reactive oxygen species under both normal and stress conditions in plants and they form functional subfamilies. Studies of these subfamilies indicated that they show considerable evolutionary selection. We performed a comparative genomic analysis that identifi...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Chang YL,Li WY,Miao H,Yang SQ,Li R,Wang X,Li WQ,Chen KM

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Auxin/indole acetic acids (Aux/IAAs) and auxin response factors (ARFs), major components of the Aux signaling network, are involved in many developmental processes in plants. Investigating their evolution will provide new sight on the relationship between the molecular evolution of these genes and the increasing morph...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Huang Z,Duan W,Song X,Tang J,Wu P,Zhang B,Hou X

更新日期：2015-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Heritable changes in gene expression are important contributors to phenotypic differences within and between species and are caused by mutations in cis-regulatory elements and trans-regulatory factors. Although previous work has suggested that cis-regulatory differences preferentially accumulate with time, technical r...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Metzger BPH,Wittkopp PJ,Coolon JD

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chloroplast is an essential plant organelle responsible for photosynthesis. Gene duplication, relocation, and loss in the chloroplast genome (cpDNA) are useful for exploring the evolution and phylogeny of plant species. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome of Paris verticillata was sequenced using the 45...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Do HD,Kim JS,Kim JH

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage flux can cause the majority of genetic diversity in free-living bacteria. This tenet of bacterial genome evolution generally does not extend to obligate intracellular bacteria owing to their reduced contact with other microbes and a predominance of gene deletion over gene transfer. However, recent studie...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Kent BN,Salichos L,Gibbons JG,Rokas A,Newton IL,Clark ME,Bordenstein SR

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of transcription is highly stochastic leading to cell-to-cell variations and noise in gene expression levels. However, key essential genes have to be precisely expressed at the correct amount and time to ensure proper cellular development and function. Studies in yeast and bacterial systems have shown that...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Vance KW,Woodcock DJ,Reid JE,Bretschneider T,Ott S,Koentges G

更新日期：2015-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial (mt) genomes are intensively studied in Ascomycota and Basidiomycota, but they are poorly documented in basal fungal lineages. In this study, we sequenced the complete mtDNA of Rhizophagus sp. DAOM 213198, a close relative to Rhizophagus irregularis, a widespread, ecologically and economical relevant spe...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Nadimi M,Stefani FO,Hijri M

更新日期：2014-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Great genetic variability among teleost immunomes, with gene losses and expansions of central adaptive and innate components, has been discovered through genome sequencing over the last few years. Here, we demonstrate that the innate Myxovirus resistance gene (Mx) is lost from the ancestor of Gadiformes and the closel...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Solbakken MH,Rise ML,Jakobsen KS,Jentoft S

更新日期：2016-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Although pooled-population sequencing has become a widely used approach for estimating allele frequencies, most work has proceeded in the absence of a proper statistical framework. We introduce a self-sufficient, closed-form, maximum-likelihood estimator for allele frequencies that accounts for errors associated with ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Lynch M,Bost D,Wilson S,Maruki T,Harrison S

更新日期：2014-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of the transposons' promoter in the horizontal transfer process is quite overlooked in the scientific literature. To shed light on this aspect we have mimicked the horizontal transfer process in laboratory and assayed in a wide range of hosts (fly, human, yeast and bacteria) the promoter activity of t...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Palazzo A,Caizzi R,Viggiano L,Marsano RM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) represent an ecologically important and evolutionarily intriguing group of symbionts of land plants, currently thought to have propagated clonally for over 500 Myr. AMF produce multinucleate spores and may exchange nuclei through anastomosis, but meiosis has never been observed in th...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Halary S,Malik SB,Lildhar L,Slamovits CH,Hijri M,Corradi N

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00