Comparative genomic analysis of malaria mosquito vector-associated novel pathogen Elizabethkingia anophelis.

abstract：:The genome of the bladderwort Utricularia gibba provides an unparalleled opportunity to uncover the adaptive landscape of an aquatic carnivorous plant with unique phenotypic features such as absence of roots, development of water-filled suction bladders, and a highly ramified branching pattern. Despite its tiny size, ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Carretero-Paulet L,Chang TH,Librado P,Ibarra-Laclette E,Herrera-Estrella L,Rozas J,Albert VA

更新日期：2015-01-09 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：: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：:Natural products from microbes have provided humans with beneficial antibiotics for millennia. However, a decline in the pace of antibiotic discovery exerts pressure on human health as antibiotic resistance spreads, a challenge that may better faced by unveiling chemical diversity produced by microbes. Current microbi...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Cruz-Morales P,Kopp JF,Martínez-Guerrero C,Yáñez-Guerra LA,Selem-Mojica N,Ramos-Aboites H,Feldmann J,Barona-Gómez F

更新日期：2016-07-02 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：:Ubiquinone (Q) is an isoprenoid quinone that functions as membrane electron carrier in mitochondria and bacterial organisms belonging to the alpha, beta, and gamma class of proteobacteria. The biosynthesis of Q follows various biochemical steps catalyzed by diverse proteins that are, in general, homologous in mitochon...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Degli Esposti M

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：: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 molecular signature of selection depends strongly on whether new mutations are immediately favorable and sweep to fixation (hard sweeps) as opposed to when selection acts on segregating variation (soft sweeps). The prediction of reduced sequence variation around selected polymorphisms is much stronger for hard tha...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Kelly JK,Koseva B,Mojica JP

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The universal genetic code defines the translation of nucleotide triplets, called codons, into amino acids. In many Saccharomycetes a unique alteration of this code affects the translation of the CUG codon, which is normally translated as leucine. Most of the species encoding CUG alternatively as serine belong to the ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Mühlhausen S,Kollmar M

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In many species, spermatogenesis involves more cell divisions than oogenesis, and the male germline, therefore, accumulates more DNA replication errors, a phenomenon known as male mutation bias. The extent of male mutation bias (α) is estimated by comparing substitution rates of the X, Y, and autosomal chromosomes, as...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Link V,Aguilar-Gómez D,Ramírez-Suástegui C,Hurst LD,Cortez D

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial degraders of chlorophenoxy herbicides have been isolated from various ecosystems, including pristine environments. Among these degraders, the sphingomonads constitute a prominent group that displays versatile xenobiotic-degradation capabilities. Four separate sequencing strategies were required to provide th...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Nielsen TK,Rasmussen M,Demanèche S,Cecillon S,Vogel TM,Hansen LH

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：:African trypanosomiasis is a vector-borne disease of humans and livestock caused by African trypanosomes (Trypanosoma spp.). Survival in the vertebrate bloodstream depends on antigenic variation of Variant Surface Glycoproteins (VSGs) coating the parasite surface. In T. brucei, a model for antigenic variation, monoall...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Abbas AH,Silva Pereira S,D'Archivio S,Wickstead B,Morrison LJ,Hall N,Hertz-Fowler C,Darby AC,Jackson AP

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements (TEs) constitute a substantial portion of many eukaryotic genomes, and can in principle contribute to evolutionary innovation as well as genomic deterioration. Daphnia pulex serves as a useful model for studying TE dynamics as a potential cause and/or consequence of asexuality. We analyzed insert...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Jiang X,Tang H,Ye Z,Lynch M

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:Protein metabolism is one of the most costly processes in the cell and is therefore expected to be under the effective control of natural selection. We stimulated yeast strains to overexpress each single gene product to approximately 1% of the total protein content. Consistent with previous reports, we found that exce...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Tomala K,Korona R

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Immunity genes have repeatedly experienced natural selection during mammalian evolution. Galectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins that regulate diverse immune responses, including maternal-fetal immune tolerance in placental pregnancy. Seven human galectins, four conserved across vertebrates and three specific to p...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Ely ZA,Moon JM,Sliwoski GR,Sangha AK,Shen XX,Labella AL,Meiler J,Capra JA,Rokas A

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discoba (Excavata) is an evolutionarily important group of eukaryotes that includes Jakobida, with the most bacterial-like mitochondrial genomes known, and Euglenozoa, many of which have extensively fragmented mitochondrial genomes. However, little is known about the mitochondrial genomes of Heterolobosea, the third m...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Yang J,Harding T,Kamikawa R,Simpson AGB,Roger AJ

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short interspersed elements (SINEs) are non-autonomous retrotransposons. Although they usually show fast evolutionary rates, in some instances highly conserved domains (HCDs) have been observed in elements with otherwise divergent sequences and from distantly related species. Here, we document the life history of two ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Luchetti A,Plazzi F,Mantovani B

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many viroids and RNA viruses have genomes that exhibit secondary structure, with paired nucleotides forming stems and loops. Such structures violate a key assumption of most methods of phylogenetic reconstruction, that sequence change is independent among sites. However, phylogenetic analyses of these transmissible ag...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Patiño-Galindo JÁ,González-Candelas F,Pybus OG

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orphan genes are defined as genes that lack detectable similarity to genes in other species and therefore no clear signals of common descent (i.e., homology) can be inferred. Orphans are an enigmatic portion of the genome because their origin and function are mostly unknown and they typically make up 10% to 30% of all...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Wissler L,Gadau J,Simola DF,Helmkampf M,Bornberg-Bauer E

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Chaperonins promote protein folding and are known to play a role in the maintenance of cellular stability under stress conditions. The group I bacterial chaperonin complex comprises GroEL, that forms a barrel-like oligomer, and GroES that forms the lid. In most eubacteria the GroES/GroEL chaperonin is encoded by a sin...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Weissenbach J,Ilhan J,Bogumil D,Hülter N,Stucken K,Dagan T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conservation of function can be accompanied by obvious similarity of homologous sequences which may persist for billions of years (Iyer LM, Leipe DD, Koonin EV, Aravind L. 2004. Evolutionary history and higher order classification of AAA+ ATPases. J Struct Biol. 146:11-31.). However, presumably homologous segments of ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Vakhrusheva OA,Bazykin GA,Kondrashov AS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter sputorum is a nonthermotolerant campylobacter that is primarily isolated from food animals such as cattle and sheep. C. sputorum is also infrequently associated with human illness. Based on catalase and urease activity, three biovars are currently recognized within C. sputorum: bv. sputorum (catalase neg...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Miller WG,Yee E,Chapman MH,Bono JL

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of the evolution of genes expressed at different life-cycle stages of Drosophila melanogaster have not been able to disentangle adaptive from nonadaptive substitutions when using nonsynonymous sites. Here, we overcome this limitation by combining whole-genome polymorphism data from D. melanogaster and...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Coronado-Zamora M,Salvador-Martínez I,Castellano D,Barbadilla A,Salazar-Ciudad I

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00