The mitochondrial genome of the glomeromycete Rhizophagus sp. DAOM 213198 reveals an unusual organization consisting of two circular chromosomes.

abstract：:Poaceae (grasses) is an agriculturally important and widely distributed family of plants with extraordinary phenotypic diversity, much of which was generated under recent lineage-specific evolution. Yet, little is known about the genes and functional modules involved in the lineage-specific divergence of grasses. Here...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Assis R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to obtain genome-wide sequences of very large numbers of individuals from natural populations raises questions about optimal sampling designs and the limits to extracting information on key population-genetic parameters from temporal-survey data. Methods are introduced for evaluating whether observed tempo...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Lynch M,Ho WC

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorarachniophytes are unicellular marine algae with plastids (chloroplasts) of secondary endosymbiotic origin. Chlorarachniophyte cells retain the remnant nucleus (nucleomorph) and cytoplasm (periplastidial compartment, PPC) of the green algal endosymbiont from which their plastid was derived. To characterize the di...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Hopkins JF,Spencer DF,Laboissiere S,Neilson JA,Eveleigh RJ,Durnford DG,Gray MW,Archibald JM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of a mechanically resilient epidermis was a key adaptation in the transition of amniotes to a fully terrestrial lifestyle. Skin appendages usually form via a specialized type of programmed cell death known as cornification which is characterized by the formation of an insoluble cornified envelope (CE). M...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Davis AC,Greenwold MJ,Sawyer RH

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic is widespread in the environment and its presence is a result of natural or anthropogenic activities. Microbes have developed different mechanisms to deal with toxic compounds such as arsenic and this is to resist or metabolize the compound. Here, we present the first reference set of genomic, transcriptomic a...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Andres J,Arsène-Ploetze F,Barbe V,Brochier-Armanet C,Cleiss-Arnold J,Coppée JY,Dillies MA,Geist L,Joublin A,Koechler S,Lassalle F,Marchal M,Médigue C,Muller D,Nesme X,Plewniak F,Proux C,Ramírez-Bahena MH,Schenowitz C

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:The nearly neutral theory, which proposes that most mutations are deleterious or close to neutral, predicts that the ratio of nonsynonymous over synonymous substitution rates (dN/dS), and potentially also the ratio of radical over conservative amino acid replacement rates (Kr/Kc), are negatively correlated with effect...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Nabholz B,Uwimana N,Lartillot N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitoid wasps are among the most speciose animals, yet have relatively few available genomic resources. We report a draft genome assembly of the wasp Diachasma alloeum (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a host-specific parasitoid of the apple maggot fly Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae), and a developing model fo...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Tvedte ES,Walden KKO,McElroy KE,Werren JH,Forbes AA,Hood GR,Logsdon JM,Feder JL,Robertson HM

更新日期：2019-10-01 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 DNA (mtDNA) mutations underlie a variety of human genetic disorders and are associated with the aging process. mtDNA polymorphisms are widely used in a variety of evolutionary applications. Although mtDNA mutation spectra are known to differ between distantly related model organisms, the extent to which ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Howe DK,Baer CF,Denver DR

更新日期：2009-12-23 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：: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 ribonuclease (RNase) A superfamily is a vertebrate-specific gene family. Because of a massive expansion that occurred during the early mammalian evolution, extant mammals in general have much more RNase genes than nonmammalian vertebrates. Mammalian RNases have been associated with diverse physiological functions ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Goo SM,Cho S

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Only few studies on snake venoms were dedicated to deeply characterize the toxin secretion of animals from the Colubridae family, despite the fact that they represent the majority of snake diversity. As a consequence, some evolutionary trends observed in venom proteins that underpinned the evolutionary histories of sn...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Campos PF,Andrade-Silva D,Zelanis A,Paes Leme AF,Rocha MM,Menezes MC,Serrano SM,Junqueira-de-Azevedo Ide L

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogens and hosts are in an ongoing arms race and genes involved in host-pathogen interactions are likely to undergo diversifying selection. Fusarium plant pathogens have evolved diverse infection strategies, but how they interact with their hosts in the biotrophic infection stage remains puzzling. To address this, ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Sperschneider J,Gardiner DM,Thatcher LF,Lyons R,Singh KB,Manners JM,Taylor JM

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative genome analyses have suggested East Asia to be the cradle of the domesticated microbe Brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), used in the food and biotechnology industry worldwide. Here, we provide seven new, high quality long read genomes of non-domesticated yeast strains isolated from primeval forests...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Bendixsen DP,Gettle N,Gilchrist C,Zhang Z,Stelkens R

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

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：:The globin gene family encodes oxygen-binding hemeproteins conserved across the major branches of multicellular life. The origins and evolutionary histories of complete globin repertoires have been established for many vertebrates, but there remain major knowledge gaps for ray-finned fish. Therefore, we used phylogene...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Gallagher MD,Macqueen DJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial evolution has given rise to a complex array of organelles, ranging from classical aerobic mitochondria to mitochondrial remnants known as hydrogenosomes and mitosomes. The latter are found in anaerobic eukaryotes, and these highly derived organelles often retain only scant evidence of their mitochondrial...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Pérez-Brocal V,Shahar-Golan R,Clark CG

更新日期：2010-07-12 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：: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：:In general, proteins do not work alone; they form macromolecular complexes to play fundamental roles in diverse cellular functions. On the basis of their iterative clustering procedure and frequency of occurrence in the macromolecular complexes, the protein subunits have been categorized as core and attachment. Core p...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Chakraborty S,Ghosh TC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of genome divergence and the evolutionary events leading to speciation of marine bacteria have mostly been studied for (locally) abundant, free-living groups. The genus Phaeobacter is found on different marine surfaces, seems to occupy geographically disjunct habitats, and is involved in different biotic in...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Freese HM,Sikorski J,Bunk B,Scheuner C,Meier-Kolthoff JP,Spröer C,Gram L,Overmann J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the full genome sequence of Bacillus velezensis strain UFLA258, a biological control agent of plant pathogens was obtained, assembled, and annotated. With a comparative genomics approach, in silico analyses of all complete genomes of B. velezensis and closely related species available in the database we...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Silva FJ,Ferreira LC,Campos VP,Cruz-Magalhães V,Barros AF,Andrade JP,Roberts DP,de Souza JT

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constitutive defense mechanisms are critical to the understanding of defense mechanisms in conifers because they constitute the first barrier to attacks by insect pests. In interior spruce, trees that are putatively resistant and susceptible to attacks by white pine weevil (Pissodes strobi) typically exhibit constitut...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Verne S,Jaquish B,White R,Ritland C,Ritland K

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1957, an invasive and highly defensive honey bee began to spread across Brazil. In the previous year, Brazilian researchers hoped to produce a subtropical-adapted honey bee by crossing local commercial honey bees (of European origin) with a South African honey bee subspecies (Apis mellifera scutellata; an A-lineage...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Harpur BA,Kadri SM,Orsi RO,Whitfield CW,Zayed A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00