Partial dosage compensation in Strepsiptera, a sister group of beetles.

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：:The plastid genomes of four related carnivorous plants (Drosera regia, Drosera erythrorhiza, Aldrovanda vesiculosa, and Dionaea muscipula) were sequenced to examine changes potentially induced by the transition to carnivory. The plastid genomes of the Droseraceae show multiple rearrangements, gene losses, and large ex...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Nevill PG,Howell KA,Cross AT,Williams AV,Zhong X,Tonti-Filippini J,Boykin LM,Dixon KW,Small I

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the striking features of many eukaryotes is the apparent amount of redundancy in coding and non-coding elements of their genomes. Despite the possible evolutionary advantages, there are fewer examples of redundant sequences in viral genomes, particularly those with RNA genomes. The factors constraining the main...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Willemsen A,Zwart MP,Higueras P,Sardanyés J,Elena SF

更新日期：2016-10-12 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：:It has been estimated that the sister plant pathogenic fungal species Heterobasidion irregulare and Heterobasidion annosum may have been allopatrically isolated for 34-41 Myr. They are now sympatric due to the introduction of the first species from North America into Italy, where they freely hybridize. We used a compa...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Sillo F,Garbelotto M,Friedman M,Gonthier P

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Plastid genomes are an invaluable resource for plant biological studies. However, the number of completely sequenced plant plastid genomes is still small compared with the vast number of species. To provide an alternative generalized approach, we designed a set of 138 pairs of universal primers for amplifying (termed ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Dong W,Xu C,Cheng T,Lin K,Zhou S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Candidatus Endomicrobium trichonymphae" (Bacteria; Elusimicrobia) is an obligate intracellular symbiont of the cellulolytic protist genus Trichonympha in the termite gut. A previous genome analysis of "Ca Endomicrobium trichonymphae" phylotype Rs-D17 (genomovar Ri2008), obtained from a Trichonympha agilis cell in the...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Izawa K,Kuwahara H,Kihara K,Yuki M,Lo N,Itoh T,Ohkuma M,Hongoh Y

更新日期：2016-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanistic basis of regulatory variation and the prevailing evolutionary forces shaping that variation are known to differ between sexes and between chromosomes. Regulatory variation of gene expression can be due to functional changes within a gene itself (cis) or in other genes elsewhere in the genome (trans). T...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Graze RM,McIntyre LM,Morse AM,Boyd BM,Nuzhdin SV,Wayne ML

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:Bacteria of the genus Xenorhabdus are symbionts of soil entomopathogenic nematodes of the genus Steinernema. This symbiotic association constitutes an insecticidal complex active against a wide range of insect pests. Unlike other Xenorhabdus species, Xenorhabdus poinarii is avirulent when injected into insects in the ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Ogier JC,Pagès S,Bisch G,Chiapello H,Médigue C,Rouy Z,Teyssier C,Vincent S,Tailliez P,Givaudan A,Gaudriault S

更新日期：2014-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Histidine kinases (HKs) are primary sensor proteins that act in cell signaling pathways generically referred to as "two-component systems" (TCSs). TCSs are among the most widely distributed transduction systems used by both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms to detect and respond to a broad range of environmental cu...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Kabbara S,Hérivaux A,Dugé de Bernonville T,Courdavault V,Clastre M,Gastebois A,Osman M,Hamze M,Cock JM,Schaap P,Papon N

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive selection and purifying selection reduce levels of variation at linked neutral loci. One consequence of these processes is that the amount of neutral diversity and the meiotic recombination rate are predicted to be positively correlated across the genome-a prediction met in some species but not others. To bet...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Kartje ME,Jing P,Payseur BA

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By comparing the patterns of evolution in the coding and upstream noncoding regions of yeast ribosomal protein (RP) genes duplicated in a genome duplication, we find that although nonsynonymous sites in the coding sequences show strong evidence for the fixation of recent gene conversion events, similar patterns are le...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Evangelisti AM,Conant GC

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Alternative splicing and gene duplication are the two main processes responsible for expanding protein functional diversity. Although gene duplication can generate new genes and alternative splicing can introduce variation through alternative gene products, the interplay between the two processes is complex and poorly...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Abascal F,Tress ML,Valencia A

更新日期：2015-04-29 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：:Insertion sequences (ISs) are mobile genetic elements in bacterial genomes. In general, intergenic IS elements are probably less deleterious for their hosts than intragenic ISs, simply because they have a lower likelihood of disrupting native genes. However, since promoters, Shine-Dalgarno sequences, and transcription...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Plague GR

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:The effect of homologous recombination (HR) on the evolution of microbial genomes remains contentious as competing hypotheses seek to explain the evolutionary dynamics of microbial species. Evidence for HR between microbial genomes is widespread, and this process has been proposed to act as a cohesive force that can c...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Doroghazi JR,Buckley DH

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolution of prokaryotes involves extensive loss and gain of genes, which lead to substantial differences in the gene repertoires even among closely related organisms. Through a wide range of phylogenetic depths, gene frequency distributions in prokaryotic pangenomes bear a characteristic, asymmetrical U-shape, with a...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Lobkovsky AE,Wolf YI,Koonin EV

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question on the patterns and limits of reduction of plastid genomes in nonphotosynthetic plants and the reasons of their conservation is one of the intriguing topics in plant genome evolution. Here, we report sequencing and analysis of plastid genome in nonphotosynthetic orchids Epipogium aphyllum and Epipogium ro...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Schelkunov MI,Shtratnikova VY,Nuraliev MS,Selosse MA,Penin AA,Logacheva MD

更新日期：2015-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyadenylation is a step of mRNA processing which is crucial for its expression and stability. The major polyadenylation signal (PAS) represents a nucleotide hexamer that adheres to the AATAAA consensus sequence. Over a half of human genes have multiple cleavage and polyadenylation sites, resulting in a great diversi...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Kainov YA,Aushev VN,Naumenko SA,Tchevkina EM,Bazykin GA

更新日期：2016-07-02 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：:Bacteria of the Planctomycetes phylum have many unique cellular features, such as extensive membrane invaginations and the ability to import macromolecules. These features raise intriguing questions about the composition of their cell envelopes. In this study, we have used microscopy, phylogenomics, and proteomics to ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Mahajan M,Seeger C,Yee B,Andersson SGE

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:Hantaviruses are zoonotic viruses with a complex evolutionary history of virus-host coevolution and cross-species transmission. Although hantaviruses have a broad reservoir host range, virus-host relationships were previously thought to be strict, with a single virus species infecting a single host species. Here, we d...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Laenen L,Vergote V,Kafetzopoulou LE,Wawina TB,Vassou D,Cook JA,Hugot JP,Deboutte W,Kang HJ,Witkowski PT,Köppen-Rung P,Krüger DH,Licková M,Stang A,Striešková L,Szemeš T,Markowski J,Hejduk J,Kafetzopoulos D,Van Ranst

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arabidopsis DA1 genes appear to have multiple functions in regulating organ size and abiotic stress response, but the biological roles of its closely related genes remain unknown. Evolutionary analyses might provide some clues to aid in an understanding of their functional diversification. In this work, we charact...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Zhao M,He L,Gu Y,Wang Y,Chen Q,He C

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thousands of candidate human-specific regulatory sequences (HSRS) have been identified, supporting the hypothesis that unique to human phenotypes result from human-specific alterations of genomic regulatory networks. Collectively, a compendium of multiple diverse families of HSRS that are functionally and structurally...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Glinsky GV

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated long-term substitution rate differences using three calibration points, divergences between lobe-finned vertebrates and ray-finned fish, between mammals and sauropsids, and between holosteans (gar and bowfin) and teleost fish with amino acid sequence data of 625 genes for 25 bony vertebrates. T...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Takezaki N

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00