Adaptive evolution in the toxicity of a spider's venom enzymes.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Septins are cytoskeletal GTPase proteins first discovered in the fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae where they organize the septum and link nuclear division with cell division. More recently septins have been found in animals where they are important in processes ranging from actin and microtubule organization ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pan F,Malmberg RL,Momany M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge about the distribution of the genetic variation of marine species is fundamental to address species conservation and management strategies, especially in scenarios with mass mortalities. In the Mediterranean Sea, Petrosia ficiformis is one of the species most affected by temperature-related disease...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Riesgo A,Taboada S,Pérez-Portela R,Melis P,Xavier JR,Blasco G,López-Legentil S

更新日期：2019-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Representatives of Cetacea have the greatest absolute brain size among animals, and the largest relative brain size aside from humans. Despite this, genes implicated in the evolution of large brain size in primates have yet to be surveyed in cetaceans. RESULTS:We sequenced ~1240 basepairs of the brain devel...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： McGowen MR,Montgomery SH,Clark C,Gatesy J

更新日期：2011-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Xenarthra (sloths, armadillos and anteaters) represent one of four currently recognized Eutherian mammal supraorders. Some phylogenomic studies point to the possibility of Xenarthra being at the base of the Eutherian tree, together or not with the supraorder Afrotheria. We performed painting with human autos...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Azevedo NF,Svartman M,Manchester A,de Moraes-Barros N,Stanyon R,Vianna-Morgante AM

更新日期：2012-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A prerequisite for a duplication to spread through and persist in a given population is retaining expression of both gene copies. Yet changing a gene's dosage is frequently detrimental to fitness. Consequently, dosage-sensitive genes are less likely to duplicate. However, in cases where the level of gene pro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Warnecke T,Wang GZ,Lercher MJ,Hurst LD

更新日期：2009-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dynactin is a large multisubunit protein complex that enhances the processivity of cytoplasmic dynein and acts as an adapter between dynein and the cargo. It is composed of eleven different polypeptides of which eight are unique to this complex, namely dynactin1 (p150(Glued)), dynactin2 (p50 or dynamitin), d...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hammesfahr B,Kollmar M

更新日期：2012-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Teleost radiation in the oceans required specific physiological adaptations in eggs and early embryos to survive in the hyper-osmotic seawater. Investigating the evolution of aquaporins (AQPs) in these vertebrates should help to elucidate how mechanisms for water homeostasis evolved. The marine teleost gilth...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tingaud-Sequeira A,Chauvigné F,Fabra M,Lozano J,Raldúa D,Cerdà J

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Marburg virus (MARV) has a negative-sense single-stranded RNA genome, belongs to the family Filoviridae, and is responsible for several outbreaks of highly fatal hemorrhagic fever. Codon usage patterns of viruses reflect a series of evolutionary changes that enable viruses to shape their survival rates a...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nasrullah I,Butt AM,Tahir S,Idrees M,Tong Y

更新日期：2015-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The secretin family is a pleotropic group of brain-gut peptides with affinity for class 2 G-protein coupled receptors (secretin family GPCRs) proposed to have emerged early in the metazoan radiation via gene or genome duplications. In human, 10 members exist and sequence and functional homologues and ligand-...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Cardoso JC,Vieira FA,Gomes AS,Power DM

更新日期：2010-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zona pellucida domain-containing proteins (ZP proteins) have been identified as the principle constituents of the egg coat (EC) of diverse metazoan taxa, including jawed vertebrates, urochordates and molluscs that span hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary divergence. Although ZP proteins generally c...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Xu Q,Li G,Cao L,Wang Z,Ye H,Chen X,Yang X,Wang Y,Chen L

更新日期：2012-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Partitioning involves estimating independent models of molecular evolution for different subsets of sites in a sequence alignment, and has been shown to improve phylogenetic inference. Current methods for estimating best-fit partitioning schemes, however, are only computationally feasible with datasets of fe...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lanfear R,Calcott B,Kainer D,Mayer C,Stamatakis A

更新日期：2014-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Senescence is integral to the flowering plant life-cycle. Senescence-like processes occur also in non-angiosperm land plants, algae and photosynthetic prokaryotes. Increasing numbers of genes have been assigned functions in the regulation and execution of angiosperm senescence. At the same time there has bee...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Thomas H,Huang L,Young M,Ougham H

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Minor alleles of the human dopamine receptor polymorphisms, DRD2/TaqI A and DRD4/48 bp, are related to decreased functioning and/or numbers of their respective receptors and have been shown to be correlated with body mass, height and food craving. In addition, the 7R minor allele of the DRD4 gene is at a hig...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Eisenberg DT,Campbell B,Gray PB,Sorenson MD

更新日期：2008-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent approaches for context-dependent evolutionary modelling assume that the evolution of a given site depends upon its ancestor and that ancestor's immediate flanking sites. Because such dependency pattern cannot be imposed on the root sequence, we consider the use of different orders of Markov chains to ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Baele G,Van de Peer Y,Vansteelandt S

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fiddler crabs, genus Uca, are classic examples of how intense sexual selection can produce exaggerated male traits. Throughout the genus the enlarged "major" cheliped (claw) of the male fiddler crab is used both as a signal for attracting females and as a weapon for combat with other males. However, the morp...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Swanson BO,George MN,Anderson SP,Christy JH

更新日期：2013-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increasing number of assembled mammalian genomes makes it possible to compare genome organisation across mammalian lineages and reconstruct chromosomes of the ancestral marsupial and therian (marsupial and eutherian) mammals. However, the reconstruction of ancestral genomes requires genome assemblies to ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Deakin JE,Delbridge ML,Koina E,Harley N,Alsop AE,Wang C,Patel VS,Graves JA

更新日期：2013-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The gene regulatory network involved in tooth morphogenesis has been extremely well described in mammals and its modeling has allowed predictions of variations in regulatory pathway that may have led to evolution of tooth shapes. However, very little is known outside of mammals to understand how this regulat...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Debiais-Thibaud M,Chiori R,Enault S,Oulion S,Germon I,Martinand-Mari C,Casane D,Borday-Birraux V

更新日期：2015-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Toll-like receptors represent a large superfamily of type I transmembrane glycoproteins, some common to a wide range of species and others are more restricted in their distribution. Most members of the Toll-like receptor superfamily have few paralogues; the exception is the TLR1 gene family with four clo...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Huang Y,Temperley ND,Ren L,Smith J,Li N,Burt DW

更新日期：2011-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lineage-specific genes, the genes that are restricted to a limited subset of related organisms, may be important in adaptation. In parasitic organisms, lineage-specific gene products are possible targets for vaccine development or therapeutics when these genes are absent from the host genome. RESULTS:In thi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kuo CH,Kissinger JC

更新日期：2008-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polyploidization is a prominent process in plant evolution, whereas the mechanism and tempo-spatial process remained poorly understood. Oryza officinalis complex, a polyploid complex in the genus Oryza, could exemplify the issues not only for it covering a variety of ploidy levels, but also for the pantropic...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wang B,Ding Z,Liu W,Pan J,Li C,Ge S,Zhang D

更新日期：2009-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) is a small unisexual fish that has been suspected of being threatened by extinction from the stochastic accumulation of slightly deleterious mutations that is caused by Muller's ratchet in non-recombining populations. However, no detailed quantification of the extent of th...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Loewe L,Lamatsch DK

更新日期：2008-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Survival in microrefugia represents an important paradigm in phylogeography for explaining rapid postglacial re-colonization by species in temperate regions. Microrefugia may allow populations to persist in areas where the climatic conditions on the surface have become unfavourable. Caves generally contain s...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bryson RW Jr,Prendini L,Savary WE,Pearman PB

更新日期：2014-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The TRIM family is composed of multi-domain proteins that display the Tripartite Motif (RING, B-box and Coiled-coil) that can be associated with a C-terminal domain. TRIM genes are involved in ubiquitylation and are implicated in a variety of human pathologies, from Mendelian inherited disorders to cancer, a...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Sardiello M,Cairo S,Fontanella B,Ballabio A,Meroni G

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small insertions and deletions occur in humans at a lower rate compared to nucleotide changes, but evolve under more constraint than nucleotide changes. While the evolution of insertions and deletions have been investigated using ape outgroups, the now available genome of a Neandertal can shed light on the e...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Chintalapati M,Dannemann M,Prüfer K

更新日期：2017-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term monitoring of the biological impacts of the radioactive pollution caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011 is required to understand what has occurred in organisms living in the polluted areas. Here, we investigated spatial and temporal changes of the abnormality rate (AR) in both fie...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hiyama A,Taira W,Nohara C,Iwasaki M,Kinjo S,Iwata M,Otaki JM

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evolutionary highly conserved neurohypophyseal hormones oxytocin and arginine vasopressin play key roles in regulating social cognition and behaviours. The effects of these two peptides are meditated by their specific receptors, which are encoded by the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) and arginine vasopressin r...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Schaschl H,Huber S,Schaefer K,Windhager S,Wallner B,Fieder M

更新日期：2015-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The filamentous fungus Ashbya gossypii grows into a multicellular mycelium that is distinct from the unicellular morphology of its closely related yeast species. It has been proposed that genes important for cell cycle regulation play central roles for such phenotypic differences. Because A. gossypii shares ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Jiang H,Zhang Y,Sun J,Wang W,Gu Z

更新日期：2008-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The past decade has seen a remarkable increase in the number of recognized mouse lemur species (genus Microcebus). As recently as 1994, only two species of mouse lemur were recognized according to the rules of zoological nomenclature. That number has now climbed to as many as fifteen proposed species. Indeed...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Heckman KL,Rasoazanabary E,Machlin E,Godfrey LR,Yoder AD

更新日期：2006-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hemerythrins, are the non-heme, diiron binding respiratory proteins of brachiopods, priapulids and sipunculans; they are also found in annelids and bacteria, where their functions have not been fully elucidated. RESULTS:A search for putative Hrs in the genomes of 43 archaea, 444 bacteria and 135 eukaryotes,...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bailly X,Vanin S,Chabasse C,Mizuguchi K,Vinogradov SN

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema carpocapsae has been used worldwide as a biocontrol agent for insect pests, making it an interesting model for understanding parasite-host interactions. Two models propose that these interactions are co-evolutionary processes in such a way that equilibrium is never r...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Flores-Ponce M,Vallebueno-Estrada M,González-Orozco E,Ramos-Aboites HE,García-Chávez JN,Simões N,Montiel R

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00