Trends in the Evolution of Snake Toxins Underscored by an Integrative Omics Approach to Profile the Venom of the Colubrid Phalotris mertensi.

abstract：:The iconic Australasian kangaroos and wallabies represent a successful marsupial radiation. However, the evolutionary relationship within the two genera, Macropus and Wallabia, is controversial: mitochondrial and nuclear genes, and morphological data have produced conflicting scenarios regarding the phylogenetic relat...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Nilsson MA,Zheng Y,Kumar V,Phillips MJ,Janke A

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:The selective pressures acting on viruses that replicate under enhanced mutation rates are largely unknown. Here, we describe resistance of foot-and-mouth disease virus to the mutagen 5-fluorouracil (FU) through a single polymerase substitution that prevents an excess of A to G and U to C transitions evoked by FU on t...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： de la Higuera I,Ferrer-Orta C,de Ávila AI,Perales C,Sierra M,Singh K,Sarafianos SG,Dehouck Y,Bastolla U,Verdaguer N,Domingo E

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquisition of Elizabethkingia infections in intensive care units (ICUs) has risen in the past decade. Treatment of Elizabethkingia infections is challenging due to the lack of effective therapeutic regimens, leading to a high mortality rate. Elizabethkingia infections have long been attributed to Elizabethkingia meni...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Teo J,Tan SY,Liu Y,Tay M,Ding Y,Li Y,Kjelleberg S,Givskov M,Lin RT,Yang L

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Population-level differences in the number of copies of genes resulting from gene duplication and loss have recently been recognized as an important source of variation in eukaryotes. However, except for a small number of cases, the phenotypic effects of this variation are unknown. Data from the Saccharomyces Genome R...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Ames RM,Rash BM,Hentges KE,Robertson DL,Delneri D,Lovell SC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The story of how preColumbian civilizations developed goes hand-in-hand with the process of plant domestication by Mesoamerican inhabitants. Here, we present the almost complete sequence of a mitochondrial genome and a partial chloroplast genome from an archaeological maize sample collected at the Valley of Tehuacán, ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Pérez-Zamorano B,Vallebueno-Estrada M,Martínez González J,García Cook A,Montiel R,Vielle-Calzada JP,Delaye L

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA editing occurs in the organellar mRNAs of all land plants but the marchantioid liverworts, making liverworts a perfect group for studying the evolution of RNA editing. Here, we profiled the RNA editing of 42 exemplars spanning the ordinal phylogenetic diversity of liverworts, and screened for the nuclear-encoded p...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Dong S,Zhao C,Zhang S,Wu H,Mu W,Wei T,Li N,Wan T,Liu H,Cui J,Zhu R,Goffinet B,Liu Y

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：: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：: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：:Chlamydiae are an example of obligate intracellular bacteria that possess highly reduced, compact genomes (1.0-3.5 Mbp), reflective of their abilities to sequester many essential nutrients from the host that they no longer need to synthesize themselves. The Chlamydiae is a phylum with a very wide host range spanning m...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Taylor-Brown A,Pillonel T,Greub G,Vaughan L,Nowak B,Polkinghorne A

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:Although the human Y chromosome has effectively shown utility in uncovering facets of human evolution and population histories, the ascertainment bias present in early Y-chromosome variant data sets limited the accuracy of diversity and TMRCA estimates obtained from them. The advent of next-generation sequencing, howe...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Naidoo T,Xu J,Vicente M,Malmström H,Soodyall H,Jakobsson M,Schlebusch CM

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All vertically transmitted bacterial symbionts undergo a process of genome reduction over time, resulting in tiny, gene-dense genomes. Comparison of genomes of ancient bacterial symbionts gives only limited information about the early stages in the transition from a free-living to symbiotic lifestyle because many chan...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Burke GR,Moran NA

更新日期：2011-01-01 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 presence of spliceosomal introns in eukaryotic genes poses a major puzzle for the study of genome evolution. Intron densities vary enormously among distant lineages. However, the mechanisms driving intron gains are poorly understood and very few intron gains and losses have been documented over short evolutionary ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Croll D,McDonald BA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary interactions across levels of biological organization contribute to a variety of fundamental processes including genome evolution, reproductive mode transitions, species diversification, and extinction. Evolutionary theory predicts that so-called "selfish" genetic elements will proliferate when the host e...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Phillips WS,Coleman-Hulbert AL,Weiss ES,Howe DK,Ping S,Wernick RI,Estes S,Denver DR

更新日期：2015-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Dinoflagellates are a group of unicellular protists with immense ecological and evolutionary significance and cell biological diversity. Of the photosynthetic dinoflagellates, the majority possess a plastid containing the pigment peridinin, whereas some lineages have replaced this plastid by serial endosymbiosis with ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Klinger CM,Paoli L,Newby RJ,Wang MY,Carroll HD,Leblond JD,Howe CJ,Dacks JB,Bowler C,Cahoon AB,Dorrell RG,Richardson E

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Analyses of genomic diversity along the X chromosome and of its correlation with autosomal diversity can facilitate understanding of evolutionary forces in shaping sex-linked genomic architecture. Strong selective sweeps and accelerated genetic drift on the X-chromosome have been inferred in primates and other model s...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Chen ZH,Zhang M,Lv FH,Ren X,Li WR,Liu MJ,Nam K,Bruford MW,Li MH

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Over 40 species of nonhuman primates host simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs). In natural hosts, infection is generally assumed to be nonpathogenic due to a long coevolutionary history between host and virus, although pathogenicity is difficult to study in wild nonhuman primates. We used whole-blood RNA-seq and SIV...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Simons ND,Eick GN,Ruiz-Lopez MJ,Hyeroba D,Omeja PA,Weny G,Zheng H,Shankar A,Frost SDW,Jones JH,Chapman CA,Switzer WM,Goldberg TL,Sterner KN,Ting N

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout the animal kingdom chemical senses are one of the primary means by which organisms make sense of their environment. To achieve perception of complex chemosensory stimuli large repertoires of olfactory and gustatory receptors are employed in bony vertebrates, which are characterized by high evolutionary dyna...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Sharma K,Syed AS,Ferrando S,Mazan S,Korsching SI

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different genes and proteins evolve at very different rates. To identify the factors that explain these differences is an important aspect of research in molecular evolution. One such factor is the role a protein plays in a large molecular network. Here, we analyze the evolutionary rates of enzyme-coding genes in the ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Aguilar-Rodríguez J,Wagner A

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:Because of its highly repetitive nature, the human male-specific Y chromosome remains understudied. It is important to investigate variation on the Y chromosome to understand its evolution and contribution to phenotypic variation, including infertility. Approximately 20% of the human Y chromosome consists of ampliconi...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Ye D,Zaidi AA,Tomaszkiewicz M,Anthony K,Liebowitz C,DeGiorgio M,Shriver MD,Makova KD

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most land plant plastomes contain two copies of a large inverted repeat (IR) that promote high-frequency homologous recombination to generate isomeric genomic forms. Among conifer plastomes, this canonical IR is highly reduced in Pinaceae and completely lost from cupressophytes. However, both lineages have acquired sh...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Guo W,Grewe F,Cobo-Clark A,Fan W,Duan Z,Adams RP,Schwarzbach AE,Mower JP

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00