RUNX2 repeat variation does not drive craniofacial diversity in marsupials.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hotspots of angiosperm species richness and endemism in Mediterranean-climate regions are among the most striking, but least well-understood, geographic patterns of biodiversity. Recent studies have emphasized the importance of rapid diversification within hotspots, compared to non-hotspot regions, as a majo...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Cardillo M,Pratt R

更新日期：2013-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evolution of larger brain volumes relative to body size in Mammalia is the subject of an extensive amount of research. Early on palaeontologists were interested in the brain of cave bears, Ursus spelaeus, and described its morphology and size. However, until now, it was not possible to compare the absolu...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Veitschegger K

更新日期：2017-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A protein-protein interaction network (PIN) was suggested to be a disassortative network, in which interactions between high- and low-degree nodes are favored while hub-hub interactions are suppressed. It was postulated that a disassortative structure minimizes unfavorable cross-talks between different hub-c...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hase T,Niimura Y,Tanaka H

更新日期：2010-11-18 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:Species are considered the fundamental unit in many ecological and evolutionary analyses, yet accurate, complete, accessible taxonomic frameworks with which to identify them are often unavailable to researchers. In such cases DNA sequence-based species delimitation has been proposed as a means of estimating ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Reid NM,Carstens BC

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the arms race between hosts and parasites, genes involved in the immune response are targets for natural selection. Toll-Like Receptor (TLR) genes play a role in parasite detection as part of the innate immune system whereas Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) genes encode proteins that display antigen...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Antonides J,Mathur S,Sundaram M,Ricklefs R,DeWoody JA

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rodent and primate pregnancy-specific glycoprotein (PSG) gene families have expanded independently from a common ancestor and are expressed virtually exclusively in placental trophoblasts. However, within each species, it is unknown whether multiple paralogs have been selected for diversification of function...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： McLellan AS,Zimmermann W,Moore T

更新日期：2005-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Unlike northern Europe and most of northern North America, the Eastern Palearctic and the northwesternmost tip of North America are believed to have been almost unglaciated during the Quarternary glacial periods. This could have facilitated long-term survival of many organisms in that area. To evaluate this,...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Saitoh T,Alström P,Nishiumi I,Shigeta Y,Williams D,Olsson U,Ueda K

更新日期：2010-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic analyses of DNA sequences make use of an increasingly complex set of nucleotide substitution models to estimate the divergence between gene sequences. However, there is currently no way to assess the validity of nucleotide substitution models over short time-scales and with limited mutational accumul...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Duchêne S,Ho SY,Holmes EC

更新日期：2015-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular biological techniques are dramatically changing our view of microbial diversity in almost any environment that has so far been investigated. This study presents a systematic survey of the microbial diversity associated with a population of Acromyrmex leafcutter ants. In contrast to previous studies...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Van Borm S,Billen J,Boomsma JJ

更新日期：2002-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Opsins are the only class of proteins used for light perception in image-forming eyes. Gene duplication and subsequent functional divergence of opsins have played an important role in expanding photoreceptive capabilities of organisms by altering what wavelengths of light are absorbed by photoreceptors (spec...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Porath-Krause AJ,Pairett AN,Faggionato D,Birla BS,Sankar K,Serb JM

更新日期：2016-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glycoside hydrolases of the GH9 family encode cellulases that predominantly function as endoglucanases and have wide applications in the food, paper, pharmaceutical, and biofuel industries. The partitioning of plant GH9 endoglucanases, into classes A, B, and C, is based on the differential presence of transm...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kundu S,Sharma R

更新日期：2018-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The discovery of restriction endonucleases and modification DNA methyltransferases, key instruments of genetic engineering, opened a new era of molecular biology through development of the recombinant DNA technology. Today, the number of potential proteins assigned to type II restriction enzymes alone is bey...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Mokrishcheva ML,Solonin AS,Nikitin DV

更新日期：2011-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The detection and avoidance of "long-branch effects" in phylogenetic inference represents a longstanding challenge for molecular phylogenetic investigations. A consequence of parallelism and convergence, long-branch effects arise in phylogenetic inference when there is unequal molecular divergence among line...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Su Z,Townsend JP

更新日期：2015-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The classification of royal ferns (Osmundaceae) has long remained controversial. Recent molecular phylogenies indicate that Osmunda is paraphyletic and needs to be separated into Osmundastrum and Osmunda s.str. Here, however, we describe an exquisitely preserved Jurassic Osmunda rhizome (O. pulchella sp. nov...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bomfleur B,Grimm GW,McLoughlin S

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CYCLOIDEA (CYC)-like genes have been implicated in the development of capitulum inflorescences (i.e. flowering heads) in Asteraceae, where many small flowers (florets) are packed tightly into an inflorescence that resembles a single flower. Several rounds of duplication of CYC-like genes have occurred in Ast...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Carlson SE,Howarth DG,Donoghue MJ

更新日期：2011-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As global change and anthropogenic pressures continue to increase, conservation and management increasingly needs to consider species' potential to adapt to novel environmental conditions. Therefore, it is imperative to characterise the main selective forces acting on ecosystems, and how these may influence ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nielsen ES,Henriques R,Beger M,Toonen RJ,von der Heyden S

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Remipedia were initially seen as a primitive taxon within Pancrustacea based on characters considered ancestral, such as the homonomously segmented trunk. Meanwhile, several morphological and molecular studies proposed a more derived position of Remipedia within Pancrustacea, including a sister group relatio...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Stemme T,Iliffe TM,von Reumont BM,Koenemann S,Harzsch S,Bicker G

更新日期：2013-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The impact of predator-prey interactions on the evolution of many marine invertebrates is poorly understood. Since barriers to genetic exchange are less obvious in the marine realm than in terrestrial or freshwater systems, non-allopatric divergence may play a fundamental role in the generation of biodiversi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Goodheart JA,Bazinet AL,Valdés Á,Collins AG,Cummings MP

更新日期：2017-10-26 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: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:In the short-term, organisms acclimate to stress through phenotypic plasticity, but in the longer term they adapt to stress genetically. The mutations that accrue during adaptation may contribute to completely novel phenotypes, or they may instead act to restore the phenotype from a stressed to a pre-stress ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hug SM,Gaut BS

更新日期：2015-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The existence of "ancient asexuals", taxa that have persisted for long periods of evolutionary history without sexual recombination, is both controversial and important for our understanding of the evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction. A lack of sex has consequences not only for the ecology of th...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lunt DH

更新日期：2008-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phylogeography is an important tool that can be used to reveal cryptic biodiversity and to better understand the processes that promote lineage diversification. We studied the phylogeographic history of the Arboreal Salamander (Aneides lugubris), a wide-ranging species endemic to the California floristic pro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Reilly SB,Corl A,Wake DB

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Volvocine algae provide a suitable model for investigation of the evolution of multicellular organisms. Within this group, evolution of the body plan from flattened to spheroidal colonies is thought to have occurred independently in two different lineages, Volvocaceae and Astrephomene. Volvocacean species un...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Yamashita S,Nozaki H

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Function prediction by transfer of annotation from the top database hit in a homology search has been shown to be prone to systematic error. Phylogenomic analysis reduces these errors by inferring protein function within the evolutionary context of the entire family. However, accuracy of function prediction ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Krishnamurthy N,Brown D,Sjölander K

更新日期：2007-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sex chromosomes exhibit many unusual patterns in sequence and gene expression relative to autosomes. Birds have evolved a female heterogametic sex system (male ZZ, female ZW), through stepwise suppression of recombination between chrZ and chrW. To address the broad patterns and complex driving forces of Z ch...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wang Z,Zhang J,Yang W,An N,Zhang P,Zhang G,Zhou Q

更新日期：2014-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patterns of genetic diversity between and within natural plant populations and their driving forces are of great interest in evolutionary biology. However, few studies have been performed on the genetic structure and population divergence in wild emmer wheat using a large number of EST-related single nucleot...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Ren J,Chen L,Sun D,You FM,Wang J,Peng Y,Nevo E,Beiles A,Sun D,Luo MC,Peng J

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Four of the five species of Telopea (Proteaceae) are distributed in a latitudinal replacement pattern on the south-eastern Australian mainland. In similar circumstances, a simple allopatric speciation model that identifies the origins of genetic isolation within temporal geographic separation is considered a...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Rossetto M,Allen CB,Thurlby KA,Weston PH,Milner ML

更新日期：2012-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The completion of 19 insect genome sequencing projects spanning six insect orders provides the opportunity to investigate the evolution of important gene families, here tubulins. Tubulins are a family of eukaryotic structural genes that form microtubules, fundamental components of the cytoskeleton that media...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nielsen MG,Gadagkar SR,Gutzwiller L

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00