Adaptive Prediction Emerges Over Short Evolutionary Time Scales.

abstract：:The large repABC plasmids of the order Rhizobiales with Class I quorum-regulated conjugative transfer systems often define the nature of the bacterium that harbors them. These otherwise diverse plasmids contain a core of highly conserved genes for replication and conjugation raising the question of their evolutionary ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Wetzel ME,Olsen GJ,Chakravartty V,Farrand SK

更新日期：2015-11-19 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：:Taeniid cestodes (including the human parasites Echinococcus spp. and Taenia solium) have very few mobile genetic elements (MGEs) in their genome, despite lacking a canonical PIWI pathway. The MGEs of these parasites are virtually unexplored, and nothing is known about their expression and silencing. In this work, we ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Koziol U,Radio S,Smircich P,Zarowiecki M,Fernández C,Brehm K

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi expressing P450nor, an unconventional nitric oxide (NO) reducing cytochrome P450, are considered significant contributors to environmental nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. Despite extensive efforts, fungal contributions to N2O emissions remain uncertain. For example, the majority of N2O emitted from antibiotic-ame...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Higgins SA,Schadt CW,Matheny PB,Löffler FE

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish use olfaction to sense a variety of nonvolatile chemical signals in water. However, the evolutionary importance of olfaction in species-rich cichlids is controversial. Here, we determined an almost complete sequence of the vomeronasal type 2 receptor-like (OlfC: putative amino acids receptor in teleosts) gene clu...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Nikaido M,Suzuki H,Toyoda A,Fujiyama A,Hagino-Yamagishi K,Kocher TD,Carleton K,Okada N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species are not completely reproductively isolated, resulting in hybridization and genetic introgression. Organellar genomes, such as those derived from mitochondria (mtDNA) and chloroplasts, introgress frequently in natural systems; however, the forces shaping patterns of introgression are not always clear. Here...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Sarver BA,Demboski JR,Good JM,Forshee N,Hunter SS,Sullivan J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SINEs (short interspersed elements) are transposable elements that typically originate independently in each taxonomic clade (order/family). However, some SINE families share a highly similar central sequence and are thus categorized as a SINE superfamily. Although only four SINE superfamilies (CORE-SINEs, V-SINEs, De...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Nishihara H,Plazzi F,Passamonti M,Okada N

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNA molecules involved in the regulation of mammalian gene expression. Together with other transcription regulators, miRNAs modulate the expression of genes and thereby potentially contribute to tissue and species diversity. To identify miRNAs that are differentially expressed between tiss...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Dannemann M,Prüfer K,Lizano E,Nickel B,Burbano HA,Kelso J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a new Chlamydia-related organism, Protochlamydia naegleriophila KNic, was discovered within a Naegleria amoeba. To decipher the mechanisms at play in the modeling of genomes from the Protochlamydia genus, we sequenced the full genome of Pr. naegleriophila, which includes a 2,885,090 bp chromosome and a 145,2...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Bertelli C,Cissé OH,Rusconi B,Kebbi-Beghdadi C,Croxatto A,Goesmann A,Collyn F,Greub G

更新日期：2016-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nested genes are the most common form of protein-coding overlap in eukaryotic genomes. Previous studies have shown that nested genes accumulate rapidly over evolutionary time, typically via the insertion of short young duplicate genes into long introns. However, the evolutionary relationship between nested genes remai...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Assis R

更新日期：2016-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic structural variants (SVs) are distributed nonrandomly across the human genome. The "hotspots" of SVs have been implicated in evolutionary innovations, as well as medical conditions. However, the evolutionary and biomedical features of these hotspots remain incompletely understood. Here, we analyzed data from 2...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Lin YL,Gokcumen O

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolbachia is a widely distributed intracellular bacterial endosymbiont among invertebrates. The wStriCN, the Wolbachia strain that naturally infects an agricultural pest Laodelphax striatellus, has a "Jekyll and Hyde" mode of infection pattern with positive and negative effects: It not only kills many offspring by ind...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Bing XL,Zhao DS,Sun JT,Zhang KJ,Hong XY

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is an important factor contributing to the evolution of prokaryotic genomes. The Aquificae are a hyperthermophilic bacterial group whose genes show affiliations to many other lineages, including the hyperthermophilic Thermotogae, the Proteobacteria, and the Archaea. Previous phylogenomic an...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Eveleigh RJ,Meehan CJ,Archibald JM,Beiko RG

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Balancing selection maintains advantageous diversity in populations through various mechanisms. Although extensively explored from a theoretical perspective, an empirical understanding of its prevalence and targets lags behind our knowledge of positive selection. Here, we describe the Non-central Deviation (NCD), a si...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Bitarello BD,de Filippo C,Teixeira JC,Schmidt JM,Kleinert P,Meyer D,Andrés AM

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae clonal group (CG) 258, comprising sequence types (STs) 258, 11, and closely related variants, is associated with dissemination of the K. pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC). Hospital outbreaks of KPC CG258 infections have been observed globally and are very difficult to treat. As a consequence, there ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Wyres KL,Gorrie C,Edwards DJ,Wertheim HF,Hsu LY,Van Kinh N,Zadoks R,Baker S,Holt KE

更新日期：2015-04-10 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：: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：: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：: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：:Human-specific small insertions and deletions (HS indels, with lengths <100 bp) are reported to be ubiquitous in the human genome. However, whether these indels contribute to human-specific traits remains unclear. Here we employ a modified McDonald-Kreitman (MK) test and a combinatorial population genetics approach to...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Chen CH,Chuang TJ,Liao BY,Chen FC

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria are dominant primary producers of various ecosystems and they colonize marine as well as freshwater and terrestrial habitats. On the basis of their oxygenic photosynthesis they are known to synthesize a high number of secondary metabolites, which makes them promising for biotechnological applications. St...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Will SE,Henke P,Boedeker C,Huang S,Brinkmann H,Rohde M,Jarek M,Friedl T,Seufert S,Schumacher M,Overmann J,Neumann-Schaal M,Petersen J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-standing mystery of genomic/transcriptomic structure involves spliced leader trans-splicing (SLTS), in which short RNA "tags" transcribed from a distinct genomic locus is added near the 5' end of RNA transcripts by the spliceosome. SLTS has been observed in diverse eukaryotes in a phylogenetic pattern implying ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Soulette CM,Oliverio O,Roy SW

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:African trypanosomiasis is a vector-borne disease of humans and livestock caused by African trypanosomes (Trypanosoma spp.). Survival in the vertebrate bloodstream depends on antigenic variation of Variant Surface Glycoproteins (VSGs) coating the parasite surface. In T. brucei, a model for antigenic variation, monoall...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Abbas AH,Silva Pereira S,D'Archivio S,Wickstead B,Morrison LJ,Hall N,Hertz-Fowler C,Darby AC,Jackson AP

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:OAS (2'-5'-oligoadenylate synthases) proteins and cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS, gene symbol: MB21D1) patrol the cytoplasm for the presence of foreign nucleic acids. Upon binding to double-stranded RNA or double-stranded DNA, OAS proteins and cGAS produce nucleotide second messengers to activate RNase L and STING (sti...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Mozzi A,Pontremoli C,Forni D,Clerici M,Pozzoli U,Bresolin N,Cagliani R,Sironi M

更新日期：2015-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of conserved syntenic regions enables discovery of predicted locations for orthologous and homeologous genes, even when no such gene is present. This capability means that synteny-based methods are far more effective than sequence similarity-based methods in identifying true-negatives, a necessity f...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Tang H,Bomhoff MD,Briones E,Zhang L,Schnable JC,Lyons E

更新日期：2015-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologous recombination is a major driver of bacterial speciation. Genetic divergence and host association are important factors influencing homologous recombination. Here, we study these factors for Campylobacter fetus, which shows a distinct intraspecific host dichotomy. Campylobacter fetus subspecies fetus (Cff) a...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Gilbert MJ,Duim B,van der Graaf-van Bloois L,Wagenaar JA,Zomer AL

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The propensity of protein sites to be occupied by any of the 20 amino acids is known as site-specific amino acid preferences (SSAP). Under the assumption that SSAP are conserved among homologs, they can be used to parameterize evolutionary models for the reconstruction of accurate phylogenetic trees. However, simulati...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Ferrada E

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome reduction is a hallmark of symbiotic genomes, and the rate and patterns of gene loss associated with this process have been investigated in several different symbiotic systems. However, in long-term host-associated coevolving symbiont clades, the genome size differences between strains are normally quite small ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Gottlieb Y,Lalzar I,Klasson L

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00