Multiple Roots of Fruiting Body Formation in Amoebozoa.

abstract：:Epigenetic variation in natural populations with contrasting habitats might be an important element, in addition to the genetic variation, in plant adaptation to environmental stress. Here, we assessed genetic, epigenetic, and cytogenetic structure of the three Lilium bosniacum populations growing on distinct habitats...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Zoldoš V,Biruš I,Muratovic E,Šatovic Z,Vojta A,Robin O,Pustahija F,Bogunic F,Vicic Bockor V,Siljak-Yakovlev S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nemerteans are one of few animal groups that have evolved the ability to utilize toxins for both defense and subduing prey, but little is known about specific nemertean toxins. In particular, no study has identified specific toxin genes even though peptide toxins are known from some nemertean species. Information abou...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Whelan NV,Kocot KM,Santos SR,Halanych KM

更新日期：2014-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:As most genes are shared between females and males, DNA methylation is assumed to play a crucial role in sex-biased gene expression. DNA methylation exclusively occurs at CpG dinucleotides, and therefore, we would expect that CpG density around transcription start sites (TSSs) relate to sex-biased gene expression. Her...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Tamagawa K,Makino T,Kawata M

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations spawn genetic variation which, in turn, fuels evolution. Hence, experimental investigations into the rate and fitness effects of spontaneous mutations are central to the study of evolution. Mutation accumulation (MA) experiments have served as a cornerstone for furthering our understanding of spontaneous mut...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Katju V,Bergthorsson U

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene duplication is the primary source of new genes, but the mechanisms underlying the functional divergence and retention of duplicate genes are not well understood. Because eukaryotic proteins are localized to subcellular structures and localization can be altered by a single amino acid replacement, it was recently ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Qian W,Zhang J

更新日期：2009-07-22 00:00:00

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 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：:The extent of genome divergence and the evolutionary events leading to speciation of marine bacteria have mostly been studied for (locally) abundant, free-living groups. The genus Phaeobacter is found on different marine surfaces, seems to occupy geographically disjunct habitats, and is involved in different biotic in...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Freese HM,Sikorski J,Bunk B,Scheuner C,Meier-Kolthoff JP,Spröer C,Gram L,Overmann J

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:Organisms show striking differences in genome structure; however, the functional implications and fundamental forces that govern these differences remain obscure. The intron-exon organization of nuclear genes is involved in a particularly large variety of structures and functional roles. We performed a 22-species stud...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Irimia M,Maeso I,Burguera D,Hidalgo-Sánchez M,Puelles L,Roy SW,Garcia-Fernàndez J,Ferran JL

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise localization of CaV2 voltage-gated calcium channels at the synapse active zone requires various interacting proteins, of which, Rab3-interacting molecule or RIM is considered particularly important. In vertebrates, RIM interacts with CaV2 channels in vitro via a PDZ domain that binds to the extreme C-termi...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Piekut T,Wong YY,Walker SE,Smith CL,Gauberg J,Harracksingh AN,Lowden C,Novogradac BB,Cheng HM,Spencer GE,Senatore A

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：: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：:Retrotransposons, DNA sequences capable of creating copies of themselves, compose about half of the human genome and played a central role in the evolution of mammals. Their current position in the host genome is the result of the retrotranscription process and of the following host genome evolution. We apply a model ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Riba A,Fumagalli MR,Caselle M,Osella M

更新日期：2020-11-03 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：:Rhizobia are soil bacteria capable of forming symbiotic nitrogen-fixing nodules associated with leguminous plants. In fast-growing legume-nodulating rhizobia, such as the species in the family Rhizobiaceae, the symbiotic plasmid is the main genetic basis for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis, and is susceptible to horizontal ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Yang LL,Jiang Z,Li Y,Wang ET,Zhi XY

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals interact with a diverse array of both beneficial and detrimental microorganisms. In insects, these symbioses in many cases allow feeding on nutritionally unbalanced diets. It is, however, still not clear how are obligate symbioses maintained at the cellular level for up to several hundred million years. Exact ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Husnik F,Hypsa V,Darby A

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) represent an ecologically important and evolutionarily intriguing group of symbionts of land plants, currently thought to have propagated clonally for over 500 Myr. AMF produce multinucleate spores and may exchange nuclei through anastomosis, but meiosis has never been observed in th...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Halary S,Malik SB,Lildhar L,Slamovits CH,Hijri M,Corradi N

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant mitochondrial genomes vary widely in size. Although many plant mitochondrial genomes have been sequenced and assembled, the vast majority are of angiosperms, and few are of gymnosperms. Most plant mitochondrial genomes are smaller than a megabase, with a few notable exceptions. We have sequenced and assembled th...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Jackman SD,Coombe L,Warren RL,Kirk H,Trinh E,MacLeod T,Pleasance S,Pandoh P,Zhao Y,Coope RJ,Bousquet J,Bohlmann J,Jones SJM,Birol I

更新日期：2020-07-01 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 colonization of novel environments often involves changes in gene expression, protein coding sequence, or both. Studies of how populations adapt to novel conditions, however, often focus on only one of these two processes, potentially missing out on the relative importance of different parts of the evolutionary pr...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Brown AP,Arias-Rodriguez L,Yee MC,Tobler M,Kelley JL

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main genomic changes in the evolution of host-restricted microbial symbionts are ongoing inactivation and loss of genes combined with rapid sequence evolution and extreme structural stability; these changes reflect high levels of genetic drift due to small population sizes and strict clonality. This genomic erosio...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： McCutcheon JP,Moran NA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major mode of gene expression evolution is based on changes in cis-regulatory elements (CREs) whose function critically depends on the presence of transcription factor-binding sites (TFBS). Because CREs experience extensive TFBS turnover even with conserved function, alignment-based studies of CRE sequence evolution...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Otto W,Stadler PF,López-Giraldéz F,Townsend JP,Lynch VJ,Wagner GP

更新日期：2009-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The root-knot nematodes (genus Meloidogyne) are important plant parasites causing substantial agricultural losses. The Meloidogyne incognita group (MIG) of species, most of which are obligatory apomicts (mitotic parthenogens), are extremely polyphagous and important problems for global agriculture. While understanding...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Szitenberg A,Salazar-Jaramillo L,Blok VC,Laetsch DR,Joseph S,Williamson VM,Blaxter ML,Lunt DH

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Campylobacter includes some of the most relevant pathogens for human and animal health; the continuous effort in their characterization has also revealed new species putatively involved in different kind of infections. Nowadays, the available genomic data for the genus comprise a wide variety of species with...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Iraola G,Pérez R,Naya H,Paolicchi F,Pastor E,Valenzuela S,Calleros L,Velilla A,Hernández M,Morsella C

更新日期：2014-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Isochores are large regions of relatively homogeneous nucleotide composition and are present in the genomes of all mammals and birds that have been sequenced to date. The newly sequenced genome of Anolis carolinensis provides the first opportunity to quantify isochore structure in a nonavian reptile. We find Anolis to...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Fujita MK,Edwards SV,Ponting CP

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:North Borneo (NB) is home to more than 40 native populations. These natives are believed to have undergone local adaptation in response to environmental challenges such as the mosquito-abundant tropical rainforest. We attempted to trace the footprints of natural selection from the genomic data of NB native populations...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Hoh BP,Zhang X,Deng L,Yuan K,Yew CW,Saw WY,Hoque MZ,Aghakhanian F,Phipps ME,Teo YY,Subbiah VK,Xu S

更新日期：2020-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Some photosynthetic organisms live in extremely low light environments. Light limitation is associated with selective forces as well as reduced exposure to mutagens, and over evolutionary timescales it can leave a footprint on species' genomes. Here, we present the chloroplast genomes of four green algae (Bryopsidales...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： R Marcelino V,Cremen MC,Jackson CJ,Larkum AA,Verbruggen H

更新日期：2016-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory receptors (ORs) are membrane proteins that mediate the detection of odorants in the environment, and are the largest vertebrate gene family. Comparative studies of mammalian genomes indicate that OR repertoires vary widely, even between closely related lineages, as a consequence of frequent OR gains and loss...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Vandewege MW,Mangum SF,Gabaldón T,Castoe TA,Ray DA,Hoffmann FG

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00