Assortment of Flowering Time and Immunity Alleles in Natural Arabidopsis thaliana Populations Suggests Immunity and Vegetative Lifespan Strategies Coevolve.

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：:Neotropical primates (NP) are presently distributed in the New World from Mexico to northern Argentina, comprising three large families, Cebidae, Atelidae, and Pitheciidae, consequently to their diversification following their separation from Old World anthropoids near the Eocene/Oligocene boundary, some 40 Ma. The ev...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Schrago CG,Menezes AN,Furtado C,Bonvicino CR,Seuanez HN

更新日期：2014-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria of the Planctomycetes phylum have many unique cellular features, such as extensive membrane invaginations and the ability to import macromolecules. These features raise intriguing questions about the composition of their cell envelopes. In this study, we have used microscopy, phylogenomics, and proteomics to ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Mahajan M,Seeger C,Yee B,Andersson SGE

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:Prokaryote genomes are the result of a dynamic flux of genes, with increases achieved via horizontal gene transfer and reductions occurring through gene loss. The ecological and selective forces that drive this genomic flexibility vary across species. Bacillus subtilis is a naturally competent bacterium that occupies ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Brito PH,Chevreux B,Serra CR,Schyns G,Henriques AO,Pereira-Leal JB

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bartonella is a genetically diverse group of vector-borne bacteria. Over 40 species have been characterized to date, mainly from mammalian reservoirs and arthropod vectors. Rodent reservoirs harbor one of the largest Bartonella diversity described to date, and novel species and genetic variants are continuously identi...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Gutiérrez R,Markus B,Carstens Marques de Sousa K,Marcos-Hadad E,Mugasimangalam RC,Nachum-Biala Y,Hawlena H,Covo S,Harrus S

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent evolution, a process by which organisms evolved independently to have similar traits, provides opportunities to understand adaptation. The bacterial genus Mycoplasma contains multiple species that evolved independently to become ruminant pathogens, which represents an interesting study system for investigat...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Lo WS,Gasparich GE,Kuo CH

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short endogenous RNA molecules that regulate gene expression at the posttranscriptional level and have been shown to play critical roles during animal development. The identification and comparison of miRNAs in metazoan species are therefore paramount for our understanding of the evolution of bo...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Marco A,Hui JH,Ronshaugen M,Griffiths-Jones S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas disease was described by Carlos Chagas, who first identified the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi from a 2-year-old girl called Berenice. Many T. cruzi sequencing projects based on short reads have demonstrated that genome assembly and downstream comparative analyses are extremely challenging in this species, given t...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Díaz-Viraqué F,Pita S,Greif G,de Souza RCM,Iraola G,Robello C

更新日期：2019-07-01 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

abstract：:Gene duplication may be an important mechanism for the evolution of new functions and for the adaptive modulation of gene expression via dosage effects. Here, we analyzed the fate of gene duplicates for two strains of a novel group of cyanobacteria (genus Acaryochloris) that produces the far-red light absorbing chloro...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Miller SR,Wood AM,Blankenship RE,Kim M,Ferriera S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Heidelberg (S. Heidelberg) is one of the top serovars causing human salmonellosis. Recently, an antibiotic-resistant strain of this serovar was implicated in a large 2011 multistate outbreak resulting from consumption of contaminated ground turkey that involved 136 confirmed...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Hoffmann M,Zhao S,Pettengill J,Luo Y,Monday SR,Abbott J,Ayers SL,Cinar HN,Muruvanda T,Li C,Allard MW,Whichard J,Meng J,Brown EW,McDermott PF

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated long-term substitution rate differences using three calibration points, divergences between lobe-finned vertebrates and ray-finned fish, between mammals and sauropsids, and between holosteans (gar and bowfin) and teleost fish with amino acid sequence data of 625 genes for 25 bony vertebrates. T...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Takezaki N

更新日期：2018-07-01 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：:Evolutionary retention of duplicated genes encoding transcription-associated proteins (TAPs, comprising transcription factors and other transcriptional regulators) has been hypothesized to be positively correlated with increasing morphological complexity and paleopolyploidizations, especially within the plant kingdom....

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Lang D,Weiche B,Timmerhaus G,Richardt S,Riaño-Pachón DM,Corrêa LG,Reski R,Mueller-Roeber B,Rensing SA

更新日期：2010-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Explaining the evolution of animals requires ecological, developmental, paleontological, and phylogenetic considerations because organismal traits are affected by complex evolutionary processes. Modeling a plurality of processes, operating at distinct time-scales on potentially interdependent traits, can benefit from ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Lord E,Pathmanathan JS,Corel E,Makarenkov V,Lopez P,Bouchard F,Bhattacharya D,Antoine PO,Le Guyader H,Lapointe FJ,Bapteste E

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All living organisms require protein degradation to terminate biological processes and remove damaged proteins. One such machine is the 20S proteasome, a specialized barrel-shaped and compartmentalized multicatalytic protease. The activity of the 20S proteasome generally requires the binding of regulators/proteasome a...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Fort P,Kajava AV,Delsuc F,Coux O

更新日期：2015-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization of new habitats often reduces population sizes and may result in the accumulation of deleterious mutations by genetic drift. Compared with the genomic basis for adaptation to new environments, genome-wide analysis of deleterious mutations in isolated populations remains limited. In the present study, we i...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Yoshida K,Ravinet M,Makino T,Toyoda A,Kokita T,Mori S,Kitano J

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:Males and females of Artemia franciscana, a crustacean commonly used in the aquarium trade, are highly dimorphic. Sex is determined by a pair of ZW chromosomes, but the nature and extent of differentiation of these chromosomes is unknown. Here, we characterize the Z chromosome by detecting genomic regions that show lo...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Huylmans AK,Toups MA,Macon A,Gammerdinger WJ,Vicoso B

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short interspersed elements (SINEs) are non-autonomous retrotransposons. Although they usually show fast evolutionary rates, in some instances highly conserved domains (HCDs) have been observed in elements with otherwise divergent sequences and from distantly related species. Here, we document the life history of two ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Luchetti A,Plazzi F,Mantovani B

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population bottlenecks leading to a drastic reduction of the population size are common in the evolutionary dynamics of natural populations; their occurrence is known to have implications for genome evolution due to genetic drift, the consequent reduction in genetic diversity, and the rate of adaptation. Nevertheless,...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Wein T,Dagan T

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemerythrins and hemocyanins are respiratory proteins present in some of the most ecologically diverse animal lineages; however, the precise evolutionary history of their enzymatic domains (hemerythrin, hemocyanin M, and tyrosinase) is still not well understood. We survey a wide dataset of prokaryote and eukaryote gen...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Martín-Durán JM,de Mendoza A,Sebé-Pedrós A,Ruiz-Trillo I,Hejnol A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dosage compensation--equalizing gene expression levels in response to differences in gene dose or copy number--is classically considered to play a critical role in the evolution of heteromorphic sex chromosomes. As the X and Y diverge through degradation and gene loss on the Y (or the W in female-heterogametic ZW taxa...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Walters JR,Hardcastle TJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Aphids are a diverse group of taxa that contain agronomically important species, which vary in their host range and ability to infest crop plants. The genome evolution underlying agriculturally important aphid traits is not well understood. We generated draft genome assemblies for two aphid species: Myzus cerasi (blac...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Thorpe P,Escudero-Martinez CM,Cock PJA,Eves-van den Akker S,Bos JIB

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:Sex chromosomes contribute substantially to key evolutionary processes such as speciation and adaptation. Several theories suggest that evolution could occur more rapidly on sex chromosomes, but currently our understanding of whether and how this occurs is limited. Here, we present an analysis of the great tit (Parus ...

journal_title：Genome biology and evolution

authors： Hayes K,Barton HJ,Zeng K

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：: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