Anamorphic development and extended parental care in a 520 million-year-old stem-group euarthropod from China.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Divergent selection can be a major driver of ecological speciation. In insects of medical importance, understanding the speciation process is both of academic interest and public health importance. In the West Nile virus vector Culex pipiens, intraspecific pipiens and molestus forms vary in ecological and ph...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Gomes B,Wilding CS,Weetman D,Sousa CA,Novo MT,Savage HM,Almeida AP,Pinto J,Donnelly MJ

更新日期：2015-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The L-lactate and D-lactate dehydrogenases, which are involved in the reduction of pyruvate to L(-)-lactate and D(+)-lactate, belong to evolutionarily unrelated enzyme families. The genes encoding L-LDH have been used as a model for gene duplication due to the multiple paralogs found in eubacteria, archaebac...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Cristescu ME,Innes DJ,Stillman JH,Crease TJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Carpathians and the Alps are the largest mountain ranges of the European Alpine System and important centres of endemism. Among the distinctive endemic species of this area is Saxifraga wahlenbergii, a Western Carpathians member of the speciose genus Saxifraga. It was frequently considered a taxonomicall...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tkach N,Röser M,Suchan T,Cieślak E,Schönswetter P,Ronikier M

更新日期：2019-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent publications concerning the interordinal phylogeny of placental mammals have converged on a common signal, consisting of four major radiations with some ambiguity regarding the placental root. The DNA data with which these relationships have been reconstructed are easily accessible from public databas...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Asher RJ

更新日期：2007-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the hallmarks of multicellular organisms is the ability of their cells to trigger responses to the environment in a coordinated manner. In recent years primary cilia have been shown to be present as 'antennae' on almost all animal cells, and are involved in cell-to-cell signaling in development and ti...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Ludeman DA,Farrar N,Riesgo A,Paps J,Leys SP

更新日期：2014-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The spread of agriculture greatly modified the selective pressures exerted by plants on phytophagous insects, by providing these insects with a high-level resource, structured in time and space. The life history, behavioural and physiological traits of some insect species may have evolved in response to thes...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lombaert E,Boll R,Lapchin L

更新日期：2006-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chordate evolution is a history of innovations that is marked by physical and behavioral specializations, which led to the development of a variety of forms from a single ancestral group. Among other important characteristics, vertebrates obtained a well developed brain, anterior sensory structures, a closed...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kurtenbach S,Mayer C,Pelz T,Hatt H,Leese F,Neuhaus EM

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evolution of reproductive isolation between herbivorous insect populations is often initiated by shifts to novel host-plants, a process that underlies some of the best examples of ecological speciation. However, it is not well understood why host-shifts occur. Arguably the most common hypothesis is that ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Augustyn WJ,Anderson B,van der Merwe JF,Ellis AG

更新日期：2017-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hoplolaimina plant-parasitic nematodes (PPN) are a lineage of animals with many documented cases of horizontal gene transfer (HGT). In a recent study, we reported on three likely HGT candidate genes in the soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines, all of which encode secreted candidate effectors with putati...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Noon JB,Baum TJ

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Correct species identification is crucial in different fields of biology, and in conservation. The endemic West African frog family Odontobatrachidae currently contains a single described species, Odontobatrachus natator. From western Guinea to western Côte d'Ivoire it inhabits forests around waterfalls or c...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Barej MF,Penner J,Schmitz A,Rödel MO

更新日期：2015-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies highlighted the role of Pleistocene climatic cycles in polyploid speciation and of southern Alpine refugia as reservoirs of diversity during glacial maxima. The polyploid Primula marginata, endemic to the southwestern Alps, includes both hexaploid and dodecaploid cytotypes that show no ecologi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Casazza G,Granato L,Minuto L,Conti E

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The spatial distribution of genetic diversity and structure has important implications for conservation as it reveals a species' strong and weak points with regard to stability and evolutionary capacity. Temporal genetic stability is rarely tested in marine species other than commercially important fishes, b...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Jueterbock A,Coyer JA,Olsen JL,Hoarau G

更新日期：2018-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the processes underlying diversification is a central question in evolutionary biology. For butterflies, access to new host plants provides opportunities for adaptive speciation. On the one hand, locally abundant host species can generate ecologically significant selection pressure. But a diver...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： McClure M,Elias M

更新日期：2016-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The maternal zygotic transition marks the time at which transcription from the zygotic genome is initiated and a subset of maternal RNAs are progressively degraded in the developing embryo. A number of early zygotic genes have been identified in Drosophila melanogaster and comparisons to sequenced mosquito g...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Biedler JK,Tu Z

更新日期：2010-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The origin and stability of cooperation is a hot topic in social and behavioural sciences. A complicated conundrum exists as defectors have an advantage over cooperators, whenever cooperation is costly so consequently, not cooperating pays off. In addition, the discovery that humans and some animal populatio...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Boza G,Számadó S

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adaptive radiations are triggered by ecological opportunity - the access to novel niche domains with abundant available resources that facilitate the formation of new ecologically divergent species. Therefore, as new species saturate niche space, clades experience a diversity-dependent slowdown of diversific...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lambert JW,Reichard M,Pincheira-Donoso D

更新日期：2019-01-09 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:The last time the phylogenetic relationships among members of the family Hemerobiidae were studied quantitatively was over 12 years ago and based exclusively on morphology. Our study builds upon this morphological evidence by adding sequence data from three gene loci to provide a total evidence phylogeny of ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Garzón-Orduña IJ,Menchaca-Armenta I,Contreras-Ramos A,Liu X,Winterton SL

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sperm storage plays a key role in the reproductive success of many sexually-reproducing organisms, and the capacity of long-term sperm storage varies across species. While there are theoretical explanations for why such variation exists, to date there are no controlled empirical tests of the reproductive con...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Dhillon A,Chowdhury T,Morbey YE,Moehring AJ

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial populations are highly successful at colonizing new habitats and adapting to changing environmental conditions, partly due to their capacity to evolve novel virulence and metabolic pathways in response to stress conditions and to shuffle them by horizontal gene transfer (HGT). A common theme in the...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Fernandez FJ,Garces F,López-Estepa M,Aguilar J,Baldomà L,Coll M,Badia J,Vega MC

更新日期：2011-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The availability of multiple complete genome sequences from diverse taxa prompts the development of new phylogenetic approaches, which attempt to incorporate information derived from comparative analysis of complete gene sets or large subsets thereof. Such attempts are particularly relevant because of the ma...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wolf YI,Rogozin IB,Grishin NV,Tatusov RL,Koonin EV

更新日期：2001-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant genomes contain a high proportion of duplicated genes as a result of numerous whole, segmental and local duplications. These duplications lead up to the formation of gene families, which are the usual material for many evolutionary studies. However, all characterized genomes include single-copy (unique...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Armisén D,Lecharny A,Aubourg S

更新日期：2008-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Senescence is integral to the flowering plant life-cycle. Senescence-like processes occur also in non-angiosperm land plants, algae and photosynthetic prokaryotes. Increasing numbers of genes have been assigned functions in the regulation and execution of angiosperm senescence. At the same time there has bee...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Thomas H,Huang L,Young M,Ougham H

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fossil evidence suggests that extant North American lizard genera (north of Mexico) evolved during the Miocene. Although fossils of the clade Phrynosomatidae (spiny lizards and sand lizards) have been reported, there have been no previously described fossils of the fringe-toed sand lizards (Uma). In the exta...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Scarpetta SG

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sequencing of the genome of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum revealed an unusual expansion of the miRNA machinery, with two argonaute-1, two dicer-1 and four pasha gene copies. In this report, we have undertaken a deeper evolutionary analysis of the phylogenetic timing of these gene duplications and of ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Ortiz-Rivas B,Jaubert-Possamai S,Tanguy S,Gauthier JP,Tagu D,Claude R

更新日期：2012-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although selection favors exploitative competition within groups, a group of hypercompetitive individuals may be less productive than a cooperative group. When competition is costly for group fitness, among-group selection can favor groups with 'policing' individuals who reduce within-group competition at a ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Brandvain Y,Wade MJ

更新日期：2007-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationship between allopolyploidy and plant virus resistance is poorly understood. To determine the relationship of plant evolutionary history and basal virus resistance, a panel of Nicotiana species from diverse geographic regions and ploidy levels was assessed for resistance to non-coevolved viruses ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Gottula J,Lewis R,Saito S,Fuchs M

更新日期：2014-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nuclear progesterone receptor (nPR) is an evolutionary innovation in vertebrates that mediates genomic responses to progesterone. Vertebrates also respond to progesterone via membrane progesterone receptors (mPRs) or membrane associated progesterone receptors (MAPRs) through rapid nongenomic mechanisms. Lamp...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Ren J,Chung-Davidson YW,Jia L,Li W

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A key to understanding the origins of species is determining the evolutionary processes that drive the patterns of genomic divergence during speciation. New genomic technologies enable the study of high-resolution genomic patterns of divergence across natural speciation continua, where taxa pairs with differ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Supple MA,Papa R,Hines HM,McMillan WO,Counterman BA

更新日期：2015-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adaptive protein evolution is common in several Drosophila species investigated. Some studies point to very weak selection operating on amino-acid mutations, with average selection intensities on the order of Nes approximately in D. melanogaster and D. simulans. Species with lower effective population sizes ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bachtrog D

更新日期：2008-12-18 00:00:00