Correction to: Historical biogeography reveals new independent evolutionary lineages in the Pantosteus plebeius-nebuliferus speciesgroup (Actinopterygii: Catostomidae).

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: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:It is often proposed that females should select genetically dissimilar mates to maximize offspring genetic diversity and avoid inbreeding. Several recent studies have provided mixed evidence, however, and in some instances females seem to prefer genetically similar males. A preference for genetically similar...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bichet C,Penn DJ,Moodley Y,Dunoyer L,Cellier-Holzem E,Belvalette M,Grégoire A,Garnier S,Sorci G

更新日期：2014-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein sequence evolution is constrained by the biophysics of folding and function, causing interdependence between interacting sites in the sequence. However, current site-independent models of sequence evolutions do not take this into account. Recent attempts to integrate the influence of structure and bi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Grahnen JA,Nandakumar P,Kubelka J,Liberles DA

更新日期：2011-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The hypothesis that vertebrates have experienced two ancient, whole genome duplications (WGDs) is of central interest to evolutionary biology and has been implicated in evolution of developmental complexity. Three-way and Four-way paralogy regions in human and other vertebrate genomes are considered as vital...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pervaiz N,Shakeel N,Qasim A,Zehra R,Anwar S,Rana N,Xue Y,Zhang Z,Bao Y,Abbasi AA

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colour and shape polymorphisms are important features of many species and may allow individuals to exploit a wider array of habitats, including through behavioural differences among morphs. In addition, differences among individuals in behaviour and morphology may reflect different strategies, for example ut...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Duarte RC,Stevens M,Flores AA

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Divergence within cis-regulatory sequences may contribute to the adaptive evolution of gene expression, but functional alleles in these regions are difficult to identify without abundant genomic resources. Among African cichlid fishes, the differential expression of seven opsin genes has produced adaptive di...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： O'Quin KE,Smith D,Naseer Z,Schulte J,Engel SD,Loh YH,Streelman JT,Boore JL,Carleton KL

更新日期：2011-05-09 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 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:ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGPase), which catalyses a rate limiting step in starch synthesis, is a heterotetramer comprised of two identical large and two identical small subunits in plants. Although the large and small subunits are equally sensitive to activity-altering amino acid changes when expressed...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Georgelis N,Braun EL,Hannah LC

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genomic sequence analyses have shown that horizontal gene transfer occurred during the origin of eukaryotes as a consequence of symbiosis. However, details of the timing and number of symbiotic events are unclear. A timescale for the early evolution of eukaryotes would help to better understand the relations...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hedges SB,Chen H,Kumar S,Wang DY,Thompson AS,Watanabe H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phoronids undergo a remarkable metamorphosis, in which some parts of the larval body are consumed by the juvenile and the body plan completely changes. According to the only previous hypothesis concerning the evolution of the phoronid body plan, a hypothetical ancestor of phoronids inhabited a U-shaped burro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Temereva EN,Malakhov VV

更新日期：2015-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The majority of the subspecies of Daucus carota have not yet been discriminated clearly by various molecular or morphological methods and hence their phylogeny and classification remains unresolved. Recent studies using 94 nuclear orthologs and morphological characters, and studies employing other molecular ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Arbizu CI,Ellison SL,Senalik D,Simon PW,Spooner DM

更新日期：2016-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The blood-feeding behavior evolved multiple times in Insecta lineages and it represents an excellent opportunity to study patterns of convergent molecular evolution regarding this habit. In insects the expansion of some gene families is linked with blood-feeding behavior, but a wide study comparing the evolu...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Freitas L,Nery MF

更新日期：2020-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With more than 100000 living species, mollusks are the second most diverse metazoan phylum. The current taxonomic classification of mollusks recognizes eight classes (Neomeniomorpha, Chaetodermomorpha, Polyplacophora, Monoplacophora, Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Bivalvia, and Scaphopoda) that exhibit very distin...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Osca D,Irisarri I,Todt C,Grande C,Zardoya R

更新日期：2014-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Homeobox genes are the key regulators during development, and they are in general highly conserved with only a few reported cases of rapid evolution. RHOXF2 is an X-linked homeobox gene in primates. It is highly expressed in the testicle and may play an important role in spermatogenesis. As male reproductive...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Niu AL,Wang YQ,Zhang H,Liao CH,Wang JK,Zhang R,Che J,Su B

更新日期：2011-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Scalidophora (Kinorhyncha, Loricifera and Priapulida) have an important phylogenetic position as early branching ecdysozoans, yet the architecture of their nervous organ systems is notably underinvestigated. Without such information, and in the absence of a stable phylogenetic context, we are inhibited f...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Herranz M,Leander BS,Pardos F,Boyle MJ

更新日期：2019-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid reductases (OPRs) are enzymes that catalyze the reduction of double-bonds in alpha, beta-unsaturated aldehydes or ketones and are part of the octadecanoid pathway that converts linolenic acid to jasmonic acid. In plants, OPRs belong to the old yellow enzyme family and form multig...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Li W,Liu B,Yu L,Feng D,Wang H,Wang J

更新日期：2009-05-05 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: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:The genus Ilex (Aquifoliaceae) has a near-cosmopolitan distribution in mesic habitats from tropical to temperate lowlands and in alpine forests. It has a high rate of hybridization and plastid capture, and comprises four geographically structured plastid groups. A previous study showed that the plastid rbcL ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Yao X,Tan YH,Yang JB,Wang Y,Corlett RT,Manen JF

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The composition and expression of vertebrate gene families is shaped by species specific gene loss in combination with a number of gene and genome duplication events (R1, R2 in all vertebrates, R3 in teleosts) and depends on the ecological and evolutionary context. In this study we analyzed the evolutionary ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Gesemann M,Lesslauer A,Maurer CM,Schönthaler HB,Neuhauss SC

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antarctic notothenioids are an impressive adaptive radiation. While they share recent common ancestry with several species-depauperate lineages that exhibit a relictual distribution in areas peripheral to the Southern Ocean, an understanding of their evolutionary origins and biogeographic history is limited ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Near TJ,Dornburg A,Harrington RC,Oliveira C,Pietsch TW,Thacker CE,Satoh TP,Katayama E,Wainwright PC,Eastman JT,Beaulieu JM

更新日期：2015-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proteins of the mammalian PYHIN (IFI200/HIN-200) family are involved in defence against infection through recognition of foreign DNA. The family member absent in melanoma 2 (AIM2) binds cytosolic DNA via its HIN domain and initiates inflammasome formation via its pyrin domain. AIM2 lies within a cluster of r...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Cridland JA,Curley EZ,Wykes MN,Schroder K,Sweet MJ,Roberts TL,Ragan MA,Kassahn KS,Stacey KJ

更新日期：2012-08-07 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:Phylogeography and historical demography of the cyprinid fish Diptychus maculatus (subfamily Schizothoracinae) are evaluated across three river systems in the Northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and Tien Shan range: the Indus River, Tarim River and Ili River. RESULTS:Results from both mtDNA (16S rRNA, Cy...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Li G,Tang Y,Zhang R,Zhao K

更新日期：2016-09-09 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:The population genetic structure of a parasite, and consequently its ability to adapt to a given host, is strongly linked to its own life history as well as the life history of its host. While the effects of parasite life history on their population genetic structure have received some attention, the effect ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： van Schaik J,Kerth G,Bruyndonckx N,Christe P

更新日期：2014-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Teleost radiation in the oceans required specific physiological adaptations in eggs and early embryos to survive in the hyper-osmotic seawater. Investigating the evolution of aquaporins (AQPs) in these vertebrates should help to elucidate how mechanisms for water homeostasis evolved. The marine teleost gilth...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tingaud-Sequeira A,Chauvigné F,Fabra M,Lozano J,Raldúa D,Cerdà J

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Probabilistic methods have progressively supplanted the Maximum Parsimony (MP) method for inferring phylogenetic trees. One of the major reasons for this shift was that MP is much more sensitive to the Long Branch Attraction (LBA) artefact than is Maximum Likelihood (ML). However, recent work by Kolaczkowski...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Philippe H,Zhou Y,Brinkmann H,Rodrigue N,Delsuc F

更新日期：2005-10-06 00:00:00