Evolutionary biology and biodiversity research at BGRS-2018.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Considered a biodiversity hotspot, the Canary Islands have been the key subjects of numerous evolutionary studies concerning a large variety of organisms. The genus Cheirolophus (Asteraceae) represents one of the largest plant radiations in the Canarian archipelago. In contrast, only a few species occur in t...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Vitales D,Garnatje T,Pellicer J,Vallès J,Santos-Guerra A,Sanmartín I

更新日期：2014-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The functional repertoire of the human proteome is an incremental collection of functions accomplished by protein domains evolved along the Homo sapiens lineage. Therefore, knowledge on the origin of these functionalities provides a better understanding of the domain and protein evolution in human. The lack ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pal LR,Guda C

更新日期：2006-11-07 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:The family Polypteridae, commonly known as "bichirs", is a lineage that diverged early in the evolutionary history of Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish), but has been the subject of far less evolutionary study than other members of that clade. Uncovering patterns of morphological change within Polypteridae pro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Suzuki D,Brandley MC,Tokita M

更新日期：2010-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coevolution is a selective process of reciprocal adaptation in hosts and parasites or in mutualistic symbionts. Classic population genetics theory predicts the signatures of selection at the interacting loci of both species, but not the neutral genome-wide polymorphism patterns. To bridge this gap, we build ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Živković D,John S,Verin M,Stephan W,Tellier A

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The flat periwinkles, Littorina fabalis and L. obtusata, are two sister species widely distributed throughout the Northern Atlantic shores with high potential to inform us about the process of ecological speciation in the intertidal. However, whether gene flow has occurred during their divergence is still a ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Sotelo G,Duvetorp M,Costa D,Panova M,Johannesson K,Faria R

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Related species, such as humans and chimpanzees, often experience the same disease with varying degrees of pathology, as seen in the cases of Alzheimer's disease, or differing symptomatology as in AIDS. Furthermore, certain diseases such as schizophrenia, epithelial cancers and autoimmune disorders are far m...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Vamathevan JJ,Hasan S,Emes RD,Amrine-Madsen H,Rajagopalan D,Topp SD,Kumar V,Word M,Simmons MD,Foord SM,Sanseau P,Yang Z,Holbrook JD

更新日期：2008-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amongst the most commonly used molecular markers for plant phylogenetic studies are the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacers (ITS). Intra-individual variability of these multicopy regions is a very common phenomenon in plants, the causes of which are debated in literature. Phylogenetic reconstructi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Göker M,Grimm GW

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A prerequisite for a duplication to spread through and persist in a given population is retaining expression of both gene copies. Yet changing a gene's dosage is frequently detrimental to fitness. Consequently, dosage-sensitive genes are less likely to duplicate. However, in cases where the level of gene pro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Warnecke T,Wang GZ,Lercher MJ,Hurst LD

更新日期：2009-08-07 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:The completion of 19 insect genome sequencing projects spanning six insect orders provides the opportunity to investigate the evolution of important gene families, here tubulins. Tubulins are a family of eukaryotic structural genes that form microtubules, fundamental components of the cytoskeleton that media...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nielsen MG,Gadagkar SR,Gutzwiller L

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asparagine N-Glycosylation is one of the most important forms of protein post-translational modification in eukaryotes. This metabolic pathway can be subdivided into two parts: an upstream sub-pathway required for achieving proper folding for most of the proteins synthesized in the secretory pathway, and a d...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Dall'Olio GM,Laayouni H,Luisi P,Sikora M,Montanucci L,Bertranpetit J

更新日期：2012-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the history of population genetics balancing selection has been considered as an important evolutionary force, yet until today little is known about its abundance and its effect on patterns of genetic diversity. Several well-known examples of balancing selection have been reported from humans, mice, plant...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Croze M,Wollstein A,Božičević V,Živković D,Stephan W,Hutter S

更新日期：2017-01-13 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:How vascular systems and their respiratory pigments evolved is still debated. While many animals present a vascular system, hemoglobin exists as a blood pigment only in a few groups (vertebrates, annelids, a few arthropod and mollusk species). Hemoglobins are formed of globin sub-units, belonging to multigen...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Song S,Starunov V,Bailly X,Ruta C,Kerner P,Cornelissen AJM,Balavoine G

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:PHOSPHATE1 (PHO1) gene family members have diverse roles in plant growth and development, and they have been studied in Arabidopsis, rice, and Physcomitrella. However, it has yet to be described in other plants. Therefore, we surveyed the evolutionary patterns of genomes within the plant PHO1 gene family, fo...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： He L,Zhao M,Wang Y,Gai J,He C

更新日期：2013-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A central question for understanding the evolutionary responses of plant species to rapidly changing environments is the assessment of their potential for short-term (in one or a few generations) genetic change. In our study, we consider the case of Pinus pinaster Aiton (maritime pine), a widespread Mediterr...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Alía R,Chambel R,Notivol E,Climent J,González-Martínez SC

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular studies have revealed that many putative 'species' are actually complexes of multiple morphologically conservative, but genetically divergent 'cryptic species'. In extreme cases processes such as non-adaptive diversification (speciation without divergent selection) could mask the existence of ancie...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Oliver PM,Adams M,Doughty P

更新日期：2010-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The secretin family is a pleotropic group of brain-gut peptides with affinity for class 2 G-protein coupled receptors (secretin family GPCRs) proposed to have emerged early in the metazoan radiation via gene or genome duplications. In human, 10 members exist and sequence and functional homologues and ligand-...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Cardoso JC,Vieira FA,Gomes AS,Power DM

更新日期：2010-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The eusocial Hymenoptera have radiated across a wide range of thermal environments, exposing them to significant physiological stressors. We reconstructed the evolutionary history of three families of Heat Shock Proteins (Hsp90, Hsp70, Hsp40), the primary molecular chaperones protecting against thermal damag...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nguyen AD,Gotelli NJ,Cahan SH

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stripes and other high contrast patterns found on animals have been hypothesised to cause "motion dazzle", a type of defensive coloration that operates when in motion, causing predators to misjudge the speed and direction of object movement. Several recent studies have found some support for this idea, but l...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hughes AE,Troscianko J,Stevens M

更新日期：2014-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The currently recognized species richness of South American salamanders is surprisingly low compared to North and Central America. In part, this low richness may be due to the salamanders being a recent arrival to South America. Additionally, the number of South American salamander species may be underestima...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Elmer KR,Bonett RM,Wake DB,Lougheed SC

更新日期：2013-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increasing number of assembled mammalian genomes makes it possible to compare genome organisation across mammalian lineages and reconstruct chromosomes of the ancestral marsupial and therian (marsupial and eutherian) mammals. However, the reconstruction of ancestral genomes requires genome assemblies to ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Deakin JE,Delbridge ML,Koina E,Harley N,Alsop AE,Wang C,Patel VS,Graves JA

更新日期：2013-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the common assumption that multiple mating should in general be favored in males, but not in females, to date there is no consensus on the general impact of multiple mating on female fitness. Notably, very little is known about the genetic and physiological features underlying the female response to ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Innocenti P,Flis I,Morrow EH

更新日期：2014-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insecticide resistance is now common in insects due to the frequent use of chemicals to control them, which provides a useful tool to study the adaptation of eukaryotic genome to new environments. Although numerous potential mutations may provide high level of resistance, only few alleles are found in insect...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Shi MA,Lougarre A,Alies C,Frémaux I,Tang ZH,Stojan J,Fournier D

更新日期：2004-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The recent expansion of whole-genome sequence data available from diverse animal lineages provides an opportunity to investigate the evolutionary origins of specific classes of human disease genes. Previous studies have observed that human disease genes are of particularly ancient origin. While this suggests...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Maxwell EK,Schnitzler CE,Havlak P,Putnam NH,Nguyen AD,Moreland RT,Baxevanis AD

更新日期：2014-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome degradation of host-restricted mutualistic endosymbionts has been attributed to inactivating mutations and genetic drift while genes coding for host-relevant functions are conserved by purifying selection. Unlike their free-living relatives, the metabolism of mutualistic endosymbionts and endosymbiont...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Valadez-Cano C,Olivares-Hernández R,Resendis-Antonio O,DeLuna A,Delaye L

更新日期：2017-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evolution of cooperative behaviour is widely studied in different models where interaction is heterogeneous, although static among individuals. However, in nature individuals can often recognize each other and chose, besides to cooperate or not, to preferentially associate with or to avoid certain individual...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kun A,Boza G,Scheuring I

更新日期：2010-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myzostomids are marine annelids, nearly all of which live symbiotically on or inside echinoderms, chiefly crinoids, and to a lesser extent asteroids and ophiuroids. These symbionts possess a variety of adult body plans and lifestyles. Most described species live freely on the exterior of their hosts as adult...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Summers MM,Rouse GW

更新日期：2014-08-28 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