Evolutionary history of the human multigene families reveals widespread gene duplications throughout the history of animals.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adenosine deaminase enzymes of the ADAR family are conserved in metazoans. They convert adenine into inosine in dsRNAs and thus alter both structural properties and the coding potential of their substrates. Acting on exogenous dsRNAs, ADAR1 exerts a pro- or anti-viral role in vertebrates and Drosophila. RES...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Rosani U,Bai CM,Maso L,Shapiro M,Abbadi M,Domeneghetti S,Wang CM,Cendron L,MacCarthy T,Venier P

更新日期：2019-07-23 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:Analyzing regulation of bacteriophage gene expression historically lead to establishing major paradigms of molecular biology, and may provide important medical applications in the future. Temporal regulation of bacteriophage transcription is commonly analyzed through a labor-intensive combination of biochemi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Guzina J,Djordjevic M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genus Pyrus belongs to the tribe Pyreae (the former subfamily Maloideae) of the family Rosaceae, and includes one of the most important commercial fruit crops, pear. The phylogeny of Pyrus has not been definitively reconstructed. In our previous efforts, the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) revea...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Zheng X,Hu C,Spooner D,Liu J,Cao J,Teng Y

更新日期：2011-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) is a key evolutionary feature that has been studied in many organisms. In a wide range of species, this pattern is more complex because of polymorphism within each sex. However, it is not known whether the magnitude and direction of SSD could be affected by alternative developmen...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Denoël M,Ivanović A,Dzukić G,Kalezić ML

更新日期：2009-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL; E.C.4.3.1.5) is a key enzyme of the phenylpropanoid pathway in plant development, and it catalyses the deamination of phenylalanine to trans-cinnamic acid, leading to the production of secondary metabolites. This enzyme has been identified in many organisms, ranging from pro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wu Z,Gui S,Wang S,Ding Y

更新日期：2014-05-09 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:Transposable elements (TEs) constitute a substantial amount of all eukaryotic genomes. They induce an important proportion of deleterious mutations by insertion into genes or gene regulatory regions. However, their mutational capabilities are not always adverse but can contribute to the genetic diversity and...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： García Guerreiro MP,Chávez-Sandoval BE,Balanyà J,Serra L,Fontdevila A

更新日期：2008-08-14 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: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 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:Orange jasmine has a complex nomenclatural history and is now known as Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack. Our interest in this common ornamental stemmed from the need to resolve its identity and the identities of closely related taxa as hosts of the pathogen 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' and its vector Diap...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nguyen CH,Beattie GAC,Haigh AM,Astuti IP,Mabberley DJ,Weston PH,Holford P

更新日期：2019-12-30 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:A protein-protein interaction network (PIN) was suggested to be a disassortative network, in which interactions between high- and low-degree nodes are favored while hub-hub interactions are suppressed. It was postulated that a disassortative structure minimizes unfavorable cross-talks between different hub-c...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hase T,Niimura Y,Tanaka H

更新日期：2010-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is wide agreement that only a subset of the twenty standard amino acids existed prebiotically in sufficient concentrations to form functional polypeptides. We ask how this subset, postulated as {A,D,E,G,I,L,P,S,T,V}, could have formed structures stable enough to found metabolic pathways. Inspired by al...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Solis AD

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natural selection and genetic drift are major forces responsible for temporal genetic changes in populations. Furthermore, these evolutionary forces may interact with each other. Here we study the impact of an ongoing adaptive process at the molecular genetic level by analyzing the temporal genetic changes t...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Simões P,Pascual M,Santos J,Rose MR,Matos M

更新日期：2008-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many groups of land snails show great interspecific diversity in shell ornamentation, which may include spines on the shell and flanges on the aperture. Such structures have been explained as camouflage or defence, but the possibility that they might be under sexual selection has not previously been explored...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Schilthuizen M

更新日期：2003-06-05 00:00:00

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:Refugial populations in Quaternary glaciations are critical to understanding the evolutionary history and climatic interactions of many extant species. Compared with the well-studied areas of Europe and Northern America, refugia of species in eastern Asia remain largely unknown. Here, we investigated the phy...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Song W,Cao LJ,Li BY,Gong YJ,Hoffmann AA,Wei SJ

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Xenarthra (sloths, armadillos and anteaters) represent one of four currently recognized Eutherian mammal supraorders. Some phylogenomic studies point to the possibility of Xenarthra being at the base of the Eutherian tree, together or not with the supraorder Afrotheria. We performed painting with human autos...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Azevedo NF,Svartman M,Manchester A,de Moraes-Barros N,Stanyon R,Vianna-Morgante AM

更新日期：2012-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Survival in microrefugia represents an important paradigm in phylogeography for explaining rapid postglacial re-colonization by species in temperate regions. Microrefugia may allow populations to persist in areas where the climatic conditions on the surface have become unfavourable. Caves generally contain s...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bryson RW Jr,Prendini L,Savary WE,Pearman PB

更新日期：2014-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the gene encoding for glutamine synthetase (glnA) is essential in several organisms, multiple glnA copies have been identified in bacterial genomes such as those of the phylum Actinobacteria, notably the mycobacterial species. Intriguingly, previous reports have shown that only one copy (glnA1) is e...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hayward D,van Helden PD,Wiid IJ

更新日期：2009-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The discovery of restriction endonucleases and modification DNA methyltransferases, key instruments of genetic engineering, opened a new era of molecular biology through development of the recombinant DNA technology. Today, the number of potential proteins assigned to type II restriction enzymes alone is bey...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Mokrishcheva ML,Solonin AS,Nikitin DV

更新日期：2011-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tracking newly emergent virulent populations in agroecosystems provides an opportunity to increase our understanding of the co-evolution dynamics of pathogens and their hosts. On the one hand host plants exert selective pressure on pathogen populations, thus dividing them into subpopulations of different vir...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Michalecka M,Masny S,Leroy T,Puławska J

更新日期：2018-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sex chromosomes exhibit many unusual patterns in sequence and gene expression relative to autosomes. Birds have evolved a female heterogametic sex system (male ZZ, female ZW), through stepwise suppression of recombination between chrZ and chrW. To address the broad patterns and complex driving forces of Z ch...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wang Z,Zhang J,Yang W,An N,Zhang P,Zhang G,Zhou Q

更新日期：2014-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) is an important pathogen that infects a variety of decapod species and causes a highly contagious disease in penaeid shrimps. Mass mortalities caused by WSSV have pronounced commercial impact on shrimp aquaculture. Until now WSSV is the only known member of the virus fami...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Rozenberg A,Brand P,Rivera N,Leese F,Schubart CD

更新日期：2015-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Moths have evolved highly successful mating systems, relying on species-specific mixtures of sex pheromone components for long-distance mate communication. Acyl-CoA desaturases are key enzymes in the biosynthesis of these compounds and to a large extent they account for the great diversity of pheromone struc...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Liénard MA,Strandh M,Hedenström E,Johansson T,Löfstedt C

更新日期：2008-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:South China encompasses complex and diverse landforms, giving rise to high biological diversity and endemism from the Hengduan Mountains to Taiwan Island. Many species are widely distributed across South China with similar disjunct distribution patterns. To explore the causes of these disjunct distribution p...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Lv X,Cheng J,Meng Y,Chang Y,Xia L,Wen Z,Ge D,Liu S,Yang Q

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many species of social insects have large-scale mating and dispersal flights and their populations are therefore often relatively homogenous. In contrast, dispersal on the wing appears to be uncommon in most species of the ant genus Cardiocondyla, because its males are wingless and the winged queens mate in ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Jacobs S,Heinze J

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drosophila melanogaster often shows correlations between latitude and phenotypic or genetic variation on different continents, which suggests local adaptation with respect to a heterogeneous environment. Previous phenotypic analyses of latitudinal clines have investigated mainly physiological, morphological,...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Svetec N,Zhao L,Saelao P,Chiu JC,Begun DJ

更新日期：2015-03-13 00:00:00