A single mutation in the ACTR8 gene associated with lineage-specific expression in primates.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Species complexes or aggregates consist of a set of closely related species often of different ploidy levels, whose relationships are difficult to reconstruct. The N Hemisphere Achillea millefolium aggregate exhibits complex morphological and genetic variation and a broad ecological amplitude. To understand ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Guo YP,Wang SZ,Vogl C,Ehrendorfer F

更新日期：2012-01-03 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:Phenotypic and molecular genetic data often provide conflicting patterns of intraspecific relationships confounding phylogenetic inference, particularly among birds where a variety of environmental factors may influence plumage characters. Among diurnal raptors, the taxonomic relationship of Buteo jamaicensi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hull JM,Mindell DP,Talbot SL,Kay EH,Hoekstra HE,Ernest HB

更新日期：2010-07-22 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:Within Chordata, the subphyla Vertebrata and Cephalochordata (lancelets) are characterized by a remarkable stability of the mitochondrial (mt) genome, with constancy of gene content and almost invariant gene order, whereas the limited mitochondrial data on the subphylum Tunicata suggest frequent and extensiv...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Iannelli F,Griggio F,Pesole G,Gissi C

更新日期：2007-08-31 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:The mycobacterial genome is inclined to polymerase slippage and a high mutation rate in microsatellite regions due to high GC content and absence of a mismatch repair system. However, the exact molecular mechanisms underlying microsatellite variation have not been fully elucidated. Here, we investigated muta...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Qin L,Wang J,Zheng R,Lu J,Yang H,Liu Z,Cui Z,Jin R,Feng Y,Hu Z

更新日期：2011-08-31 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: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:The Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) is a small unisexual fish that has been suspected of being threatened by extinction from the stochastic accumulation of slightly deleterious mutations that is caused by Muller's ratchet in non-recombining populations. However, no detailed quantification of the extent of th...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Loewe L,Lamatsch DK

更新日期：2008-03-19 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

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:Despite considerable effort, progress in spider molecular systematics has lagged behind many other comparable arthropod groups, thereby hindering family-level resolution, classification, and testing of important macroevolutionary hypotheses. Recently, alternative targeted sequence capture techniques have pro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hamilton CA,Lemmon AR,Lemmon EM,Bond JE

更新日期：2016-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Publication of the first diatom genome, that of Thalassiosira pseudonana, established it as a model species for experimental and genomic studies of diatoms. Virtually every ensuing study has treated T. pseudonana as a marine diatom, with genomic and experimental data valued for their insights into the ecolog...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Alverson AJ,Beszteri B,Julius ML,Theriot EC

更新日期：2011-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Morphological diversity among closely related animals can be the result of differing growth patterns. The Australian radiation of agamid lizards (Amphibolurinae) exhibits great ecological and morphological diversity, which they have achieved on a continent-wide scale, in a relatively short period of time (30...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Gray JA,Sherratt E,Hutchinson MN,Jones MEH

更新日期：2019-01-08 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:Whole-genome duplication (WGD) events have shaped the genomes of eukaryotic organisms. Relaxed selection after duplication along with inherent functional constraints are thought to determine the fate of the paralogs and, ultimately, the evolution of gene function. Here, we investigated the rate of protein ev...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Ascencio D,Ochoa S,Delaye L,DeLuna A

更新日期：2017-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As global change and anthropogenic pressures continue to increase, conservation and management increasingly needs to consider species' potential to adapt to novel environmental conditions. Therefore, it is imperative to characterise the main selective forces acting on ecosystems, and how these may influence ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nielsen ES,Henriques R,Beger M,Toonen RJ,von der Heyden S

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate delimitation of plant pathogenic fungi is critical for the establishment of quarantine regulations, screening for genetic resistance to plant pathogens, and the study of ecosystem function. Concatenation analysis of multi-locus DNA sequence data represents a powerful and commonly used approach to re...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Liu F,Wang M,Damm U,Crous PW,Cai L

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Any DNA sequence is a result of compromise between the selection and mutation pressures exerted on it during evolution. It is difficult to estimate the relative influence of each of these pressures on the rate of accumulation of substitutions. However, it is important to discriminate between the effect of mu...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kowalczuk M,Mackiewicz P,Mackiewicz D,Nowicka A,Dudkiewicz M,Dudek MR,Cebrat S

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proteomes of thermophilic prokaryotes have been instrumental in structural biology and successfully exploited in biotechnology, however many proteins required for eukaryotic cell function are absent from bacteria or archaea. With Chaetomium thermophilum, Thielavia terrestris and Thielavia heterothallica thre...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： van Noort V,Bradatsch B,Arumugam M,Amlacher S,Bange G,Creevey C,Falk S,Mende DR,Sinning I,Hurt E,Bork P

更新日期：2013-01-10 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:Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has greatly impacted the genealogical history of many lineages, particularly for prokaryotes, with genes frequently moving in and out of a line of descent. Many genes that were acquired by a lineage in the past likely originated from ancestral relatives that have since gone ext...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Andam CP,Harlow TJ,Papke RT,Gogarten JP

更新日期：2012-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CYCLOIDEA (CYC)-like genes have been implicated in the development of capitulum inflorescences (i.e. flowering heads) in Asteraceae, where many small flowers (florets) are packed tightly into an inflorescence that resembles a single flower. Several rounds of duplication of CYC-like genes have occurred in Ast...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Carlson SE,Howarth DG,Donoghue MJ

更新日期：2011-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sex differences in lifespan are ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom but the causes underlying this phenomenon remain poorly understood. Several explanations based on asymmetrical inheritance patterns (sex chromosomes or mitochondrial DNA) have been proposed, but these ideas have rarely been tested exper...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bilde T,Maklakov AA,Meisner K,la Guardia L,Friberg U

更新日期：2009-02-06 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 multiplicity or loss of the vitellogenin (vtg) gene family in vertebrates has been argued to have broad implications for the mode of reproduction (placental or non-placental), cleavage pattern (meroblastic or holoblastic) and character of the egg (pelagic or benthic). Earlier proposals for the existence ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Finn RN,Kolarevic J,Kongshaug H,Nilsen F

更新日期：2009-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oceans are high gene flow environments that are traditionally believed to hamper the build-up of genetic divergence. Despite this, divergence appears to occur occasionally at surprisingly small scales. The Galápagos archipelago provides an ideal opportunity to examine the evolutionary processes of local dive...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wolf JB,Harrod C,Brunner S,Salazar S,Trillmich F,Tautz D

更新日期：2008-05-16 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:The entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema carpocapsae has been used worldwide as a biocontrol agent for insect pests, making it an interesting model for understanding parasite-host interactions. Two models propose that these interactions are co-evolutionary processes in such a way that equilibrium is never r...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Flores-Ponce M,Vallebueno-Estrada M,González-Orozco E,Ramos-Aboites HE,García-Chávez JN,Simões N,Montiel R

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00