Correction to: Potential causes and consequences of rapid mitochondrial genome evolution in thermoacidophilic Galdieria (Rhodophyta).

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maternally inherited endosymbionts like Wolbachia pipientis are in linkage disequilibrium with the mtDNA of their hosts. Therefore, they can induce selective sweeps, decreasing genetic diversity over many generations. This sex ratio distorter, that is involved in the origin of parthenogenesis and other repro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Rodriguero MS,Lanteri AA,Confalonieri VA

更新日期：2010-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evolutionary transitions from terrestrial to aquatic life history cause drastic changes in sensory systems. Indeed, the drastic changes in vision have been reported in many aquatic amniotes, convergently. Recently, the opsin genes of the full-aquatic sea snakes have been reported. However, those of the amphi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Seiko T,Kishida T,Toyama M,Hariyama T,Okitsu T,Wada A,Toda M,Satta Y,Terai Y

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The tribe Lamprologini is the major substrate breeding lineage of Lake Tanganyika's cichlid species flock. Among several different life history strategies found in lamprologines, the adaptation to live and breed in empty gastropod shells is probably the most peculiar. Although shell-breeding arose several ti...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Koblmüller S,Duftner N,Sefc KM,Aibara M,Stipacek M,Blanc M,Egger B,Sturmbauer C

更新日期：2007-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Volvocine algae provide a suitable model for investigation of the evolution of multicellular organisms. Within this group, evolution of the body plan from flattened to spheroidal colonies is thought to have occurred independently in two different lineages, Volvocaceae and Astrephomene. Volvocacean species un...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Yamashita S,Nozaki H

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:LNX (Ligand of Numb Protein-X) proteins typically contain an amino-terminal RING domain adjacent to either two or four PDZ domains - a domain architecture that is unique to the LNX family. LNX proteins function as E3 ubiquitin ligases and their domain organisation suggests that their ubiquitin ligase activit...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Flynn M,Saha O,Young P

更新日期：2011-08-09 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: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:DNA encoding for ribosomal RNA (rDNA) is arranged in tandemly-repeated subunits, each containing ribosomal genes and non-coding spacers. Because tandemly-repeated, rDNA evolves under a balanced influence of selection and "concerted evolution", which homogenizes rDNA variants over the genome (through genomic ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Ricci A,Scali V,Passamonti M

更新日期：2008-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mitochondria of contemporary organisms contain fewer genes than the ancestral bacteria are predicted to have contained. Because most of the mitochondrial proteins are encoded in the nucleus, the genes would have been transferred from the mitochondrion to the nucleus at some stage of evolution and they mu...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kubo N,Fujimoto M,Arimura S,Hirai M,Tsutsumi N

更新日期：2008-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Bacillus subtilis-group and the Bacillus cereus-group are two well-studied groups of species in the genus Bacillus. Bacteria in this genus can produce a highly resistant cell type, the spore, which is encased in a complex protective protein shell called the coat. Spores in the B. cereus-group contain an ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Qin H,Driks A

更新日期：2013-11-27 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:G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute a large family of integral transmembrane receptor proteins that play a central role in signal transduction in eukaryotes. The genome of the protochordate Ciona intestinalis has a compact size with an ancestral complement of many diversified gene families of vert...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Kamesh N,Aradhyam GK,Manoj N

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Life diversifies via adaptive radiation when natural selection drives the evolution of ecologically distinct species mediated by their access to novel niche space, or via non-adaptive radiation when new species diversify while retaining ancestral niches. However, while cases of adaptive radiation are widely ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Reaney AM,Saldarriaga-Córdoba M,Pincheira-Donoso D

更新日期：2018-02-06 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: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: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 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: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:The Visayan Tarictic Hornbill (Penelopides panini) and the Walden's Hornbill (Aceros waldeni) are two threatened hornbill species endemic to the western islands of the Visayas that constitute - between Luzon and Mindanao - the central island group of the Philippine archipelago. In order to evaluate their gen...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Sammler S,Ketmaier V,Havenstein K,Krause U,Curio E,Tiedemann R

更新日期：2012-10-12 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 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:Marine threespine sticklebacks colonized and adapted to brackish and freshwater environments since the last Pleistocene glacial. Throughout the Holarctic, three lateral plate morphs are observed; the low, partial and completely plated morph. We test if the three plate morphs in the brackish water Lake Engerv...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Østbye K,Taugbøl A,Ravinet M,Harrod C,Pettersen RA,Bernatchez L,Vøllestad LA

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Socially cued anticipatory plasticity (SCAP) has been proposed as a widespread mechanism of adaptive life-history shifts in semelparous species with extreme male mating investment. Such mating systems evolved several times independently in spiders and male reproductive success should critically depend on tim...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Neumann R,Schneider JM

更新日期：2016-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cetacean brain size expansion is an enigmatic event in mammalian evolution, yet its genetic basis remains poorly explored. Here, all exons of the seven primary microcephaly (MCPH) genes that play key roles in size regulation during brain development were investigated in representative cetacean lineages. RES...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Xu S,Sun X,Niu X,Zhang Z,Tian R,Ren W,Zhou K,Yang G

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An important objective of evolutionary biology is to understand the processes that govern phenotypic variation in natural populations. We assessed patterns of morphological and genetic divergence among coastal and inland lake populations of nine-spined stickleback in northern Sweden. Coastal populations are ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Mobley KB,Lussetti D,Johansson F,Englund G,Bokma F

更新日期：2011-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Life at high altitude results in physiological and metabolic challenges that put strong evolutionary pressure on performance due to oxidative stress, UV radiation and other factors dependent on the natural history of the species. To look for genes involved in altitude adaptation in a large herbivore, this st...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hendrickson SL

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Widely used substitution models for proteins, such as the Jones-Taylor-Thornton (JTT) or Whelan and Goldman (WAG) models, are based on empirical amino acid interchange matrices estimated from databases of protein alignments that incorporate the average amino acid frequencies of the data set under examination...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wang HC,Li K,Susko E,Roger AJ

更新日期：2008-12-16 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: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: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