Phylogenetic utility of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase gene: molecular evolution of the Drosophila buzzatii species complex.

abstract：:The mammalian defensin molecule is a short, highly cationic peptide cytotoxic to both microbial and mammalian cells which is cleaved from a precursor including a signal peptide and a highly anionic propiece. A phylogenetic analysis of 28 complete sequences from five mammalian species (mouse, rat, guinea pig, rabbit, a...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Hughes AL,Yeager M

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid substitution models represent substitution rates among amino acids during the evolution. The models play an important role in analyzing protein sequences, especially inferring phylogenies. The rapid evolution of flaviviruses is expanding the threat in public health. A number of models have been estimated fo...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Le TK,Vinh LS

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothetical Products from Noncoding Frames (i.e., HyPNoFs) are hypothetical, not-coded proteins, translated from alternate reading frames (i.e., coding + 1 and coding + 2) of cDNAs. HyPNoFs of CD4, PKC, oncostatin, bcl-2 proto-oncogene, tumor suppressor p53, cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR), and tumor n...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Facchiano A

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scorpion venom toxins were systematically classified according to amino acid composition, insertion/deletion events and sequence. The significance of each comparison method and its outcome is discussed in relation to known immunological and structural properties. A general classification of the toxins is proposed that...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Dufton MJ,Rochat H

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the cis- vs. trans-splicing status of the mitochondrial group II intron nad1i728 in 439 species (427 genera) of land plants, using both Southern hybridization results (for 416 species) and intron sequence data from the literature. A total of 164 species (157 genera), all angiosperms, was found to have a tr...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Qiu YL,Palmer JD

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pten gene was initially identified in humans as a tumor suppressor. It has since been shown to play important roles in the control of cell size, cell motility, apoptosis, and organ size, and it has also been implicated in aging. Pten is highly conserved among organisms as diverse as nematodes, insects, and vertebr...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Baudry E,Desmadril M,Werren JH

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene (fus) coding for elongation factor G (EF-G) of the extremely thermophilic eubacterium Thermotoga maritima was identified and sequenced. The EF-G coding sequence (2046 bp) was found to lie in an operon-like structure between the ribosomal protein S7 gene (rpsG) and the elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) gene (tuf). ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Tiboni O,Cantoni R,Creti R,Cammarano P,Sanangelantoni AM

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization of histone gene clusters of the duck Cairina moschata was studied in the DNA inserts of two recombinant phage that overlap and feature identical histone gene arrangements but differ in sequence details and in the extent of repetition of an AT-rich motif in one of the nontranscribed spacer regions. The...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Tönjes R,Munk K,Doenecke D

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes encoding the olfactory receptors of the "OR37" subfamily of the mouse are characterized by special features including a clustered expression pattern, assembly in two distinct gene clusters, and highly conserved putative promoter motifs. Mining the rat and dog databases revealed that these two species possess hig...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Hoppe R,Lambert TD,Samollow PB,Breer H,Strotmann J

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transposable element mariner occurs widely in the melanogaster species group of Drosophila. However, in drosophilids outside of the melanogaster species group, sequences showing strong DNA hybridization with mariner are found only in the genus Zaprionus. The mariner sequence obtained from Zaprionus tuberculatus is...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Maruyama K,Hartl DL

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a genealogy-sampling algorithm, Sequential Markov Ancestral Recombination Tree (SMARTree), that provides an approach to estimation from SNP haplotype data of the patterns of coancestry across a genome segment among a set of homologous chromosomes. To enable analysis across longer segments of genome, the seq...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Zheng C,Kuhner MK,Thompson EA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The codon assignment of the quasi-universal genetic code can be assumed to have resulted from the evolutionary pressures that prevailed when the code was still evolving. Here, we review studies of the structure of the genetic code based on optimization models. We also review studies that, from the structure of the cod...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Jestin JL,Kempf A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete chloroplast 23S rRNA and psbA genes from five peridinin-containing dinoflagellates (Heterocapsa pygmaea, Heterocapsa niei, Heterocapsa rotun-data, Amphidinium carterae, and Protoceratium reticulatum) were amplified by PCR and sequenced; partial sequences were obtained from Thoracosphaera heimii and Scrippsiel...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Zhang Z,Green BR,Cavalier-Smith T

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two new models of protein sequence evolution based on structural properties of mitochondrial proteins. We compare these models with others currently used in phylogenetic analyses, investigating their performance over both short and long evolutionary distances. We find that our models that incorporate second...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Liò P,Goldman N

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of interaction of amino acids with triplets in the acceptor helix stem of tRNA was investigated by means of a statistical analysis of 1400 tRNA sequences. The imprint of a prototypic genetic code at position 3-5 of the acceptor helix was detected, but only for those major amino acids, glycine, alanine,...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Möller W,Janssen GM

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PIGSFEAST (PF) exon of the Drosophila dumpy gene is undergoing concerted evolution by the process of unequal crossing over. We have developed a long-range PCR-based assay to amplify the approximately 12 kb long exon which contains variable numbers of 303 or 306 nt long repeats in a tandem array. We applied this pr...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Carmon A,Larson M,Wayne M,MacIntyre R

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several algae that were previously classified in the phylum Xanthophyta (yellow-green algae) were assigned in 1971 to a new phylum, Eustigmatophyta. It was anticipated that the number of algae reclassified to Eustigmatophyta would increase. However, due to the fact that the morphological characteristics that segregate...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Ehara M,Hayashi-Ishimaru Y,Inagaki Y,Ohama T

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assay based on derivative analysis of thermal denaturation (melting) behavior of reassociated DNA was developed in an attempt to characterize the sequence relationships in repeated DNA families according to the homogeneous or heterogeneous models of Bendich and Anderson (1977). The validity of the technique was con...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Preisler RS,Thompson WF

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete or partial sequences of 47 E. coli ribosomal proteins described in the literature have been examined by computerized search and matching programs. In contrast to results previously reported by other investigators, sequence homologies were uncovered among some of these ribosomal proteins that are well beyo...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Jue RA,Woodbury NW,Doolittle RF

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new type of repeat unit was isolated from Balbiani ring 1 of Chironomus pallidivittatus and designated BR1 beta repeat. It consists of a constant and a subrepeated part, like previously described units belonging to the core blocks of the BR genes. The subrepeated part contains 10-codon subrepeats with an arrangement...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Saiga H,Botella L,Edström JE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal chorion genes s18, s15, and s19 are shown to diverge at extremely rapid rates in closely related taxa of Hawaiian Drosophila. Their nucleotide divergence rates are at least as fast as those of intergenic regions that are known to evolve more extensively between distantly related species. Their amino acid div...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Martínez-Cruzado JC

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of synonymous codon change and species divergence is described in a matrix formalism that is equally applicable to all levels of codon degeneracy and all levels of codon or nucleotide bias. Based on the formalism it is possible to calculate the sum of all synonymous substitution rate constants from the ob...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Berg OG

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cloned unique sequences from the human Y chromosome, two of which are found only on the Y chromosome and two of which are on both the X and Y chromosomes, were hybridized to restriction enzyme-treated DNA samples of a male and a female chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), and pig-tailed macaqu...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Erickson RP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic way of inferring evolutionary relatedness of microbial organisms from the oligopeptide content, i.e., frequency of amino acid K-strings in their complete proteomes, is proposed. The new method circumvents the ambiguity of choosing the genes for phylogenetic reconstruction and avoids the necessity of align...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Qi J,Wang B,Hao BI

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have continued our program aimed at understanding the origin and evolution of the genetic code and the process of protein synthesis by comparing the rates of esterification of 5'-AMP by a series of hydrophobic N-acetylamino acids. The reaction clearly shows differences in reaction rate (AcPhe greater than AcLeu gre...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Mullins DW Jr,Lacey JC Jr

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first intron of the gene encoding one of the alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzymes (ADH-1) in Ceratitis capitata is highly polymorphic in size. Five size variants of this intron were isolated from different strains and populations and characterized. Restriction map and sequence analysis showed that the intron size poly...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Gomulski LM,Brogna S,Babaratsas A,Gasperi G,Zacharopoulou A,Savakis C,Bourtzis K

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the evolvability of an insoluble random polypeptide, RP3-34, to a soluble form through iterative mutation and selection with the aid of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) folding reporter. To assess the solubility of the polypeptides in the selected clones of each generation, the polypeptide gene...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Ito Y,Kawama T,Urabe I,Yomo T

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the key problems in the study of ancient DNA is that of authenticating sequences obtained from PCR amplifications of highly degraded samples. Contamination of ancient samples and postmortem damage to endogenous DNA templates are the major obstacles facing researchers in this task. In particular, the authenticat...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Helgason A,Pálsson S,Lalueza-Fox C,Ghosh S,Sigurdardóttir S,Baker A,Hrafnkelsson B,Arnadóttir L,Thorsteinsdóttir U,Stefánsson K

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed a genome-wide analysis of the mimp family of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements, taking advantage of the recent release of the F. oxysporum genome sequence. Using different approaches, we detected 103 mimp elements, corresponding to 75 nonredundant copies, half of which are located on a ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Bergemann M,Lespinet O,M'Barek SB,Daboussi MJ,Dufresne M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life is based on biopolymers that have the ability to replicate themselves. Here we consider how a self-replicating RNA system may have originated. We consider a reaction system in which polymerization is possible by the addition of an activated monomer to the end of a chain. We suppose that a small fraction of polyme...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Wu M,Higgs PG

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00