Comparative analysis of the zeta-crystallin/quinone reductase gene in guinea pig and mouse.

abstract：:MADS-box genes encode a family of transcription factors which control diverse developmental processes in flowering plants ranging from root development to flower and fruit development. Through phylogeny reconstructions, most of these genes can be subdivided into defined monophyletic gene clades whose members share sim...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Becker A,Winter KU,Meyer B,Saedler H,Theissen G

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human c-Myb proto-oncogene is highly expressed in hematopoietic progenitors as well as leukemia and certain solid tumor. However, the regulatory mechanisms of its expression and biological functions remain largely unclear. Recently, c-Myb has been shown to be targeted by microRNA-150 (miR-150) which thereby controls B...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Lin YC,Kuo MW,Yu J,Kuo HH,Lin RJ,Lo WL,Yu AL

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial ribosomes (mitoribosomes) are essential components of all mitochondria that synthesize proteins encoded by the mitochondrial genome. Unlike other ribosomes, mitoribosomes are highly variable across species. The basis for this diversity is not known. Here, we examine the composition and evolutionary histo...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Petrov AS,Wood EC,Bernier CR,Norris AM,Brown A,Amunts A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper concludes that the statistical properties of protein evolution are compatible with a particular model of evolution by natural selection. The argument begins with a statistical description of the molecular clock based on a Poisson process with a randomly varying tick rate. If the time scale of the change of ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Gillespie JH

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary transition from invertebrates to vertebrates involved extensive gene duplication, but understanding precisely how such duplications contributed to this transition requires more detailed knowledge of specific cases of genes and gene families. Myogenic differentiation (MyoD) has long been recognized as ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Aase-Remedios ME,Coll-Lladó C,Ferrier DEK

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-six strains derived from American and French natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster were tested for the presence and activity of hobo elements by using Southern blotting and a gonadal dysgenesis assay. The oldest available strains exhibited weak detectable hybridization to the hobo-element probe and reve...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Pascual L,Periquet G

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements (TEs) make up around 10%-15% of the Drosophila melanogaster genome, but its sibling species Drosophila simulans carries only one third as many such repeat sequences. We do not, however, have an overall view of copy numbers of the various classes of TEs (long terminal repeat [LTR] retrotransposons...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Vieira C,Lepetit D,Dumont S,Biémont C

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most deviant isochore pattern within mammals was found in rat and mouse; most other mammals possess a different kind of isochore organization called the "general pattern." However, isochore patterns remain largely unknown in rodents other than mouse and rat. To investigate the taxonomic distribution of isochore pa...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Robinson M,Gautier C,Mouchiroud D

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in rates of molecular evolution now appears to be widespread. The demonstration that body size is correlated with rates of molecular evolution suggests that physiological and ecological factors may be involved in molecular rate variation, but large-scale comparative studies are still lacking. Here, we use co...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Nunn GB,Stanley SE

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria is a deadly disease that causes nearly one million deaths each year. To develop methods to control and eradicate malaria, it is important to understand the genetic basis of Plasmodium falciparum adaptations to antimalarial treatments and the human immune system while taking into account its demographic history...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Chang HH,Park DJ,Galinsky KJ,Schaffner SF,Ndiaye D,Ndir O,Mboup S,Wiegand RC,Volkman SK,Sabeti PC,Wirth DF,Neafsey DE,Hartl DL

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental goal in evolutionary biology is to identify the molecular changes responsible for adaptive evolution. In this study, we describe a genetic analysis to determine whether the molecular changes contributing to adaptive flower color divergence in Mimulus aurantiacus affect gene expression or enzymatic activi...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Streisfeld MA,Rausher MD

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomes are folded in a complex three-dimensional (3D) structure. Some features of this organization are common for all eukaryotes, but little is known about its evolution. Here, we have studied the 3D organization and regulation of zebrafish globin gene domain and compared its organization and regulation with tho...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Kovina AP,Petrova NV,Gushchanskaya ES,Dolgushin KV,Gerasimov ES,Galitsyna AA,Penin AA,Flyamer IM,Ioudinkova ES,Gavrilov AA,Vassetzky YS,Ulianov SV,Iarovaia OV,Razin SV

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferring past population dynamics over time from heterochronous molecular sequence data is often achieved using the Bayesian Skygrid model, a non-parametric coalescent model that estimates the effective population size over time. Available in BEAST, a cross-platform program for Bayesian analysis of molecular sequence...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Hill V,Baele G

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We use variation at a set of eight human Y chromosome microsatellite loci to investigate the demographic history of the Y chromosome. Instead of assuming a population of constant size, as in most of the previous work on the Y chromosome, we consider a model which permits a period of recent population growth. We show t...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Pritchard JK,Seielstad MT,Perez-Lezaun A,Feldman MW

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured nucleotide variability within and between the three semispecies of the Drosophila athabasca complex, at the period (per) gene by using a polymerase chain reaction-based four-cutter restriction-enzyme analysis. The levels of polymorphism varied considerably between the three semispecies. Our results for per...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Ford MJ,Yoon CK,Aquadro CF

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata, displays a peculiar breeding system polymorphism. Classical haplo-diploid sexual reproduction between reproductive individuals occurs in some populations, whereas, in others, queens and males reproduce clonally. Workers are produced sexually and are sterile in both clonal a...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Rey O,Loiseau A,Facon B,Foucaud J,Orivel J,Cornuet JM,Robert S,Dobigny G,Delabie JH,Mariano Cdos S,Estoup A

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic relationships of the biflagellate protist group Apusomonadidae have been unclear despite the availability of some molecular data. We analyzed sequences from 6 nuclear encoded genes-small-subunit rRNA, large-subunit rRNA, alpha-tubulin, beta-tubulin, actin, and heat shock protein 90-to infer the phylog...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Kim E,Simpson AG,Graham LE

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenium (Se), a sparse element on earth, is an essential micronutrient in the vertebrate diet and its intake depends on its content in soils and waters worldwide. Selenium is required due to its function in selenoproteins, which contain selenocysteine (Sec), the 21st amino acid in the genetic code, as one of their co...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Sarangi GK,Romagné F,Castellano S

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quercus petraea and Quercus robur are two closely related oak species that frequently hybridize. We sequenced 70 clones containing the 5.8S and ITS2 regions of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) from these two species and did not detect a species-specific difference. Surprisingly, three divergent (up to 12.6%) rDNA families were id...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Muir G,Fleming CC,Schlötterer C

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem II, the water oxidizing enzyme, altered the course of evolution by filling the atmosphere with oxygen. Here, we reconstruct the origin and evolution of water oxidation at an unprecedented level of detail by studying the phylogeny of all D1 subunits, the main protein coordinating the water oxidizing cluster...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Cardona T,Murray JW,Rutherford AW

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of the X chromosome in the male germ line has been suggested to contribute to the excess of gene movement off the X chromosome and the paucity of X-linked male-biased genes that have been observed in Drosophila species. Recent experimental work has demonstrated the transcriptional inactivation of the X ch...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Kemkemer C,Hense W,Parsch J

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The guppy sex chromosomes show an extraordinary diversity in divergence across populations and closely related species. In order to understand the dynamics of the guppy Y chromosome, we used linked-read sequencing to assess Y chromosome evolution and diversity across upstream and downstream population pairs that vary ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Almeida P,Sandkam BA,Morris J,Darolti I,Breden F,Mank JE

更新日期：2021-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Current sequencing methods produce large amounts of data, but genome assemblies constructed from these data are often fragmented and incomplete. Incomplete and error-filled assemblies result in many annotation errors, especially in the number of genes present in a genome. This means that methods attempting to estimate...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Han MV,Thomas GW,Lugo-Martinez J,Hahn MW

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models of codon evolution have attracted particular interest because of their unique capabilities to detect selection forces and their high fit when applied to sequence evolution. We described here a novel approach for modeling codon evolution, which is based on Kronecker product of matrices. The 61 × 61 codon substit...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Zaheri M,Dib L,Salamin N

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox genes encode a family of transcriptional regulators that operate differential developmental programs along the anteroposterior axis of bilateral animals. Regulatory changes affecting Hox gene expression are believed to have been crucial for the evolution of animal body plans. In Drosophila melanogaster, Hox expres...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Patraquim P,Warnefors M,Alonso CR

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymerases are essential for life, being responsible for replication, transcription, and the repair of nucleic acid molecules. Those that share a right-hand-shaped fold and catalytic site structurally similar to the DNA polymerase I of Escherichia coli may catalyze RNA- or DNA-dependent RNA polymerization, reverse tr...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Mönttinen HA,Ravantti JJ,Stuart DI,Poranen MM

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 10 is caused by ATTCT repeat expansion in the ATXN10 gene in humans. We studied the evolutionary history of the human genome to determine the time and mechanism of the acquisition of unstable ATTCT repeats in the genome. We found that long interspersed element-1 (LINE-1) was inserted into A...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Kurosaki T,Matsuura T,Ohno K,Ueda S

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diploid D-genome lineage of the Triticum/Aegilops complex has an evolutionary history involving genomic contributions from ancient A- and B/S-genome species. We explored here the possible cytonuclear evolutionary responses to this history of hybridization. Phylogenetic analysis of chloroplast DNAs indicates that t...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Li C,Sun X,Conover JL,Zhang Z,Wang J,Wang X,Deng X,Wang H,Liu B,Wendel JF,Gong L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying mechanisms that underlie variation in adult survivorship provide insight into the evolution of life history strategies and phenotypic variation in longevity. There is accumulating evidence that shortening telomeres, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes, play an important role in individual variat...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Haussmann MF,Mauck RA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in East African Lake Malawi encompasses over 500 species that are believed to have evolved within the last 800,000 years from a common founder population. It has been proposed that hybridization between ancestral lineages can provide the genetic raw material to fuel such except...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Svardal H,Quah FX,Malinsky M,Ngatunga BP,Miska EA,Salzburger W,Genner MJ,Turner GF,Durbin R

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00