The robustness of two phylogenetic methods: four-taxon simulations reveal a slight superiority of maximum likelihood over neighbor joining.

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：:Bacterial plasmids substantially contribute to the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance, which is a crisis in healthcare today. Coevolution of plasmids and their hosts promotes this spread of resistance by ameliorating the cost of plasmid carriage. However, our knowledge of plasmid-bacteria coevolution is solely base...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Stalder T,Cornwell B,Lacroix J,Kohler B,Dixon S,Yano H,Kerr B,Forney LJ,Top EM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pyrimidine exchange type of RNA editing in land plant (embryophyte) organelles has largely remained an enigma with respect to its biochemical mechanisms, the underlying specificities, and its raison d'être. Apparently arising with the earliest embryophytes, RNA editing is conspicuously absent in one clade of liver...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Rüdinger M,Polsakiewicz M,Knoop V

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyploidization events have occurred during the evolution of many fungi, plant, and animal species and are thought to contribute to speciation and tumorigenesis, however little is known about how ploidy level contributes to adaptation at the molecular level. Here we integrate whole genome sequencing, RNA expression a...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Scott AL,Richmond PA,Dowell RD,Selmecki AM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparative genomics of the transition of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa from a free-living environmental strain to one that causes chronic infection in the airways of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients remain poorly studied. Chronic infections are thought to originate from colonization by a single s...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Dettman JR,Kassen R

更新日期：2021-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Siberia is one of the coldest environments on Earth and has great seasonal temperature variation. Long-term settlement in northern Siberia undoubtedly required biological adaptation to severe cold stress, dramatic variation in photoperiod, and limited food resources. In addition, recent archeological studies show that...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Hsieh P,Hallmark B,Watkins J,Karafet TM,Osipova LP,Gutenkunst RN,Hammer MF

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:Comparisons between human and rodent DNA sequences are widely used for the identification of regulatory regions (phylogenetic footprinting), and the importance of such intergenomic comparisons for promoter annotation is expanding. The efficacy of such comparisons for the identification of functional regulatory element...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Dermitzakis ET,Clark AG

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IQ-TREE (http://www.iqtree.org, last accessed February 6, 2020) is a user-friendly and widely used software package for phylogenetic inference using maximum likelihood. Since the release of version 1 in 2014, we have continuously expanded IQ-TREE to integrate a plethora of new models of sequence evolution and efficien...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Minh BQ,Schmidt HA,Chernomor O,Schrempf D,Woodhams MD,von Haeseler A,Lanfear R

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 100 strains derived from natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster were tested for the presence or absence of P-element sequences by using two molecular probes derived from internal regions of a full-sized P element. Strains that had been collected from several continents at varying times during the...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Anxolabéhère D,Kidwell MG,Periquet G

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The order of genes on eukaryotic chromosomes is nonrandom. Some neighboring genes show order conservation among species, while some neighboring genes separate during evolution. Here, we investigated whether neighboring genes show interactions after their separation. We found that neighboring gene pairs tend to show in...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Dai Z,Xiong Y,Dai X

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion rates are thought to be important factors in determining the genome size of organisms in nature. Although it is indisputable that deletions, and thus deletion rates, affect genome size, it is unclear how, or indeed if, genome size is regulated via the deletion rate. Here, we employ a mathematical model to det...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Pettersson ME,Kurland CG,Berg OG

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products corresponding to 803 bp of the cytochrome oxidase subunits I and II region of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA COI-II) were deduced to consist of multiple haplotypes in three Sitobion species. We investigated the molecular basis of these observations. PCR products were cloned, and six ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Sunnucks P,Hales DF

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to survey polymorphism on a genomic scale has enabled genome-wide scans for the targets of natural selection. Theory that connects patterns of genetic variation to evidence of natural selection most often assumes a diallelic locus and no recurrent mutation. Although these assumptions are suitable to select...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Haasl RJ,Payseur BA

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the relic of the ancient Champa Kingdom, the Cham people represent the major Austronesian speakers in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) and their origin is evidently associated with the Austronesian diffusion in MSEA. Hitherto, hypotheses stemming mainly from linguistic and cultural viewpoints on the origin of the Cha...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Peng MS,Quang HH,Dang KP,Trieu AV,Wang HW,Yao YG,Kong QP,Zhang YP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological innovations like the acquisition of the neural crest as well as gene family expansions by genome duplication are considered as major leaps in the evolution of the vertebrate lineage. Using comparative genomic analyses, we have reconstructed the evolutionary history of the endothelin system, a signaling p...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Braasch I,Volff JN,Schartl M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubisco, the primary photosynthetic carboxylase, evolved 3-4 billion years ago in an anaerobic, high CO(2) atmosphere. The combined effect of low CO(2) and high O(2) levels in the modern atmosphere, and the inability of Rubisco to distinguish completely between CO(2) and O(2), leads to the occurrence of an oxygenation...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Kapralov MV,Kubien DS,Andersson I,Filatov DA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Orthonectida is a small, poorly known phylum of parasites of marine invertebrates. Their phylogenetic placement is obscure; they have been considered to be multicellular protozoans, primitive animals at a "mesozoan" grade of organization, or secondarily simplified flatworm-like organisms. The best known species in...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Hanelt B,Van Schyndel D,Adema CM,Lewis LA,Loker ES

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：:A long-standing enigma concerns the geographic and ecological origins of the intensively studied vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster. This globally distributed human commensal is thought to originate from sub-Saharan Africa, yet until recently, it had never been reported from undisturbed wilderness environments that ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Sprengelmeyer QD,Mansourian S,Lange JD,Matute DR,Cooper BS,Jirle EV,Stensmyr MC,Pool JE

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) data form a fundamental basis for revealing vertebrate evolution and hydrosphere ecology. Here, we report recent functional updates of MitoFish, which is a database of fish mitogenomes with a precise annotation pipeline MitoAnnotator. Most importantly, we describe implementation ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Sato Y,Miya M,Fukunaga T,Sado T,Iwasaki W

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated intron evolution in the compact genomes of 2 closely related species of pufferfishes, Fugu rubripes and Tetraodon nigroviridis, that diverged about 32 million years ago (MYA). Analysis of 148,028 aligned intron positions in 13,547 gene pairs using human as an outgroup identified 57 and 24 intron l...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Loh YH,Brenner S,Venkatesh B

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out an in silico analysis of the complete genome sequences of 14 species, including eukaryotes, prokaryotes, and archaea, to investigate the proportion of amplified fragment length polymorphism bands that are homoplasious for the different species, as well as the distribution of fragment lengths. We investi...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Caballero A,Quesada H

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phylogenetic tree of a gene family of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits was constructed using 84 nucleotide sequences of receptor subunits from 18 different species in order to elucidate the evolutionary origin of receptor subunits. The tree constructed showed that the common ancestor of all subunits may hav...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Tsunoyama K,Gojobori T

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2) are ubiquitous human pathogens. Both viruses evolved from simplex viruses infecting African primates and they are thus thought to have left Africa during early human migrations. We analyzed the population structure of HSV-1 and HSV-2 circulating strains. Results ind...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Forni D,Pontremoli C,Clerici M,Pozzoli U,Cagliani R,Sironi M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the molecular evolution of the chemokine receptor CCR5 in primates. The chemokine receptor CCR5 serves as a major co-receptor for human immunodeficiency virus/simian immunodeficiency virus (HIV/SIV) infection. Knowledge of evolution of the CCR5 molecule and selection on the CCR5 gene may shed light o...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Zhang YW,Ryder OA,Zhang YP

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a case of homologous introns containing homologous open reading frames (ORFs) that are inserted at the same site in the large subunit (LSU) rRNA gene of different organelles in distantly related organisms. We show that the chloroplast LSU rRNA gene of the green alga Chlamydomonas pallidostigmatica con...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Turmel M,Côté V,Otis C,Mercier JP,Gray MW,Lonergan KM,Lemieux C

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geraniaceae plastid genomes (plastomes) have experienced a remarkable number of genomic changes. The plastomes of Erodium texanum, Geranium palmatum, and Monsonia speciosa were sequenced and compared with other rosids and the previously published Pelargonium hortorum plastome. Geraniaceae plastomes were found to be hi...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Guisinger MM,Kuehl JV,Boore JL,Jansen RK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In numerous species, individual dispersal is restricted in space so that "continuous" populations evolve under isolation by distance. A method based on individual genotypes assuming a lattice population model was recently developed to estimate the product Dsigma2, where D is the population density and sigma2 is the av...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Leblois R,Estoup A,Rousset F

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In correctly predicting that selection efficiency is positively correlated with the effective population size (Ne), the nearly neutral theory provides a coherent understanding of between-species variation in numerous genomic parameters, including heritable error (germline mutation) rates. Does the same theory also exp...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Ho AT,Hurst LD

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00