Recently Evolved Tumor Suppressor Transcript TP73-AS1 Functions as Sponge of Human-Specific miR-941.

abstract：:A recent investigation found evidence that the transition of Arabidopsis thaliana from ancestral self-incompatibility (SI) to full self-compatibility occurred very recently and suggested that this occurred through a selective fixation of a nonfunctional allele (PsiSCR1) at the SCR gene, which determines pollen specifi...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Bechsgaard JS,Castric V,Charlesworth D,Vekemans X,Schierup MH

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several authors have postulated that genetic divergence between populations could result in genomic incompatibilities that would cause an increase in transposition in their hybrids, producing secondary effects such as sterility and therefore starting a speciation process. It has been demonstrated that transposition la...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Labrador M,Farré M,Utzet F,Fontdevila A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the genetic structure of human populations has important implications for the design and interpretation of disease mapping studies and reconstructing human evolutionary history. To date, inferences of human population structure have primarily been made with common variants. However, recent large-scale re...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： O'Connor TD,Fu W,NHLBI GO Exome Sequencing Project.,ESP Population Genetics and Statistical Analysis Working Group, Emily Turner.,Mychaleckyj JC,Logsdon B,Auer P,Carlson CS,Leal SM,Smith JD,Rieder MJ,Bamshad MJ,Nickerson DA,Ake

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization between different species plays an important role in plant genome evolution, as well as is a widely used approach for crop improvement. McClintock has predicted that plant wide hybridization constitutes a "genomic shock" whereby cryptic transposable elements may be activated. However, direct experimental...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Shan X,Liu Z,Dong Z,Wang Y,Chen Y,Lin X,Long L,Han F,Dong Y,Liu B

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial inner and outer membranes are composed of a variety of integral membrane proteins, assembled into the membranes posttranslationally. The small translocase of the inner mitochondrial membranes (TIMs) are a group of approximately 10 kDa proteins that function as chaperones to ferry the imported protein...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Gentle IE,Perry AJ,Alcock FH,Likić VA,Dolezal P,Ng ET,Purcell AW,McConnville M,Naderer T,Chanez AL,Charrière F,Aschinger C,Schneider A,Tokatlidis K,Lithgow T

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular Ca(2+) homeostasis is tightly regulated and is pivotal to life. Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors (IP3Rs) and ryanodine receptors (RyRs) are the major ion channels that regulate Ca(2+) release from intracellular stores. Although these channels have been extensively investigated in multicellular organisms...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Alzayady KJ,Sebé-Pedrós A,Chandrasekhar R,Wang L,Ruiz-Trillo I,Yule DI

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the distribution of hobo-hybridizing sequences in the genus Drosophila. Southern blot analysis of 134 species revealed that hobo sequences are limited to the melanogaster and montium subgroups of the melanogaster-species group. Of the hobo-bearing species, only D. melanogaster and two of its sibli...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Daniels SB,Chovnick A,Boussy IA

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how pathogens acquire resistance to drugs is important for the design of treatment strategies, particularly for rapidly evolving viruses such as HIV-1. Drug treatment can exert strong selective pressures and sites within targeted genes that confer resistance frequently evolve far more rapidly than the ne...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Seoighe C,Ketwaroo F,Pillay V,Scheffler K,Wood N,Duffet R,Zvelebil M,Martinson N,McIntyre J,Morris L,Hide W

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:That natural selection affects molecular evolution at synonymous sites in protein-coding sequences is well established and is thought to predominantly reflect selection for translational efficiency/accuracy mediated through codon bias. However, a recently developed maximum likelihood framework, when applied to 18 codi...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Singh ND,Bauer DuMont VL,Hubisz MJ,Nielsen R,Aquadro CF

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fully sequenced chloroplast genomes of maize (subfamily Panicoideae), rice (subfamily Bambusoideae), and wheat (subfamily Pooideae) provide the unique opportunity to investigate the evolution of chloroplast genes and genomes in the grass family (Poaceae) by whole-genome comparison. Analyses of nucleotide sequence ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Matsuoka Y,Yamazaki Y,Ogihara Y,Tsunewaki K

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molar content of guanine plus cytosine (G + C) and optimal growth temperature (OGT) are main factors characterizing the frequency distribution of amino acids in prokaryotes. Previous work, using multivariate exploratory methods, has emphasized ascertainment of biological factors underlying variability between genomes,...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Naya H,Gianola D,Romero H,Urioste JI,Musto H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several new families of DNA transposons were identified by computer-assisted searches in a wide range of animal species that includes nematodes, flat worms, mosquitoes, sea squirt, zebrafish, and humans. Many of these elements have coding capacity for transposases, which are related to each other and to those encoded ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Feschotte C

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex-biased gene expression is becoming an increasingly important way to study sexual selection at the molecular genetic level. However, little is known about the timing, persistence, and continuity of gene expression required in the creation of distinct male and female phenotypes, and even less about how sex-specific ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Mank JE,Nam K,Brunström B,Ellegren H

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:Animal microRNAs (miRNAs) are short RNAs that function as posttranscriptional regulators of gene expression by binding to the target mRNAs. Noting that some miRNAs are highly conserved in evolution, we explored the possibility of evolutionary conservation of their targets. We identified human orthologues of experiment...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Lin YC,Hsieh LC,Kuo MW,Yu J,Kuo HH,Lo WL,Lin RJ,Yu AL,Li WH

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete nucleotide sequence of the mt (mitochondrial) and cp (chloroplast) genomes of the unicellular green alga Ostreococcus tauri has been determined. The mt genome assembles as a circle of 44,237 bp and contains 65 genes. With an overall average length of only 42 bp for the intergenic regions, this is the most...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Robbens S,Derelle E,Ferraz C,Wuyts J,Moreau H,Van de Peer Y

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:The organization of the mitochondrial genome is generally very conserved among vertebrates. Because of this, examination of the rare rearrangements which do occur has been suggested as offering a powerful alternative to phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequences. Here, we report on an avian mitochondrial rea...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Bensch S,Härlid A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, a model allowing covarion-like evolution of DNA sequences is introduced. In contrast to standard representation of the distribution of evolutionary rates, this model allows the site-specific rate to vary between lineages. This is achieved by adding as few as two parameters to the widely used among-site rate vari...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Galtier N

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copy number variants (CNVs) within humans can have both adaptive and deleterious effects. Because of their phenotypic significance, researchers have attempted to find single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in high linkage disequilibrium (LD) with CNVs to use in genomewide association studies. However, studies have fou...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Schrider DR,Hahn MW

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the potential importance of gene duplication in D. melanogaster accessory gland protein (Acp) gene evolution we carried out a computational analysis comparing annotated D. melanogaster Acp genes to the entire D. melanogaster genome. We found that two known Acp genes are actually members of small multige...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Holloway AK,Begun DJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DnaK-DnaJ-GrpE (KJE) chaperone system functions at the fulcrum of protein homeostasis in bacteria. It interacts both with nascent polypeptides and with proteins that have become unfolded, either funneling its clients toward the native state or ushering misfolded proteins into degradation. In line with its key role...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Warnecke T

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：:Full-length L1 elements have been shown to possess, at their 5' end, tandem repeats called "A" or "F" types. By sequencing the 5' region of two large L1 copies that did not hybridize to A or F probes, we have identified a new sequence that is found at the 5' end of many L1 elements and that we call "V." The element ch...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Jubier-Maurin V,Cuny G,Laurent AM,Paquereau L,Roizes G

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most fundamental questions for understanding the origin of species is why genes that function to cause fertility in a pure-species genetic background fail to produce fertility in a hybrid genetic background. A related question is why the sex that is most often sterile or inviable in hybrids is the heterogam...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Michalak P,Noor MA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogeny estimation is extremely crucial in the study of molecular evolution. The increase in the amount of available genomic data facilitates phylogeny estimation from multilocus sequence data. Although maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods are available for phylogeny reconstruction using multilocus sequence data,...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Seo TK

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RIIIS/J inbred mouse strain is a model for type 1 von Willebrand disease (VWD), a common human bleeding disorder. Low von Willebrand factor (VWF) levels in RIIIS/J are due to a regulatory mutation, Mvwf1, which directs a tissue-specific switch in expression of a glycosyltransferase, B4GALNT2, from intestine to blo...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Johnsen JM,Teschke M,Pavlidis P,McGee BM,Tautz D,Ginsburg D,Baines JF

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses have been infecting and codiverging with their vertebrate hosts for hundreds of millions of years. The primate simplex viruses exemplify this pattern of virus-host codivergence, at a minimum, as far back as the most recent common ancestor of New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes. Humans are the ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Wertheim JO,Smith MD,Smith DM,Scheffler K,Kosakovsky Pond SL

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat shock protein (Hsp) sequences, because of their ubiquity and high degree of conservation, provide useful models for phylogenetic analysis. In this paper I have carried out a global alignment of all available sequences (a total of 31) for the 90-kD heat shock protein (Hsp90) family. The minimum amino acid iden...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Gupta RS

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive evolution at the molecular level can be studied by detecting convergent and parallel evolution at the amino acid sequence level. For a set of homologous protein sequences, the ancestral amino acids at all interior nodes of the phylogenetic tree of the proteins can be statistically inferred. The amino acid sit...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Zhang J,Kumar S

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00