Nucleolar binding sequences of the ribosomal protein S6e family reside in evolutionary highly conserved peptide clusters.

abstract：:We present Neighbor-Net, a distance based method for constructing phylogenetic networks that is based on the Neighbor-Joining (NJ) algorithm of Saitou and Nei. Neighbor-Net provides a snapshot of the data that can guide more detailed analysis. Unlike split decomposition, Neighbor-Net scales well and can quickly produc...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Bryant D,Moulton V

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:There is increasing evidence that X chromosomes have an unusual complement of genes, especially genes that have sex-specific expression. However, whereas in worm and fly the X chromosome has a dearth of male-specific genes, in mice genes that are uniquely expressed in spermatogonia are especially abundant on the X chr...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Lercher MJ,Urrutia AO,Hurst LD

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of the 5'-flanking regions of the duplicated Amy genes in eight sibling species belonging to the melanogaster species subgroup are analyzed. In Drosophila melanogaster, a region of about 450 bp immediately upstream of the translation initiation site of the two paralogous genes (the proximal an...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Okuyama E,Shibata H,Tachida H,Yamazaki T

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive Darwinian selection promotes fixations of advantageous mutations during gene evolution and is probably responsible for most adaptations. Detecting positive selection at the DNA sequence level is of substantial interest because such information provides significant insights into possible functional alterations...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Zhang J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent and parallel amino acid substitutions in protein evolution, collectively referred to as molecular convergence here, have small probabilities under neutral evolution. For this reason, molecular convergence is commonly viewed as evidence for similar adaptations of different species. The surge in the number of...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Zou Z,Zhang J

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the complete sequence of a paralogous copy of elongation factor-1 alpha (EF-1 alpha) in the honeybee, Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae). This copy differs from a previously described copy in the positions of five introns and in 25% of the nucleotide sites in the coding regions. The existence of two paralo...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Danforth BN,Ji S

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sponges (Porifera) are among the simplest living and the earliest branching metazoans. They hold a pivotal role for studying genome evolution of the entire metazoan branch, both as an outgroup to Eumetazoa and as the closest branching phylum to the common ancestor of all multicellular animals (Urmetazoa). In order to ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Harcet M,Roller M,Cetković H,Perina D,Wiens M,Müller WE,Vlahovicek K

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the importance of plant-plant interactions on plant community dynamics and crop yield, our understanding of the adaptive genetics underlying these interactions is still limited and deserves to be investigated in the context of complex and diffuse interactions occurring in plant assemblages. Here, based on 145 ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Frachon L,Mayjonade B,Bartoli C,Hautekèete NC,Roux F

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The grass family (Poaceae), the fourth largest family of flowering plants, encompasses the most economically important cereal, forage, and energy crops, and exhibits a unique gametophytic self-incompatibility (SI) mechanism that is controlled by at least two multiallelic and independent loci, S and Z. Despite intense ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Manzanares C,Barth S,Thorogood D,Byrne SL,Yates S,Czaban A,Asp T,Yang B,Studer B

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How is adaptability generated in a system composed of interacting cellular machineries, each with a separate and functionally critical job to perform? The machinery for organelle inheritance is precisely one such system, requiring coordination between robust and ancient cellular modules, including the cell cycle, cyto...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Mast FD,Rachubinski RA,Dacks JB

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization is often considered maladaptive, but sometimes hybrids can invade new ecological niches and adapt to novel or stressful environments better than their parents. The genomic changes that occur following hybridization that facilitate genome resolution and/or adaptation are not well understood. Here, we exam...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Smukowski Heil CS,DeSevo CG,Pai DA,Tucker CM,Hoang ML,Dunham MJ

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) recently emerged in domestic pigs of Western Europe and North America. Although time of emergence was identical on the two continents, genetic composition was markedly different with a clear geographical subtype structure, indicating that subtypes diverged in...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Forsberg R

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we use phylogenomics with expressed sequence tag (EST) data from the ecologically important coccolithophore-forming alga Emiliania huxleyi and the plastid-lacking cryptophyte Goniomonas cf. pacifica to establish their phylogenetic positions in the eukaryotic tree. Haptophytes and cryptophytes are members of the p...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Hackett JD,Yoon HS,Li S,Reyes-Prieto A,Rümmele SE,Bhattacharya D

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenies for each of the protein-coding genes from the Methanococcus jannaschii genome were surveyed to determine the history of the major groups of life. For each gene, homologous sequences from other archaea, eucarya, and Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria were collected and aligned, and a phylogeny was...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Ribeiro S,Golding GB

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular evolutionary rates within two protistan and three metazoan taxa were estimated using divergence times derived from fossil records. The results indicate that the small-subunit rRNA sequences within Dasycladales (Chlorophyta) and Bacillariophyceae evolved at a rate approximately two to three times faster than ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Sorhannus U

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolution of sequences mostly involves independent changes at different sites. However, substitutions at neighboring sites may co-occur as multinucleotide replacement events (MNRs). Here, we compare noncoding sequences of several species of primates, and of three species of Drosophila fruit flies, in a phylogenetic an...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Terekhanova NV,Bazykin GA,Neverov A,Kondrashov AS,Seplyarskiy VB

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fossil record has long supported the view that most animal phyla originated during a brief period approximately 520 MYA known as the Cambrian explosion. However, molecular data analyses over the past 3 decades have found deeper divergences among animals (approximately 800 to 1,200 MYA), with and without the assump...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Blair JE,Hedges SB

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) consists of 13 subunits, 3 encoded in the mitochondrial genome and 10 in the nucleus. Little is known of the role of the nuclear-encoded subunits, some of which exhibit tissue-specific isoforms. Subunit VIa is unique in having tissue-specific isoforms in all mammalian species examined. We ex...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Schmidt TR,Jaradat SA,Goodman M,Lomax MI,Grossman LI

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：:Male sexual behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is regulated by fruitless (fru), a sex-determination gene specifying the synthesis of BTB-Zn finger proteins that likely function as male-specific transcriptional regulators. Expression of fru in the nervous system specifies male sexual behavior and the mus...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Gailey DA,Billeter JC,Liu JH,Bauzon F,Allendorfer JB,Goodwin SF

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we address a much-debated topic: is there or is there not an organismal tree of gamma-proteobacteria that can be unambiguously inferred from a core of shared genes? We apply several recently developed analytical methods to this problem, for the first time. Our heat map analyses of P values and of bootstrap bipar...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Susko E,Leigh J,Doolittle WF,Bapteste E

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:Heuristic approaches were used to quantify the influence that sequencing errors have on estimates of nucleotide diversity, substitution rate, and the construction of genealogies. Error rates of less than 1 nucleotide/kb probably have little affect on conclusions about the evolutionary history of highly polymorphic org...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Clark AG,Whittam TS

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the idea that ancestral class I and II aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases arose on opposite strands of the same gene. We assembled excerpted 94-residue Urgenes for class I tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (TrpRS) and class II Histidyl-tRNA synthetase (HisRS) from a diverse group of species, by identifying and catenating...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Chandrasekaran SN,Yardimci GG,Erdogan O,Roach J,Carter CW Jr

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:Cyanobacteria contain up to three highly divergent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) genes: gap1, gap2, and gap3. Genes gap1 and gap2 are closely related at the sequence level to the nuclear genes encoding cytosolic and chloroplast GAPDH of higher plants and have recently been shown to play distinct key...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Figge RM,Schubert M,Brinkmann H,Cerff R

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cosmopolitan dinoflagellate genus Alexandrium, and especially the A. tamarense species complex, contain both toxic and nontoxic strains. An understanding of their evolution and paleogeography is a necessary precursor to unraveling the development and spread of toxic forms. The inclusion of more strains into the ex...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： John U,Fensome RA,Medlin LK

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-long terminal repeat retroelements continue to impact the human genome through cis-activity of long interspersed element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) and trans-mobilization of Alu. Current activity is dominated by modern subfamilies of these elements, leaving behind an evolutionary graveyard of extinct Alu and L1 subfamilies....

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Wagstaff BJ,Kroutter EN,Derbes RS,Belancio VP,Roy-Engel AM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In primates, the craniofacial skeleton and the dentition are marked by high levels of interspecific variation. Despite this, there are few comparative species studies conducted at the molecular level to investigate this functional diversity. We have determined nucleotide sequences of MSX1 and PAX9, two developmental g...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Perry GH,Verrelli BC,Stone AC

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00