Phylogenomic analysis supports the monophyly of cryptophytes and haptophytes and the association of rhizaria with chromalveolates.

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：:Serum response factor (SRF) and myocyte enhancer factor 2 (MEF2) represent two types of members of the MCM1, AGAMOUS, DEFICIENS, and SRF (MADS)-box transcription factor family present in animals and fungi. Each type has distinct biological functions, which are reflected by the distinct specificities of the proteins bo...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Wu W,Huang X,Cheng J,Li Z,de Folter S,Huang Z,Jiang X,Pang H,Tao S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial 18S rRNA sequence of the nemertine Cerebratulus lacteus was obtained and compared with those of coelomate metazoans and acoelomate platyhelminths to test whether nemertines share a most recent common ancestor with the platyhelminths, as traditionally has been implied, or whether nemertines lie within a protost...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Turbeville JM,Field KG,Raff RA

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most mitochondrial proteins are synthesized in the cytosol of eukaryotic cells as precursor proteins carrying N-terminal extensions called transit peptides or presequences, which mediate their specific transport into mitochondria. However, plant cells possess a second potential target organelle for such transit peptid...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Staiger C,Hinneburg A,Klösgen RB

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Snake venom gene evolution has been studied intensively over the past several decades, yet most previous studies have lacked the context of complete snake genomes and the full context of gene expression across diverse snake tissues. We took a novel approach to studying snake venom evolution by leveraging the complete ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Reyes-Velasco J,Card DC,Andrew AL,Shaney KJ,Adams RH,Schield DR,Casewell NR,Mackessy SP,Castoe TA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determine the phylogenetic backbone of the East Asian mtDNA tree by using published complete mtDNA sequences and assessing both coding and control region variation in 69 Han individuals from southern China. This approach assists in the interpretation of published mtDNA data on East Asians based on either control re...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Kivisild T,Tolk HV,Parik J,Wang Y,Papiha SS,Bandelt HJ,Villems R

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present QNet, a method for constructing split networks from weighted quartet trees. QNet can be viewed as a quartet analogue of the distance-based Neighbor-Net (NNet) method for network construction. Just as NNet, QNet works by agglomeratively computing a collection of circular weighted splits of the taxa set which...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Grünewald S,Forslund K,Dress A,Moulton V

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lethality in hybrids between Drosophila melanogaster and its sibling species Drosophila simulans is caused in part by the interaction of the genes Hybrid male rescue (Hmr) and Lethal hybrid rescue (Lhr). Hmr and Lhr have diverged under positive selection in the hybridizing species. Here we test whether positive select...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Maheshwari S,Wang J,Barbash DA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal venoms have evolved many times. Venomous species are especially common in three of the four main groups of arthropods (Chelicerata, Myriapoda, and Hexapoda), which together represent tens of thousands of species of venomous spiders, scorpions, centipedes, and hymenopterans. Surprisingly, despite their great div...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： von Reumont BM,Blanke A,Richter S,Alvarez F,Bleidorn C,Jenner RA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protamines are small, highly basic DNA-binding proteins found in the sperm of animals. Interestingly, the proportion of arginine residues in one type of protamine, protamine P1, is about 50% in mammals. Upon closer examination, it was found that both the total number of amino acids and the positions of arginine residu...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Rooney AP,Zhang J,Nei M

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：:A novel algorithm, GS-Aligner, that uses bit-level operations was developed for aligning genomic sequences. GS-Aligner is efficient in terms of both time and space for aligning two very long genomic sequences and for identifying genomic rearrangements such as translocations and inversions. It is suitable for aligning ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Shih AC,Li WH

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, many cases of rapid adaptive evolution, which is characterized by the higher substitution rates of nonsynonymous substitutions to synonymous ones, have been identified in the various genes of venomous and biodefense proteins, including the conger eel galectins, congerins I and II (ConI and ConII). To underst...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Konno A,Ogawa T,Shirai T,Muramoto K

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rearrangements of mitochondrial DNA gene order have been suggested as a tool for defining the pattern of evolutionary divergence in arthropod taxa. We have employed a combination of highly conserved insect-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers with long-PCR to survey 14 noninsect arthropods for mitochondrial g...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Roehrdanz RL,Degrugillier ME,Black WC 4th

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Database searches of the Caenorhabditis elegans and human genomic DNA sequences revealed genes encoding ribonuclease H1 (RNase H1) and RNase H2 in each genome. The human genome contains a single copy of each gene, whereas C. elegans has four genes encoding RNase H1-related proteins and one gene for RNase H2. By analyz...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Arudchandran A,Cerritelli SM,Bowen NJ,Chen X,Krause MW,Crouch RJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal copy number gains or losses are important genomic hallmarks of cancer. The genomic distribution of oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes (TSG) in relation to focal copy number aberrations is unclear. Our analysis revealed that the mean distance of TSGs from oncogenes was significantly shorter than that of noncanc...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Wu WK,Li X,Wang X,Dai RZ,Cheng AS,Wang MH,Kwong T,Chow TC,Yu J,Chan MT,Wong SH

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dinoflagellate chloroplast genes are unique in that each gene is on a separate minicircular chromosome. To understand the origin and evolution of this exceptional genomic organization we completely sequenced chloroplast psbA and 23S rRNA gene minicircles from four dinoflagellates: three closely related Heterocapsa spe...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

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

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：: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：:Genetic variation in contemporary South Asian populations follows a northwest to southeast decreasing cline of shared West Eurasian ancestry. A growing body of ancient DNA evidence is being used to build increasingly more realistic models of demographic changes in the last few thousand years. Through high-quality mode...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Yelmen B,Mondal M,Marnetto D,Pathak AK,Montinaro F,Gallego Romero I,Kivisild T,Metspalu M,Pagani L

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:Molecular clocks are routinely tested for linearity using a relative rate test and routinely calibrated against the geological time scale using a single or average paleontologically determined time of divergence between living taxa. The relative rate test is a test of parallel rate equality, not a test of rate constan...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Gingerich PD

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of color vision systems found in extant vertebrates suggests that different evolutionary selection pressures have driven specializations in photoreceptor complement and visual pigment spectral tuning appropriate for an animal's behavior, habitat, and life history. Aquatic vertebrates in particular show h...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Hart NS,Lamb TD,Patel HR,Chuah A,Natoli RC,Hudson NJ,Cutmore SC,Davies WIL,Collin SP,Hunt DM

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver and intestinal flukes of the family Fasciolidae cause zoonotic food-borne infections that impact both agriculture and human health throughout the world. Their evolutionary history and the genetic basis underlying their phenotypic and ecological diversity are not well understood. To close that knowledge gap, we c...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Choi YJ,Fontenla S,Fischer PU,Le TH,Costábile A,Blair D,Brindley PJ,Tort JF,Cabada MM,Mitreva M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have sequenced the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of Hyaloraphidium curvatum, an organism previously classified as a colorless green alga but now recognized as a lower fungus based on molecular data. The 29.97-kbp mitochondrial chromosome is maintained as a monomeric, linear molecule with identical, inverted repeats (1....

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Forget L,Ustinova J,Wang Z,Huss VA,Lang BF

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:Hybridization and polyploidization are important evolutionary processes whose impacts range from the alteration of gene expression and phenotypic variation to the triggering of asexual reproduction. We investigated fishes of the Cobitis taenia-elongatoides hybrid complex, which allowed us to disentangle the direct eff...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Bartoš O,Röslein J,Kotusz J,Paces J,Pekárik L,Petrtýl M,Halačka K,Štefková Kašparová E,Mendel J,Boroń A,Juchno D,Leska A,Jablonska O,Benes V,Šídová M,Janko K

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerase γ is a family A DNA polymerase responsible for the replication of mitochondrial DNA in eukaryotes. The origins of DNA polymerase γ have remained elusive because it is not present in any known bacterium, though it has been hypothesized that mitochondria may have inherited the enzyme by phage-mediated non...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Chan YW,Mohr R,Millard AD,Holmes AB,Larkum AW,Whitworth AL,Mann NH,Scanlan DJ,Hess WR,Clokie MR

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present there is tremendous interest in characterizing the magnitude and distribution of linkage disequilibrium (LD) throughout the human genome, which will provide the necessary foundation for genome-wide LD analyses and facilitate detailed evolutionary studies. To this end, a human high-density single-nucleotide ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Akey JM,Zhang K,Xiong M,Jin L

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear large subunit (LSU) rRNA gene is a rich source of phylogenetic characters because of its large size, mosaic of slowly and rapidly evolving regions, and complex secondary structure variation. Nevertheless, many studies have indicated that inconsistency, bias, and gene-specific error (e.g., within-individual...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Omilian AR,Taylor DJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00