The shoot stem cell niche in angiosperms: expression patterns of WUS orthologues in rice and maize imply major modifications in the course of mono- and dicot evolution.

abstract：:Pax genes play key regulatory roles in embryonic and sensory organ development in metazoans but their evolution and ancestral functions remain widely unresolved. We have isolated a Pax gene from Placozoa, beside Porifera the only metazoan phylum that completely lacks nerve and sensory cells or organs. These simplest k...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Hadrys T,DeSalle R,Sagasser S,Fischer N,Schierwater B

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:Because they represent the earliest divergences of the Chlorophyta and include the smallest known eukaryotes (e.g., the coccoid Ostreococcus), the morphologically diverse unicellular green algae making up the Prasinophyceae are central to our understanding of the evolutionary patterns that accompanied the radiation of...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Turmel M,Gagnon MC,O'Kelly CJ,Otis C,Lemieux C

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine receptor CCR5 can serve as a coreceptor for M-tropic HIV-1 infection and both M-tropic and T-tropic SIV infection. We sequenced the entire CCR5 gene from 10 nonhuman primates: Pongo pygmaeus, Hylobates leucogenys, Trachypithecus francoisi, Trachypithecus phayrei, Pygathrix nemaeus, Rhinopithecus roxellan...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Zhang YW,Ryder OA,Zhang YP

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes encoding DNA replication proteins have been frequently exchanged between cells and mobile elements, such as viruses or plasmids. This raises potential problems to reconstruct their history. Here, we combine phylogenetic and genomic context analyses to study the evolution of the replicative minichromosome mainten...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Krupovic M,Gribaldo S,Bamford DH,Forterre P

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of a fish-specific genome duplication (FSGD) in the lineage leading to teleost fishes is widely accepted, but the consequences of this event remain elusive. Teleosts, and the cichlid fishes from the species flocks in the East African Great Lakes in particular, evolved a unique complexity and diversity o...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Braasch I,Salzburger W,Meyer A

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:The giant extracellular hexagonal bilayer hemoglobin (HBL-Hb) of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent tube worm Riftia pachyptila is able to transport simultaneously O(2) and H(2)S in the blood from the gills to a specific organ: the trophosome that harbors sulfide-oxidizing endosymbionts. This vascular HBL-Hb is made of 14...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Bailly X,Jollivet D,Vanin S,Deutsch J,Zal F,Lallier F,Toulmond A

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：:Microsporidia are a diverse group of highly derived fungal relatives that are intracellular parasites of many animals. Both transcription and introns have been shown to be unusual in microsporidia: The complete genome of the human parasite Encephalitozoon cuniculi has only a few very short introns, and two distantly r...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Gill EE,Lee RC,Corradi N,Grisdale CJ,Limpright VO,Keeling PJ,Fast NM

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hantaviruses are considered one of the best examples of a long-term association between RNA viruses and their hosts. Based on the appearance of strong host specificity, it has been suggested that hantaviruses cospeciated with the rodents and insectivores they infect since these mammals last shared a common ancestor, a...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Ramsden C,Holmes EC,Charleston MA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural selection is expected to act strongly on immune system genes as hosts adapt to novel, diverse, and coevolving pathogens. Population genetic studies of host defense genes with parallel functions in model organisms have revealed distinct evolutionary histories among the different components-receptors, adaptors, ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Fornarino S,Laval G,Barreiro LB,Manry J,Vasseur E,Quintana-Murci L

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deciphering invasion routes from molecular data is crucial to understanding biological invasions, including identifying bottlenecks in population size and admixture among distinct populations. Here, we unravel the invasion routes of the invasive pest Drosophila suzukii using a multi-locus microsatellite dataset (25 lo...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Fraimout A,Debat V,Fellous S,Hufbauer RA,Foucaud J,Pudlo P,Marin JM,Price DK,Cattel J,Chen X,Deprá M,François Duyck P,Guedot C,Kenis M,Kimura MT,Loeb G,Loiseau A,Martinez-Sañudo I,Pascual M,Polihronakis Richmond M,

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:Varying degrees of reduction of genetic diversity in crops relative to their wild progenitors occurred during the process of domestication. Such information, however, has not been available for the Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa) despite its importance as a staple food and a model organism. To reveal levels and p...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Zhu Q,Zheng X,Luo J,Gaut BS,Ge S

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) do not code for proteins but function as RNAs. Because the functions of an RNA rely on either its sequence or secondary structure, lncRNAs should be folded at least as strongly as messenger RNAs (mRNAs), which serve as messengers for translation and are generally thought to lack secondary...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Yang JR,Zhang J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of DNA polymorphism in the ancestral species at the time of speciation can be estimated using DNA sequences from many loci sampled from 2 or more extant species. The comparison between ancestral and extant polymorphism can be informative about the population genetics of speciation. In this study, we collecte...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Zhou R,Zeng K,Wu W,Chen X,Yang Z,Shi S,Wu CI

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization in plants may result in hybrid speciation or introgression and, thus, is now widely understood to be an important mechanism of species diversity on an evolutionary timescale. Hybridization is particularly common in ferns, as is polyploidy, which often results from hybrid crosses. Nevertheless, hybrid spe...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Wang J,Dong S,Yang L,Harris A,Schneider H,Kang M

更新日期：2020-09-01 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

abstract：:Crabs of the infra-order Brachyura are one of the most diverse groups of crustaceans with approximately 7,000 described species in 98 families, occurring in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats. The relationships among the brachyuran families are poorly understood due to the high morphological complexity of th...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Tsang LM,Schubart CD,Ahyong ST,Lai JC,Au EY,Chan TY,Ng PK,Chu KH

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central goal in biology is to determine the ways in which evolution repeats itself. One of the most remarkable examples in nature of convergent evolutionary novelty is animal venom. Across diverse animal phyla, various specialized organs and anatomical structures have evolved from disparate developmental tissues to ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Zancolli G,Casewell NR

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective constraints influencing mRNA editing in plant organelles are largely unknown. To investigate these, we compared patterns of editing between monocot and dicot mitochondrial mRNA. On average, 24% of sites that are edited form C to U in one species have been substituted during evolution by a genomic T in th...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Shields DC,Wolfe KH

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA that encodes the heart-type lactate dehydrogenase (LDH-B) from the teleost fish Fundulus heteroclitus was cloned and sequenced. The protein encoded by the cDNA was analyzed in relation to 13 LDH proteins from a variety of taxa. One of the deductions from this analysis is that LDH-B proteins have residues in the...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Crawford DL,Constantino HR,Powers DA

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Odorant receptors (ORs) are essential for plant-insect interactions. However, despite the global impacts of Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) as major herbivores and pollinators, little functional data is available about Lepidoptera ORs involved in plant volatile detection. Here, we initially characterized the plant...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Guo M,Du L,Chen Q,Feng Y,Zhang J,Zhang X,Tian K,Cao S,Huang T,Jacquin-Joly E,Wang G,Liu Y

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome comparisons provide insight into genome evolution by informing on gene repertoires, gene gains/losses, and genome organization. Most of our knowledge about eukaryotic genome evolution is derived from studies of multicellular model organisms. The eukaryotic phylum Apicomplexa contains obligate intracellula...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： DeBarry JD,Kissinger JC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors of a recent manuscript in "Nature" claim to have discovered "universal trends" of amino acid gain and loss in protein evolution. Here, we show that this universal trend can be simply explained by a bias that is unavoidable with the 3-taxon trees used in the original analysis. We demonstrate that a rigorous...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Goldstein RA,Pollock DD

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We implement an isolation with migration model for three species, with migration occurring between two closely related species while an out-group species is used to provide further information concerning gene trees and model parameters. The model is implemented in the likelihood framework for analyzing multilocus geno...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Zhu T,Yang Z

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete mitochondrial genome of Tupaia belangeri, a representative of the eutherian order Scandentia, was determined and compared with full-length mitochondrial sequences of other eutherian orders described to date. The complete mitochondrial genome is 16, 754 nt in length, with no obvious deviation from the gene...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Schmitz J,Ohme M,Zischler H

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high frequency of alternative splicing among the serine/arginine-rich (SR) family of proteins in plants has been linked to important roles in gene regulation during development and in response to environmental stress. In this article, we have searched and manually annotated all the SR proteins in the genomes of ma...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Rauch HB,Patrick TL,Klusman KM,Battistuzzi FU,Mei W,Brendel VP,Lal SK

更新日期：2014-03-01 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