Predicting mammalian SINE subfamily activity from A-tail length.

abstract：:The ability to counter periods of low humidity is an important determinant of distribution range in Drosophila. Climate specialists with low physiological tolerance to desiccation stress are restricted to the tropics and may lack the ability to further increase resistance through evolution. Although the physiological ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Telonis-Scott M,Gane M,DeGaris S,Sgrò CM,Hoffmann AA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various hypotheses for the peopling of the Japanese archipelago have been proposed, which can be classified into three models: transformation, replacement, and hybridization. In recent years, one of the hybridization models ("dual-structure model") has been widely accepted. According to this model, Neolithic hunter-ga...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Nakagome S,Sato T,Ishida H,Hanihara T,Yamaguchi T,Kimura R,Mano S,Oota H,Asian DNA Repository Consortium.

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baleen whales (suborder Mysticeti) comprise 11 extant species that are classified into four families. Although several phylogenetic hypotheses about these taxa have been proposed, their phylogenetic relationships remain confused. We addressed this problem using short interspersed repetitive element (SINE) insertion da...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Nikaido M,Hamilton H,Makino H,Sasaki T,Takahashi K,Goto M,Kanda N,Pastene LA,Okada N,SMBE Tri-National Young Investigators.

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central problem in evolutionary theory concerns the mechanisms by which adaptations requiring multiple mutations emerge in natural populations. We develop a series of expressions that clarify the scaling of the time to establishment of complex adaptations with population size, mutation rate, magnitude of the selecti...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Lynch M,Abegg A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical criteria have long been the standard for selecting the best model for phylogenetic reconstruction and downstream statistical inference. Although model selection is regarded as a fundamental step in phylogenetics, existing methods for this task consume computational resources for long processing time, they ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Abadi S,Avram O,Rosset S,Pupko T,Mayrose I

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive selection sites (PSSs), a class of amino acid sites with an excess of nonsynonymous to synonymous substitutions, are indicators of adaptive molecular evolution and have been detected in many protein families involved in a diversity of biological processes by statistical approaches. However, few studies are co...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Zhu L,Peigneur S,Gao B,Zhang S,Tytgat J,Zhu S

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many more selectively constrained noncoding than coding nucleotides in the mammalian genome, but most mammalian noncoding DNA is subject to weak selection, on average. One of the most striking discoveries to have emerged from comparisons among mammalian genomes is the hundreds of noncoding elements of more t...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Halligan DL,Oliver F,Guthrie J,Stemshorn KC,Harr B,Keightley PD

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：: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：:Influenza A viruses from wild aquatic birds, their natural reservoir species, are thought to have reached a form of stasis, characterized by low rates of evolutionary change. We tested this hypothesis by estimating rates of nucleotide substitution in a diverse array of avian influenza viruses (AIV) and allowing for ra...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Chen R,Holmes EC

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:R2 non-long terminal repeat retrotransposable elements insert specifically into the 28S rRNA genes of a wide range of animals. These elements maintain long-term stable relationships with the host genome. By scoring the variation present at the 5' ends of individual R2 copies, lines of Drosophila simulans have been ide...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Zhang X,Zhou J,Eickbush TH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the adaptation of an organism to a parasitic lifestyle, various gene functions may be rendered superfluous due to the fact that the host may supply these needs. As a consequence, obligate symbiotic bacterial pathogens tend to undergo reductive genomic evolution through gene death (nonfunctionalization or pseudo...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Dagan T,Blekhman R,Graur D

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Good phylogenetic trees are required to test hypotheses about evolutionary processes. We report four new avian mitochondrial genomes, which together with an improved method of phylogenetic analysis for vertebrate mt genomes give results for three questions in avian evolution. The new mt genomes are: magpie goose (Anse...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Harrison GL,McLenachan PA,Phillips MJ,Slack KE,Cooper A,Penny D

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A correspondence analysis of codon usage in Xenopus laevis revealed that the first axis is strongly correlated with the base composition at third codon positions. The second axis discriminates between putatively highly expressed genes and the other coding sequences, with expression levels being confirmed by the analys...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Musto H,Cruveiller S,D'Onofrio G,Romero H,Bernardi G

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial genome has undergone radical changes in both the Chlorophyta and Streptophyta, yet little is known about the dynamics of mtDNA evolution in either of these lineages. In the Chlorophyta, which comprises four of the five recognized classes of green algae (Prasinophyceae, Trebouxiophyceae, Ulvophyceae, ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Pombert JF,Otis C,Lemieux C,Turmel M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike mammals, fish are able to regenerate axons in their central nervous system. This difference has been partly attributed to the loss/acquisition of inhibitory proteins during evolution. Nogo-A--the longest isoform of the reticulon4 (rtn4) gene product--is commonly found in mammalian myelin where it acts as a pote...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Shypitsyna A,Málaga-Trillo E,Reuter A,Stuermer CA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shikimate dehydrogenases (SDH) represent a widely distributed enzyme family with an essential role in secondary metabolism. This superfamily had been previously subdivided into 4 enzyme groups (AroE, YdiB, SdhL, and RifI), which show clear biochemical and functional differences ranging from amino acid biosynthesis...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Singh S,Stavrinides J,Christendat D,Guttman DS

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid substitution matrices describe the rates by which amino acids are replaced during evolution. In contrast to nucleotide or codon models, amino acid substitution matrices are in general parameterless and empirically estimated, probably because there is no obvious parametrization for amino acid substitutions. ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Zoller S,Schneider A

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of photosynthesis by eukaryotic cells through enslavement of a cyanobacterium represents one of the most remarkable turning points in the history of life on Earth. In addition to endosymbiotic gene transfer, the acquisition of a protein import apparatus and the coordination of gene expression between h...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Colleoni C,Linka M,Deschamps P,Handford MG,Dupree P,Weber AP,Ball SG

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellobiose catabolic system of Escherichia coli K12 is being used to study the role of cryptic genes in evolution of new functions. Escherichia coli does not use beta-glucoside sugars; however, mutations in several loci can activate the cryptic bgl operon and permit growth on the beta-glucoside sugars arbutin and ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Kricker M,Hall BG

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4.5SH RNA is a 94-nt small RNA with unknown function. This RNA is known to be present in the mouse, rat, and hamster cells; however, it is not found in human, rabbit, and chicken. In the mouse genome, the 4.5SH RNA gene is a part of a long (4.2 kb) tandem repeat ( approximately 800 copies) unit. Here, we found that 4....

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Gogolevskaya IK,Koval AP,Kramerov DA

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:It is well known that knocking out a gene in an organism often causes no phenotypic effect. One possible explanation is the existence of duplicate genes; that is, the effect of knocking out a gene is compensated by a duplicate copy. Another explanation is the existence of alternative pathways. In terms of metabolic pr...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Hanada K,Sawada Y,Kuromori T,Klausnitzer R,Saito K,Toyoda T,Shinozaki K,Li WH,Hirai MY

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parentally biased expression of transcripts (genomic imprinting) in adult tissues, including the brain, can influence and possibly drive the evolution of behavioral traits. We have previously found that paternally determined cues are involved in population-specific mate choice decisions between two populations of the ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Lorenc A,Linnenbrink M,Montero I,Schilhabel MB,Tautz D

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of evolution of paralogous genes in a genome is central to our understanding of genome evolution. Comparison of closely related bacterial genomes, which has provided clues as to how genome sequences evolve under natural conditions, would help in such an analysis. With species Staphylococcus aureus, whole-geno...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Tsuru T,Kawai M,Mizutani-Ui Y,Uchiyama I,Kobayashi I

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a stochastic birth-and-death model of evolution of horizontally transferred genes in microbial populations. The model is a generalization of the stochastic model described by Berg and Kurland and includes five parameters: the rate of mutational inactivation, selection coefficient, invasion rate (i.e., rate...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Novozhilov AS,Karev GP,Koonin EV

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer RNA (tRNA) is essential for the translation of genetic information into proteins, and understanding its molecular evolution is important if we are to understand the genetic code. In general, long variable-arm (V-arm) structures form in tRNA(Leu), tRNA(Ser), and bacterial and organellar tRNA(Tyr). However, as ...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Hamashima K,Tomita M,Kanai A

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quercus petraea and Quercus robur are two closely related oak species that frequently hybridize. We sequenced 70 clones containing the 5.8S and ITS2 regions of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) from these two species and did not detect a species-specific difference. Surprisingly, three divergent (up to 12.6%) rDNA families were id...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Muir G,Fleming CC,Schlötterer C

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant MADS-box regulatory gene family includes several loci that control different aspects of inflorescence and floral development. Orthologs to the Arabidopsis thaliana MADS-box floral meristem genes APETALA1 and CAULIFLOWER and the floral organ identity genes APETALA3 and PISTILLATA were isolated from the congen...

journal_title：Molecular biology and evolution

authors： Lawton-Rauh AL,Buckler ES 4th,Purugganan MD

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00