abstract：:SymRK is one of the key genes involved in initial steps of legume symbiotic association with fungi (mycorrhization) and nitrogen-fixing bacteria (nodulation). A large portion of the sequence encoding the extracellular domain of SYMRK was obtained for 38 lupine accessions and 2 outgroups in order to characterize this r...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Mahé F,Markova D,Pasquet R,Misset MT,Aïnouche A

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study provides the first phylogenetic reconstruction of the ant genus Leptomyrmex Mayr, a prominent endemic component of rain forest and wet sclerophyll forest in Australia, New Guinea and New Caledonia. Five genes are used to reconstruct phylogeny and estimate of ages of diversification in order to test congruen...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Lucky A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Glypthelmins includes some of the most common digeneans inhabiting the intestine of anurans in the Americas. Phylogenetic analyses of eight species of Glypthelmins and five outgroups, using 26 morphological characters and sequences of cox1, 18S, 5.8S, 28S genes and ITS2 were performed. Additionally, 2 specie...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Razo-Mendivil U,de León GP

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogeny of Celastraceae subfamily Hippocrateoideae (∼ 100 species and 19 genera in the Old and New World tropics) was inferred using morphological characters together with plastid (matK, trnL-F) and nuclear (ITS and 26S rDNA) genes. The subfamily is easily recognized by the synapomorphies of transversely flatten...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Coughenour JM,Simmons MP,Lombardi JA,Yakobson K,Archer RH

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexually deceptive Chiloglottis orchids lure their male thynnine wasp pollinators to the flower by emitting semiochemicals that mimic the specific sex pheromone of the wasp. Sexual deception is possible because chemical rather than visual cues play the key role in wasp mate search, suggesting that cryptic wasp species...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Griffiths KE,Trueman JW,Brown GR,Peakall R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hawaiian Drosophilidae contains approximately 1000 species, placed in species groups and subgroups based largely on secondary sexual modifications to wings, forelegs and mouthparts. Members of the spoon tarsus subgroup possess a cup-shaped structure on the foretarsi of males. Eight of the twelve species in this su...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Lapoint RT,Gidaya A,O'Grady PM

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tribe Rhipsalideae is composed of unusual epiphytic or lithophytic cacti that inhabit humid tropical and subtropical forests. Members of this tribe present a reduced vegetative body, a specialized adventitious root system, usually spineless areoles and flowers and fruits reduced in size. Despite the debate surrounding...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Calvente A,Zappi DC,Forest F,Lohmann LG

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of species via morphological characteristics has traditionally left cryptic species undescribed in taxa under selection for morphological conservation (or a lack of selection for morphological change). Treecreepers (Genus: Certhia) have a conserved morphological appearance, making it difficult to as...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Manthey JD,Klicka J,Spellman GM

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climatic oscillations, heterogeneity in elevation, topographical position, and isolation time in southwestern Patagonia have been important in promoting diversification of the biota. Geological studies have shown that this region had wide ice-free areas during periods of the last glacial maximum and provided forested ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Nuñez JJ,Wood NK,Rabanal FE,Fontanella FM,Sites JW Jr

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sharks are a diverse and ecologically important group, including some of the ocean's largest predatory animals. Sharks are also commercially important, with many species suffering overexploitation and facing extinction. However, despite a long evolutionary history, commercial, and conservation importance, phylogenetic...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Vélez-Zuazo X,Agnarsson I

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic relationships between the five dioecious species in Silene section Melandrium (Caryophyllaceae) and their putative hermaphrodite relatives are investigated based on an extensive geographic and taxonomic sample, using DNA sequence data from the chloroplast genome and the nuclear ribosomal ITS region. T...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Rautenberg A,Hathaway L,Oxelman B,Prentice HC

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small, phylogenetically isolated liverwort genus Ptilidium has been regarded as of cool-Gondwanic origin with the bipolar, terrestrial Ptilidium ciliare giving rise to the Northern Hemisphere epiphytes Ptilidium pulcherrimum and Ptilidium californicum. This hypothesis is examined using a dataset including three ch...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Kreier HP,Feldberg K,Mahr F,Bombosch A,Schmidt AR,Zhu RL,von Konrat M,Shaw B,Shaw AJ,Heinrichs J

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of barriers to dispersal and gene flow is often inferred to be the primary cause of lineage divergence and phylogeographic structure in terrestrial organisms. In particular, the Mississippi River has been implicated as a barrier to gene flow in many species, including aquatic taxa. However, if barriers are ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Brandley MC,Guiher TJ,Pyron RA,Winne CT,Burbrink FT

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic landscape of the European flora and fauna was shaped by the ebb and flow of populations with the shifting ice during Quaternary climate cycles. While this has been well demonstrated for lowland species, less is known about high altitude taxa. Here we analyze the phylogeography of the leaf beetle Oreina elo...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Borer M,Alvarez N,Buerki S,Margraf N,Rahier M,Naisbit RE

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Southeastern Europe is a centre of European biodiversity, but very little is known about factors causing the observed richness. Here, we contribute to fill this gap by reconstructing the spatio-temporal diversification of the cytologically variable and taxonomically intricate complex of Veronica chamaedrys (Plantagina...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Bardy KE,Albach DC,Schneeweiss GM,Fischer MA,Schönswetter P

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the phylogeny and biogeography of the Rhinella marina group, using molecular, morphological, and skin-secretion data, contributing to an understanding of Neotropical faunal diversification. The maximum-parsimony and Bayesian analyzes of the combined data recovered a monophyletic R. marina group. Molecu...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Maciel NM,Collevatti RG,Colli GR,Schwartz EF

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Luzula consists of 115 species distributed throughout the world. Luzula is monophyletic, but species relationships within the genus are difficult to determine primarily due to the similar morphology even within geographically remote taxa (especially within the section Luzula). The plastome trnL intron, trnL-...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Záveská Drábková L,Vlček C

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite huge fossil, morphological and molecular data, bivalves' early evolutionary history is still a matter of debate: recently, established phylogeny has been mostly challenged by DNA studies, and little agreement has been reached in literature, because of a substantial lack of widely-accepted methodological approa...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Plazzi F,Passamonti M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemidactylus geckos are a species-rich component of many tropical lizard assemblages. We sampled deeply among tropical Asian, and especially South Asian, taxa and used a multi-gene approach to establish the affinities of Indian and Sri Lankan Hemidactylus and to evaluate the monophyly of previously proposed taxa withi...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Bauer AM,Jackman TR,Greenbaum E,Giri VB,de Silva A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ancestral genome composition in Onychophora (velvet worms) is unknown since only a single species of Peripatidae has been studied thus far, which shows a highly derived gene order with numerous translocated genes. Due to this lack of information from Onychophora, it is difficult to infer the ancestral mitochondria...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Braband A,Cameron SL,Podsiadlowski L,Daniels SR,Mayer G

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large species differences in the expression of carboxylesterases (CE) have been described, but the interrelationships of CEs across species are not well characterized. In the current analyses, sequences with genomic structures similar to human CEs were found in piscine, avian, and mammalian genomes. Analyses of these ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Williams ET,Wang H,Wrighton SA,Qian YW,Perkins EJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to its peculiar paleogeographic history, Crete island is one of the most interesting biodiversity hotspots within the Aegean area. We here analyze the lineage diversity of Cretan Reticulitermes termites obtained on mitochondrial genes (COII and 16S) and nuclear Inter-SINE loci. The evolutionary pattern here dete...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Velonà A,Ghesini S,Luchetti A,Marini M,Mantovani B

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains region (HHM) in the southern and southeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is considered an important reservoir and a differentiation center for temperate and alpine plants in the Cenozoic. To reveal how plants responded to the Quaternary climatic oscillations in the QTP, the phylogeog...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Cun YZ,Wang XQ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure for the isolation of target PCR bands from multiplex PCR products using the E-Gel iBase Power System, an E-Gel Safe Imager Real-Time Transilluminator, and E-Gel CloneWell 0.8% SYBR Safe agarose cassettes is presented. The collected isolates are suitable for direct use in sequencing reactions without need o...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Gibson JF,Kelso S,Skevington JH

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetics explores the continuum of shallower to deeper genetic divergences between taxa. Along this continuum increasing lengths of DNA sequence can be used to answer deeper and deeper questions about biological relationships. We use shorter, and then longer mitochondrial DNA sequences to address two aspects of p...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Gibb GC,Penny D

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A virus infects a wide range of hosts including birds, humans, pigs, horses, and other mammals. Because hosts differ in immune system structure and demography, it is therefore expected that host populations leave different imprints on the viral genome. In this study, we investigated the evolutionary trajecto...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Fourment M,Wood JT,Gibbs AJ,Gibbs MJ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:That homologies exist and can be recognized and discovered is of central importance to comparative and evolutionary biology. Traditionally, homology assessment for both molecular and morphological data has been treated as a two-step process involving the generation of a proposition of homology and then the evaluation ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Morgan MJ,Kelchner SA

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chinese bamboo partridge (Bambusicola thoracica thoracica), an endemic subspecies of south China, distributes in mountainous areas that were affected by climate changes throughout the Pleistocene. We investigated the potential impact of cyclical Pleistocene climate changes on phylogeographic patterns using 1140 nucleo...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Huang Z,Liu N,Liang W,Zhang Y,Liao X,Ruan L,Yang Z

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mysterious Asian hynobiid salamander, Protohynobius puxiongensis, was described based on a single specimen collected in 1965 and never found again since then. Because the specimen had an internasal bone, Pr. puxiongensis was thought to retain a primitive character lost by a common ancestor of all other hynobiid sa...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Peng R,Zhang P,Xiong JL,Gu HJ,Zeng XM,Zou FD

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian order Carnivora has attracted the attention of scientists of various disciplines for decades, leading to intense interest in defining its supra-familial relationships. In the last few years, major changes to the topological structure of the carnivoran tree have been proposed and supported by various mole...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Eizirik E,Murphy WJ,Koepfli KP,Johnson WE,Dragoo JW,Wayne RK,O'Brien SJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution and the historical biogeography of the Southern Ocean marine benthic fauna are closely related to major tectonic and climatic changes that occurred in this region during the last 55 million years (Ma). Several families, genera and even species of marine organisms are shared between distant biogeographic ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： González-Wevar CA,Nakano T,Cañete JI,Poulin E

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic relationships within the family Syllidae have been analyzed previous to this study and a new subfamily (Anoplosyllinae) defined. However, the monophyly of the family Syllidae was not well-supported. A conflict between the different molecular data sets combined in previous preceding molecular analyses ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Aguado MT,Bleidorn C

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MSP-7 is a surface protein expressed by the Plasmodium merozoite as part of a protein-complex involved in initial interaction between merozoite and erythrocyte. Contigs of seven Plasmodium species were analyzed in order to identify all msp-7 family genes. The search identified annotated and unannotated open reading fr...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Garzón-Ospina D,Cadavid LF,Patarroyo MA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first molecular studies on the phylogeny of aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) bumped into a striking lack of phylogenetic structure for taxa levels higher than tribe, probably as a consequence of the rapid adaptive radiation that this group of insects went through during the Late Cretaceous. Here we present a new atte...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Ortiz-Rivas B,Martínez-Torres D

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal ITS sequences are commonly used for phylogenetic reconstruction because they are included in rDNA repeats, and hence are ubiquitous and present in high copy number. Ribosomal rDNA repeats often undergo rapid concerted evolution within and between arrays. Interspecific hybridization merges divergent repeat ty...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Bao Y,Wendel JF,Ge S

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adelanthaceae (including Jamesoniellaceae) represent a major lineage of jungermannialean liverworts that is characterized by ventral-intercalary, often flagelliform branches, succubous leaves, ovoid to cylindrical, plicate perianths with a contracted mouth, often connate bracts and bracteoles, and 4-7 stratose capsule...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Feldberg K,Váňa J,Long DG,Shaw AJ,Hentschel J,Heinrichs J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The few studies available on Tyrrhenian land snails support high diversification in the Italian Peninsula and groups structured mainly by vicariant events. Here we investigated the phylogeny of a conchologically diversified group of Tyrrhenian land snails assigned to the genera Marmorana and Tyrrheniberus. We construc...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Fiorentino V,Salomone N,Manganelli G,Giusti F

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family Catostomidae is a diverse group of benthic freshwater fishes that are distributed across North America and in parts of East Asia. In this study, the phylogenetic relationships of Catostomidae is examined using 3436 nucleotides of mitochondrial ND4 and ND5 protein coding genes and intervening tRNAs. All 13 gener...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Doosey MH,Bart HL Jr,Saitoh K,Miya M

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the landscape in structuring populations has been the focus of numerous studies, in particular, the extent to which islands provide opportunities for isolation, and the consistency of such an effect across lineages. The current study examines this phenomenon using a series of relatively widespread taxa, al...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Crews SC,Puente-Rolón AR,Rutstein E,Gillespie RG

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the phylogenetic relationships and phylogeography among individuals of the endemic newt (Cynops ensicauda) of the Central Ryukyus, Japan based on the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. The results of phylogenetic analyses showed the presence of remarkable differentiation between assemblages from the Amam...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Tominaga A,Ota H,Matsui M

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00