abstract：BACKGROUND:The regulation of cellular membrane trafficking in all eukaryotes is a very complex mechanism, mostly regulated by the Rab family proteins. Among all membrane-enclosed organelles, melanosomes are the cellular site for synthesis, storage and transport of melanin granules, making them an excellent model for st...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Coppola U,Annona G,D'Aniello S,Ristoratore F

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prions are transmissible, propagating alternative states of proteins, and are usually made from the fibrillar, beta-sheet-rich assemblies termed amyloid. Prions in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae propagate heritable phenotypes, uncover hidden genetic variation, function in large-scale gene regulat...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： An L,Fitzpatrick D,Harrison PM

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The eusocial Hymenoptera have radiated across a wide range of thermal environments, exposing them to significant physiological stressors. We reconstructed the evolutionary history of three families of Heat Shock Proteins (Hsp90, Hsp70, Hsp40), the primary molecular chaperones protecting against thermal damag...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nguyen AD,Gotelli NJ,Cahan SH

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a set of publications described flea fossils from Jurassic and Early Cretaceous geological strata in northeastern China, which were suggested to have parasitized feathered dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and early birds or mammals. In support of these fossils being fleas, a recent publication in BMC Evolutionary Biol...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Dittmar K,Zhu Q,Hastriter MW,Whiting MF

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The gene regulatory network involved in tooth morphogenesis has been extremely well described in mammals and its modeling has allowed predictions of variations in regulatory pathway that may have led to evolution of tooth shapes. However, very little is known outside of mammals to understand how this regulat...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Debiais-Thibaud M,Chiori R,Enault S,Oulion S,Germon I,Martinand-Mari C,Casane D,Borday-Birraux V

更新日期：2015-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sphingomyelinase D is the main toxin present in the venom of Loxosceles spiders. Several isoforms present in these venoms can be structurally classified in two groups. Class I Sphingomyelinase D contains a single disulphide bridge and variable loop. Class II Sphingomyelinase D presents an additional intracha...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pedroso A,Matioli SR,Murakami MT,Pidde-Queiroz G,Tambourgi DV

更新日期：2015-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hymenoptera that mass-provision their offspring have evolved elaborate antimicrobial strategies to ward off fungal infestation of the highly nutritive larval food. Females of the Afro-European Philanthus triangulum and the South American Trachypus elongatus (Crabronidae, Philanthinae) embalm their prey, para...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Weiss K,Strohm E,Kaltenpoth M,Herzner G

更新日期：2015-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maternal care (egg-nymph guarding behavior) has been recorded in some genera of Acanthosomatidae. However, the origin of the maternal care in the family has remained unclear due to the lack of phylogenetic hypotheses. Another reproductive mode is found in non-caring species whose females smear their eggs bef...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tsai JF,Kudo S,Yoshizawa K

更新日期：2015-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacillus cereus sensu lato comprises eight closely related species including the human pathogens Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus. Within B. cereus sensu lato, chromosomally and plasmid-encoded toxins exist. While plasmid-mediated horizontal gene transfer of the emetic toxin, anthrax and insecticidal t...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Böhm ME,Huptas C,Krey VM,Scherer S

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phylogeography is an important tool that can be used to reveal cryptic biodiversity and to better understand the processes that promote lineage diversification. We studied the phylogeographic history of the Arboreal Salamander (Aneides lugubris), a wide-ranging species endemic to the California floristic pro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Reilly SB,Corl A,Wake DB

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phoronids undergo a remarkable metamorphosis, in which some parts of the larval body are consumed by the juvenile and the body plan completely changes. According to the only previous hypothesis concerning the evolution of the phoronid body plan, a hypothetical ancestor of phoronids inhabited a U-shaped burro...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Temereva EN,Malakhov VV

更新日期：2015-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transposable elements (TE) have attracted much attention since they shape the genome and contribute to species evolution. Organisms have evolved mechanisms to control TE activity. Testis expressed 19 (Tex19) represses TE expression in mouse testis and placenta. In the human and mouse genomes, Tex19 and Secre...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bianchetti L,Tarabay Y,Lecompte O,Stote R,Poch O,Dejaegere A,Viville S

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A key to understanding the origins of species is determining the evolutionary processes that drive the patterns of genomic divergence during speciation. New genomic technologies enable the study of high-resolution genomic patterns of divergence across natural speciation continua, where taxa pairs with differ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Supple MA,Papa R,Hines HM,McMillan WO,Counterman BA

更新日期：2015-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although homologous recombination affects the efficacy of selection in populations, the pattern of recombination rate evolution and its effects on genome evolution across plants are largely unknown. Recombination can reduce genome size by enabling the removal of LTR retrotransposons, alter codon usage by GC ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Tiley GP,Burleigh JG

更新日期：2015-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Divergent selection can be a major driver of ecological speciation. In insects of medical importance, understanding the speciation process is both of academic interest and public health importance. In the West Nile virus vector Culex pipiens, intraspecific pipiens and molestus forms vary in ecological and ph...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Gomes B,Wilding CS,Weetman D,Sousa CA,Novo MT,Savage HM,Almeida AP,Pinto J,Donnelly MJ

更新日期：2015-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reproductive skew, the uneven distribution of reproductive success among individuals, is a common feature of many animal populations. Several scenarios have been proposed to favour either high or low levels of reproductive skew. Particularly a male-biased operational sex ratio and the asynchronous arrival of...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Mangold A,Trenkwalder K,Ringler M,Hödl W,Ringler E

更新日期：2015-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the short-term, organisms acclimate to stress through phenotypic plasticity, but in the longer term they adapt to stress genetically. The mutations that accrue during adaptation may contribute to completely novel phenotypes, or they may instead act to restore the phenotype from a stressed to a pre-stress ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hug SM,Gaut BS

更新日期：2015-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Marburg virus (MARV) has a negative-sense single-stranded RNA genome, belongs to the family Filoviridae, and is responsible for several outbreaks of highly fatal hemorrhagic fever. Codon usage patterns of viruses reflect a series of evolutionary changes that enable viruses to shape their survival rates a...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nasrullah I,Butt AM,Tahir S,Idrees M,Tong Y

更新日期：2015-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hybridization between incipient species is expected to become progressively limited as their genetic divergence increases and reproductive isolation proceeds. Amphibian radiations and their secondary contact zones are useful models to infer the timeframes of speciation, but empirical data from natural system...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Dufresnes C,Brelsford A,Crnobrnja-Isailović J,Tzankov N,Lymberakis P,Perrin N

更新日期：2015-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adaptive radiation theory posits that ecological opportunity promotes rapid proliferation of phylogenetic and ecological diversity. Given that adaptive radiation proceeds via occupation of available niche space in newly accessed ecological zones, theory predicts that: (i) evolutionary diversification follows...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pincheira-Donoso D,Harvey LP,Ruta M

更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The subfamily Stevardiinae is a diverse and widely distributed clade of freshwater fishes from South and Central America, commonly known as "tetras" (Characidae). The group was named "clade A" when first proposed as a monophyletic unit of Characidae and later designated as a subfamily. Stevardiinae includes ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Thomaz AT,Arcila D,Ortí G,Malabarba LR

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) is an important pathogen that infects a variety of decapod species and causes a highly contagious disease in penaeid shrimps. Mass mortalities caused by WSSV have pronounced commercial impact on shrimp aquaculture. Until now WSSV is the only known member of the virus fami...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Rozenberg A,Brand P,Rivera N,Leese F,Schubart CD

更新日期：2015-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The classification of royal ferns (Osmundaceae) has long remained controversial. Recent molecular phylogenies indicate that Osmunda is paraphyletic and needs to be separated into Osmundastrum and Osmunda s.str. Here, however, we describe an exquisitely preserved Jurassic Osmunda rhizome (O. pulchella sp. nov...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bomfleur B,Grimm GW,McLoughlin S

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The past decade has witnessed remarkable progress towards resolution of the Tree of Life. However, despite the increased use of genomic scale datasets, some phylogenetic relationships remain difficult to resolve. Here we employ anchored phylogenomics to capture 107 nuclear loci in 29 species of acanthomorph ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Eytan RI,Evans BR,Dornburg A,Lemmon AR,Lemmon EM,Wainwright PC,Near TJ

更新日期：2015-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antarctic notothenioids are an impressive adaptive radiation. While they share recent common ancestry with several species-depauperate lineages that exhibit a relictual distribution in areas peripheral to the Southern Ocean, an understanding of their evolutionary origins and biogeographic history is limited ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Near TJ,Dornburg A,Harrington RC,Oliveira C,Pietsch TW,Thacker CE,Satoh TP,Katayama E,Wainwright PC,Eastman JT,Beaulieu JM

更新日期：2015-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During past glacial periods, many species of forest-dwelling animals experienced range contractions. In contrast, species living outside such moist habitats appear to have reacted to Quaternary changes in different ways. The Atlantic Forest represents an excellent opportunity to test phylogeographic hypothes...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Cardoso DC,Cristiano MP,Tavares MG,Schubart CD,Heinze J

更新日期：2015-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The detection and avoidance of "long-branch effects" in phylogenetic inference represents a longstanding challenge for molecular phylogenetic investigations. A consequence of parallelism and convergence, long-branch effects arise in phylogenetic inference when there is unequal molecular divergence among line...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Su Z,Townsend JP

更新日期：2015-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evolutionary highly conserved neurohypophyseal hormones oxytocin and arginine vasopressin play key roles in regulating social cognition and behaviours. The effects of these two peptides are meditated by their specific receptors, which are encoded by the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) and arginine vasopressin r...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Schaschl H,Huber S,Schaefer K,Windhager S,Wallner B,Fieder M

更新日期：2015-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our aim is to understand the evolution of species-rich plant groups that shifted from tropical into cold/temperate biomes. It is well known that climate affects evolutionary processes, such as how fast species diversify, species range shifts, and species distributions. Many plant lineages may have gone extin...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nürk NM,Uribe-Convers S,Gehrke B,Tank DC,Blattner FR

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Correct species identification is crucial in different fields of biology, and in conservation. The endemic West African frog family Odontobatrachidae currently contains a single described species, Odontobatrachus natator. From western Guinea to western Côte d'Ivoire it inhabits forests around waterfalls or c...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Barej MF,Penner J,Schmitz A,Rödel MO

更新日期：2015-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The host range of a pathogenic bacterial strain likely influences its effective population size, which in turn affects the efficacy of selection. Transmission between competent hosts may occur more frequently for host generalists than for specialists. This could allow higher bacterial population densities to...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Aardema ML,von Loewenich FD

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drosophila melanogaster often shows correlations between latitude and phenotypic or genetic variation on different continents, which suggests local adaptation with respect to a heterogeneous environment. Previous phenotypic analyses of latitudinal clines have investigated mainly physiological, morphological,...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Svetec N,Zhao L,Saelao P,Chiu JC,Begun DJ

更新日期：2015-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic analyses of DNA sequences make use of an increasingly complex set of nucleotide substitution models to estimate the divergence between gene sequences. However, there is currently no way to assess the validity of nucleotide substitution models over short time-scales and with limited mutational accumul...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Duchêne S,Ho SY,Holmes EC

更新日期：2015-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many butterflies possess striking structures called eyespots on their wings, and several studies have sought to understand the selective forces that have shaped their evolution. Work over the last decade has shown that a major function of eyespots is their ability to reduce predation by being intimidating to...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Mukherjee R,Kodandaramaiah U

更新日期：2015-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term monitoring of the biological impacts of the radioactive pollution caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011 is required to understand what has occurred in organisms living in the polluted areas. Here, we investigated spatial and temporal changes of the abnormality rate (AR) in both fie...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Hiyama A,Taira W,Nohara C,Iwasaki M,Kinjo S,Iwata M,Otaki JM

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can be divided into four subspecies. Substantial phylogenetic evidence suggests that these subspecies can be grouped into two distinct lineages: a western African group that includes P. t. verus and P. t. ellioti and a central/eastern African group that includes P. t. troglodyte...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Mitchell MW,Locatelli S,Ghobrial L,Pokempner AA,Sesink Clee PR,Abwe EE,Nicholas A,Nkembi L,Anthony NM,Morgan BJ,Fotso R,Peeters M,Hahn BH,Gonder MK

更新日期：2015-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analyzing regulation of bacteriophage gene expression historically lead to establishing major paradigms of molecular biology, and may provide important medical applications in the future. Temporal regulation of bacteriophage transcription is commonly analyzed through a labor-intensive combination of biochemi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Guzina J,Djordjevic M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Crop diversity managed by smallholder farmers in traditional agrosystems is the outcome of historical and current processes interacting at various spatial scales, and influenced by factors such as farming practices and environmental pressures. Only recently have studies started to consider the complexity of ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Sahri A,Chentoufi L,Arbaoui M,Ardisson M,Belqadi L,Birouk A,Roumet P,Muller MH

更新日期：2014-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The majority of DNA contained within vertebrate genomes is non-coding, with a certain proportion of this thought to play regulatory roles during development. Conserved Non-coding Elements (CNEs) are an abundant group of putative regulatory sequences that are highly conserved across divergent groups and thus ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Davies KT,Tsagkogeorga G,Rossiter SJ

更新日期：2014-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vertebrate skin appendages are constructed of keratins produced by multigene families. Alpha (α) keratins are found in all vertebrates, while beta (β) keratins are found exclusively in reptiles and birds. We have studied the molecular evolution of these gene families in the genomes of 48 phylogenetically div...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Greenwold MJ,Bao W,Jarvis ED,Hu H,Li C,Gilbert MT,Zhang G,Sawyer RH

更新日期：2014-12-12 00:00:00