abstract：BACKGROUND:How vascular systems and their respiratory pigments evolved is still debated. While many animals present a vascular system, hemoglobin exists as a blood pigment only in a few groups (vertebrates, annelids, a few arthropod and mollusk species). Hemoglobins are formed of globin sub-units, belonging to multigen...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Song S,Starunov V,Bailly X,Ruta C,Kerner P,Cornelissen AJM,Balavoine G

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Monoculture farming poses significant disease challenges, but fungus-farming termites are able to successfully keep their monoculture crop free from contamination by other fungi. It has been hypothesised that obligate gut passage of all plant substrate used to manure the fungal symbiont is key to accomplish ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Bos N,Guimaraes L,Palenzuela R,Renelies-Hamilton J,Maccario L,Silue SK,Koné N'A,Poulsen M

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sperm storage plays a key role in the reproductive success of many sexually-reproducing organisms, and the capacity of long-term sperm storage varies across species. While there are theoretical explanations for why such variation exists, to date there are no controlled empirical tests of the reproductive con...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Dhillon A,Chowdhury T,Morbey YE,Moehring AJ

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evolutionary transitions from terrestrial to aquatic life history cause drastic changes in sensory systems. Indeed, the drastic changes in vision have been reported in many aquatic amniotes, convergently. Recently, the opsin genes of the full-aquatic sea snakes have been reported. However, those of the amphi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Seiko T,Kishida T,Toyama M,Hariyama T,Okitsu T,Wada A,Toda M,Satta Y,Terai Y

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Through its ability to open pores in cell membranes, perforin-1 plays a key role in the immune system. Consistent with this role, the gene encoding perforin shows hallmarks of complex evolutionary events, including amplification and pseudogenization, in multiple species. A large proportion of these events oc...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Araujo-Voces M,Quesada V

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article. ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Cho CH,In Park S,Ciniglia C,Yang EC,Graf L,Bhattacharya D,Yoon HS

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One hypothesis for the function of sleep is that it serves as a mechanism to conserve energy. Recent studies have suggested that increased sleep can be an adaptive mechanism to improve survival under food deprivation in Drosophila melanogaster. To test the generality of this hypothesis, we compared sleep and...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Sarikaya DP,Cridland J,Tarakji A,Sheehy H,Davis S,Kochummen A,Hatmaker R,Khan N,Chiu J,Begun DJ

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aragonite shelled, planktonic gastropod family Atlantidae (shelled heteropods) is likely to be one of the first groups to be impacted by imminent ocean changes, including ocean warming and ocean acidification. With a fossil record spanning at least 100 Ma, atlantids have experienced and survived global-s...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Wall-Palmer D,Janssen AW,Goetze E,Choo LQ,Mekkes L,Peijnenburg KTCA

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As global change and anthropogenic pressures continue to increase, conservation and management increasingly needs to consider species' potential to adapt to novel environmental conditions. Therefore, it is imperative to characterise the main selective forces acting on ecosystems, and how these may influence ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nielsen ES,Henriques R,Beger M,Toonen RJ,von der Heyden S

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The blood-feeding behavior evolved multiple times in Insecta lineages and it represents an excellent opportunity to study patterns of convergent molecular evolution regarding this habit. In insects the expansion of some gene families is linked with blood-feeding behavior, but a wide study comparing the evolu...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Freitas L,Nery MF

更新日期：2020-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although phylogenomic analyses are increasingly used to reveal evolutionary relationships among ciliates, relatively few nuclear protein-coding gene markers have been tested for their suitability as candidates for inferring phylogenies within this group. In this study, we investigate the utility of the heat-...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Zhang Q,Xu J,Warren A,Yang R,Shen Z,Yi Z

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tree squirrels (Sciuridae, Sciurini), in particular the highly diverse Neotropical lineages, are amongst the most rapidly diversifying branches of the mammal tree of life but also some of the least known. Negligence of this group by systematists is likely a product of the difficulties in assessing morphologi...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： de Abreu-Jr EF,Pavan SE,Tsuchiya MTN,Wilson DE,Percequillo AR,Maldonado JE

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disentangling the drivers of genetic differentiation is one of the cornerstones in evolution. This is because genetic diversity, and the way in which it is partitioned within and among populations across space, is an important asset for the ability of populations to adapt and persist in changing environments...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Castilla AR,Méndez-Vigo B,Marcer A,Martínez-Minaya J,Conesa D,Picó FX,Alonso-Blanco C

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alternative splicing (AS) generates various transcripts from a single gene and thus plays a significant role in transcriptomic diversity and proteomic complexity. Alu elements are primate-specific transposable elements (TEs) and can provide a donor or acceptor site for AS. In a study on TE-mediated AS, we re...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Choe SH,Park SJ,Cho HM,Park HR,Lee JR,Kim YH,Huh JW

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most cinquefoils (Potentilla L., Rosaceae) are polyploids, ranging from tetraploid (4x) to dodecaploid (12x), diploids being a rare exception. Previous studies based on ribosomal and chloroplast data indicated that Norwegian cinquefoil (P. norvegica L.) has genetic material from two separate clades within Po...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Persson NL,Eriksson T,Smedmark JEE

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The flat periwinkles, Littorina fabalis and L. obtusata, are two sister species widely distributed throughout the Northern Atlantic shores with high potential to inform us about the process of ecological speciation in the intertidal. However, whether gene flow has occurred during their divergence is still a ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Sotelo G,Duvetorp M,Costa D,Panova M,Johannesson K,Faria R

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polyplacophora, or chitons, have long fascinated malacologists for their distinct and rather conserved morphology and lifestyle compared to other mollusk classes. However, key aspects of their phylogeny and evolution remain unclear due to the few morphological, molecular, or combined phylogenetic analyses, p...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Irisarri I,Uribe JE,Eernisse DJ,Zardoya R

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Orange jasmine has a complex nomenclatural history and is now known as Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack. Our interest in this common ornamental stemmed from the need to resolve its identity and the identities of closely related taxa as hosts of the pathogen 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' and its vector Diap...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Nguyen CH,Beattie GAC,Haigh AM,Astuti IP,Mabberley DJ,Weston PH,Holford P

更新日期：2019-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coevolution is a selective process of reciprocal adaptation in hosts and parasites or in mutualistic symbionts. Classic population genetics theory predicts the signatures of selection at the interacting loci of both species, but not the neutral genome-wide polymorphism patterns. To bridge this gap, we build ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Živković D,John S,Verin M,Stephan W,Tellier A

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently we proposed an evolutionary explanation for a spinal pathology that afflicts many people, intervertebral disc herniation (Plomp et al. [2015] BMC Evolutionary Biology 15, 68). Using 2D data, we found that the bodies and pedicles of lower vertebrae of pathological humans were more similar in shape to...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Plomp KA,Dobney K,Weston DA,Strand Viðarsdóttir U,Collard M

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The coincidence of long distance dispersal (LDD) and biome shift is assumed to be the result of a multifaceted interplay between geographical distance and ecological suitability of source and sink areas. Here, we test the influence of these factors on the dispersal history of the flowering plant genus Erica ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pirie MD,Kandziora M,Nürk NM,Le Maitre NC,Mugrabi de Kuppler A,Gehrke B,Oliver EGH,Bellstedt DU

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many pathologies that modify the shell geometry and ornamentation of ammonoids are known from the fossil record. Since they may reflect the developmental response of the organism to a perturbation (usually a sublethal injury), their study is essential for exploring the developmental mechanisms of these extin...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Jattiot R,Fara E,Brayard A,Urdy S,Goudemand N

更新日期：2019-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tardigrada is a group of microscopic invertebrates distributed worldwide in permanent and temporal aquatic habitats. Famous for their extreme stress tolerance, tardigrades are also of interest due to their close relationship with Arthropoda and Cycloneuralia. Despite recent efforts in analyzing the musculatu...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Persson DK,Halberg KA,Neves RC,Jørgensen A,Kristensen RM,Møbjerg N

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genus Ilex (Aquifoliaceae) has a near-cosmopolitan distribution in mesic habitats from tropical to temperate lowlands and in alpine forests. It has a high rate of hybridization and plastid capture, and comprises four geographically structured plastid groups. A previous study showed that the plastid rbcL ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Yao X,Tan YH,Yang JB,Wang Y,Corlett RT,Manen JF

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Marine invertebrates are abundant and diverse on the continental shelf in Antarctica, but little is known about their parasitic counterparts. Endoparasites are especially understudied because they often possess highly modified body plans that pose problems for their identification. Asterophila, a genus of en...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Layton KKS,Rouse GW,Wilson NG

更新日期：2019-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fossil evidence suggests that extant North American lizard genera (north of Mexico) evolved during the Miocene. Although fossils of the clade Phrynosomatidae (spiny lizards and sand lizards) have been reported, there have been no previously described fossils of the fringe-toed sand lizards (Uma). In the exta...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Scarpetta SG

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Organisms are expected to respond to changing environmental conditions through local adaptation, range shift or local extinction. The process of local adaptation can occur by genetic changes or phenotypic plasticity, and becomes especially relevant when dispersal abilities or possibilities are somehow constr...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Romero-Mujalli D,Jeltsch F,Tiedemann R

更新日期：2019-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is wide agreement that only a subset of the twenty standard amino acids existed prebiotically in sufficient concentrations to form functional polypeptides. We ask how this subset, postulated as {A,D,E,G,I,L,P,S,T,V}, could have formed structures stable enough to found metabolic pathways. Inspired by al...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Solis AD

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most fatty acids (FAs) making up the adipose tissue in mammals have a dietary origin and suffer little modification when they are stored. However, we propose that some of those FAs, specifically those that can be synthesised or modified by mammals, are also being influenced by thermal forces and used as part...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Guerrero AI,Rogers TL

更新日期：2019-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adenosine deaminase enzymes of the ADAR family are conserved in metazoans. They convert adenine into inosine in dsRNAs and thus alter both structural properties and the coding potential of their substrates. Acting on exogenous dsRNAs, ADAR1 exerts a pro- or anti-viral role in vertebrates and Drosophila. RES...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Rosani U,Bai CM,Maso L,Shapiro M,Abbadi M,Domeneghetti S,Wang CM,Cendron L,MacCarthy T,Venier P

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our laboratory identified ADGRL4/ELTD1, an orphan GPCR belonging to the adhesion GPCR (aGPCR) family, as a novel regulator of angiogenesis and a potential anti-cancer therapeutic target. Little is known about how ADGRL4/ELTD1 (and aGPCRs in general) function, a problem compounded by a lack of known ligands o...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Favara DM,Banham AH,Harris AL

更新日期：2019-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The LysM receptor-like kinases (LysM-RLKs) are important to both plant defense and symbiosis. Previous studies described three clades of LysM-RLKs: LysM-I/LYKs (10+ exons per gene and containing conserved kinase residues), LysM-II/LYRs (1-5 exons per gene, lacking conserved kinase residues), and LysM-III (tw...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Richards S,Rose LE

更新日期：2019-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nuclear progesterone receptor (nPR) is an evolutionary innovation in vertebrates that mediates genomic responses to progesterone. Vertebrates also respond to progesterone via membrane progesterone receptors (mPRs) or membrane associated progesterone receptors (MAPRs) through rapid nongenomic mechanisms. Lamp...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Ren J,Chung-Davidson YW,Jia L,Li W

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The hypothesis that vertebrates have experienced two ancient, whole genome duplications (WGDs) is of central interest to evolutionary biology and has been implicated in evolution of developmental complexity. Three-way and Four-way paralogy regions in human and other vertebrate genomes are considered as vital...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Pervaiz N,Shakeel N,Qasim A,Zehra R,Anwar S,Rana N,Xue Y,Zhang Z,Bao Y,Abbasi AA

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Volvocine algae provide a suitable model for investigation of the evolution of multicellular organisms. Within this group, evolution of the body plan from flattened to spheroidal colonies is thought to have occurred independently in two different lineages, Volvocaceae and Astrephomene. Volvocacean species un...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Yamashita S,Nozaki H

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many species of social insects have large-scale mating and dispersal flights and their populations are therefore often relatively homogenous. In contrast, dispersal on the wing appears to be uncommon in most species of the ant genus Cardiocondyla, because its males are wingless and the winged queens mate in ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Jacobs S,Heinze J

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the arms race between hosts and parasites, genes involved in the immune response are targets for natural selection. Toll-Like Receptor (TLR) genes play a role in parasite detection as part of the innate immune system whereas Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) genes encode proteins that display antigen...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Antonides J,Mathur S,Sundaram M,Ricklefs R,DeWoody JA

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Animals have a greater diversity of signalling pathways than their unicellular relatives, consistent with the evolution and expansion of these pathways occurring in parallel with the origin of animal multicellularity. However, the genomes of sponges and ctenophores - non-bilaterian basal animals - typically ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Krishnan A,Degnan BM,Degnan SM

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Scalidophora (Kinorhyncha, Loricifera and Priapulida) have an important phylogenetic position as early branching ecdysozoans, yet the architecture of their nervous organ systems is notably underinvestigated. Without such information, and in the absence of a stable phylogenetic context, we are inhibited f...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： Herranz M,Leander BS,Pardos F,Boyle MJ

更新日期：2019-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Self-powered flight is one of the most energy-intensive types of locomotion found in vertebrates. It is also associated with a range of extreme morpho-physiological adaptations that evolved independently in three different vertebrate groups. Considering that development acts as a bridge between the genotype ...

journal_title：BMC evolutionary biology

authors： López-Aguirre C,Hand SJ,Koyabu D,Son NT,Wilson LAB

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00