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BMC Evolutionary Biology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of molecular and non-molecular evolution of all organisms, as well as phylogenetics and palaeontology.
BMC Evolutionary Biology (ISSN 1471-2148) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus, Zoological Record, Current Contents, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10 :29
Western Mediterranean Leptodirini originated in the Early– Mid Oligocene and adapted to living in caves in the main areas where they are found today by the Late Oligocene, while diversification has occurred since the Early Miocene.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10 :15
The origin and expansion of the Neolithic rice culture coincides with the emergence of a new allele of class I alcohol dehydrogenase, suggesting increased consumption of fermented food or drinks as a plausible selective force.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :303
Inteins and group I introns, but not spliceosomal or group II introns, are inserted into conserved, functionally active regions of host proteins and evade deletion by imposing functional constraints on the target site.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :302
The unpredictability of adaptive evolution is illustrated by tracking a beneficial mutation, affecting cell wall synthesis, that occured and spread in one Escherichia coli population but not others in a long-term evolution experiment.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :283
Hybrids of cichlid fish can yield novel phenotypes not seen in either parent, and the degree of this "transgression" increases with the genetic distance between parental species, supporting a role for hybridization in phenotypic evolution.
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A worldwide correlation of lactase persistence phenotype and genotypes Yuval Itan, Bryony L Jones, Catherine JE Ingram, Dallas M Swallow, Mark G Thomas BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10 :36 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Old divergences in a boreal bird supports long-term survival through the Ice Ages Takema Saitoh, Per Alstrom, Isao Nishiumi, Yoshimitsu Shigeta, Dawn Williams, Urban Olsson, Keisuke Ueda BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10 :35 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The backbone of the post-synaptic density originated in a unicellular ancestor of choanoflagellates and metazoans Alexandre Alie, Michael Manuel BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10 :34 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Trapped in the extinction vortex? Strong genetic effects in a declining vertebrate population Donald Blomqvist, Angela Pauliny, Mikael Larsson, Lars-Ake Flodin BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10 :33 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The synapsin gene family in basal chordates: evolutionary perspectives in metazoans Simona Candiani, Luca Moronti, Roberta Pennati, Fiorenza De Bernardi, Fabio Benfenati, Mario Pestarino BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10 :32 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Evolution of trappin genes in mammals Akira Kato, Alejandro P. Rooney, Yutaka Furutani, Shigehisa Hirose BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10 :31 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Periostin shows increased evolutionary plasticity in its alternatively spliced region Sebastian Hoersch, Miguel A Andrade-Navarro BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10 :30 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Ancient origin of a Western Mediterranean radiation of subterranean beetles Ignacio Ribera, Javier Fresneda, Ruxandra Bucur, Ana Izquierdo, Alfried P Vogler, Jose M Salgado, Alexandra Cieslak BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10 :29 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Epigenetic effects on the mouse mandible: common features and discrepancies in remodeling due to muscular dystrophy and response to food consistency Sabrina Renaud, Jean-Christophe Auffray, Sabine de la Porte BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10 :28 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Lineage-specific co-evolution of the Egf receptor/ligand signaling system Juliette AGC Laisney, Ingo Braasch, Ronald B Walter, Svenja Meierjohann, Manfred Schartl BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10 :27 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Homopolymeric tracts represent a general regulatory mechanism in prokaryotes Renato H Orsi, Barbara M Bowen, Martin Wiedmann BMC Genomics 2010, 11 :102 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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2X genomes - depth does matter Michel C Milinkovitch, Raphael Helaers, Eric Depiereux, Athanasia C Tzika, Toni Gabaldon Genome Biology 2010, 11 :R16 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Stone formation in peach fruit exhibits spatial coordination of the lignin and flavonoid pathways and similarity to Arabidopsis dehiscence Chris D Dardick, Ann M Callahan, Remo Chiozzotto, Robert J Schaffer, M Claudia Piagnani, Ralph Scorza BMC Biology 2010, 8 :13 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Homeolog loss and expression changes in natural populations of the recently and repeatedly formed allotetraploid Tragopogon mirus (Asteraceae) Jin Koh, Pamela S Soltis, Douglas E Soltis BMC Genomics 2010, 11 :97 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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The origin of populations of Arabidopsis thaliana in China, based on the chloroplast DNA sequences Ping Yin, Juqing Kang, Fei He, Li-Jia Qu, Hongya Gu BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :22 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Coupling of receptor interference and a host-dependent post-binding entry deficiency in a gammaretroviral envelope protein
Shervin Bahrami, Ditte Ejegod, Karina DALSGAARD Sorensen, Finn SKOU Pedersen Retrovirology 2010, 7 :9 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Low level of polymorphism in two putative NPR1 homologs in the Vitaceae family Karine Bergeault, Christophe Bertsch, Didier Merdinoglu, Bernard Walter Biology Direct 2010, 5 :9 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Trapped in freshwater: the internal anatomy of the entoproct Loxosomatoides sirindhornae Thomas Schwaha, Timothy S Wood, Andreas Wanninger Frontiers in Zoology 2010, 7 :7 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Origin of the cell nucleus, mitosis and sex: roles of intracellular coevolution Thomas Cavalier-Smith Biology Direct 2010, 5 :7 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Coevolution of activating and inhibitory receptors within mammalian carcinoembryonic antigen families Robert Kammerer, Wolfgang Zimmermann BMC Biology 2010, 8 :12 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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