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Upright marsupials show hand preference

Two different marsupial species display a sex-related hand preference in the opposite direction to that of placental mammals and with a stronger tendency when in an upright posture, a trait only previously known in primates.

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:61
Resistance without the antibiotics

E. coli can develop resistance to the antibiotic rifampicin, even in the absence of the drug, if grown in a thermally stressed environment, suggesting that antibiotic resistance is not always costly for bacteria to maintain.

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:50
Migration impacts on multispecies phylogenies

New software that can simulate gene trees under a multispecies coalescent model with migration between subspecies shows that although inference of species tree topologies can be robust to gene flow, even detecting the presence of migration is difficult.

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:44
UV vision evolution in birds

Phylogenetic analysis of a single opsin gene in birds shows that their vision has shifted between the visible spectrum and UV-sensitive vision at least 14 times, each of which can be explained by a single nucleotide change.

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:36
Reassessing the Cnidarian tree

Re-evaluation of the phylogeny of the Cnidaria, using an expanded dataset of mitochondrial protein genes, differs from existing phylogeny and groups the Octocorallia and Medusozoa, resulting in a paraphyletic Anthozoa.

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:5
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