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BMC Biology - the flagship biology journal of the BMC series - publishes research and methodology articles of special importance and broad interest in any area of biology and biomedical sciences. BMC Biology (ISSN 1741-7007) is covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Zoological Record, Thomson Scientific (ISI) and Google Scholar. The journal will receive its first Impact Factor in 2008.
BMC Biology 2008, 6 :19
Cryptic mouse lemur species that look the same and share habitat nevertheless manage to find appropriate mates in the dark by recognizing male advertisement calls of their own species, thus preserving isolation of the two species.
BMC Biology 2008, 6 :18
Flying lemurs and tree shrews may be more closely related than previously thought as recent cytogenetic evidence places them as sister taxa, which contradicts molecular sequence findings that placed flying lemurs closer to primates.
BMC Biology 2008, 6 :17
Although birds do not have thermogenic brown adipose tissue, the developmental pathway for brown fat differentiation is still present and can be induced, indicating that brown fat evolved in a common ancestor of birds and mammals.
BMC Biology 2008, 6 :16
Expression patterns of duplicate genes in the allopolyploid genome of cotton have arisen either as a consequence of genomic mergers or reflect long-term evolutionary changes such as duplicate gene neofunctionalization and subfunctionalization.
BMC Biology 2008, 6 :15
Novel cofactors of Mash1 and Ngn2, proneural genes involved in mammalian brain development, have been identified by a combination of experimental and bioinformatic approaches, establishing a new understanding of the gene regulatory networks behind neurogenesis.
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Acoustic divergence in communication of cryptic species of nocturnal primates (Microcebus ssp.) Pia Braune, Sabine Schmidt, Elke Zimmermann BMC Biology 2008, 6 :19 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Flying lemurs - the "flying tree shrews"?
Molecular cytogenetic evidence for a Scandentia-Dermoptera sister clade
Wenhui Nie, Beiyuan Fu, Patricia CM O'Brien, Jinhuan Wang, Weiting Su, Alongklod Tanomtong, Vitaly Volobouev, Malcolm A Ferguson-Smith, Fengtang Yang BMC Biology 2008, 6 :18 (1 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The brown adipocyte differentiation pathway in birds: An evolutionary road not taken Nadejda V Mezentseva, Jaliya S Kumaratilake, Stuart A Newman BMC Biology 2008, 6 :17 (21 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Duplicate gene expression in allopolyploid Gossypium reveals two temporally distinct phases of expression evolution Lex Flagel, Joshua Udall, Dan Nettleton, Jonathan Wendel BMC Biology 2008, 6 :16 (16 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase PKR of fishes and amphibians: Varying the number of double-stranded RNA binding domains and lineage-specific duplications Stefan Rothenburg, Nikolaus Deigendesch, Madhusudan Dey, Thomas E Dever, Loubna Tazi BMC Biology 2008, 6 :12 (3 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The introduction history of invasive garden ants in Europe: Integrating genetic, chemical and behavioural approaches Line V Ugelvig, Falko P Drijfhout, Daniel JC Kronauer, Jacobus J Boomsma, Jes S Pedersen, Sylvia Cremer BMC Biology 2008, 6 :11 (26 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Multigene phylogeny of the Mustelidae: Resolving relationships, tempo and biogeographic history of a mammalian adaptive radiation Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Kerry A Deere, Graham J Slater, Colleen Begg, Keith Begg, Lon Grassman, Mauro Lucherini, Geraldine Veron, Robert K Wayne BMC Biology 2008, 6 :10 (14 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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