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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.
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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :139
The unusual looking parasite Polypodium hydriforme has proved difficult to classify taxonomically, but a new phylogeny using ribosomal DNA sequences supports the traditional hypothesis that it belongs in its own class within the Cnidaria.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :104
For mosquitoes harboring resistance alleles against two insecticides, the fitness cost can unexpectedly be lower than being resistant to carbamate alone, a genetic interaction that is difficult to predict and adds complexity to managing pesticide use.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :88
By reproducing clonally the asexual Amazon Molly fish accumulates deleterious mutations, known as Muller
s Ratchet, that threaten the species with extinction, but might be counteracted by having sex with males from sister species.
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The relative nature of fertilization success: implications for the study of post-copulatory sexual selection Francisco Garcia-Gonzalez BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :140 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic parasite, Polypodium hydriforme, within the Phylum Cnidaria Nathaniel M Evans, Alberto Lindner, Ekaterina V Raikova, Allen G Collins, Paulyn Cartwright BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :139 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Microsatellite evolution: Mutations, sequence variation, and homoplasy in the hypervariable avian microsatellite locus HrU10 Jarl A Anmarkrud, Oddmund Kleven, Lutz Bachmann, Jan T Lifjeld BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :138 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Reproductive isolation, evolutionary distinctiveness and setting conservation priorities: the case of European lake whitefish and the endangered North Sea houting (Coregonus spp.) Michael M Hansen, Dylan J Fraser, Thomas D Als, Karen-Lise D Mensberg BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :137 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Unexpected diversity of cnidarian integrins: expression during coral gastrulation Brent A Knack, Akira Iguchi, Chuya Shinzato, David C Hayward, Eldon E Ball, David J Miller BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :136 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Oldest record of Trimeniaceae from the Early Cretaceous of northern Japan Toshihiro Yamada, Harufumi Nishida, Masayoshi Umebayashi, Kazuhiko Uemura, Masahiro Kato BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :135 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The spread of incompatibility-inducing parasites in sub-divided host populations Max Reuter, Laurent Lehmann, Frederic Guillaume BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :134 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Selection dramatically reduces effective population size in HIV-1 infection Yi Liu, John E Mittler BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :133 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Gene flow and the genealogical history of Heliconius heurippa Camilo Salazar, Chris D Jiggins, Jesse E Taylor, Marcus R Kronforst, Mauricio Linares BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :132 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The metazoan history of the COE transcription factors. Selection of a variant HLH motif by mandatory inclusion of a duplicated exon in vertebrates Virginie Daburon, Sebastien Mella, Jean-Louis Plouhinec, Sylvie Mazan, Michele Crozatier, Alain Vincent BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :131 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Chloroplast genome sequencing analysis of Heterosigma akashiwo CCMP452 (West Atlantic) and NIES 293 (West Pacific) strains Rose Ann Cattolico, Michael A. Jacobs, Yang Zhou, Jean Chang, Melinda Duplessis, Terry Lybrand, John McKay, Han Chuan Ong, Elizabeth Sims, Gabrielle Rocap BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :211 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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New evidence of a mitochondrial genetic background paradox:
impact of the J haplogroup on the A3243G mutation
Denis Pierron, Christophe Rocher, Patricia Amati-Bonneau, Pascal Reynier, Marie-Laure Martin-Negrier, Stephane Allouche, Cecile Batandier, Benedicte Mousson de Camaret, Catherine Godinot, Agnes Rotig, Delphine Feldmann, Christine Bellanne-Chantelot, Benoit Arveiler, Erwann Pennarun, Rodrigue Rossignol, Marc Crouzet, Pascal Murail, Didier Thoraval, Thierry Letellier BMC Medical Genetics 2008, 9 :41 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Genomic Imprinting of IGF2 in Marsupials is Methylation Dependent Betty R Lawton, Benjamin R Carone, Craig J Obergfell, Gianni C Ferreri, Christina M Gondolfi, John L VandeBerg, Ikhide Imumorin, Rachel J O'Neill, Michael J O'Neill BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :205 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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On the optimality of the neighbor-joining algorithm Kord Eickmeyer, Peter Huggins, Lior Pachter, Ruriko Yoshida Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2008, 3 :5 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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GENOMEPOP: A program to simulate genomes in populations Antonio Carvajal-Rodriguez BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :223 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Assessing meiofaunal variation among individuals utilising morphological and molecular approaches: an example using the Tardigrada Chester J Sands, Peter Convey, Katrin Linse, Sandra J McInnes BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :7 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Human-macaque comparisons illuminate variation in neutral substitution rates Svitlana Tyekucheva, Kateryna D Makova, John E Karro, Ross C Hardison, Webb Miller, Francesca Chiaromonte Genome Biology 2008, 9 :R76 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Studying the functional conservation of cis-regulatory modules and their transcriptional output Denis C Bauer, Timothy L Bailey BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 :220 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Comparative analysis of septic injury-inducible genes in phylogenetically distant model organisms of regeneration and stem cell research, the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea and the cnidarian Hydra vulgaris Boran Altincicek, Andreas Vilcinskas Frontiers in Zoology 2008, 5 :6 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Functional importance of different patterns of correlation between adjacent cassette exons in human and mouse Tao Peng, Chenghai Xue, Jianning Bi, Tingting Li, Xiaowo Wang, Xuegong Zhang, Yanda Li BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :191 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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