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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:50Resistance 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.
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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:44Migration 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.
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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:36UV 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.
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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:5Reassessing 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.
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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:4Slime moulds cheat to get ahead
Under tough conditions individuals of the single-celled slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum work together to form a fruiting body, but a strain that bears a particular mutation can cheat the system to preferentially reproduce, apparently without cost.
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