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BMC Evolutionary Biology, Volume 4

 

 

 

Research article
Host resistance does not explain variation in incidence of male-killing bacteria in Drosophila bifasciata
Zoe Veneti, Masanori J Toda, Gregory DD Hurst
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:52 (30November2004)
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Research article
Structure and evolution of protein interaction networks: a statistical model for link dynamics and gene duplications
Johannes Berg, Michael Lssig, Andreas Wagner
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:51 (27November2004)
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Research article
Evolutionary relationships of Fusobacterium nucleatum based on phylogenetic analysis and comparative genomics
Alex Mira, Ravindra Pushker, Boris A Legault, David Moreira, Francisco Rodrguez-Valera
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:50 (26November2004)
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Research article
Diversity and specificity in the interaction between Caenorhabditis elegans and the pathogen Serratia marcescens
Hinrich Schulenburg, Jonathan J Ewbank
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:49 (22November2004)
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Research article
Good vs complementary genes for parasite resistance and the evolution of mate choice
R Stephen Howard, Curtis M Lively
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:48 (19November2004)
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Research article
Widespread presence of "bacterial-like" PPP phosphatases in eukaryotes
Alexandra V Andreeva, Mikhail A Kutuzov
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:47 (19November2004)
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Research article
Are both sympatric species Ilex perado and Ilex canariensis secretly hybridizing? Indication from nuclear markers collected in Tenerife
Jean-Franois Manen
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:46 (18November2004)
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Research article
Density-dependence and within-host competition in a semelparous parasite of leaf-cutting ants
William OH Hughes, Klaus S Petersen, Line V Ugelvig, Dorthe Pedersen, Lene Thomsen, Michael Poulsen, Jacobus J Boomsma
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:45 (14November2004)
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Research article
A genomic timescale of prokaryote evolution: insights into the origin of methanogenesis, phototrophy, and the colonization of land
Fabia U Battistuzzi, Andreia Feijao, S Blair Hedges
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:44 (9November2004)
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Research article
An enigmatic fourth runt domain gene in the fugu genome: ancestral gene loss versus accelerated evolution
Gustavo Glusman, Amardeep Kaur, Leroy Hood, Lee Rowen
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:43 (4November2004)
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Research article
Adaptive evolution of transcription factor binding sites
Johannes Berg, Stana Willmann, Michael Lssig
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:42 (28October2004)
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Research article
The structurally constrained protein evolution model accounts for sequence patterns of the LH superfamily
Gustavo Parisi, Julin Echave
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:41 (22October2004)
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Research article
Phylogenetic inference in Rafflesiales: the influence of rate heterogeneity and horizontal gene transfer
Daniel L Nickrent, Albert Blarer, Yin-Long Qiu, Romina Vidal-Russell, Frank E Anderson
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:40 (20October2004)
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Research article
Evolutionary relationships of Aurora kinases: Implications for model organism studies and the development of anti-cancer drugs
James R Brown, Kristin K Koretke, Marian L Birkeland, Philippe Sanseau, Denis R Patrick
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:39 (12October2004)
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Research article
Characterization of an endogenous retrovirus class in elephants and their relatives
Alex D Greenwood, Claudia C Englbrecht, Ross DE MacPhee
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:38 (11October2004)
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Research article
Evolution and distribution of RNA polymerase II regulatory sites from RNA polymerase III dependant mobile Alu elements
Ravi Shankar, Deepak Grover, Samir K Brahmachari, Mitali Mukerji
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:37 (4October2004)
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Research article
Is autoinducer-2 a universal signal for interspecies communication: a comparative genomic and phylogenetic analysis of the synthesis and signal transduction pathways
Jibin Sun, Rolf Daniel, Irene Wagner-Dbler, An-Ping Zeng
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:36 (29September2004)
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Research article
Long branch attraction, taxon sampling, and the earliest angiosperms: Amborella or monocots?
Saa Stefanovi, Danny W Rice, Jeffrey D Palmer
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:35 (28September2004)
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Research article
Evolution of sexual asymmetry
Tams L Czrn, Rolf F Hoekstra
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:34 (21September2004)
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Methodology article
Reconstruction of ancestral protein sequences and its applications
Wei Cai, Jimin Pei, Nick V Grishin
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:33 (17September2004)
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Research article
Gene family evolution: an in-depth theoretical and simulation analysis of non-linear birth-death-innovation models
Georgy P Karev, Yuri I Wolf, Faina S Berezovskaya, Eugene V Koonin
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:32 (9September2004)
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Research article
Evidence for positive selection on Mycobacterium tuberculosis within patients
Mark M Tanaka
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:31 (9September2004)
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Research article
Experimental evaluation of the relationship between lethal or non-lethal virulence and transmission success in malaria parasite infections
REL Paul, T Lafond, CDM Mller-Graf, S Nithiuthai, PT Brey, JC Koella
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:30 (8September2004)
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Research article
Different patterns of evolution for duplicated DNA repair genes in bacteria of the Xanthomonadales group
Marinalva Martins-Pinheiro, Rodrigo S Galhardo, Claudia Lage, Keronninn M Lima-Bessa, Karina A Aires, Carlos FM Menck
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:29 (27August2004)
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Research article
A supertree approach to shorebird phylogeny
Gavin H Thomas, Matthew A Wills, Tams Szkely
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:28 (24August2004)
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Research article
Chloroplast DNA rearrangements in Campanulaceae: phylogenetic utility of highly rearranged genomes
Mary E Cosner, Linda A Raubeson, Robert K Jansen
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:27 (23August2004)
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Research article
Similarities in transcription factor IIIC subunits that bind to the posterior regions of internal promoters for RNA polymerase III
Sachiko Matsutani
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:26 (9August2004)
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Research article
Organization of the mitochondrial genomes of whiteflies, aphids, and psyllids (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha)
MyLo L Thao, Linda Baumann, Paul Baumann
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:25 (3August2004)
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Research article
Function and evolution of the serotonin-synthetic bas-1 gene and other aromatic amino acid decarboxylase genes in Caenorhabditis
Emily E Hare, Curtis M Loer
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:24 (2August2004)
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Research article
Phylogenetic relationships of typical antbirds (Thamnophilidae) and test of incongruence based on Bayes factors
Martin Irestedt, Jon Fjelds, Johan AA Nylander, Per GP Ericson
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:23 (30July2004)
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Research article
Duplicated genes evolve slower than singletons despite the initial rate increase
I King Jordan, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:22 (6July2004)
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Research article
Moderate mutation rate in the SARS coronavirus genome and its implications
Zhongming Zhao, Haipeng Li, Xiaozhuang Wu, Yixi Zhong, Keqin Zhang, Ya-Ping Zhang, Eric Boerwinkle, Yun-Xin Fu
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:21 (28June2004)
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Methodology article
Accurate and robust phylogeny estimation based on profile distances: a study of the Chlorophyceae (Chlorophyta)
Tobias Mller, Sven Rahmann, Thomas Dandekar, Matthias Wolf
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:20 (28June2004)
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Research article
Quantitative relationship between synonymous codon usage bias and GC composition across unicellular genomes
Xiu-Feng Wan, Dong Xu, Andris Kleinhofs, Jizhong Zhou
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:19 (28June2004)
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Software
TREEFINDER: a powerful graphical analysis environment for molecular phylogenetics
Gangolf Jobb, Arndt von Haeseler, Korbinian Strimmer
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:18 (28June2004)
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Research article
Low number of mitochondrial pseudogenes in the chicken (Gallus gallus) nuclear genome: implications for molecular inference of population history and phylogenetics
Srgio L Pereira, Allan J Baker
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:17 (25June2004)
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Research article
Structure-function evolution of the Transforming acidic coiled coil genes revealed by analysis of phylogenetically diverse organisms
Ivan H Still, Ananthalakshmy K Vettaikkorumakankauv, Anthony DiMatteo, Ping Liang
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:16 (18June2004)
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Research article
Section-level relationships of North American Agalinis (Orobanchaceae) based on DNA sequence analysis of three chloroplast gene regions
Maile C Neel, Michael P Cummings
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:15 (8June2004)
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Debate
Evolutionary rate depends on number of protein-protein interactions independently of gene expression level: Response
Jesse D Bloom, Christoph Adami
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:14 (1June2004)
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Debate
Evolutionary rate depends on number of protein-protein interactions independently of gene expression level
Hunter B Fraser, Aaron E Hirsh
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:13 (27May2004)
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Research article
Adaptation of a South American malaria vector to laboratory colonization suggests faster-male evolution for mating ability
Jos BP Lima, Denise Valle, Alexandre A Peixoto
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:12 (6May2004)
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Research article
Influence of Tertiary paleoenvironmental changes on the diversification of South American mammals: a relaxed molecular clock study within xenarthrans
Frdric Delsuc, Sergio F Vizcano, Emmanuel JP Douzery
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:11 (28April2004)
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Research article
A plant natriuretic peptide-like gene in the bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas axonopodis may induce hyper-hydration in the plant host: a hypothesis of molecular mimicry
Victoria Nembaware, Cathal Seoighe, Muhammed Sayed, Chris Gehring
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:10 (24March2004)
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Research article
Upstream plasticity and downstream robustness in evolution of molecular networks
Sergei Maslov, Kim Sneppen, Kasper Astrup Eriksen, Koon-Kiu Yan
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:9 (8March2004)
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Research article
The phylogeny of the social wasp subfamily Polistinae: evidence from microsatellite flanking sequences, mitochondrial COI sequence, and morphological characters
Elisabeth Arvalo, Yong Zhu, James M Carpenter, Joan E Strassmann
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:8 (2March2004)
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Research article
The iron-sulfur cluster assembly genes iscS and iscU of Entamoeba histolytica were acquired by horizontal gene transfer
Mark van der Giezen, Sin Cox, Jorge Tovar
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:7 (20February2004)
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Research article
Evolutionary and functional relationships within the DJ1 superfamily
Sourav Bandyopadhyay, Mark R Cookson
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:6 (19February2004)
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Research article
Acetylcholinesterase alterations reveal the fitness cost of mutations conferring insecticide resistance
Ming An Shi, Andre Lougarre, Carole Alies, Isabelle Frmaux, Zhen Hua Tang, Jure Stojan, Didier Fournier
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:5 (6February2004)
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Research article
Mutations of acetylcholinesterase which confer insecticide resistance in Drosophila melanogaster populations
Philippe Menozzi, Ming An Shi, Andre Lougarre, Zhen Hua Tang, Didier Fournier
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:4 (5February2004)
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Research article
A scale invariant clustering of genes on human chromosome 7
Wayne S Kendal
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:3 (30January2004)
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Research article
A molecular timescale of eukaryote evolution and the rise of complex multicellular life
S Blair Hedges, Jaime E Blair, Maria L Venturi, Jason L Shoe
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:2 (28January2004)
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Research article
Direct selection on male attractiveness and female preference fails to produce a response
Matthew Hall, Anna K Lindholm, Robert Brooks
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:1 (14January2004)
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