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BMC Evolutionary Biology, Volume 7

 
Volume 7 Suppl 2
Research
Florence, Italy. 47 September 2006

Volume 7 Suppl 1
Proceedings
Sainte-Adle, Qubec, Canada. 1519 March, 2006

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Research article
Conserved and species-specific alternative splicing in mammalian genomes
Ramil N Nurtdinov, Alexey D Neverov, Alexander V Favorov, Andrey A Mironov, Mikhail S Gelfand
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:249 (22December2007)
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Research article
Mitochondrial DNA suggests at least 11 origins of parasitism in angiosperms and reveals genomic chimerism in parasitic plants
Todd J Barkman, Joel R McNeal, Seok-Hong Lim, Gwen Coat, Henrietta B Croom, Nelson D Young, Claude W dePamphilis
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:248 (21December2007)
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Research article
Cryptic diversity and deep divergence in an upper Amazonian leaflitter frog, Eleutherodactylus ockendeni
Kathryn R Elmer, Jos A Dvila, Stephen C Lougheed
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:247 (21December2007)
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Research article
Social complexity in bees is not sufficient to explain lack of reversions to solitary living over long time scales
Luke B Chenoweth, Simon M Tierney, Jaclyn A Smith, Steven JB Cooper, Michael P Schwarz
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:246 (21December2007)
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Research article
Sexual selection and the evolution of obligatory sex
Lilach Hadany, Tuvik Beker
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:245 (20December2007)
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Research article
Complex phylogeographic history of central African forest elephants and its implications for taxonomy
Mireille B Johnson, Stephen L Clifford, Benot Goossens, Silvester Nyakaana, Bryan Curran, Lee JT White, E Jean Wickings, Michael W Bruford
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:244 (19December2007)
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Research article
The role of horizontal transfer in the evolution of a highly variable lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis locus in xanthomonads that infect rice, citrus and crucifers
Prabhu B Patil, Adam J Bogdanove, Ramesh V Sonti
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:243 (6December2007)
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Methodology article
Detecting groups of coevolving positions in a molecule: a clustering approach
Julien Dutheil, Nicolas Galtier
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:242 (30November2007)
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Database
OrthoMaM: A database of orthologous genomic markers for placental mammal phylogenetics
Vincent Ranwez, Frdric Delsuc, Sylvie Ranwez, Khalid Belkhir, Marie-Ka Tilak, Emmanuel JP Douzery
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:241 (30November2007)
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Research article
Environmental adversity and uncertainty favour cooperation
Peter Andras, John Lazarus, Gilbert Roberts
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:240 (30November2007)
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Research article
An insight into the phylogenetic history of HOX linked gene families in vertebrates
Amir Ali Abbasi, Karl-Heinz Grzeschik
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:239 (30November2007)
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Research article
Small steps or giant leaps for male-killers? Phylogenetic constraints to male-killer host shifts
Matthew C Tinsley, Michael EN Majerus
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:238 (29November2007)
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Research article
Assessing the evolutionary rate of positional orthologous genes in prokaryotes using synteny data
Frdric Lemoine, Olivier Lespinet, Bernard Labedan
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:237 (29November2007)
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Research article
The invariant phenylalanine of precursor proteins discloses the importance of Omp85 for protein translocation into cyanelles
Tobias Wunder, Roman Martin, Wolfgang Lffelhardt, Enrico Schleiff, Jrgen M Steiner
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:236 (28November2007)
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Research article
Recombination rate and protein evolution in yeast
Tim Connallon, L Lacey Knowles
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:235 (27November2007)
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Research article
Large-scale genomic 2D visualization reveals extensive CG-AT skew correlation in bird genomes
Xuegong Deng, Ilkka Havukkala, Xuemei Deng
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:234 (23November2007)
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Research article
Glacial vicariance in Eurasia: mitochondrial DNA evidence from Scots pine for a complex heritage involving genetically distinct refugia at mid-northern latitudes and in Asia Minor
Krassimir Naydenov, Sauphie Senneville, Jean Beaulieu, Francine Tremblay, Jean Bousquet
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:233 (22November2007)
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Research article
A novel subgroup Q5 of human Y-chromosomal haplogroup Q in India
Swarkar Sharma, Ekta Rai, Audesh K Bhat, Amarjit S Bhanwer, Rameshwar NK Bamezai
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:232 (19November2007)
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Research article
Analyses of six homologous proteins of Protochlamydia amoebophila UWE25 encoded by large GC-rich genes (lgr): a model of evolution and concatenation of leucine-rich repeats
Myriam Eugster, Claude-Alain H Roten, Gilbert Greub
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:231 (16November2007)
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Research article
The [FeFe] hydrogenase of Nyctotherus ovalis has a chimeric origin
Brigitte Boxma, Guenola Ricard, Angela HAM van Hoek, Edouard Severing, Seung-Yeo Moon-van der Staay, Georg WM van der Staay, Theo A van Alen, Rob M de Graaf, Geert Cremers, Michiel Kwantes, Neil R McEwan, C Jamie Newbold, Jean-Pierre Jouany, Tadeusz Michalowski, Peter Pristas, Martijn A Huynen, Johannes HP Hackstein
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:230 (16November2007)
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Research article
Barriers to antigenic escape by pathogens: trade-off between reproductive rate and antigenic mutability
Steven A Frank, Robin M Bush
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:229 (15November2007)
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Methodology article
An ant colony optimization algorithm for phylogenetic estimation under the minimum evolution principle
Daniele Catanzaro, Rafflaele Pesenti, Michel C Milinkovitch
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:228 (15November2007)
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Research article
Comparative tests of ectoparasite species richness in seabirds
Joseph Hughes, Roderic DM Page
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:227 (15November2007)
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Research article
Codon usage in twelve species of Drosophila
Saverio Vicario, Etsuko N Moriyama, Jeffrey R Powell
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:226 (15November2007)
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Research article
Global isolation by distance despite strong regional phylogeography in a small metazoan
Scott Mills, David H Lunt, Africa Gmez
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:225 (14November2007)
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Research article
A new estimate of afrotherian phylogeny based on simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and fossil evidence
Erik R Seiffert
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:224 (13November2007)
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Research article
In silico genetic robustness analysis of microRNA secondary structures: potential evidence of congruent evolution in microRNA
Wenjie Shu, Xiaochen Bo, Ming Ni, Zhiqiang Zheng, Shengqi Wang
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:223 (13November2007)
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Research article
Functional evolution of the vitamin D and pregnane X receptors
Erica J Reschly, Afonso Celso Dias Bainy, Jaco Joaquim Mattos, Lee R Hagey, Nathan Bahary, Sripal R Mada, Junhai Ou, Raman Venkataramanan, Matthew D Krasowski
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:222 (12November2007)
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Research article
Persistence of duplicated PAC1 receptors in the teleost, Sparus auratus
Joo CR Cardoso, Edwin CJM de Vet, Bruno Louro, Greg Elgar, Melody S Clark, Deborah M Power
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:221 (12November2007)
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Research article
Did glacial advances during the Pleistocene influence differently the demographic histories of benthic and pelagic Antarctic shelf fishes? Inferences from intraspecific mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence diversity
Karel Janko, Guillaume Lecointre, Arthur DeVries, Arnaud Couloux, Corinne Cruaud, Craig Marshall
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:220 (12November2007)
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Research article
Yarrowia lipolytica vesicle-mediated protein transport pathways
Dominique Swennen, Jean-Marie Beckerich
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:219 (12November2007)
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Research article
Evidence for hybridization and introgression within a species-rich oak (Quercus spp.) community
Alexandru L Curtu, Oliver Gailing, Reiner Finkeldey
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:218 (10November2007)
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Research article
Mitochondrial matR sequences help to resolve deep phylogenetic relationships in rosids
Xin-Yu Zhu, Mark W Chase, Yin-Long Qiu, Hong-Zhi Kong, David L Dilcher, Jian-Hua Li, Zhi-Duan Chen
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:217 (10November2007)
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Research article
Phylogeny and divergence of the pinnipeds (Carnivora: Mammalia) assessed using a multigene dataset
Jeff W Higdon, Olaf RP Bininda-Emonds, Robin MD Beck, Steven H Ferguson
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:216 (9November2007)
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Research article
The nuclear OXPHOS genes in insecta: a common evolutionary origin, a common cis-regulatory motif, a common destiny for gene duplicates
Damiano Porcelli, Paolo Barsanti, Graziano Pesole, Corrado Caggese
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:215 (8November2007)
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Software
BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees
Alexei J Drummond, Andrew Rambaut
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:214 (8November2007)
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Research article
The limits of subfunctionalization
Thomas MacCarthy, Aviv Bergman
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:213 (7November2007)
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Research article
Coolidge effect in pond snails: male motivation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite
Joris M Koene, Andries Ter Maat
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:212 (6November2007)
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Research article
The Red Queen and the persistence of linkage-disequilibrium oscillations in finite and infinite populations
Roger D Kouyos, Marcel Salath, Sebastian Bonhoeffer
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:211 (6November2007)
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Research article
Adaptive evolution of the symbiotic gene NORK is not correlated with shifts of rhizobial specificity in the genus Medicago
Stphane De Mita, Sylvain Santoni, Jolle Ronfort, Thomas Bataillon
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:210 (6November2007)
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Research article
Extensive lineage-specific gene duplication and evolution of the spiggin multi-gene family in stickleback
Ryouka Kawahara, Mutsumi Nishida
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:209 (4November2007)
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Research article
Patterns of selective constraints in noncoding DNA of rice
Xingyi Guo, Yu Wang, Peter D Keightley, Longjiang Fan
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:208 (1November2007)
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Research article
Male dominance linked to size and age, but not to 'good genes' in brown trout (Salmo trutta)
Alain Jacob, Sbastien Nussl, Adrian Britschgi, Guillaume Evanno, Rudolf Mller, Claus Wedekind
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:207 (1November2007)
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Research article
Evaluation of the models handling heterotachy in phylogenetic inference
Yan Zhou, Nicolas Rodrigue, Nicolas Lartillot, Herv Philippe
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:206 (1November2007)
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Research article
Emergence and maintenance of functional modules in signaling pathways
Orkun S Soyer
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:205 (31October2007)
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Research article
Post-duplication charge evolution of phosphoglucose isomerases in teleost fishes through weak selection on many amino acid sites
Yukuto Sato, Mutsumi Nishida
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:204 (29October2007)
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Research article
The evolution of competition and policing: opposing selection within and among groups
Yaniv Brandvain, Michael J Wade
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:203 (25October2007)
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Research article
Similar Levels of X-linked and Autosomal Nucleotide Variation in African and non-African populations of Drosophila melanogaster
Nadia D Singh, J Michael Macpherson, Jeffrey D Jensen, Dmitri A Petrov
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:202 (25October2007)
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Research article
Dicyema Pax6 and Zic: tool-kit genes in a highly simplified bilaterian
Jun Aruga, Yuri S Odaka, Akiko Kamiya, Hidetaka Furuya
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:201 (25October2007)
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Research article
Visual pigments in a living fossil, the Australian lungfish Neoceratodus forsteri
Helena J Bailes, Wayne L Davies, Ann EO Trezise, Shaun P Collin
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:200 (25October2007)
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Research article
Chromosomal instability in Afrotheria: fragile sites, evolutionary breakpoints and phylogenetic inference from genome sequence assemblies
Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Terence J Robinson
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:199 (24October2007)
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Research article
Analysis of complete mitochondrial genome sequences increases phylogenetic resolution of bears (Ursidae), a mammalian family that experienced rapid speciation
Li Yu, Yi-Wei Li, Oliver A Ryder, Ya-Ping Zhang
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:198 (24October2007)
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Research article
Relative role of life-history traits and historical factors in shaping genetic population structure of sardines (Sardina pilchardus)
Elena G Gonzalez, Rafael Zardoya
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:197 (22October2007)
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Research article
Species-specific evolution of immune receptor tyrosine based activation motif-containing CEACAM1-related immune receptors in the dog
Robert Kammerer, Tanja Popp, Stefan Hrtle, Bernhard B Singer, Wolfgang Zimmermann
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:196 (18October2007)
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Research article
Evolution of feeding specialization in Tanganyikan scale-eating cichlids: a molecular phylogenetic approach
Rieko Takahashi, Katsutoshi Watanabe, Mutsumi Nishida, Michio Hori
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:195 (18October2007)
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Research article
Is reduced female survival after mating a by-product of male-male competition in the dung fly Sepsis cynipsea?
Y Teuschl, DJ Hosken, WU Blanckenhorn
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:194 (17October2007)
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Research article
Birth and death of gene overlaps in vertebrates
Izabela Makaowska, Chiao-Feng Lin, Krisitina Hernandez
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:193 (16October2007)
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Research article
Patterns of intron gain and conservation in eukaryotic genes
Liran Carmel, Igor B Rogozin, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:192 (12October2007)
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Research article
DNA indels in coding regions reveal selective constraints on protein evolution in the human lineage
Nicole de la Chaux, Philipp W Messer, Peter F Arndt
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:191 (12October2007)
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Research article
Waves of genomic hitchhikers shed light on the evolution of gamebirds (Aves: Galliformes)
Jan Ole Kriegs, Andreas Matzke, Gennady Churakov, Andrej Kuritzin, Gerald Mayr, Jrgen Brosius, Jrgen Schmitz
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:190 (9October2007)
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Research article
Genotype-specific interactions and the trade-off between host and parasite fitness
Lucie Salvaudon, Virginie Hraudet, Jacqui A Shykoff
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:189 (5October2007)
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