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BMC Evolutionary Biology, Volume 8

 
Research article
EST based phylogenomics of Syndermata questions monophyly of Eurotatoria
Alexander Witek, Holger Herlyn, Achim Meyer, Louis Boell, Gregor Bucher, Thomas Hankeln
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:345 (29December2008)
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Research article
Reconsidering the generation time hypothesis based on nuclear ribosomal ITS sequence comparisons in annual and perennial angiosperms
David F Soria-Hernanz, Omar Fiz-Palacios, John M Braverman, Matthew B Hamilton
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:344 (29December2008)
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Research article
Differential selection on gene translation efficiency between the filamentous fungus Ashbya gossypii and yeasts
Huifeng Jiang, Yue Zhang, Jun Sun, Wen Wang, Zhenglong Gu
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:343 (29December2008)
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Research article
Genetic characterization of the ABO blood group in Neandertals
Carles Lalueza-Fox, Elena Gigli, Marco de la Rasilla, Javier Fortea, Antonio Rosas, Jaume Bertranpetit, Johannes Krause
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:342 (24December2008)
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Research article
Oceanic dispersal barriers, adaptation and larval retention: an interdisciplinary assessment of potential factors maintaining a phylogeographic break between sister lineages of an African prawn
Peter R Teske, Isabelle Papadopoulos, Brent K Newman, Peter C Dworschak, Christopher D McQuaid, Nigel P Barker
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:341 (24December2008)
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Research article
Evolutionary history of the fish genus Astyanax Baird & Girard (1854) (Actinopterygii, Characidae) in Mesoamerica reveals multiple morphological homoplasies
Claudia Patricia Ornelas-Garca, Omar Domnguez-Domnguez, Ignacio Doadrio
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:340 (22December2008)
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Research article
Phylogeography and historical demography of the Lusitanian snail Elona quimperiana reveal survival in unexpected separate glacial refugia
Aude Vialatte, Annie Guiller, Alain Bellido, Luc Madec
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:339 (19December2008)
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Research article
Bad housekeeping: why do aphids leave their exuviae inside the colony?
Frdric B Muratori, David Damiens, Thierry Hance, Guy Boivin
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:338 (19December2008)
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Research article
Complex fate of paralogs
Radek Szklarczyk, Martijn A Huynen, Berend Snel
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:337 (18December2008)
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Research article
The fate of the duplicated androgen receptor in fishes: a late neofunctionalization event?
Vronique Douard, Frdric Brunet, Bastien Boussau, Isabelle Ahrens-Fath, Virginie Vlaeminck-Guillem, Bernard Haendler, Vincent Laudet, Yann Guiguen
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:336 (18December2008)
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Research article
Assessment of codivergence of Mastreviruses with their plant hosts
Beilei Wu, Ulrich Melcher, Xingyi Guo, Xifeng Wang, Longjiang Fan, Guanghe Zhou
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:335 (18December2008)
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Research article
Similar rates of protein adaptation in Drosophila miranda and D. melanogaster, two species with different current effective population sizes
Doris Bachtrog
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:334 (18December2008)
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Research article
Assembling an arsenal, the scorpion way
Adi Kozminsky-Atias, Adi Bar-Shalom, Dan Mishmar, Noam Zilberberg
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:333 (16December2008)
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Research article
Sperm competition dynamics: ejaculate fertilising efficiency changes differentially with time
Tommaso Pizzari, Kirsty Worley, Terry Burke, David P Froman
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:332 (16December2008)
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Methodology article
A class frequency mixture model that adjusts for site-specific amino acid frequencies and improves inference of protein phylogeny
Huai-Chun Wang, Karen Li, Edward Susko, Andrew J Roger
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:331 (16December2008)
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Research article
Primate-specific spliced PMCHL RNAs are non-protein coding in human and macaque tissues
Sandra Schmieder, Fleur Darr-Toulemonde, Marie-Jeanne Arguel, Audrey Delerue-Audegond, Richard Christen, Jean-Louis Nahon
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:330 (9December2008)
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Research article
Evolution of the parasitic wasp subfamily Rogadinae (Braconidae): phylogeny and evolution of lepidopteran host ranges and mummy characteristics
Alejandro Zaldvar-Rivern, Mark R Shaw, Alberto G Sez, Miharu Mori, Sergey A Belokoblylskij, Scott R Shaw, Donald LJ Quicke
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:329 (4December2008)
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Research article
Module evolution and substrate specificity of fungal nonribosomal peptide synthetases involved in siderophore biosynthesis
Kathryn E Bushley, Daniel R Ripoll, B Gillian Turgeon
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:328 (3December2008)
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Methodology article
Detecting coevolution without phylogenetic trees? Tree-ignorant metrics of coevolution perform as well as tree-aware metrics
J Gregory Caporaso, Sandra Smit, Brett C Easton, Lawrence Hunter, Gavin A Huttley, Rob Knight
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:327 (3December2008)
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Research article
Female-driven mechanisms, ejaculate size and quality contribute to the lower fertility of sex-ratio distorter males in Drosophila simulans
Caroline Angelard, Catherine Montchamp-Moreau, Dominique Joly
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:326 (2December2008)
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Research article
Evidence for panmixia despite barriers to gene flow in the southern African endemic, Caffrogobius caffer (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
Marlene Neethling, Conrad A Matthee, Rauri CK Bowie, Sophie von der Heyden
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:325 (1December2008)
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Research article
Two sisters in the same dress: Heliconius cryptic species
Nathalia Giraldo, Camilo Salazar, Chris D Jiggins, Eldredge Bermingham, Mauricio Linares
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:324 (28November2008)
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Research article
Divergent evolution and molecular adaptation in the Drosophila odorant-binding protein family: inferences from sequence variation at the OS-E and OS-F genes
Alejandro Snchez-Gracia, Julio Rozas
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:323 (27November2008)
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Methodology article
Testing comparative phylogeographic models of marine vicariance and dispersal using a hierarchical Bayesian approach
Michael J Hickerson, Christopher P Meyer
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:322 (27November2008)
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Research article
Suprafamilial relationships among Rodentia and the phylogenetic effect of removing fast-evolving nucleotides in mitochondrial, exon and intron fragments
Claudine Montgelard, Ellen Forty, Vronique Arnal, Conrad A Matthee
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:321 (26November2008)
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Research article
Phylogenetic evidence for extensive lateral acquisition of cellular genes by Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses
Jonathan File, Nolle Pouget, Mick Chandler
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:320 (26November2008)
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Research article
Sperm competition: linking form to function
Stuart Humphries, Jonathan P Evans, Leigh W Simmons
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:319 (25November2008)
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Research article
Genetic diversity in two sibling species of the Anopheles punctulatus group of mosquitoes on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands
Arif U Hasan, Setsuo Suguri, Chigusa Fujimoto, Rodney L Itaki, Masakazu Harada, Masato Kawabata, Hugo Bugoro, Bobogare Albino
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:318 (24November2008)
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Software
LineageSpecificSeqgen: generating sequence data with lineage-specific variation in the proportion of variable sites
Liat Shavit Grievink, David Penny, Mike D Hendy, Barbara R Holland
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:317 (21November2008)
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Research article
Insights into the evolutionary origins of clostridial neurotoxins from analysis of the Clostridium botulinum strain A neurotoxin gene cluster
Andrew C Doxey, Michael DJ Lynch, Kirsten M Mller, Elizabeth M Meiering, Brendan J McConkey
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:316 (14November2008)
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Research article
Genetic structure along an elevational gradient in Hawaiian honeycreepers reveals contrasting evolutionary responses to avian malaria
Lori S Eggert, Lauren A Terwilliger, Bethany L Woodworth, Patrick J Hart, Danielle Palmer, Robert C Fleischer
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:315 (14November2008)
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Research article
Transfer of rice mitochondrial ribosomal protein L6 gene to the nucleus: acquisition of the 5'-untranslated region via a transposable element
Nakao Kubo, Masaru Fujimoto, Shin-ichi Arimura, Masashi Hirai, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:314 (14November2008)
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Research article
Protein evolution in deep sea bacteria: an analysis of amino acids substitution rates
Stefano Campanaro, Laura Treu, Giorgio Valle
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:313 (13November2008)
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Research article
The tree of genomes: An empirical comparison of genome-phylogeny reconstruction methods
Angela McCann, James A Cotton, James O McInerney
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:312 (12November2008)
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Research article
Sox genes in the coral Acropora millepora: divergent expression patterns reflect differences in developmental mechanisms within the Anthozoa
Chuya Shinzato, Akira Iguchi, David C Hayward, Ulrich Technau, Eldon E Ball, David J Miller
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:311 (12November2008)
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Research article
Rapid and repeated limb loss in a clade of scincid lizards
Adam Skinner, Michael SY Lee, Mark N Hutchinson
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:310 (11November2008)
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Research article
Chromosomal plasticity and evolutionary potential in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto: insights from three decades of rare paracentric inversions
Marco Pombi, Beniamino Caputo, Frederic Simard, Maria A Di Deco, Mario Coluzzi, Alessandra della Torre, Carlo Costantini, Nora J Besansky, Vincenzo Petrarca
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:309 (10November2008)
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Research article
Group I introns and associated homing endonuclease genes reveals a clinal structure for Porphyra spiralis var. amplifolia (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) along the Eastern coast of South America
Daniela Milstein, Mariana C Oliveira, Felipe M Martins, Sergio R Matioli
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:308 (7November2008)
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Research article
Molecular evolution of synonymous codon usage in Populus
Pr K Ingvarsson
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:307 (4November2008)
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Research article
Evolutionary history of the UCP gene family: gene duplication and selection
Joseph Hughes, Francois Criscuolo
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:306 (3November2008)
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Research article
Evolution of GHF5 endoglucanase gene structure in plant-parasitic nematodes: no evidence for an early domain shuffling event
Tina Kyndt, Annelies Haegeman, Godelieve Gheysen
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:305 (3November2008)
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Research article
Evolutionary conservation of dual Sec translocases in the cyanelles of Cyanophora paradoxa
Fumie Yusa, Jrgen M Steiner, Wolfgang Lffelhardt
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:304 (1November2008)
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Research article
Sex dependent imprinting effects on complex traits in mice
Reinmar Hager, James M Cheverud, Larry J Leamy, Jason B Wolf
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:303 (31October2008)
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Research article
Gypsy endogenous retrovirus maintains potential infectivity in several species of Drosophilids
Jose V Llorens, Jonathan B Clark, Isabel Martnez-Garay, Sirena Soriano, Rosa de Frutos, Mara J Martnez-Sebastin
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:302 (31October2008)
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Research article
Phylogeography and genetic diversity of a widespread Old World butterfly, Lampides boeticus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
David J Lohman, Djunijanti Peggie, Naomi E Pierce, Rudolf Meier
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:301 (30October2008)
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Research article
Factors affecting the concordance between orthologous gene trees and species tree in bacteria
Santiago Castillo-Ramrez, Vctor Gonzlez
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:300 (30October2008)
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Research article
Conflicting phylogenetic signals in the SlX1/Y1 gene in Silene
Anja Rautenberg, Dmitry Filatov, Bodil Svennblad, Nahid Heidari, Bengt Oxelman
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:299 (30October2008)
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Research article
A homogenous nature of native Chinese duck matrilineal pool
Da-Qian He, Qing Zhu, Shi-Yi Chen, Hui-Ying Wang, Yi-Ping Liu, Yong-Gang Yao
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:298 (29October2008)
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Research article
A major QTL affects temperature sensitive adult lethality and inbreeding depression in life span in Drosophila melanogaster
Cornelis J Vermeulen, R Bijlsma, Volker Loeschcke
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:297 (28October2008)
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Research article
Island selection on mammalian life-histories: genetic differentiation in offspring size
Tapio Mappes, Alessandro Grapputo, Harri Hakkarainen, Esa Huhta, Esa Koskela, Raimo Saunanen, Petri Suorsa
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:296 (27October2008)
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Research article
The genetic architecture of fitness in a seed beetle: assessing the potential for indirect genetic benefits of female choice
T Bilde, U Friberg, AA Maklakov, JD Fry, G Arnqvist
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:295 (26October2008)
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Research article
Evolutionary history of histone demethylase families: distinct evolutionary patterns suggest functional divergence
Xiaofan Zhou, Hong Ma
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:294 (24October2008)
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Research article
Segregate or cooperate- a study of the interaction between two species of Dictyostelium
Chandra N Jack, Julia G Ridgeway, Natasha J Mehdiabadi, Emily I Jones, Tracy A Edwards, David C Queller, Joan E Strassmann
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:293 (24October2008)
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Research article
The promastigote surface antigen gene family of the Leishmania parasite: differential evolution by positive selection and recombination
Alain Devault, Anne-Laure Bauls
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:292 (24October2008)
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Research article
Genes of the most conserved WOX clade in plants affect root and flower development in Arabidopsis
Yves Deveaux, Claire Toffano-Nioche, Gaelle Claisse, Vincent Thareau, Halima Morin, Patrick Laufs, Herv Moreau, Martin Kreis, Alain Lecharny
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:291 (24October2008)
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Research article
Evolution of nonstop, no-go and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay and their termination factor-derived components
Gemma C Atkinson, Sandra L Baldauf, Vasili Hauryliuk
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:290 (23October2008)
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Methodology article
Bayesian inference of population size history from multiple loci
Joseph Heled, Alexei J Drummond
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:289 (23October2008)
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Research article
Molecular evolution of bovine Toll-like receptor 2 suggests substitutions of functional relevance
Oliver C Jann, Dirk Werling, Jung-Su Chang, David Haig, Elizabeth J Glass
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:288 (20October2008)
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Research article
The evolution of prompt reaction to adverse ties
Sven Van Segbroeck, Francisco C Santos, Ann Now, Jorge M Pacheco, Tom Lenaerts
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:287 (17October2008)
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Research article
The Bet v 1 fold: an ancient, versatile scaffold for binding of large, hydrophobic ligands
Christian Radauer, Peter Lackner, Heimo Breiteneder
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:286 (15October2008)
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Research article
Just how versatile are domains?
January Weiner 3rd, Andrew D Moore, Erich Bornberg-Bauer
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:285 (14October2008)
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Research article
The effect of genetic robustness on evolvability in digital organisms
Santiago F Elena, Rafael Sanjun
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:284 (14October2008)
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Research article
Intraspecific divergence in sperm morphology of the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis: implications for selection in broadcast spawners
Mollie K Manier, Stephen R Palumbi
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:283 (13October2008)
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Research article
Signatures of selection in natural populations adapted to chronic pollution
Larissa M Williams, Marjorie F Oleksiak
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:282 (10October2008)
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Research article
Genetic hitchhiking can promote the initial spread of strong altruism
Mauro Santos, Ers Szathmry
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:281 (10October2008)
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Research article
Unique genes in plants: specificities and conserved features throughout evolution
David Armisn, Alain Lecharny, Sbastien Aubourg
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:280 (10October2008)
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Research article
The Caenorhabditis globin gene family reveals extensive nematode-specific radiation and diversification
David Hoogewijs, Sasha De Henau, Sylvia Dewilde, Luc Moens, Marjolein Couvreur, Gaetan Borgonie, Serge N Vinogradov, Scott W Roy, Jacques R Vanfleteren
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:279 (9October2008)
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Research article
The IGS-ETS in Bacillus (Insecta Phasmida): molecular characterization and the relevance of sex in ribosomal DNA evolution
Andrea Ricci, Valerio Scali, Marco Passamonti
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:278 (9October2008)
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Research article
Lineage specific recombination rates and microevolution in Listeria monocytogenes
Henk C den Bakker, Xavier Didelot, Esther D Fortes, Kendra K Nightingale, Martin Wiedmann
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:277 (8October2008)
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Research article
Relationships of gag-pol diversity between Ty3/Gypsy and Retroviridae LTR retroelements and the three kings hypothesis
Carlos Llorens, Mario A Fares, Andres Moya
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:276 (8October2008)
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Methodology article
Patterns of evolutionary constraints on genes in humans
Subhajyoti De, Nuria Lopez-Bigas, Sarah A Teichmann
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:275 (7October2008)
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Research article
The evolution of TEP1, an exceptionally polymorphic immunity gene in Anopheles gambiae
Darren J Obbard, Deborah M Callister, Francis M Jiggins, Dinesh C Soares, Guiyun Yan, Tom J Little
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:274 (7October2008)
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Research article
The role of positive selection in determining the molecular cause of species differences in disease
Jessica J Vamathevan, Samiul Hasan, Richard D Emes, Heather Amrine-Madsen, Dilip Rajagopalan, Simon D Topp, Vinod Kumar, Michael Word, Mark D Simmons, Steven M Foord, Philippe Sanseau, Ziheng Yang, Joanna D Holbrook
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:273 (6October2008)
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Research article
Accounting for horizontal gene transfers explains conflicting hypotheses regarding the position of aquificales in the phylogeny of Bacteria
Bastien Boussau, Laurent Guguen, Manolo Gouy
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:272 (3October2008)
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Research article
Genetic conflict outweighs heterogametic incompatibility in the mouse hybrid zone?
Milo Macholn, Stuart JE Baird, Pavel Munclinger, Petra Dufkov, Barbora Bmov, Jaroslav Pilek
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:271 (3October2008)
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Research article
Key biosynthetic gene subfamily recruited for pheromone production prior to the extensive radiation of Lepidoptera
Marjorie A Linard, Maria Strandh, Erik Hedenstrm, Tomas Johansson, Christer Lfstedt
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:270 (2October2008)
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Research article
Evolutionary analysis of the highly dynamic CHEK2 duplicon in anthropoids
Claudia Mnch, Stefan Kirsch, Antnio MG Fernandes, Werner Schempp
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:269 (2October2008)
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Research article
D- and L-lactate dehydrogenases during invertebrate evolution
Melania E Cristescu, David J Innes, Jonathon H Stillman, Teresa J Crease
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:268 (1October2008)
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Research article
Prebiotic replicase evolution in a surface-bound metabolic system: parasites as a source of adaptive evolution
Balzs Knny, Tams Czrn, Ers Szathmry
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:267 (30September2008)
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Research article
Gene conversion and purifying selection of a placenta-specific ERV-V envelope gene during simian evolution
Anders L Kjeldbjerg, Palle Villesen, Lars Aagaard, Finn Skou Pedersen
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:266 (30September2008)
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Methodology article
Effect of the assignment of ancestral CpG state on the estimation of nucleotide substitution rates in mammals
Daniel J Gaffney, Peter D Keightley
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:265 (30September2008)
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Research article
Phylogenetic patterns and conservation among North American members of the genus Agalinis (Orobanchaceae)
James B Pettengill, Maile C Neel
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:264 (26September2008)
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Research article
Chromosomal evolution of the PKD1 gene family in primates
Stefan Kirsch, Juanjo Pasantes, Andreas Wolf, Nadia Bogdanova, Claudia Mnch, Petra Pennekamp, Michael Krawczak, Bernd Dworniczak, Werner Schempp
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:263 (26September2008)
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Research article
A stochastic version of the Price equation reveals the interplay of deterministic and stochastic processes in evolution
Sean H Rice
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:262 (25September2008)
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Research article
Identification and analysis of evolutionary selection pressures acting at the molecular level in five forkhead subfamilies
Christina D Fetterman, Bruce Rannala, Michael A Walter
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:261 (24September2008)
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Research article
Ultraconserved coding regions outside the homeobox of mammalian Hox genes
Zhenguo Lin, Hong Ma, Masatoshi Nei
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:260 (24September2008)
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Research article
Structural and functional divergence of two fish aquaporin-1 water channels following teleost-specific gene duplication
Angle Tingaud-Sequeira, Franois Chauvign, Mercedes Fabra, Juanjo Lozano, Demetrio Ralda, Joan Cerd
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:259 (23September2008)
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Research article
Evolutionary history of the alpha2,8-sialyltransferase (ST8Sia) gene family: Tandem duplications in early deuterostomes explain most of the diversity found in the vertebrate ST8Sia genes
Anne Harduin-Lepers, Daniel Petit, Rosella Mollicone, Philippe Delannoy, Jean-Michel Petit, Rafael Oriol
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:258 (23September2008)
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Accelerated evolutionary rates in tropical and oceanic parmelioid lichens (Ascomycota)
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