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BMC Evolutionary Biology, Volume 8

 
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, Guiyan 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 D Kumar, Mike 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 Gueguen, 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?
Milos Macholan, Stuart JE Baird, Pavel Munclinger, Petra Dufkova, Barbora Bimova, Jaroslav Pialek
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 Lienard, Maria Strandh, Erik Hedenstrom, Tomas Johansson, Christer Lofstedt
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:270 (2October2008)
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Research article
Evolutionary analysis of the highly dynamic CHEK2 duplicon in anthropoids
Claudia Munch, Stefan Kirsch, Antonio 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
Balazs Konnyu, Tamas Czaran, Eors Szathmary
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 Muench, 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
Angele Tingaud-Sequeira, Francois Chauvigne, Mercedes Fabra, Juanjo Lozano, Demetrio Raldua, Joan Cerda
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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Research article
Accelerated evolutionary rates in tropical and oceanic parmelioid lichens (Ascomycota)
H. Thorsten Lumbsch, Andrew L. Hipp, Pradeep K. Divakar, Oscar Blanco, Ana Crespo
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:257 (22September2008)
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Research article
Evidence for positive selection acting on microcystin synthetase adenylation domains in three cyanobacterial genera
Ave Tooming-Klunderud, David P Fewer, Thomas Rohrlack, Jouni Jokela, Leo Rouhiainen, Kaarina Sivonen, Tom Kristensen, Kjetill S Jakobsen
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:256 (22September2008)
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Software
Non-homogeneous models of sequence evolution in the Bio++ suite of libraries and programs
Julien Dutheil, Bastien Boussau
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:255 (22September2008)
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Research article
Phylogenetic and chromosomal analyses of multiple gene families syntenic with vertebrate Hox clusters
Gorel Sundstrom, Tomas A Larsson, Dan Larhammar
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:254 (19September2008)
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Research article
Molecular evidence for the evolution of ichnoviruses from ascoviruses by symbiogenesis
Yves Bigot, Sylvie Samain, Corinne Auge-Gouillou, Brian A Federici
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:253 (18September2008)
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Research article
Genetic structuring and migration patterns of Atlantic bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839)
Elena G Gonzalez, Peter Beerli, Rafael Zardoya
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:252 (17September2008)
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Correspondence
Careful with understudied phyla: the case of chaetognath
Ferdinand Marletaz, Yannick Le Parco
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:251 (17September2008)
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Research article
Ancestry and evolution of a secretory pathway serpin
Abhishek Kumar, Hermann Ragg
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:250 (15September2008)
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Research article
Testing whether macroevolution follows microevolution: Are colour differences among swans (Cygnus) attributable to variation at the MC1R locus?
Marie A Pointer, Nicholas I Mundy
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:249 (12September2008)
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Research article
Meta-population structure in a coral reef fish demonstrated by genetic data on patterns of migration, extinction and re-colonisation
Line K Bay, M Julian M Caley, Ross H Crozier
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:248 (12September2008)
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Research article
Metabolic innovations towards the human lineage
Shiri Freilich, Leon Goldovsky, Christos A Ouzounis, Janet M Thornton
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:247 (9September2008)
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Research article
Hen's teeth with enamel cap: from dream to impossibility
Jean-Yves Sire, Sidney C Delgado, Marc Girondot
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:246 (5September2008)
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Research article
Tracking the evolution of a cold stress associated gene family in cold tolerant grasses
Simen R Sandve, Heidi Rudi, Torben Asp, Odd Arne Rognli
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:245 (5September2008)
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Database
A phylogenomic profile of hemerythrins, the nonheme diiron binding respiratory proteins
Xavier Bailly, Stefano Vanin, Christine Chabasse, Kenji Mizuguchi, Serge N Vinogradov
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:244 (2September2008)
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Research article
Male-killing endosymbionts: influence of environmental conditions on persistence of host metapopulation
Dries Bonte, Thomas Hovestadt, Hans-Joachim Poethke
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:243 (2September2008)
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Research article
Sexual conflict and consistency of offspring desertion in Eurasian penduline tit Remiz pendulinus
kos Pogny, Istvn Szentirmai, Jan Komdeur, Tams Szkely
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:242 (1September2008)
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Research article
Molecular evolution of the keratin associated protein gene family in mammals, role in the evolution of mammalian hair
Dong-Dong Wu, David M Irwin, Ya-Ping Zhang
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:241 (23August2008)
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Research article
The dynamic evolutionary history of the bananaquit (Coereba flaveola) in the Caribbean revealed by a multigene analysis
Eva Bellemain, Eldredge Bermingham, Robert E Ricklefs
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:240 (22August2008)
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Research article
Genetic structure and breeding system in a social wasp and its social parasite
Eric A Hoffman, Jennifer L Kovacs, Michael AD Goodisman
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:239 (20August2008)
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Research article
The coevolution of cooperation and dispersal in social groups and its implications for the emergence of multicellularity
Michael E Hochberg, Daniel J Rankin, Michael Taborsky
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:238 (19August2008)
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Research article
A DNA and morphology based phylogenetic framework of the ant genus Lasius with hypotheses for the evolution of social parasitism and fungiculture
Munetoshi Maruyama, Florian M Steiner, Christian Stauffer, Toshiharu Akino, Ross H Crozier, Birgit C Schlick-Steiner
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:237 (19August2008)
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Research article
Male sexual ornament size is positively associated with reproductive morphology and enhanced fertility in the stalk-eyed fly Teleopsis dalmanni
David W Rogers, Matthew Denniff, Tracey Chapman, Kevin Fowler, Andrew Pomiankowski
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:236 (18August2008)
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Research article
Drift by drift: effective population size is limited by advection
John P Wares, James M Pringle
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:235 (18August2008)
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Research article
Distribution of the transposable elements bilbo and gypsy in original and colonizing populations of Drosophila subobscura
Mara Pilar Garca Guerreiro, Blanca E Chvez-Sandoval, Joan Balany, Llus Serra, Antonio Fontdevila
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:234 (14August2008)
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Research article
Genome-wide analyses reveal lineage specific contributions of positive selection and recombination to the evolution of Listeria monocytogenes
Renato H Orsi, Qi Sun, Martin Wiedmann
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:233 (12August2008)
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Research article
Duplications and functional divergence of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase genes in plants
Nikolaos Georgelis, Edward L Braun, L Curtis Hannah
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:232 (12August2008)
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Research article
Robustness promotes evolvability of thermotolerance in an RNA virus
Robert C McBride, C Brandon Ogbunugafor, Paul E Turner
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:231 (11August2008)
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Research article
The earliest settlers' antiquity and evolutionary history of Indian populations: evidence from M2 mtDNA lineage
Satish Kumar, PBSV Padmanabham, Rajasekhara R Ravuri, Kiran Uttaravalli, Padmaja Koneru, P Aditi Mukherjee, B Das, M Kotal, D Xaviour, SY Saheb, VR Rao
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:230 (11August2008)
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Research article
Comparative genomic assessment of Multi-Locus Sequence Typing: rapid accumulation of genomic heterogeneity among clonal isolates of Campylobacter jejuni
Eduardo N Taboada, Joanne M MacKinnon, Christian C Luebbert, Victor PJ Gannon, John HE Nash, Kris Rahn
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:229 (8August2008)
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Research article
The evolutionary origin of the Runx/CBFbeta transcription factors Studies of the most basal metazoans
James C Sullivan, Daniel Sher, Miriam Eisenstein, Katsuya Shigesada, Adam M Reitzel, Heather Marlow, Ditsa Levanon, Yoram Groner, John R Finnerty, Uri Gat
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:228 (5August2008)
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Research article
Phylogeography of mtDNA haplogroup R7 in the Indian peninsula
Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Monika Karmin, Ene Metspalu, Mait Metspalu, Deepa Selvi-Rani, Vijay Kumar Singh, Jri Parik, Anu Solnik, B Prathap Naidu, Ajay Kumar, Niharika Adarsh, Chandana Basu Mallick, Bhargav Trivedi, Swami Prakash, Ramesh Reddy, Parul Shukla, Sanjana Bhagat, Swati Verma, Samiksha Vasnik, Imran Khan, Anshu Barwa, Dipti Sahoo, Archana Sharma, Mamoon Rashid, Vishal Chandra, Alla G Reddy, Antonio Torroni, Robert A Foley, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Lalji Singh, Toomas Kivisild, Richard Villems
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:227 (4August2008)
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Research article
Identification and characterization of novel human tissue-specific RFX transcription factors
Syed Aftab, Lucie Semenec, Jeffrey Shih-Chieh Chu, Nansheng Chen
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:226 (1August2008)
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Research article
Genomic analysis of the TRIM family reveals two groups of genes with distinct evolutionary properties
Marco Sardiello, Stefano Cairo, Bianca Fontanella, Andrea Ballabio, Germana Meroni
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:225 (1August2008)
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Research article
Conflicting selection pressures on synonymous codon use in yeast suggest selection on mRNA secondary structures
Nina Stoletzki
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:224 (31July2008)
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Research article
Selection shapes malaria genomes and drives divergence between pathogens infecting hominids versus rodents
Franck Prugnolle, Kate McGee, Jon Keebler, Philip Awadalla
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:223 (30July2008)
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Research article
On the origins of arrestin and rhodopsin
Carlos E Alvarez
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:222 (29July2008)
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Research article
Tracing the first steps of American sturgeon pioneers in Europe
Arne Ludwig, Ursula Arndt, Sebastian Lippold, Norbert Benecke, Lutz Debus, Timothy L King, Shuichi Matsumura
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:221 (29July2008)
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Research article
Mitochondrial genomes reveal an explosive radiation of extinct and extant bears near the Miocene-Pliocene boundary
Johannes Krause, Tina Unger, Aline Noon, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Mathias Stiller, Leopoldo Soibelzon, Helen Spriggs, Paul H Dear, Adrian W Briggs, Sarah CE Bray, Stephen J O'Brien, Gernot Rabeder, Paul Matheus, Alan Cooper, Montgomery Slatkin, Svante Pbo, Michael Hofreiter
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:220 (28July2008)
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Research article
An amphioxus orthologue of the estrogen receptor that does not bind estradiol: Insights into estrogen receptor evolution
Mathilde Paris, Katarina Pettersson, Michael Schubert, Stephanie Bertrand, Ingemar Pongratz, Hector Escriva, Vincent Laudet
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:219 (25July2008)
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Research article
ITS2 data corroborate a monophyletic chlorophycean DO-group (Sphaeropleales)
Alexander Keller, Tina Schleicher, Frank Frster, Benjamin Ruderisch, Thomas Dandekar, Tobias Mller, Matthias Wolf
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:218 (25July2008)
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Research article
Genetic evidence links invasive monk parakeet populations in the United States to the international pet trade
Michael A Russello, Michael L Avery, Timothy F Wright
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:217 (24July2008)
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Correction
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 2008, 8:216 (24July2008)
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Research article
Mitogenomic evaluation of the historical biogeography of cichlids toward reliable dating of teleostean divergences
Yoichiro Azuma, Yoshinori Kumazawa, Masaki Miya, Kohji Mabuchi, Mutsumi Nishida
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:215 (23July2008)
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Research article
Phylogenetic analyses suggest multiple changes of substrate specificity within the Glycosyl hydrolase 20 family
Jari Intra, Giulio Pavesi, David S Horner
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:214 (22July2008)
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Research article
Genetic origin, admixture, and asymmetry in maternal and paternal human lineages in Cuba
Isabel Mendizabal, Karla Sandoval, Gemma Berniell-Lee, Francesc Calafell, Antonio Salas, Antonio Martnez-Fuentes, David Comas
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:213 (21July2008)
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Research article
A new perspective on phylogeny and evolution of tetraodontiform fishes (Pisces: Acanthopterygii) based on whole mitochondrial genome sequences: Basal ecological diversification?
Yusuke Yamanoue, Masaki Miya, Keiichi Matsuura, Masaya Katoh, Harumi Sakai, Mutsumi Nishida
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:212 (19July2008)
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Research article
The cost of wobble translation in fungal mitochondrial genomes: integration of two traditional hypotheses
Xuhua Xia
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:211 (19July2008)
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