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The role of ecological variation in driving divergence of sexual and non-sexual traits in the red-backed fairy-wren (Malurus melanocephalus)

Daniel T Baldassarre, Henri A Thomassen, Jordan Karubian, Michael S Webster BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:75 (28 March 2013)

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The evolution of host associations in the parasitic wasp genus Ichneumon (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): convergent adaptations to host pupation sites

Andreas Tschopp, Matthias Riedel, Christian Kropf, Wolfgang Nentwig, Seraina Klopfstein BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:74 (27 March 2013)

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To the beat of a different drum: determinants implicated in the asymmetric sequence divergence of Caenorhabditis elegans paralogs

Vaishali Katju BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:73 (27 March 2013)

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Chengia laxispicata gen. et sp. nov., a new ephedroid plant from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, Northeast China: evolutionary, taxonomic, and biogeographic implications

Yong Yang, Longbiao Lin, Qi Wang BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:72 (27 March 2013)

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The evolution of virulence of West Nile virus in a mosquito vector: implications for arbovirus adaptation and evolution

Alexander T Ciota, Dylan J Ehrbar, Amy C Matacchiero, Greta A Van Slyke, Laura D Kramer BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:71 (20 March 2013)

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Diversification of Quiescin sulfhydryl oxidase in a preserved framework for redox relay

Keren Limor-Waisberg, Shifra Ben-Dor, Deborah Fass BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:70 (19 March 2013)

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Evolution of S-domain receptor-like kinases in land plants and origination of S-locus receptor kinases in Brassicaceae

Shilai Xing, Mengya Li, Pei Liu BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:69 (19 March 2013)

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Inducing extra copies of the Hsp70 gene in Drosophila melanogaster increases energetic demand

Luke A Hoekstra, Kristi L Montooth BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:68 (19 March 2013)

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Phylogeography of amphi-boreal fish: tracing the history of the Pacific herring Clupea pallasii in North-East European seas

Hanna M Laakkonen, Dmitry L Lajus, Petr Strelkov, Risto Väinölä BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:67 (19 March 2013)

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Adaptive regulatory substitutions affect multiple stages in the life cycle of the bacteriophage ϕX174

Celeste J Brown, Amber D Stancik, Pavitra Roychoudhury, Stephen M Krone BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:66 (18 March 2013)

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Rates of molecular evolution and diversification in plants: chloroplast substitution rates correlate with species-richness in the Proteaceae

David Duchene, Lindell Bromham BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:65 (13 March 2013)

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The genetic structure of a Venturia inaequalis population in a heterogeneous host population composed of different Malus species

Thibault Leroy, Christophe Lemaire, Frank Dunemann, Bruno Le Cam BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:64 (12 March 2013)

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Evidence of recent natural selection on the Southeast Asian deletion (--^SEA) causing α-thalassemia in South China

Qin-Wei Qiu, Dong-Dong Wu, Li-Hua Yu, Ti-Zhen Yan, Wen Zhang, Zhe-Tao Li, Yan-Hui Liu, Ya-Ping Zhang, Xiang-Min Xu BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:63 (11 March 2013)

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Timothy R Sands BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:32 (7 March 2013)

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Rapid birth-and-death evolution of the xenobiotic metabolizing NAT gene family in vertebrates with evidence of adaptive selection

Audrey Sabbagh, Julie Marin, Charlotte Veyssière, Emilie Lecompte, Sotiria Boukouvala, Estella S Poloni, Pierre Darlu, Brigitte Crouau-Roy BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:62 (7 March 2013)

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Forelimb preferences in quadrupedal marsupials and their implications for laterality evolution in mammals

Andrey Giljov, Karina Karenina, Yegor Malashichev BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:61 (6 March 2013)

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Genealogy of an ancient protein family: the Sirtuins, a family of disordered members

Susan Costantini, Ankush Sharma, Raffaele Raucci, Maria Costantini, Ida Autiero, Giovanni Colonna BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:60 (5 March 2013)

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Early Miocene origin and cryptic diversification of South American salamanders

Kathryn R Elmer, Ronald M Bonett, David B Wake, Stephen C Lougheed BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:59 (4 March 2013)

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Continental phylogeography of an ecologically and morphologically diverse Neotropical songbird, Zonotrichia capensis

Stephen C Lougheed, Leonardo Campagna, José A Dávila, Pablo L Tubaro, Darío A Lijtmaer, Paul Handford BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:58 (1 March 2013)

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