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  1. Understanding the relative influence of vicariance and dispersal in shaping Old World tropical biodiversity remains a challenge. We aimed to infer the roles of these alternative biogeographic processes using a...

    Authors: Jahnavi Joshi and Gregory D. Edgecombe
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:41
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:56

  3. During the modern human expansion, new environmental pressures may have driven adaptation, especially in genes related to the perception of ingested substances and their detoxification. Consequently, positive ...

    Authors: Begoña Dobon, Carla Rossell, Sandra Walsh and Jaume Bertranpetit
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:39
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  4. Many physiological processes are influenced by nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR), ranging from neuromuscular and parasympathetic signaling to modulation of the reward system and long-term memory. Due t...

    Authors: Julia E. Pedersen, Christina A. Bergqvist and Dan Larhammar
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:38
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  5. Morphological diversity of limb bone lengths, diameters, and proportions in mammals is known to vary strongly with locomotor habit. It remains less well known how different locomotor habits are correlated with...

    Authors: Brandon M. Kilbourne and John R. Hutchinson
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:37
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  6. At the very end of the larval stage Drosophila expectorate a glue secreted by their salivary glands to attach themselves to a substrate while pupariating. The glue is a mixture of apparently unrelated proteins, s...

    Authors: Jean-Luc Da Lage, Gregg W. C. Thomas, Magalie Bonneau and Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:36
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  7. Among the four bases, guanine is the most susceptible to damage from oxidative stress. Replication of DNA containing damaged guanines results in G to T mutations. Therefore, the mutations resulting from oxidat...

    Authors: Sidra Aslam, Xin-Ran Lan, Bo-Wen Zhang, Zheng-Lin Chen, Li Wang and Deng-Ke Niu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:35
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  9. For over 50 years, attempts have been made to introgress agronomically useful traits from Erianthus sect. Ripidium (Tripidium) species into sugarcane based on both genera being part of the ‘Saccharum Complex’, an...

    Authors: Dyfed Lloyd Evans, Shailesh V. Joshi and Jianping Wang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:33
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  10. Phenotypic plasticity is a pervasive property of all organisms and considered to be of key importance for dealing with environmental variation. Plastic responses to temperature, which is one of the most import...

    Authors: Kristin Franke, Isabell Karl, Tonatiuh Pena Centeno, Barbara Feldmeyer, Christian Lassek, Vicencio Oostra, Katharina Riedel, Mario Stanke, Christopher W. Wheat and Klaus Fischer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:32
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  11. The gene for odontogenic ameloblast-associated (ODAM) is a member of the secretory calcium-binding phosphoprotein gene family. ODAM is primarily expressed in dental tissues including the enamel organ and the junc...

    Authors: Mark S. Springer, Christopher A. Emerling, John Gatesy, Jason Randall, Matthew A. Collin, Nikolai Hecker, Michael Hiller and Frédéric Delsuc
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:31
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  12. Caecilians (Gymnophiona) are the least speciose extant lissamphibian order, yet living forms capture approximately 250 million years of evolution since their earliest divergences. This long history is reflecte...

    Authors: Carla Bardua, Mark Wilkinson, David J. Gower, Emma Sherratt and Anjali Goswami
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:30
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  13. Plukenetia is a small pantropical genus of lianas and vines with variably sized edible oil-rich seeds that presents an ideal system to investigate neotropical and pantropical diversification patterns and seed siz...

    Authors: Warren M. Cardinal-McTeague, Kenneth J. Wurdack, Erin M. Sigel and Lynn J. Gillespie
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:29
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  14. The polyamine oxidases (PAOs) catabolize the oxidative deamination of the polyamines (PAs) spermine (Spm) and spermidine (Spd). Most of the phylogenetic studies performed to analyze the plant PAO family took i...

    Authors: Cesar Daniel Bordenave, Carolina Granados Mendoza, Juan Francisco Jiménez Bremont, Andrés Gárriz and Andrés Alberto Rodríguez
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:28
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  15. The plasminogen (PLG) activation system is composed by a series of serine proteases, inhibitors and several binding proteins, which together control the temporal and spatial generation of the active serine pro...

    Authors: Andrés Chana-Muñoz, Agnieszka Jendroszek, Malene Sønnichsen, Tobias Wang, Michael Ploug, Jan K. Jensen, Peter A. Andreasen, Christian Bendixen and Frank Panitz
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:27
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  16. ALRs (AIM2-like Receptors) are germline encoded PRRs that belong to PYHIN gene family of cytokines, which are having signature N-terminal PYD (Pyrin, PAAD or DAPIN) domain and C-terminal HIN-200 (hematopoietic, i...

    Authors: Sushil Kumar, Jatinder Singh Chera, Ashutosh Vats and Sachinandan De
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:26
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  17. Western house mice Mus musculus domesticus are among the most important mammalian model species for chromosomal speciation. Hybrids between chromosomal races of M. m. domesticus suffer various degrees of fertilit...

    Authors: Sofia A. Grize, Elodie Wilwert, Jeremy B. Searle and Anna K. Lindholm
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:25
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  18. Knowledge about the distribution of the genetic variation of marine species is fundamental to address species conservation and management strategies, especially in scenarios with mass mortalities. In the Medit...

    Authors: Ana Riesgo, Sergi Taboada, Rocío Pérez-Portela, Paolo Melis, Joana R. Xavier, Gema Blasco and Susanna López-Legentil
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:24
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  19. Peninsulas often harvest high genetic diversity through repeated southward migrations of species during glacial maxima. Studies addressing within-species evolutionary responses to climate fluctuations in north...

    Authors: Michael Joseph Jowers, Santiago Sánchez-Ramírez, Euigeun Song, Samer Angelone, Taeyoung Choi, Inna Voloshina and Donggul Woo
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:23
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  20. An excess of nonsynonymous substitutions, over neutrality, is considered evidence of positive Darwinian selection. Inference for proteins often relies on estimation of the nonsynonymous to synonymous ratio (ω = d

    Authors: Katherine A. Dunn, Toby Kenney, Hong Gu and Joseph P. Bielawski
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:22
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  21. Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSAs) are the starting point of molecular evolutionary analyses. Errors in MSAs generate a non-historical signal that can lead to incorrect inferences. Therefore, numerous efforts...

    Authors: Arnaud Di Franco, Raphaël Poujol, Denis Baurain and Hervé Philippe
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:21
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  22. The Synurophyceae is one of most important photosynthetic stramenopile algal lineages in freshwater ecosystems. They are characterized by siliceous scales covering the cell or colony surface and possess plasti...

    Authors: Jong Im Kim, Hyunmoon Shin, Pavel Škaloud, Jaehee Jung, Hwan Su Yoon, John M. Archibald and Woongghi Shin
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:20
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  23. The genetic mechanisms underlying the domestication of animals and plants have been of great interest to biologists since Darwin. To date, little is known about the global pattern of gene expression changes du...

    Authors: Wei Liu, Lei Chen, Shilai Zhang, Fengyi Hu, Zheng Wang, Jun Lyu, Bao Wang, Hui Xiang, Ruoping Zhao, Zhixi Tian, Song Ge and Wen Wang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:19
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  24. The Carpathians and the Alps are the largest mountain ranges of the European Alpine System and important centres of endemism. Among the distinctive endemic species of this area is Saxifraga wahlenbergii, a Wester...

    Authors: Natalia Tkach, Martin Röser, Tomasz Suchan, Elżbieta Cieślak, Peter Schönswetter and Michał Ronikier
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:18
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  25. The aim of the study was to use hybrid populations as well as island populations of the European brown hare (Lepus europaeus) to explore the effect of evolutionary events, such as the post-deglaciation translocat...

    Authors: Themistoklis Giannoulis, Dimitrios Plageras, Costas Stamatis, Eleni Chatzivagia, Andreas Tsipourlianos, Periklis Birtsas, Charalambos Billinis, Franz Suchentrunk and Zissis Mamuris
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:17
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  26. The evolution of elongated body forms in tetrapods has a strong influence on the musculoskeletal system, including the reduction of pelvic and pectoral girdles, as well as the limbs. However, despite extensive...

    Authors: Natascha Westphal, Kristin Mahlow, Jason James Head and Johannes Müller
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:16
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  27. A central theme in (micro)biology is understanding the molecular basis of fitness i.e. which strategies are successful under which conditions; how do organisms implement such strategies at the molecular level;...

    Authors: Claire E. Price, Filipe Branco dos Santos, Anne Hesseling, Jaakko J. Uusitalo, Herwig Bachmann, Vera Benavente, Anisha Goel, Jan Berkhout, Frank J. Bruggeman, Siewert-Jan Marrink, Manolo Montalban-Lopez, Anne de Jong, Jan Kok, Douwe Molenaar, Bert Poolman, Bas Teusink…
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:15
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  29. The impressive adaptive radiation of notothenioid fishes in Antarctic waters is generally thought to have been facilitated by an evolutionary key innovation, antifreeze glycoproteins, permitting the rapid evol...

    Authors: Santiago G. Ceballos, Marius Roesti, Michael Matschiner, Daniel A. Fernández, Malte Damerau, Reinhold Hanel and Walter Salzburger
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:13
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  30. Horizontal gene transfer and gene duplication are two major mechanisms contributing to the evolutionary adaptation of organisms. Previously, polygalacturonase genes (PGs) were independently horizontally transf...

    Authors: Pengjun Xu, Bin Lu, Jinyan Liu, Jiangtao Chao, Philip Donkersley, Robert Holdbrook and Yanhui Lu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:12
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  31. Transposable elements (TEs) are a major component of metazoan genomes and are associated with a variety of mechanisms that shape genome architecture and evolution. Despite the ever-growing number of insect gen...

    Authors: Malte Petersen, David Armisén, Richard A. Gibbs, Lars Hering, Abderrahman Khila, Georg Mayer, Stephen Richards, Oliver Niehuis and Bernhard Misof
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2019 19:11
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:146

  32. Adaptive radiations are triggered by ecological opportunity – the access to novel niche domains with abundant available resources that facilitate the formation of new ecologically divergent species. Therefore,...

    Authors: Joshua W. Lambert, Martin Reichard and Daniel Pincheira-Donoso
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:10
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  34. Chasmataspidids are a rare group of chelicerate arthropods known from 12 species assigned to ten genera, with a geologic range extending from the Ordovician to the Devonian. The Late Ordovician (Richmondian) f...

    Authors: James C. Lamsdell, Gerald O. Gunderson and Ronald C. Meyer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:8
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:112

  35. Morphological diversity among closely related animals can be the result of differing growth patterns. The Australian radiation of agamid lizards (Amphibolurinae) exhibits great ecological and morphological div...

    Authors: Jaimi A. Gray, Emma Sherratt, Mark N. Hutchinson and Marc E. H. Jones
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:7
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  36. Clupeid fisheries in Lake Tanganyika (East Africa) provide food for millions of people in one of the world’s poorest regions. Due to climate change and overfishing, the clupeid stocks of Lake Tanganyika are de...

    Authors: Els L. R. De Keyzer, Zoë De Corte, Maarten Van Steenberge, Joost A. M. Raeymaekers, Federico C. F. Calboli, Nikol Kmentová, Théophile N’Sibula Mulimbwa, Massimiliano Virgilio, Carl Vangestel, Pascal Masilya Mulungula, Filip A. M. Volckaert and Maarten P. M. Vanhove
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:6
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  37. Geographical isolation combined with historical climatic fluctuations have been identified as two major factors that contribute to the formation of new species. On the other hand, biotic factors such as compet...

    Authors: Yunxiang Liu, Christopher H. Dietrich and Cong Wei
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:5
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  38. Septins are cytoskeletal proteins important in cell division and in establishing and maintaining cell polarity. Although septins are found in various eukaryotes, septin genes had the richest history of duplica...

    Authors: Benjamin Auxier, Jaclyn Dee, Mary L. Berbee and Michelle Momany
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:4
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  39. The lake deposits of the informal Ruby Paper Shale unit, part of the Renova Formation of Montana, have yielded abundant plant fossils that document Late Eocene – Early Oligocene global cooling in western North...

    Authors: Tobin L. Hieronymus, David A. Waugh and Julia A. Clarke
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:3
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  40. Genes of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) are essential for adaptive immune response in vertebrates, as they encode receptors that recognize peptides derived from the processing of intracellular (MHC...

    Authors: Piotr Minias, Ewa Pikus and Dariusz Anderwald
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:2
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  41. Climate oscillation may have a profound effect on species distributions, gene flow patterns and population demography. In response to environmental change, those species restricted to montane habitats experien...

    Authors: Tao Pan, Hui Wang, Pablo Orozcoterwengel, Chao-Chao Hu, Gui-You Wu, Li-Fu Qian, Zhong-Lou Sun, Wen-Bo Shi, Peng Yan, Xiao-Bing Wu and Bao-Wei Zhang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:1
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  42. Social insects are among the most serious invasive pests in the world, particularly successful at monopolizing environmental resources to outcompete native species and achieve ecological dominance. The invasiv...

    Authors: Pierre-André Eyer, Bryant McDowell, Laura N. L. Johnson, Luis A. Calcaterra, Maria Belen Fernandez, DeWayne Shoemaker, Robert T. Puckett and Edward L. Vargo
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:209
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  43. The diversity and phylogeny of whitefish of the genus Coregonus is complex, and includes many endemic species of high conservation concern. However, because of commercial importance of whitefish fisheries, stocki...

    Authors: Thomas Mehner, Kirsten Pohlmann, David Bittner and Jörg Freyhof
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:208
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  44. Several lineages of herbivorous mammals have evolved hypsodont cheek teeth to increase the functional lifespan of their dentition. While the selective drivers of this trend and the developmental processes invo...

    Authors: Carsten Witzel, Uwe Kierdorf, Kai Frölich and Horst Kierdorf
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:207
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  45. Following publication of the original article

    Authors: Diushi Keri Corona-Santiago, Omar Domínguez-Domínguez, Llanet Tovar-Mora, José Ramón Pardos-Blas, Yvonne Herrerías-Diego, Rodolfo Pérez-Rodríguez and Ignacio Doadrio
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:206
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:173

  46. The Sox family of transcription factors is an important part of the genetic ‘toolbox’ of all metazoans examined to date and is known to play important developmental roles in vertebrates and insects. However, o...

    Authors: Christian L. Bonatto Paese, Daniel J. Leite, Anna Schönauer, Alistair P. McGregor and Steven Russell
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:205
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  49. Oligoadenylate synthetases (OASs) are widely distributed in Metazoa including sponges, fish, reptiles, birds and mammals and show large variation, with one to twelve members in any given species. Upon double-s...

    Authors: Jiaxiang Hu, Xiaoxue Wang, Yanling Xing, Enguang Rong, Mengfei Ning, Jacqueline Smith and Yinhua Huang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:201
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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