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  1. Tamquammys has been considered one of the basal ctenodactyloid rodents, which has been documented in the earliest to middle Eocene (~ 56.0–48.5 Ma) in China. It was the most abundant and widespread rodent genus i...

    Authors: Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik, Qian Li and Xijun Ni
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:150
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  2. Sabellarids, also known as honeycomb or sandcastle worms, when building their tubes, produce chemical signals (free fatty acids) that are responsible for larval settlement and the formation of three-dimensiona...

    Authors: Conrad Helm, Michael J Bok, Pat Hutchings, Elena Kupriyanova and María Capa
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:149
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  3. Members of the Bacillus genus have been isolated from a variety of environments. However, the relationship between potential metabolism and the niche from which bacteria of this genus have been isolated has not b...

    Authors: Ismael L. Hernández-González, Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb and Gabriela Olmedo-Álvarez
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:148
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  4. Extended parental care is a complex reproductive strategy in which progenitors actively look after their offspring up to – or beyond – the first juvenile stage in order to maximize their fitness. Although the ...

    Authors: Dongjing Fu, Javier Ortega-Hernández, Allison C Daley, Xingliang Zhang and Degan Shu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:147
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  5. Intraspecific variation in chromosome structure may cause genetic incompatibilities and thus provides the first step in the formation of species. In ants, chromosome number varies tremendously from 2n = 2 to 2...

    Authors: Danon Clemes Cardoso, Jürgen Heinze, Mariana Neves Moura and Maykon Passos Cristiano
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:146
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  6. Divergent selection has been shown to promote speciation in many taxa and especially in phytophagous insects. In the Ostrinia species complex, the European corn borer (ECB) and adzuki bean borer (ABB) are two sib...

    Authors: M. Orsucci, P. Audiot, S. Nidelet, F. Dorkeld, A. Pommier, M. Vabre, D. Severac, M. Rohmer, B. Gschloessl and R. Streiff
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:145
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  7. Adaptation to new hosts in phytophagous insects often involves mechanisms of host recognition by genes of sensory pathways. Most often the molecular evolution of sensory genes has been explained in the context...

    Authors: Fernando Diaz, Carson W. Allan and Luciano M. Matzkin
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:144
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  8. Confined within the freezing Southern Ocean, the Antarctic notothenioids have evolved to become both cold adapted and cold specialized. A marked signature of cold specialization is an apparent loss of the cell...

    Authors: Kevin T. Bilyk, Luis Vargas-Chacoff and C.-H.Christina Cheng
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:143
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  9. Sexual selection continues after copulation via either sperm competition or cryptic female choice, and favors sperm traits that maximize sperm competitiveness. Both sperm swimming velocity and longevity are im...

    Authors: Alfonso Rojas Mora, Magali Meniri, Sabrina Ciprietti and Fabrice Helfenstein
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:142
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  10. Microhabitat changes are thought to be among the main drivers of diversification. However, this conclusion is mostly based on studies on vertebrates. Here, we investigate the influence of microhabitat on diver...

    Authors: Jonas Eberle, Dimitar Dimitrov, Alejandro Valdez-Mondragón and Bernhard A. Huber
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:141
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  11. Disparity in the timing of biological events occurs across a variety of systems, yet the understanding of genetic basis underlying diverse phenologies remains limited. Variation in maturation timing occurs in ...

    Authors: Steven J. Micheletti, Jon E. Hess, Joseph S. Zendt and Shawn R. Narum
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:140
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  12. Genetic introgression between divergent lineages is now considered more common than previously appreciated, with potentially important consequences for adaptation and speciation. Introgression is often asymmet...

    Authors: Jeremy M. Bono, Helen K. Pigage, Peter J. Wettstein, Stephanie A. Prosser and Jon C. Pigage
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:139
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  14. Phylogenetic relationships among Eastern Hemisphere cypresses, Western Hemisphere cypresses, junipers, and their closest relatives are controversial, and generic delimitations have been in flux for the past de...

    Authors: Andan Zhu, Weishu Fan, Robert P. Adams and Jeffrey P. Mower
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:137
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  15. Chytridiomycota species (chytrids) belong to a basal lineage in the fungal kingdom. Inhabiting terrestrial and aquatic environments, most are free-living saprophytes but several species cause important disease...

    Authors: Bart T. L. H. van de Vossenberg, Balázs Brankovics, Hai D. T. Nguyen, Marga P. E. van Gent-Pelzer, Donna Smith, Kasia Dadej, Jarosław Przetakiewicz, Jan F. Kreuze, Margriet Boerma, Gerard C. M. van Leeuwen, C. André Lévesque and Theo A. J. van der Lee
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:136
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  16. The plane leaf miner, Phyllonorycter platani is a widely distributed insect species on plane trees and has a well-documented colonisation history in Europe over the last century. However, phylogeographic data of ...

    Authors: Viktória Tóth and Ferenc Lakatos
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:135
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  17. While the communities constituted by phytophageous insects and their parasites may represent half of all terrestrial animal species, understanding their diversification remains a major challenge. A neglected i...

    Authors: Hui Yu, Dan Liang, Enwei Tian, Linna Zheng and Finn Kjellberg
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:134
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  18. As the topologies produced by previous molecular and morphological studies were contradictory and unstable (polytomy), evolutionary relationships within the Diplozoidae family and the Monogenea class (controve...

    Authors: Dong Zhang, Hong Zou, Shan G. Wu, Ming Li, Ivan Jakovlić, Jin Zhang, Rong Chen, Wen X. Li and Gui T. Wang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:133
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  19. The processes leading to the diversity of over 7000 present-day languages have been the subject of scholarly interest for centuries. Several factors have been suggested to contribute to the spatial segregation...

    Authors: Terhi Honkola, Kalle Ruokolainen, Kaj J. J. Syrjänen, Unni-Päivä Leino, Ilpo Tammi, Niklas Wahlberg and Outi Vesakoski
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:132
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  20. The specialist-generalist variation hypothesis (SGVH) in parasites suggests that, due to patchiness in habitat (host availability), specialist species will show more subdivided population structure when compar...

    Authors: Conrad A. Matthee, Adriaan Engelbrecht and Sonja Matthee
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:131
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  21. The zooplanktonic cladocerans Daphnia, present in a wide range of water bodies, are an important component of freshwater ecosystems. In contrast to their high dispersal capacity through diapausing eggs carried by...

    Authors: Mingbo Yin, Xiaoyu Wang, Xiaolin Ma, Sabine Gießler, Adam Petrusek, Johanna Griebel, Wei Hu and Justyna Wolinska
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:130
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  22. Genes underlying signal production and reception are expected to evolve to maximize signal detection in specific environments. Fireflies vary in their light signal color both within and between species, and th...

    Authors: Sarah E. Lower, Kathrin F. Stanger-Hall and David W. Hall
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:129
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  23. Coalescent methods that use multi-locus sequence data are powerful tools for identifying putatively reproductively isolated lineages, though this approach has rarely been used for the study of microbial groups...

    Authors: Spencer C. Galen, Renato Nunes, Paul R. Sweet and Susan L. Perkins
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:128
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  24. The molecular bases explaining the diversity of dental tissue mineralization across gnathostomes are still poorly understood. Odontodes, such as teeth and body denticles, are serial structures that develop thr...

    Authors: Sébastien Enault, David Muñoz, Paul Simion, Stéphanie Ventéo, Jean-Yves Sire, Sylvain Marcellini and Mélanie Debiais-Thibaud
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:127
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  25. Temperature is a major determinant of spontaneous mutation, but the precise mode, and the underlying mechanisms, of the temperature influences remain less clear. Here we used a mutation accumulation approach c...

    Authors: Xiao-Lin Chu, Bo-Wen Zhang, Quan-Guo Zhang, Bi-Ru Zhu, Kui Lin and Da-Yong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:126
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  27. Understanding how phenotypic variation scales from individuals, through populations, up to species, and how it relates to genetic and environmental factors, is essential for deciphering the evolutionary mechan...

    Authors: Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou, Catarina Pinho and Fernando Martínez-Freiría
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:124
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  28. Macroevolutionary modeling of species diversification plays important roles in inferring large-scale biodiversity patterns. It allows estimation of speciation and extinction rates and statistically testing the...

    Authors: Jingchun Li, Jen-Pen Huang, Jeet Sukumaran and L. Lacey Knowles
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:123
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  29. Understanding the mechanisms that underlie the diversification of herbivores through interactions with their hosts is important for their diversity assessment and identification of expansion events, particular...

    Authors: Anna Skoracka, Luís Filipe Lopes, Maria Judite Alves, Adam Miller, Mariusz Lewandowski, Wiktoria Szydło, Agnieszka Majer, Elżbieta Różańska and Lechosław Kuczyński
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:122
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  30. The adaptive immune system of vertebrates has an extraordinary potential to sense and neutralize foreign antigens entering the body. De novo evolution of genes implies that the genome itself expresses novel antig...

    Authors: Cemalettin Bekpen, Chen Xie and Diethard Tautz
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:121
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  31. Mesoderm is generally considered to be a germ layer that is unique to Bilateria, and it develops into diverse tissues, including muscle, and in the case of vertebrates, the skeleton and notochord. Studies on v...

    Authors: Tzu-Pei Fan, Hsiu-Chi Ting, Jr-Kai Yu and Yi-Hsien Su
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:120
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  32. The majority of wood decomposing fungi are mushroom-forming Agaricomycetes, which exhibit two main modes of plant cell wall decomposition: white rot, in which all plant cell wall components are degraded, inclu...

    Authors: Franz-Sebastian Krah, Claus Bässler, Christoph Heibl, John Soghigian, Hanno Schaefer and David S. Hibbett
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:119
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  33. In the original publication of this article [1] there was an error in an author name. In this correction article the correct and incorrect name are indicated.

    Authors: Russell J. S. Orr, Sen Zhao, Dag Klaveness, Akinori Yabuki, Keiji Ikeda, Makoto M. Watanabe and Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:118
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:115

  34. Correction to: BMC Evolutionary Biology (2018) 18:90https://​doi.​org/​10.​1186/​s12862-018-1207-0.

    Authors: Isidora Mura-Jornet, Carolina Pimentel, Gisele P. M. Dantas, Maria Virginia Petry, Daniel González-Acuña, Andrés Barbosa, Andrew D. Lowther, Kit M. Kovacs, Elie Poulin and Juliana A. Vianna
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:117
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    The original article was published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:90

  35. One of the most perplexing questions in evolutionary biology is why some lineages diversify into many species, and others do not. In many cases, ecological opportunity has played an important role, leading to ...

    Authors: Kimberly L. Foster and Kyle R. Piller
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:116
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  36. The class Diphyllatea belongs to a group of enigmatic unicellular eukaryotes that play a key role in reconstructing the morphological innovation and diversification of early eukaryotic evolution. Despite its e...

    Authors: Russell J. S. Orr, Sen Zhao, Dag Klaveness, Akinori Yabuki, Keiji Ikeda, Makoto M. Watanabe and Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:115
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:118

  37. Approximately 80% of all described extant sponge species belong to the class Demospongiae. Yet, despite their diversity and importance, accurate divergence times are still unknown for most demosponge clades. T...

    Authors: Astrid Schuster, Sergio Vargas, Ingrid S. Knapp, Shirley A. Pomponi, Robert J. Toonen, Dirk Erpenbeck and Gert Wörheide
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:114
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  38. Populations that have repeatedly colonized novel environments are useful for studying the role of ecology in adaptive divergence – particularly if some individuals persist in the ancestral habitat. Such “conte...

    Authors: Matthew R. J. Morris, Ella Bowles, Brandon E. Allen, Heather A. Jamniczky and Sean M. Rogers
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:113
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  39. Spatial isolation, diverging environmental conditions and social structures may lead to the differentiation of various traits, e.g. molecules, morphology and behaviour. Bird calls may provide important informa...

    Authors: Jan Christian Habel, Martin Husemann and Werner Ulrich
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:112
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  40. Hirsutella Pat genus, the asexual morphs of the Ophiocordyceps Sung, is globally distributed entomopathogenic fungi, which infect a variety of arthropods, mites and nematodes. The fungal species also have shown p...

    Authors: Jiaojiao Qu, Yeming Zhou, Jianping Yu, Jian Zhang, Yanfeng Han and Xiao Zou
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:111
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  42. The maintenance of considerable genetic variation in sexually selected traits (SSTs) is puzzling given directional selection expected to act on these traits. A possible explanation is the existence of a genoty...

    Authors: Agata Plesnar-Bielak, Anna Maria Skwierzyńska, Kasper Hlebowicz and Jacek Radwan
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:109
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  43. Species with a restricted geographic distribution, and highly specialized habitat and dietary requirements, are particularly vulnerable to extinction. The Bale monkey (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) is a little-known...

    Authors: Addisu Mekonnen, Eli K. Rueness, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Peter J. Fashing, Afework Bekele, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Rose Missbach, Tanja Haus, Dietmar Zinner and Christian Roos
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:106
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  44. Symbiosis is a major source of evolutionary innovation and, by allowing species to exploit new ecological niches, underpins the functioning of ecosystems. The transition from free-living to obligate symbiosis ...

    Authors: Ewan J. A. Minter, Chris D. Lowe, Megan E. S. Sørensen, A. Jamie Wood, Duncan D. Cameron and Michael A. Brockhurst
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:108
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  45. Hemocyanin transports O2 in the hemolymph of many arthropod species. Such respiratory proteins have long been considered unnecessary in Myriapoda. As a result, the presence of hemocyanin in Myriapoda has long bee...

    Authors: Samantha Scherbaum, Nadja Hellmann, Rosa Fernández, Christian Pick and Thorsten Burmester
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:107
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  46. Outbreaks caused by asexual lineages of fungal and oomycete pathogens are a continuing threat to crops, wild animals and natural ecosystems (Fisher MC, Henk DA, Briggs CJ, Brownstein JS, Madoff LC, McCraw SL, ...

    Authors: Marina Pais, Kentaro Yoshida, Artemis Giannakopoulou, Mathieu A. Pel, Liliana M. Cano, Ricardo F. Oliva, Kamil Witek, Hannele Lindqvist-Kreuze, Vivianne G. A. A. Vleeshouwers and Sophien Kamoun
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:93
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  47. Anthropogenic factors can have a major impact on the contemporary distribution of intraspecific genetic diversity. Many freshwater fishes have finely structured and locally adapted populations, but their natur...

    Authors: Veronika Bartáková, Josef Bryja and Martin Reichard
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:105
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  48. Recent molecular dating estimates for placental mammals echo fossil inferences for an explosive interordinal diversification, but typically place this event some 10–20 million years earlier than the Paleocene ...

    Authors: Matthew J. Phillips and Carmelo Fruciano
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:104
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  49. Physa acuta is a globally invasive freshwater snail native to North America. Prior studies have led to conflicting views of how P. acuta populations are connected and genetic diversity is partitioned globally. Th...

    Authors: Erika T. Ebbs, Eric S. Loker and Sara V. Brant
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:103
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