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  1. The noble crayfish (Astacus astacus) displays a complex historical and contemporary genetic status in Europe. The species divergence has been shaped by geological events (i.e. Pleistocene glaciations) and humanly...

    Authors: Anastasia Laggis, Athanasios D. Baxevanis, Alexandra Charalampidou, Stefania Maniatsi, Alexander Triantafyllidis and Theodore J. Abatzopoulos
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:122
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  2. A large number of taxa have undergone evolutionary radiations in mountainous areas, rendering alpine systems particularly suitable to study the extrinsic and intrinsic factors that have shaped diversification ...

    Authors: J. Ebersbach, J. Schnitzler, A. Favre and A.N. Muellner-Riehl
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:119
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  4. Understanding the genotype-phenotype map is fundamental to our understanding of genomes. Genes do not function independently, but rather as part of networks or pathways. In the case of metabolic pathways, flux...

    Authors: Alena Orlenko, Peter B. Chi and David A. Liberles
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:117
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  5. At the Nomenclature Section of the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne, Australia (IBC), the botanical community voted to allow electronic publication of nomenclatural acts for algae, fungi and...

    Authors: Nicky Nicolson, Katherine Challis, Allan Tucker and Sandra Knapp
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:116
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:156

  6. The colonization of Eurasia and Australasia by African modern humans has been explained, nearly unanimously, as the result of a quick southern coastal dispersal route through the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian ...

    Authors: Jose M Larruga, Patricia Marrero, Khaled K Abu-Amero, Maria V Golubenko and Vicente M Cabrera
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:115
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  7. Latitudinal variation in avian life histories falls along a slow-fast pace of life continuum: tropical species produce small clutches, but have a high survival probability, while in temperate species the oppos...

    Authors: Beate Apfelbeck, Barbara Helm, Juan Carlos Illera, Kim G. Mortega, Patrick Smiddy and Neil P. Evans
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:114
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  9. Polyandry is commonly maintained by direct benefits in gift-giving species, so females may remate as an adaptive foraging strategy. However, the assumption of a direct benefit fades in mating systems where mal...

    Authors: Irene Pandulli-Alonso, Agustín Quaglia and Maria J. Albo
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:112
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  12. The combination of model-based comparative techniques, disparity analyses and ecomorphological correlations constitutes a powerful method to gain insight into the evolutionary mechanisms that shape morphologic...

    Authors: Vicente García-Navas, Víctor Noguerales, Pedro J. Cordero and Joaquín Ortego
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:109
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  13. The entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema carpocapsae has been used worldwide as a biocontrol agent for insect pests, making it an interesting model for understanding parasite-host interactions. Two models propos...

    Authors: Mitzi Flores-Ponce, Miguel Vallebueno-Estrada, Eduardo González-Orozco, Hilda E. Ramos-Aboites, J. Noé García-Chávez, Nelson Simões and Rafael Montiel
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:108
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  14. Most animals employ telomerase, which consists of a catalytic subunit known as the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and an RNA template, to maintain telomere ends. Given the importance of TERT and telom...

    Authors: Alvina G. Lai, Natalia Pouchkina-Stantcheva, Alessia Di Donfrancesco, Gerda Kildisiute, Sounak Sahu and A. Aziz Aboobaker
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:107
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  15. While mutualistic interactions between different genotypes are pervasive in nature, their evolutionary origin is not clear. The dilemma is that, for mutualistic interactions to emerge and persist, an investmen...

    Authors: Marie Marchal, Felix Goldschmidt, Selina N. Derksen-Müller, Sven Panke, Martin Ackermann and David R. Johnson
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:106
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  16. Arachnids are a highly successful group of land-dwelling arthropods. They are major contributors to modern terrestrial ecosystems, and have a deep evolutionary history. Whip spiders (Arachnida, Amblypygi), are...

    Authors: Russell J. Garwood, Jason A. Dunlop, Brian J. Knecht and Thomas A. Hegna
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:105
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  17. Polyploidy plays an important role in the adaptation and speciation of plants. The alteration of karyotype is a significant event during polyploidy formation. The Medicago sativa complex includes both diploid (2n...

    Authors: Feng Yu, Haiqing Wang, Yanyan Zhao, Ruijuan Liu, Quanwen Dou, Jiangli Dong and Tao Wang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:104
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  18. Cytoplasmic sex allocation distorters, which arise from cytonuclear conflict over the optimal investment into male versus female reproductive function, are some of the best-researched examples for genomic conf...

    Authors: Nikolas Vellnow, Dita B. Vizoso, Gudrun Viktorin and Lukas Schärer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:103
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  20. Testosterone facilitates physiological, morphological, and behavioral changes required for breeding in male vertebrates. However, testosterone concentrations and the link between its seasonal changes and those...

    Authors: Beate Apfelbeck, Kim G. Mortega, Heiner Flinks, Juan Carlos Illera and Barbara Helm
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:101
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  21. Steinernematid nematodes form obligate symbioses with bacteria from the genus Xenorhabdus. Together Steinernema nematodes and their bacterial symbionts successfully infect, kill, utilize, and exit their insect ho...

    Authors: John G. McMullen II, Brittany F. Peterson, Steven Forst, Heidi Goodrich Blair and S. Patricia Stock
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:100
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  22. Genome degradation of host-restricted mutualistic endosymbionts has been attributed to inactivating mutations and genetic drift while genes coding for host-relevant functions are conserved by purifying selecti...

    Authors: Cecilio Valadez-Cano, Roberto Olivares-Hernández, Osbaldo Resendis-Antonio, Alexander DeLuna and Luis Delaye
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:99
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  23. Evolutionary shifts in bacterial virulence are often associated with a third biological player, for instance temperate phages, that can act as hyperparasites. By integrating as prophages into the bacterial gen...

    Authors: Carolin C. Wendling, Agnes Piecyk, Dominik Refardt, Cynthia Chibani, Robert Hertel, Heiko Liesegang, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann and Olivia Roth
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:98
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  25. Symbiotic relationships between insects and bacteria are found across almost all insect orders, including Hymenoptera. However there are still many remaining questions about these associations including what f...

    Authors: Manuela Oliveira Ramalho, Odair Correa Bueno and Corrie Saux Moreau
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:96
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  26. The taxonomy of pines (genus Pinus) is widely accepted and a robust gene tree based on entire plastome sequences exists. However, there is a large discrepancy in estimated divergence times of major pine clades am...

    Authors: Bianca Saladin, Andrew B. Leslie, Rafael O. Wüest, Glenn Litsios, Elena Conti, Nicolas Salamin and Niklaus E. Zimmermann
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:95
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  27. Evolution of bacterial and archaeal genomes is a highly dynamic process that involves intensive loss of genes as well as gene gain via horizontal transfer, with a lesser contribution from gene duplication. The...

    Authors: Pere Puigbò, Kira S. Makarova, David M. Kristensen, Yuri I. Wolf and Eugene V. Koonin
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:94
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  28. Many fungal species occur across a variety of habitats. Particularly lichens, fungi forming symbioses with photosynthetic partners, have evolved remarkable tolerances for environmental extremes. Despite their ...

    Authors: Francesco Dal Grande, Rahul Sharma, Anjuli Meiser, Gregor Rolshausen, Burkhard Büdel, Bagdevi Mishra, Marco Thines, Jürgen Otte, Markus Pfenninger and Imke Schmitt
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:93
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  29. NADPH oxidases (NOX) are ROS producing enzymes that perform essential roles in cell physiology, including cell signaling and antimicrobial defense. This gene family is present in most eukaryotes, suggesting a ...

    Authors: Ana Caroline Paiva Gandara, André Torres, Ana Cristina Bahia, Pedro L. Oliveira and Renata Schama
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:92
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:196

  31. Clostridium difficile is a nosocomial pathogen prevalent in hospitals worldwide and increasingly common in the community. Sequence differences have been shown to be present in the Surf...

    Authors: Mark Lynch, Thomas A. Walsh, Izabela Marszalowska, Andrew E. Webb, Micheál MacAogain, Thomas R. Rogers, Henry Windle, Dermot Kelleher, Mary J. O’Connell and Christine E. Loscher
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:90
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:135

  32. Thousands of flowering plant species attract pollinators without offering rewards, but the evolution of this deceit is poorly understood. Rewardless flowers of the orchid Erycina pusilla have an enlarged median s...

    Authors: Anita Dirks-Mulder, Roland Butôt, Peter van Schaik, Jan Willem P. M. Wijnands, Roel van den Berg, Louie Krol, Sadhana Doebar, Kelly van Kooperen, Hugo de Boer, Elena M. Kramer, Erik F. Smets, Rutger A. Vos, Alexander Vrijdaghs and Barbara Gravendeel
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:89
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  33. India is a patchwork of tribal and non-tribal populations that speak many different languages from various language families. Indo-European, spoken across northern and central India, and also in Pakistan and B...

    Authors: Marina Silva, Marisa Oliveira, Daniel Vieira, Andreia Brandão, Teresa Rito, Joana B. Pereira, Ross M. Fraser, Bob Hudson, Francesca Gandini, Ceiridwen Edwards, Maria Pala, John Koch, James F. Wilson, Luísa Pereira, Martin B. Richards and Pedro Soares
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:88
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  34. Processes driving ploidal diversity at the population level are virtually unknown. Their identification should use a combination of large-scale screening of ploidy levels in the field, pairwise crossing experi...

    Authors: Jindřich Chrtek, Tomáš Herben, Radka Rosenbaumová, Zuzana Münzbergová, Zuzana Dočkalová, Jaroslav Zahradníček, Jana Krejčíková and Pavel Trávníček
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:87
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  35. From bat wings to whale flippers, limb diversification has been crucial to the evolutionary success of mammals. We performed the first transcriptome-wide study of limb development in multiple species to explor...

    Authors: Jennifer A. Maier, Marcelo Rivas-Astroza, Jenny Deng, Anna Dowling, Paige Oboikovitz, Xiaoyi Cao, Richard R. Behringer, Chris J. Cretekos, John J. Rasweiler IV, Sheng Zhong and Karen E. Sears
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:86
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  36. Despite extensive study on hemoglobins and hemocyanins, little is known about hemerythrin (Hr) evolutionary history. Four subgroups of Hrs have been documented, including: circulating Hr (cHr), myohemerythrin ...

    Authors: Elisa M. Costa-Paiva, Nathan V. Whelan, Damien S. Waits, Scott R. Santos, Carlos G. Schrago and Kenneth M. Halanych
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:85
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  37. Opsins are light sensitive receptors associated with visual processes. Insects typically possess opsins that are stimulated by ultraviolet, short and long wavelength (LW) radiation. Six putative LW-sensitive o...

    Authors: Gloria I. Giraldo-Calderón, Michael J. Zanis and Catherine A. Hill
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:84
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  39. Mitochondrial introns intermit coding regions of genes and feature characteristic secondary structures and splicing mechanisms. In metazoans, mitochondrial introns have only been detected in sponges, cnidarian...

    Authors: Astrid Schuster, Jose V. Lopez, Leontine E. Becking, Michelle Kelly, Shirley A. Pomponi, Gert Wörheide, Dirk Erpenbeck and Paco Cárdenas
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:82
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  40. Pax genes are transcription factors with significant roles in cell fate specification and tissue differentiation during animal ontogeny. Most information on their tempo-spatial mode of expression is available ...

    Authors: Maik Scherholz, Emanuel Redl, Tim Wollesen, André Luiz de Oliveira, Christiane Todt and Andreas Wanninger
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:81
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  41. Recent aDNA studies are progressively focusing on various Neolithic and Hunter - Gatherer (HG) populations, providing arguments in favor of major migrations accompanying European Neolithisation. The major focu...

    Authors: Maciej Chyleński, Anna Juras, Edvard Ehler, Helena Malmström, Janusz Piontek, Mattias Jakobsson, Arkadiusz Marciniak and Miroslawa Dabert
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:80
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  42. Understanding the genetic and evolutionary mechanisms of speciation genes in sexually reproducing organisms would provide important insights into mammalian reproduction and fitness. PRDM9, a widely known speci...

    Authors: Abinash Padhi, Botong Shen, Jicai Jiang, Yang Zhou, George E. Liu and Li Ma
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:79
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  43. Orb-web weaving spiders and their relatives use multiple types of task-specific silks. The majority of spider silk studies have focused on the ultra-tough dragline silk synthesized in major ampullate glands, b...

    Authors: Jannelle M. Vienneau-Hathaway, Elizabeth R. Brassfield, Amanda Kelly Lane, Matthew A. Collin, Sandra M. Correa-Garhwal, Thomas H. Clarke, Evelyn E. Schwager, Jessica E. Garb, Cheryl Y. Hayashi and Nadia A. Ayoub
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:78
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  46. Horizontal transfer plays an important role in the evolution of bacterial genomes, yet it obeys several constraints, including the ecological opportunity to meet other organisms, the presence of transfer syste...

    Authors: Sandrine Pinos, Pierre Pontarotti, Didier Raoult and Vicky Merhej
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:75
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  47. Understanding the genetic basis of adaptation to high altitude life is of paramount importance for preserving and managing genetic diversity in highland animals. This objective has been addressed mainly in ter...

    Authors: Chao Tong, Tian Fei, Cunfang Zhang and Kai Zhao
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:74
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  48. The ability to form a cellular memory and use it for cellular decision-making could help bacteria to cope with recurrent stress conditions. We analyzed whether bacteria would form a cellular memory specificall...

    Authors: Roland Mathis and Martin Ackermann
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:73
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  49. The evolution of reproductive isolation between herbivorous insect populations is often initiated by shifts to novel host-plants, a process that underlies some of the best examples of ecological speciation. Ho...

    Authors: Willem J. Augustyn, Bruce Anderson, Jeroen F. van der Merwe and Allan G. Ellis
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:72
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  50. To optimize their resistance against pathogen infection, individuals are expected to find the right balance between investing into the immune system and other life history traits. In vertebrates, several facto...

    Authors: Fanny Vogelweith, Maximilian Körner, Susanne Foitzik and Joël Meunier
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:69
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