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  1. The resilience of ecosystems to negative impacts is generally higher when high gene flow, species diversity and genetic diversity are present. Population genetic studies are suitable to investigate genetic div...

    Authors: Daniel Apolônio Silva de Oliveira, Wilfrida Decraemer, Tom Moens, Giovanni Amadeu Paiva dos Santos and Sofie Derycke
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:71
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  2. In-depth phylogeographic analysis can reveal migration patterns relevant for public health planning. Here, as a model, we focused on the provenance, in the current Italian HCV subtype 1a epidemic, of the NS3 r...

    Authors: Lize Cuypers, Bram Vrancken, Lavinia Fabeni, Nadia Marascio, Valeria Cento, Velia Chiara Di Maio, Marianna Aragri, Andrea Clemencia Pineda-Peña, Yoeri Schrooten, Kristel Van Laethem, Daniel Balog, Alfredo Focà, Carlo Torti, Frederik Nevens, Carlo Federico Perno, Anne-Mieke Vandamme…
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:70
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  3. Very little is known on how changes in circadian rhythms evolve. The noctuid moth Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) consists of two strains that exhibit allochronic differentiation in their mating ti...

    Authors: Sabine Hänniger, Pascaline Dumas, Gerhard Schöfl, Steffi Gebauer-Jung, Heiko Vogel, Melanie Unbehend, David G. Heckel and Astrid T. Groot
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:68
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  4. Pepino mosaic virus (PepMV) is an emerging plant pathogen that infects tomatoes worldwide. Understanding the factors that influence its evolutionary success is essential for developing...

    Authors: Julia Minicka, Santiago F. Elena, Natasza Borodynko-Filas, Błażej Rubiś and Beata Hasiów-Jaroszewska
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:67
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  5. Comparative studies suggest that sperm competition exerts stabilizing selection towards an optimal sperm design – e.g., the relative size and covariation of different sperm sections or a quantitative measure o...

    Authors: Alfonso Rojas Mora, Magali Meniri, Sabrina Ciprietti and Fabrice Helfenstein
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:66
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  6. Rotifers are microscopic aquatic invertebrates that reproduce both sexually and asexually. Though rotifers are phylogenetically distant from humans, and have specialized reproductive physiology, this work iden...

    Authors: Brande L. Jones, Chris Walker, Bahareh Azizi, Laren Tolbert, Loren Dean Williams and Terry W. Snell
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:65
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  7. We present the first molecular characterization of glycerotoxin (GLTx), a potent neurotoxin found in the venom of the bloodworm Glycera tridactyla (Glyceridae, Annelida). Within the animal kingdom, GLTx shows a u...

    Authors: Sandy Richter, Conrad Helm, Frederic A. Meunier, Lars Hering, Lahcen I. Campbell, Stephan H. Drukewitz, Eivind A. B. Undheim, Ronald A. Jenner, Giampietro Schiavo and Christoph Bleidorn
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:64
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  8. Mediterranean islands host a disproportionately high level of biodiversity and endemisms. Growing phylogeographic evidence on island endemics has unveiled unexpectedly complex patterns of intra-island diversif...

    Authors: Daniele Salvi, Catarina Pinho and D. James Harris
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:63
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  9. Extreme environments prompt the evolution of characteristic adaptations. Yet questions remain about whether radiations in extreme environments originate from a single lineage that masters a key adaptive pathwa...

    Authors: Chong Chen, Katsuyuki Uematsu, Katrin Linse and Julia D. Sigwart
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:62
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  10. With some 700 species, the pantropical Crotalaria is among the angiosperm’s largest genera. We sampled 48% of the species from all sections (and representatives of the 15 remaining Crotalarieae genera) for nuclea...

    Authors: Alexander Rockinger, Andréia Silva Flores and Susanne S. Renner
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:61
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  11. Changing environmental conditions pose a challenge for the survival of species. To meet this challenge organisms adapt their phenotype by physiological regulation (phenotypic plasticity) or by evolving. Regula...

    Authors: Thomas D. Cuypers, Jacob P. Rutten and Paulien Hogeweg
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:60
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  12. Developmental plasticity is thought to have profound macro-evolutionary effects, for example, by increasing the probability of establishment in new environments and subsequent divergence into independently evo...

    Authors: Erik van Bergen, Dave Osbaldeston, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah, Oskar Brattström, Kwaku Aduse-Poku and Paul M. Brakefield
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:59
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  13. Over the last 300 years, interactions between alewives and zooplankton communities in several lakes in the U.S. have caused the alewives’ morphology to transition rapidly from anadromous to landlocked. Lakes w...

    Authors: Jung koo Kang and Xavier Thibert-Plante
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:58
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  14. The nematode species Pristionchus pacificus has an androdioecious mating system in which populations consist of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites and relatively few males. The prevalence of males in such a system i...

    Authors: Katy Morgan, Angela McGaughran, Christian Rödelsperger and Ralf J. Sommer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:57
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  15. Selective pressure from pathogens is thought to shape the allelic diversity of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes in vertebrates. In particular, both local adaptation to pathogens and gene flow are t...

    Authors: Mark A. F. Gillingham, Arnaud Béchet, Alexandre Courtiol, Manuel Rendón-Martos, Juan A. Amat, Boudjéma Samraoui, Ortaç Onmuş, Simone Sommer and Frank Cézilly
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:56
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  16. Phenotypic plasticity, as a phenotypic response induced by the environment, has been proposed as a key factor in the evolutionary history of corals. A significant number of octocoral species show high phenotyp...

    Authors: Iván Calixto-Botía and Juan A. Sánchez
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:55
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  18. Inaccurate estimates of phylogenetic signal may mislead interpretations of many ecological and evolutionary processes, and hence understanding where potential sources of uncertainty may lay has become a priori...

    Authors: Rafael Molina-Venegas and Miguel Á. Rodríguez
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:53
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:113

  20. Nocturnally active gymnotiform weakly electric fish generate electric signals for communication and navigation, which can be energetically taxing. These fish mainly inhabit the Amazon basin, where some species...

    Authors: Ran Tian, Mauricio Losilla, Ying Lu, Guang Yang and Harold Zakon
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:51
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  23. The European bison (Bison bonasus), now found in Europe and the Caucasus, has been proposed to originate either from the extinct steppe/extant American bison lineage or from the extinct Bison schoetensacki lineag...

    Authors: Pauline Palacio, Véronique Berthonaud, Claude Guérin, Josie Lambourdière, Frédéric Maksud, Michel Philippe, Delphine Plaire, Thomas Stafford, Marie-Claude Marsolier-Kergoat and Jean-Marc Elalouf
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:48
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  24. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like protein kinases (LRR-RLKs) are the largest group of receptor-like kinases in plants and play crucial roles in development and stress responses. The evolutionary relationships ...

    Authors: Ping-Li Liu, Liang Du, Yuan Huang, Shu-Min Gao and Meng Yu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:47
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  25. Recent studies of selection on mitochondrial (mt) OXPHOS genes suggest adaptation due mainly to environmental variation. In this context, Tunisian hares that display several external phenotypes with phylogenet...

    Authors: Hichem Ben Slimen, Helmut Schaschl, Felix Knauer and Franz Suchentrunk
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:46
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  26. Blindness has evolved repeatedly in cave-dwelling organisms, and many hypotheses have been proposed to explain this observation, including both accumulation of neutral loss-of-function mutations and adaptation...

    Authors: Reed A. Cartwright, Rachel S. Schwartz, Alexandra L. Merry and Megan M. Howell
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:45
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  27. Phenotypic changes in response to environmental influences can persist from one generation into the next. In many systems parental parasite experience influences offspring immune responses, known as transgener...

    Authors: Anne Beemelmanns and Olivia Roth
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:44
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  28. The endoplasmic reticulum enzyme glucose-6-phosphatase catalyzes the common terminal reaction in the gluconeogenic/glycogenolytic pathways and plays a central role in glucose homeostasis. In most mammals, diff...

    Authors: Nasser M. Al-Daghri, Chiara Pontremoli, Rachele Cagliani, Diego Forni, Majed S. Alokail, Omar S. Al-Attas, Shaun Sabico, Stefania Riva, Mario Clerici and Manuela Sironi
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:43
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  29. The world is rapidly urbanizing, and only a subset of species are able to succeed in stressful city environments. Efficient genome-enabled stress response appears to be a likely prerequisite for urban adaptati...

    Authors: Evgenii A. Konorov, Mikhail A. Nikitin, Kirill V Mikhailov, Sergey N. Lysenkov, Mikhail Belenky, Peter L. Chang, Sergey V. Nuzhdin and Victoria A. Scobeyeva
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17(Suppl 1):39
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  31. Neo-XY sex chromosome determination is a rare event in short horned grasshoppers, but it appears with unusual frequency in the Pamphagidae family. The neo-Y chromosomes found in several species appear to have ...

    Authors: Ilyas Yerkinovich Jetybayev, Alexander Gennadievich Bugrov, Mustafa Ünal, Olesya Georgievna Buleu and Nikolay Borisovich Rubtsov
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17(Suppl 1):20
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  32. The studies on CpG islands (CGI) and Alu elements functions, evolution, and distribution in the genome started since the discovery in nineteen eighties (1981, 1986, correspondingly). Their highly skewed genome...

    Authors: Vladimir N. Babenko, Irina V. Chadaeva and Yuriy L. Orlov
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17(Suppl 1):19
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  33. The Y-chromosome haplogroup Q has three major branches: Q1, Q2, and Q3. Q1 is found in both Asia and the Americas where it accounts for about 90% of indigenous Native American Y-chromosomes; Q2 is found in Nor...

    Authors: Oleg Balanovsky, Vladimir Gurianov, Valery Zaporozhchenko, Olga Balaganskaya, Vadim Urasin, Maxat Zhabagin, Viola Grugni, Rebekah Canada, Nadia Al-Zahery, Alessandro Raveane, Shao-Qing Wen, Shi Yan, Xianpin Wang, Pierre Zalloua, Abdullah Marafi, Sergey Koshel…
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17(Suppl 1):18
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  34. Transcription initiation is in bacteria exhibited by different σ factors, most of which fall within σ70 family. This family is diverse, ranging from the housekeeping Group I (RpoDs), to Group IV (ECF) σ factors, ...

    Authors: Jelena Guzina and Marko Djordjevic
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17(Suppl 1):12
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  35. Cis-regulatory sequences are often composed of many low-affinity transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs). Determining the evolutionary and functional importance of regulatory sequen...

    Authors: Aleksandra A. Chertkova, Joshua S. Schiffman, Sergey V. Nuzhdin, Konstantin N. Kozlov, Maria G. Samsonova and Vitaly V. Gursky
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17(Suppl 1):4
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  37. Males and females often have opposing strategies for increasing fitness. Males that out-compete others will acquire more mating opportunities and thus have higher lifetime reproductive success. Females that ma...

    Authors: Trinh T. X. Nguyen and Amanda J. Moehring
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:41
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  38. Whole-genome duplication (WGD) events have shaped the genomes of eukaryotic organisms. Relaxed selection after duplication along with inherent functional constraints are thought to determine the fate of the pa...

    Authors: Diana Ascencio, Soledad Ochoa, Luis Delaye and Alexander DeLuna
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:40
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  39. Gene duplication has been identified as a key process driving functional change in many genomes. Several biological models exist for the evolution of a pair of duplicates after a duplication event, and it is b...

    Authors: Tristan L. Stark, David A. Liberles, Barbara R. Holland and Małgorzata M. O’Reilly
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:38
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  41. Measuring the evolutionary rate of reproductive isolation is essential to understanding how new species form. Tempo calculations typically rely on fossil records, geological events, and molecular evolution ana...

    Authors: Ashley Saulsberry, Marisa Pinchas, Aaron Noll, Jeremy A. Lynch, Seth R. Bordenstein and Robert M. Brucker
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:37
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  42. Microbes, plants, and fungi synthesize an enormous number of metabolites exhibiting rich chemical diversity. For a high-level classification, metabolism is subdivided into primary (PM) and secondary (SM) metab...

    Authors: Valery Veprinskiy, Leonhard Heizinger, Maximilian G. Plach and Rainer Merkl
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:36
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  43. Both natural and sexual selection may drive the evolution of plumage colouration in birds. This can lead to great variation in plumage not only across species, but also between sexes within species. Australasi...

    Authors: Iliana Medina, Kaspar Delhey, Anne Peters, Kristal E. Cain, Michelle L. Hall, Raoul A. Mulder and Naomi E. Langmore
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:35
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  44. The members of the genus Muntiacus are of particular interest to evolutionary biologists due to their extreme chromosomal rearrangements and the ongoing discussions about the number of living species. Red muntjac...

    Authors: Renata F. Martins, Jörns Fickel, Minh Le, Thanh van Nguyen, Ha M. Nguyen, Robert Timmins, Han Ming Gan, Jeffrine J. Rovie-Ryan, Dorina Lenz, Daniel W. Förster and Andreas Wilting
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:34
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  45. Armillaria is a globally distributed mushroom-forming genus composed primarily of plant pathogens. Species in this genus are prolific producers of rhizomorphs, or vegetative structures...

    Authors: Rachel A. Koch, Andrew W. Wilson, Olivier Séné, Terry W. Henkel and M. Catherine Aime
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:33
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  46. Many diurnal animals exhibit a mid-day ‘siesta’, generally thought to be an adaptive response aimed at minimizing exposure to heat on warm days, suggesting that in regions with cooler climates mid-day siestas ...

    Authors: Weihuan Cao and Isaac Edery
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:32
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  47. A long-standing view of Indian biodiversity is that while rich in species, there are few endemics or in-situ radiations within the subcontinent. One exception is the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, an isol...

    Authors: V.V. Robin, C. K. Vishnudas, Pooja Gupta, Frank E. Rheindt, Daniel M. Hooper, Uma Ramakrishnan and Sushma Reddy
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:31
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  48. Molecular markers are revealing a much more diverse and evolutionarily complex picture of marine biodiversity than previously anticipated. Cryptic and/or endemic marine species are continually being found thro...

    Authors: João Neiva, Ester A. Serrão, Laura Anderson, Peter T. Raimondi, Neusa Martins, Licínia Gouveia, Cristina Paulino, Nelson C. Coelho, Kathy Ann Miller, Daniel C. Reed, Lydia B. Ladah and Gareth A. Pearson
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:30
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  49. A major effort is underway to use population genetic approaches to identify loci involved in adaptation. One issue that has so far received limited attention is whether loci that show a phylogenetic signal of ...

    Authors: Philipp Hohenbrink, Nicholas I. Mundy and Ute Radespiel
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:28
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  50. Podarcis tiliguerta is a wall lizard endemic to the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia. Previous findings of high mtDNA and morphological diversity have led to the suggestio...

    Authors: V. Rodríguez, J. M. Buades, R. P. Brown, B. Terrasa, V. Pérez-Mellado, C. Corti, M. Delaugerre, J. A. Castro, A. Picornell and M. M. Ramon
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:27
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