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  1. The study of postnatal ontogeny can provide insights into evolution by offering an understanding of how growth trajectories have evolved resulting in adult morphological disparity. The Ursus lineage is a good sub...

    Authors: Manuela Fuchs, Madeleine Geiger, Madlen Stange and Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:239
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  2. The Commerson’s leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros commersoni sensu stricto, is endemic to Madagascar and is relatively common in the western portion of the island, where it is found in areas, including forested zones,...

    Authors: Andrinajoro R. Rakotoarivelo, Sandi Willows-Munro, M. Corrie Schoeman, Jennifer M. Lamb and Steven M. Goodman
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:235
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  3. Sex chromosomes of extant eutherian species are too ancient to reveal the process that initiated sex-chromosome differentiation. By contrast, the neo-sex chromosomes generated by sex-autosome fusions of recent...

    Authors: Chie Murata, Yoko Kuroki, Issei Imoto, Masaru Tsukahara, Naoto Ikejiri and Asato Kuroiwa
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:234
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  4. The distribution of the Chinese Glyptosternoid catfish is limited to the rivers of the Tibetan Plateau and peripheral regions, especially the drainage areas of southeastern Tibet. Therefore, Glyptosternoid fis...

    Authors: Xiuhui Ma, Jingliang Kang, Weitao Chen, Chuanjiang Zhou and Shunping He
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:233
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  5. Selection on proteins is typically measured with the assumption that each protein acts independently. However, selection more likely acts at higher levels of biological organization, requiring an integrative v...

    Authors: Russell A. Hermansen, Brian K. Mannakee, Wolfgang Knecht, David A. Liberles and Ryan N. Gutenkunst
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:232
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  6. Mollusks represent the largest lophotrochozoan phylum and exhibit highly diverse body plans. Previous studies have demonstrated that transcription factors such as Pax genes play important roles during their devel...

    Authors: Tim Wollesen, Sonia Victoria Rodríguez Monje, Christiane Todt, Bernard M. Degnan and Andreas Wanninger
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:231
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  7. USP4, USP15 and USP11 are paralogous deubiquitinating enzymes as evidenced by structural organization and sequence similarity. Based on known interactions and substrates it would appear that they have partiall...

    Authors: Caitlyn Vlasschaert, Xuhua Xia, Josée Coulombe and Douglas A. Gray
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:230
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  8. Phoronids undergo a remarkable metamorphosis, in which some parts of the larval body are consumed by the juvenile and the body plan completely changes. According to the only previous hypothesis concerning the ...

    Authors: Elena N. Temereva and Vladimir V. Malakhov
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:229
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  10. Phylogenetic footprinting is a comparative method based on the principle that functional sequence elements will acquire fewer mutations over time than non-functional sequences. Successful comparisons of distan...

    Authors: Nathaniel J. Davies, Peter Krusche, Eran Tauber and Sascha Ott
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:227
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  11. Phosphatidylinositol-3-kinases (PI3Ks) are a family of eukaryotic enzymes modifying phosphoinositides in phosphatidylinositols-3-phosphate. Located upstream of the AKT/mTOR signalling pathway, PI3Ks activate s...

    Authors: Héloïse Philippon, Céline Brochier-Armanet and Guy Perrière
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:226
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  12. Sensory Bias models for the evolution of mate preference place a great emphasis on the role of sensory system variation in mate preferences. However, the extent to which sensory systems vary across- versus wit...

    Authors: Benjamin A. Sandkam, C. Megan Young, Frances Margaret Walker Breden, Godfrey R. Bourne and Felix Breden
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:225
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  13. The lower Congo River (LCR) is a region of exceptional species diversity and endemism in the Congo basin, including numerous species of spiny eels (genus Mastacembelus). Four of these exhibit distinctive phenotyp...

    Authors: S. Elizabeth Alter, Bianca Brown and Melanie L. J. Stiassny
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:224
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  14. Serotonin represents an evolutionary ancient neurotransmitter that is ubiquitously found among animals including the lophotrochozoan phylum Bryozoa, a group of colonial filter-feeders. Comparatively little is ...

    Authors: Thomas F. Schwaha and Andreas Wanninger
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:223
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  15. The growth strategy of a species influences many key aspects of its life-history. Animals can either grow indeterminately (throughout life), or grow determinately, ceasing at maturity. In mammals, continued we...

    Authors: Hannah S. Mumby, Simon N. Chapman, Jennie A. H. Crawley, Khyne U. Mar, Win Htut, Aung Thura Soe, Htoo Htoo Aung and Virpi Lummaa
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:214
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:217

  16. Transposable elements (TE) have attracted much attention since they shape the genome and contribute to species evolution. Organisms have evolved mechanisms to control TE activity. Testis expressed 19 (Tex19) r...

    Authors: Laurent Bianchetti, Yara Tarabay, Odile Lecompte, Roland Stote, Olivier Poch, Annick Dejaegere and Stéphane Viville
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:222
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  17. Using molecular data generated by high throughput next generation sequencing (NGS) platforms to infer phylogeny is becoming common as costs go down and the ability to capture loci from across the genome goes u...

    Authors: Sara Ruane, Christopher J. Raxworthy, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon and Frank T. Burbrink
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:221
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  18. Present-day climate change has altered the phenology (the timing of periodic life cycle events) of many plant and animal populations worldwide. Some of these changes have been adaptive, leading to an increase ...

    Authors: Gabriella Ljungström, Erik Wapstra and Mats Olsson
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:206
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  19. Defining factors that contributed to the fixation of a high number of underdominant chromosomal rearrangements is a complex task because not only molecular mechanisms must be considered, but also the uniquenes...

    Authors: Cibele G. Sotero-Caio, Marianne Volleth, Federico G. Hoffmann, LuAnn Scott, Holly A. Wichman, Fengtang Yang and Robert J. Baker
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:220
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  20. Unpredictable and inclement weather is increasing in strength and frequency, challenging organisms to respond adaptively. One way in which animals respond to environmental challenges is through the secretion o...

    Authors: JQ Ouyang, ÁZ Lendvai, R. Dakin, AD Domalik, VJ Fasanello, BG Vassallo, MF Haussmann, IT Moore and F. Bonier
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:219
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  21. The high density of tandem repeat sequences (satellites) in nematode genomes and the availability of genome sequences from several species in the group offer a unique opportunity to better understand the evolu...

    Authors: Juan A. Subirana, M. Mar Albà and Xavier Messeguer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:218
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  22. The accurate delimitation of species is essential to numerous areas of biological research. An unbiased assessment of the diversity, including the cryptic diversity, is of particular importance for the below g...

    Authors: Iwona Giska, Pierfrancesco Sechi and Wiesław Babik
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:217
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  23. Madagascar’s rain forests are characterized by extreme and uneven patterns of species richness and endemicity, the biogeographic and evolutionary origins of which are poorly understood.

    Authors: Sarah Federman, Alex Dornburg, Alexander Downie, Alison F. Richard, Douglas C. Daly and Michael J. Donoghue
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:216
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  24. Three NBS-LRR genes, Rpi-blb2, Mi-1.2, and Cami, constitute a very special plant resistance gene family. These genes confer resistance against 4 distantly related pathogen species in 3 different Solanaceae hosts....

    Authors: Lina Zhao, Qijun Zhang, Rongchao Gao, Sihai Yang, Haoxuan Liu and Xiaohui Zhang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:215
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  25. How species ranges form in landscapes is a matter of long-standing evolutionary interest. However, little is known about how natural phenotypic variations of ecologically important traits contribute to species...

    Authors: Yoshihiro Matsuoka, Shigeo Takumi and Taihachi Kawahara
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:213
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  26. The matching-allele and gene-for-gene models are widely used in mathematical approaches that study the dynamics of host-parasite interactions. Agrawal and Lively (Evolutionary Ecology Research 4:79–90, 2002) c...

    Authors: Yixian Song, Chaitanya S Gokhale, Andrei Papkou, Hinrich Schulenburg and Arne Traulsen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:212
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  27. The glucose effect is a well known phenomenon whereby cells, when presented with two different nutrients, show a diauxic growth pattern, i.e. an episode of exponential growth followed by a lag phase of reduced...

    Authors: Dominique F. Chu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:211
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  28. The plastid maturase MatK has been implicated as a possible model for the evolutionary “missing link” between prokaryotic and eukaryotic splicing machinery. This evolutionary implication has sparked investigat...

    Authors: Michelle M. Barthet, Keenan Moukarzel, Kayla N. Smith, Jaimin Patel and Khidir W. Hilu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:210
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  29. Multilocus data are becoming increasingly important in determining the phylogeny of closely related species and delimiting species. In species complexes where unequivocal fossil calibrations are not available,...

    Authors: Javier Igea, Pere Aymerich, Anna A. Bannikova, Joaquim Gosálbez and Jose Castresana
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:209
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  30. Holometabolous insects are the most diverse, speciose and ubiquitous group of multicellular organisms in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. The enormous evolutionary and ecological success of Holometabola ...

    Authors: Joachim T. Haug, Conrad C. Labandeira, Jorge A. Santiago-Blay, Carolin Haug and Susan Brown
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:208
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:169

  32. Previous cross-species painting studies with probes from chicken (Gallus gallus) chromosomes 1–10 and a paint pool of nineteen microchromosomes have revealed that the drastic karyotypic reorganization in Accipitr...

    Authors: Wenhui Nie, Patricia C. M. O’Brien, Beiyuan Fu, Jinghuan Wang, Weiting Su, Kai He, Bertrand Bed’Hom, Vitaly Volobouev, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Gauthier Dobigny and Fengtang Yang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:205
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  33. A key to understanding the origins of species is determining the evolutionary processes that drive the patterns of genomic divergence during speciation. New genomic technologies enable the study of high-resolu...

    Authors: Megan A. Supple, Riccardo Papa, Heather M. Hines, W. Owen McMillan and Brian A. Counterman
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:204
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  35. Maternally inherited Wolbachia bacteria infect many insect species. They can also be transferred horizontally into uninfected host lineages. A Wolbachia spillover from an infected source population must occur pri...

    Authors: Jennifer L. Morrow, Marianne Frommer, Jane E. Royer, Deborah C. A. Shearman and Markus Riegler
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:202
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  36. Recent studies suggest a bifurcation at the base of Mollusca, resulting in the primarily single-shelled Conchifera (Bivalvia, Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, Monoplacophora, Cephalopoda) and the spicule-bearing Aculif...

    Authors: Maik Scherholz, Emanuel Redl, Tim Wollesen, Christiane Todt and Andreas Wanninger
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:201
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  37. Sexual selection is largely driven by the availability of mates. Theory predicts that male competition and female choice should be density-dependent, with males competing more intensely at relatively high dens...

    Authors: Robin M. Tinghitella, Chelsea Stehle and Janette W. Boughman
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:200
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  38. One of the most distinctive traits found within Chamaeleonidae is their split/cleft autopodia and the simplified and divergent morphology of the mesopodial skeleton. These anatomical characteristics have facil...

    Authors: Raul E. Diaz Jr. and Paul A. Trainor
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:184
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  40. Short-term experiments have indicated that warmer temperatures can alter fungal biomass production and CO2 respiration, with potential consequences for soil C storage. However, we know little about the capacity o...

    Authors: Adriana L. Romero-Olivares, John W. Taylor and Kathleen K. Treseder
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:198
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  41. Divergent selection can be a major driver of ecological speciation. In insects of medical importance, understanding the speciation process is both of academic interest and public health importance. In the West...

    Authors: Bruno Gomes, Craig S. Wilding, David Weetman, Carla A. Sousa, Maria T. Novo, Harry M. Savage, António P. G. Almeida, João Pinto and Martin J. Donnelly
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:197
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  43. Poly(A)-binding proteins (PABPs) are evolutionarily conserved proteins that have important functions in the regulation of translation and the control of mRNA stability in eukaryotes. Most PABPs encode a C-term...

    Authors: Domingo Jiménez-López, Jaime Bravo and Plinio Guzmán
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:195
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  44. Although homologous recombination affects the efficacy of selection in populations, the pattern of recombination rate evolution and its effects on genome evolution across plants are largely unknown. Recombinat...

    Authors: George P. Tiley and J. Gordon Burleigh
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:194
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:244

  45. Hybridization and introgression are said to occur relatively frequently in plants, and in particular among different species of willows. However, data on the actual frequency of natural hybridization and intro...

    Authors: Johan Fogelqvist, Alla V. Verkhozina, Alexander I. Katyshev, Pascal Pucholt, Christina Dixelius, Ann Christin Rönnberg-Wästljung, Martin Lascoux and Sofia Berlin
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:193
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  46. The transition from outcrossing to selfing has long been portrayed as an ‘evolutionary dead end’ because, first, reversals are unlikely and, second, selfing lineages suffer from higher rates of extinction owin...

    Authors: Alexander Gamisch, Gunter Alexander Fischer and Hans Peter Comes
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:192
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  47. Hybridization between species is of conservation concern as it might threaten the genetic integrity of species. Anthropogenic factors can alter hybridization dynamics by introducing new potentially hybridizing...

    Authors: Katja Rohde, Yvonne Hau, Jessica Weyer and Axel Hochkirch
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:191
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  49. The somatic musculature in trematode hermaphroditic generation (cercariae, metacercariae and adult) is presumed to comprise uniform layers of circular, longitudinal and diagonal muscle fibers of the body wall,...

    Authors: Darya Y. Krupenko and Andrej A. Dobrovolskij
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:189
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  50. β-defensins and cathelicidins are two families of cationic antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with a broad range of antimicrobial activities that are key components of the innate immune system. Due to their importa...

    Authors: Yuanyuan Cheng, Michael Dennis Prickett, Weronika Gutowska, Richard Kuo, Katherine Belov and David W. Burt
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:188
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