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  1. The involvement of MADS-box genes of the AGAMOUS lineage in the formation of both flowers and fruits has been studied in detail in Angiosperms. AGAMOUS genes are expressed also in the reproductive structures of G...

    Authors: Alessandro Lovisetto, Barbara Baldan, Anna Pavanello and Giorgio Casadoro
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:139
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  4. The arthropod ventral nerve cord features a comparably low number of serotonin-immunoreactive neurons, occurring in segmentally repeated arrays. In different crustaceans and hexapods, these neurons have been i...

    Authors: Georg Brenneis and Gerhard Scholtz
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:136
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  5. A number of recent studies have shown that the pattern of mitochondrial DNA variation and evolution is at odds with a neutral equilibrium model. Theory has suggested that selection on mitonuclear genotypes can...

    Authors: Mihailo Jelić, Göran Arnqvist, Zorana Kurbalija Novičić, Bojan Kenig, Marija Tanasković, Marko Anđelković and Marina Stamenković-Radak
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:135
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  6. Leucomeris decora and Nouelia insignis (Asteraceae) are narrowly and allopatrically distributed species, separated by the important biogeographic boundary Tanaka Line in Southwest Chin...

    Authors: Yu-Juan Zhao and Xun Gong
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:134
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  7. Octopods have successfully colonised the world’s oceans from the tropics to the poles. Yet, successful persistence in these habitats has required adaptations of their advanced physiological apparatus to compen...

    Authors: Michael Oellermann, Jan M. Strugnell, Bernhard Lieb and Felix C. Mark
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:133
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:267

  8. Identifying orthologous molecular markers that potentially resolve relationships at and below species level has been a major challenge in molecular phylogenetics over the past decade. Non-coding regions of nuc...

    Authors: Carolina Granados Mendoza, Julia Naumann, Marie-Stéphanie Samain, Paul Goetghebeur, Yannick De Smet and Stefan Wanke
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:132
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  9. Hybridization between two species usually leads to inviable or infertile offspring, due to endogenous or exogenous selection pressures. Yet, hybrid taxa are found in several plant and animal genera, and some o...

    Authors: Heinz-Ulrich Reyer, Christian Arioli-Jakob and Martina Arioli
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:131
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  10. Entoprocta (Kamptozoa) is an enigmatic, acoelomate, tentacle-bearing phylum with indirect development, either via a swimming- or a creeping-type larva and still debated phylogenetic position within Lophotrocho...

    Authors: Julia Merkel, Bernhard Lieb and Andreas Wanninger
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:130
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  11. Long-distance dispersal events have the potential to shape species distributions and ecosystem diversity over large spatial scales, and to influence processes such as population persistence and the pace and sc...

    Authors: Morito Hayashi, Mohammed Bakkali, Alexander Hyde and Sara L. Goodacre
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:118
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:228

  12. Only a handful of signaling pathways are major actors of development and responsible for both the conservation and the diversification of animal morphologies. To explain this twofold nature, gene duplication a...

    Authors: Alexa Sadier, Elise Lambert, Pascale Chevret, Didier Décimo, Marie Sémon, Marie Tohmé, Florence Ruggiero, Théophile Ohlmann, Sophie Pantalacci and Vincent Laudet
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:129
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  13. Peripatric speciation and peripheral isolation have uncertain importance in species accumulation, and are largely overshadowed by assumed dominance of allopatric modes of speciation. Understanding the role of ...

    Authors: Lucinda P. Lawson, John M. Bates, Michele Menegon and Simon P. Loader
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:128
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  15. The classification of royal ferns (Osmundaceae) has long remained controversial. Recent molecular phylogenies indicate that Osmunda is paraphyletic and needs to be separated into Osmundastrum and Osmunda s.str. H...

    Authors: Benjamin Bomfleur, Guido W. Grimm and Stephen McLoughlin
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:126
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  16. Sympatric speciation is today generally viewed as plausible, and some well-supported examples exist, but its relative contribution to biodiversity remains to be established. We here quantify geographic overlap...

    Authors: Neil Rosser, Krzysztof M. Kozak, Albert B. Phillimore and James Mallet
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:125
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  17. Hemostasis is a defense mechanism that enhances an organism’s survival by minimizing blood loss upon vascular injury. In vertebrates, hemostasis has been evolving with the cardio-vascular and hemodynamic syste...

    Authors: Ângela M. Ribeiro, M. Lisandra Zepeda-Mendoza, Mads F. Bertelsen, Annemarie T. Kristensen, Erich D. Jarvis, M. Thomas P. Gilbert and Rute R. da Fonseca
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:124
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  18. Retraction is among the most important basic behaviors of anthozoan Cnidaria polyps and is achieved through the coordinated contraction of at least six different muscle groups. Across the Anthozoa, these muscl...

    Authors: Timothy D. Swain, Jennifer L. Schellinger, Anna M. Strimaitis and Kim E. Reuter
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:123
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  19. Large proliferations of cytochrome P450 encoding genes resulting from gene duplications can be termed as ‘blooms’, providing genetic material for the genesis and evolution of biosynthetic pathways. Furanocouma...

    Authors: Bjørn Dueholm, Célia Krieger, Damian Drew, Alexandre Olry, Tsunashi Kamo, Olivier Taboureau, Corinna Weitzel, Frédéric Bourgaud, Alain Hehn and Henrik Toft Simonsen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:122
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  20. The aim of this research was to identify the effects of Pleistocene climate change on the distribution of fauna in Tasmania, and contrast this with biotic responses in other temperate regions in the Northern a...

    Authors: H.B. Cliff, E. Wapstra and C.P. Burridge
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:121
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  22. It appears that substitution rate estimates co-vary very strongly with their timescale of measurement; the shorter the timescale, the higher the estimated value. Foamy viruses have a long history of co-speciat...

    Authors: Pakorn Aiewsakun and Aris Katzourakis
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:119
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  24. The genus Flaveria has been extensively used as a model to study the evolution of C4 photosynthesis as it contains C3 and C4 species as well as a number of species that exhibit intermediate types of photosynthesi...

    Authors: Ming-Ju Amy Lyu, Udo Gowik, Steve Kelly, Sarah Covshoff, Julia Mallmann, Peter Westhoff, Julian M. Hibberd, Matt Stata, Rowan F. Sage, Haorong Lu, Xiaofeng Wei, Gane Ka-Shu Wong and Xin-Guang Zhu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:116
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  27. The past decade has witnessed remarkable progress towards resolution of the Tree of Life. However, despite the increased use of genomic scale datasets, some phylogenetic relationships remain difficult to resol...

    Authors: Ron I. Eytan, Benjamin R. Evans, Alex Dornburg, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Peter C. Wainwright and Thomas J. Near
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:113
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  28. Host-parasite coevolution is predicted to result in changes in the virulence of the parasite in order to maximise its reproductive success and transmission potential, either via direct host-to-host transfer or...

    Authors: Charlotte Rafaluk, Markus Gildenhard, Andreas Mitschke, Arndt Telschow, Hinrich Schulenburg and Gerrit Joop
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:112
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  29. The evolution of species boundaries and the relative impact of selection and gene flow on genomic divergence are best studied in populations and species pairs exhibiting various levels of divergence along the ...

    Authors: Hugo F Gante, Ignacio Doadrio, Maria Judite Alves and Thomas E Dowling
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:111
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  30. Redox enzyme maturation proteins (REMPs) describe a diverse family of prokaryotic chaperones involved in the biogenesis of anaerobic complex iron sulfur molybdoenzyme (CISM) respiratory systems. Many REMP fami...

    Authors: Denice C. Bay, Catherine S. Chan and Raymond J. Turner
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:110
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  31. Antarctic notothenioids are an impressive adaptive radiation. While they share recent common ancestry with several species-depauperate lineages that exhibit a relictual distribution in areas peripheral to the ...

    Authors: Thomas J Near, Alex Dornburg, Richard C Harrington, Claudio Oliveira, Theodore W Pietsch, Christine E Thacker, Takashi P Satoh, Eri Katayama, Peter C Wainwright, Joseph T Eastman and Jeremy M Beaulieu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:109
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  32. The doublesex gene controls somatic sexual differentiation of many metazoan species, including the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae and the dengue and yellow fever vector Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae). As ...

    Authors: Dana C. Price, Andrea Egizi and Dina M. Fonseca
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:108
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  33. Current sequence-based approaches to identify enzyme functional shifts, such as enzyme promiscuity, have proven to be highly dependent on a priori functional knowledge, hampering our ability to reconstruct evolut...

    Authors: Lianet Noda-García, Ana L. Juárez-Vázquez, María C. Ávila-Arcos, Ernesto A. Verduzco-Castro, Gabriela Montero-Morán, Paul Gaytán, Mauricio Carrillo-Tripp and Francisco Barona-Gómez
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:107
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  34. During past glacial periods, many species of forest-dwelling animals experienced range contractions. In contrast, species living outside such moist habitats appear to have reacted to Quaternary changes in diff...

    Authors: Danon Clemes Cardoso, Maykon Passos Cristiano, Mara Garcia Tavares, Christoph D. Schubart and Jürgen Heinze
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:106
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:190

  35. In parasitic taxa, life history traits such as microhabitat preference and host specificity can result in differential evolutionary responses to similar abiotic events. The present study investigates the influ...

    Authors: Luther van der Mescht, Sonja Matthee and Conrad A. Matthee
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:105
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  37. Long term selection experiments bring unique insights on the genetic architecture of quantitative traits and their evolvability. Indeed, they are utilized to (i) monitor changes in allele frequencies and asses...

    Authors: Eleonore Durand, Maud I Tenaillon, Xavier Raffoux, Stéphanie Thépot, Matthieu Falque, Philippe Jamin, Aurélie Bourgais, Adrienne Ressayre and Christine Dillmann
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:103
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  38. Genomes of Methanosarcina spp. are among the largest archaeal genomes. One suggested reason for that is massive horizontal gene transfer (HGT) from bacteria. Genes of bacterial origin may be involved in the centr...

    Authors: Sofya K. Garushyants, Marat D. Kazanov and Mikhail S. Gelfand
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:102
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  39. Organisms living at high altitudes must overcome three major environmental challenges: hypoxia, cold, and intense UV radiation. The molecular mechanisms that enable these challenges to be overcome have mainly ...

    Authors: Yongzhi Yang, Lizhong Wang, Jin Han, Xiaolong Tang, Ming Ma, Kun Wang, Xiao Zhang, Qian Ren, Qiang Chen and Qiang Qiu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:101
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  40. Intraspecific variability is seen as a central component of biodiversity. We investigated genetic differentiation, contemporary patterns of demographic connectivity and intraspecific variation of adaptive beha...

    Authors: Gerardo I Zardi, Katy R Nicastro, Christopher D McQuaid, Rita Castilho, Joana Costa, Ester A Serrão and Gareth A Pearson
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:100
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  41. The presence of intraspecific color polymorphism can have multiple impacts on the ecology of a species; as a consequence, particular color morphs may be strongly selected for in a given habitat type. For examp...

    Authors: Sylvain Dubey, Valérie Zwahlen, Konrad Mebert, Jean-Claude Monney, Philippe Golay, Thomas Ott, Thierry Durand, Gilles Thiery, Laura Kaiser, Sylvia N Geser and Sylvain Ursenbacher
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:99
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  42. Sex determination mechanisms are known to be evolutionarily labile but the factors driving transitions in sex determination mechanisms are poorly understood. All insects of the Hymenoptera are haplodiploid, wi...

    Authors: Jetske G de Boer, Martien AM Groenen, Bart A Pannebakker, Leo W Beukeboom and Robert HS Kraus
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:98
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  43. Yeasts belonging to the subphylum Saccharomycotina have been used for centuries in food processing and, more recently, biotechnology. Over the past few decades, these yeasts have also been studied in the inter...

    Authors: Marine Froissard, Michel Canonge, Marie Pouteaux, Bernard Cintrat, Sabrina Mohand-Oumoussa, Stéphane E. Guillouet, Thierry Chardot, Noémie Jacques and Serge Casaregola
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:97
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  44. Tribe Orchideae dominates the orchid flora of the temperate Northern Hemisphere but its representatives in East Asia had been subject to less intensive phylogenetic study than those in Eurasia and North Americ...

    Authors: Ying Tang, Tomohisa Yukawa, Richard M Bateman, Hong Jiang and Hua Peng
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:96
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  45. Aquatic vascular plants are a distinctive group, differing from terrestrial plants in their growth forms and habitats. Among the various aquatic plant life forms, the evolutionary processes of freshwater subme...

    Authors: Jinning Zhu, Dan Yu and Xinwei Xu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:95
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  46. Phylogeographic research has advanced in South America, with increasing efforts on taxa from the dry diagonal biomes. However, the diversification of endemic fauna from the semiarid Caatinga biome in northeast...

    Authors: Fernanda P Werneck, Rafael N Leite, Silvia R Geurgas and Miguel T Rodrigues
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:94
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  47. Although males and females need one another in order to reproduce, they often have different reproductive interests, which can lead to conflict between the sexes. The intensity and frequency of male-male compe...

    Authors: Michael F. Palopoli, Colin Peden, Caitlin Woo, Ken Akiha, Megan Ary, Lori Cruze, Jennifer L. Anderson and Patrick C. Phillips
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:93
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  48. Quaternary climatic changes led to variations in sea level and these variations played a significant role in the generation of marine terrace deposits in the South Atlantic Coastal Plain. The main consequence ...

    Authors: Aline MC Ramos-Fregonezi, Jeferson N Fregonezi, Gabriela B Cybis, Nelson JR Fagundes, Sandro L Bonatto and Loreta B Freitas
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:92
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  49. Traditionally, the evolution of terrestrial reproduction in anurans from ancestors that bred in water has been accepted in the literature. Still, the existence of intermediate stages of water dependency, such ...

    Authors: Elisa Barreto Pereira, Rosane Garcia Collevatti, Marcelo Nogueira de Carvalho Kokubum, Núbia Esther de Oliveira Miranda and Natan Medeiros Maciel
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:91
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  50. The highly derived morphology and astounding diversity of snakes has long inspired debate regarding the ecological and evolutionary origin of both the snake total-group (Pan-Serpentes) and crown snakes (Serpen...

    Authors: Allison Y Hsiang, Daniel J Field, Timothy H Webster, Adam DB Behlke, Matthew B Davis, Rachel A Racicot and Jacques A Gauthier
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:87
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