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  1. Annual Nothobranchius fishes are distributed in East and Southern Africa and inhabit ephemeral pools filled during the monsoon season. Nothobranchius show extreme life-history adaptations: embryos survive by ente...

    Authors: Alexander Dorn, Zuzana Musilová, Matthias Platzer, Kathrin Reichwald and Alessandro Cellerino
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:210
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  2. Five basic taste modalities, sour, sweet, bitter, salt and umami, can be distinguished by humans and are fundamental for physical and ecological adaptations in mammals. Molecular genetic studies of the recepto...

    Authors: Kangli Zhu, Xuming Zhou, Shixia Xu, Di Sun, Wenhua Ren, Kaiya Zhou and Guang Yang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:218
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  3. Glaciations were recurrent throughout the Quaternary and potentially shaped species genetic structure worldwide by affecting population dynamics. Here, we implemented a multi-model inference approach to recove...

    Authors: Rosane G Collevatti, Matheus S Lima-Ribeiro, Levi Carina Terribile, Ludymila B S Guedes, Fernanda F Rosa and Mariana P C Telles
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:213
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  4. Although the genetic heritage of aboriginal Siberians is mostly of eastern Asian ancestry, a substantial western Eurasian component is observed in the majority of northern Asian populations. Traces of at least...

    Authors: Miroslava Derenko, Boris Malyarchuk, Galina Denisova, Maria Perkova, Andrey Litvinov, Tomasz Grzybowski, Irina Dambueva, Katarzyna Skonieczna, Urszula Rogalla, Iosif Tsybovsky and Ilya Zakharov
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:217
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  5. Phylogenetic studies have provided detailed knowledge on the evolutionary mechanisms of genes and species in Bacteria and Archaea. However, the evolution of cellular functions, represented by metabolic pathway...

    Authors: Juanjuan Chai, Guruprasad Kora, Tae-Hyuk Ahn, Doug Hyatt and Chongle Pan
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:207
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  6. Understanding the evolutionary history of morphologically cryptic species complexes is difficult, and made even more challenging when geographic distributions have been modified by human-mediated dispersal. Th...

    Authors: Enric Planas, Erin E Saupe, Matheus S Lima-Ribeiro, A Townsend Peterson and Carles Ribera
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:195
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  7. The recent expansion of whole-genome sequence data available from diverse animal lineages provides an opportunity to investigate the evolutionary origins of specific classes of human disease genes. Previous st...

    Authors: Evan K Maxwell, Christine E Schnitzler, Paul Havlak, Nicholas H Putnam, Anh-Dao Nguyen, R Travis Moreland and Andreas D Baxevanis
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:212
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  8. Brain signaling requires energy. The cost of maintaining and supporting energetically demanding neurons is the key constraint on brain size. The dramatic increase in brain size among mammals and birds cannot b...

    Authors: Yuguo Yu, Jan Karbowski, Robert NS Sachdev and Jianfeng Feng
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:178
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  9. Mountain landscapes are topographically complex, creating discontinuous `islands’ of alpine and sub-alpine habitat with a dynamic history. Changing climatic conditions drive their expansion and contraction, le...

    Authors: Rachel A Slatyer, Michael A Nash, Adam D Miller, Yoshinori Endo, Kate DL Umbers and Ary A Hoffmann
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:204
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  10. The green algae represent one of the most successful groups of photosynthetic eukaryotes, but compared to their land plant relatives, surprisingly little is known about their evolutionary history. This is in g...

    Authors: Claude Lemieux, Christian Otis and Monique Turmel
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:211
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  11. Archaeology reports millenary cultural contacts between Peruvian Coast-Andes and the Amazon Yunga, a rainforest transitional region between Andes and Lower Amazonia. To clarify the relationships between cultur...

    Authors: Marilia O Scliar, Mateus H Gouveia, Andrea Benazzo, Silvia Ghirotto, Nelson JR Fagundes, Thiago P Leal, Wagner CS Magalhães, Latife Pereira, Maira R Rodrigues, Giordano B Soares-Souza, Lilia Cabrera, Douglas E Berg, Robert H Gilman, Giorgio Bertorelle and Eduardo Tarazona-Santos
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:174
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  12. Myxozoa are a diverse group of metazoan parasites with a very simple organization, which has for decades eluded their evolutionary origin. Their most prominent and characteristic feature is the polar capsule: ...

    Authors: Erez Shpirer, E Sally Chang, Arik Diamant, Nimrod Rubinstein, Paulyn Cartwright and Dorothée Huchon
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:205
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  13. Nicrophorus vespilloides eggs are deposited into the soil in close proximity to the decomposing vertebrate carcasses that these insects use as an obligate resource to rear their offspring. Eggs in this environmen...

    Authors: Chris G C Jacobs, Yin Wang, Heiko Vogel, Andreas Vilcinskas, Maurijn van der Zee and Daniel E Rozen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:208
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  14. With more than 100000 living species, mollusks are the second most diverse metazoan phylum. The current taxonomic classification of mollusks recognizes eight classes (Neomeniomorpha, Chaetodermomorpha, Polypla...

    Authors: David Osca, Iker Irisarri, Christiane Todt, Cristina Grande and Rafael Zardoya
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:197
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  15. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNA molecules with an important role upon post-transcriptional regulation. These molecules have been shown essential for several cellular processes in vertebrates, inclu...

    Authors: Pedro Gabriel Nachtigall, Marcos Correa Dias and Danillo Pinhal
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:196
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  16. Partulid tree snails are endemic to Pacific high islands and have experienced extraordinary rates of extinction in recent decades. Although they collectively range across a 10,000 km swath of Oceania, half of ...

    Authors: Taehwan Lee, Jingchun Li, Celia KC Churchill and Diarmaid Ó Foighil
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:202
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  17. A central question for understanding the evolutionary responses of plant species to rapidly changing environments is the assessment of their potential for short-term (in one or a few generations) genetic chang...

    Authors: Ricardo Alía, Regina Chambel, Eduardo Notivol, José Climent and Santiago C González-Martínez
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:200
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  18. The release of radioactive materials due to the Fukushima nuclear accident has raised concern regarding the biological impacts of ingesting radioactively contaminated diets on organisms. We previously performe...

    Authors: Chiyo Nohara, Wataru Taira, Atsuki Hiyama, Akira Tanahara, Toshihiro Takatsuji and Joji M Otaki
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:193
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  19. Symbiotic relationships have contributed to major evolutionary innovations, the maintenance of fundamental ecosystem functions, and the generation and maintenance of biodiversity. However, the exact nature of ...

    Authors: Clive T Darwell, Sarah al-Beidh and James M Cook
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:189
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  20. Calisto is the largest butterfly genus in the West Indies but its systematics, historical biogeography and the causes of its diversification have not been previously rigorously evaluated. Several studies attempti...

    Authors: Pável Matos-Maraví, Rayner Núñez Águila, Carlos Peña, Jacqueline Y Miller, Andrei Sourakov and Niklas Wahlberg
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:199
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  21. The Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) predicts that gestation duration, lactation duration, and their sum, total development time, are constrained by mass-specific basal metabolic rate such that they should sc...

    Authors: Gabrielle Jackson, Arne Ø Mooers, Evgenia Dubman, Jenna Hutchen and Mark Collard
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:194
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  22. Stripes and other high contrast patterns found on animals have been hypothesised to cause “motion dazzle”, a type of defensive coloration that operates when in motion, causing predators to misjudge the speed a...

    Authors: Anna E Hughes, Jolyon Troscianko and Martin Stevens
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:201
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  23. Human bitter taste receptors are encoded by a gene family consisting of 25 functional TAS2R loci. In addition, humans carry 11 TAS2R pseudogenes, some of which display evidence for substantial diversification amo...

    Authors: Davide Risso, Sergio Tofanelli, Gabriella Morini, Donata Luiselli and Dennis Drayna
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:198
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  25. New Caledonia harbours a highly diverse and endemic flora, and 13 (out of the 19 worldwide) species of Araucaria are endemic to this territory. Their phylogenetic relationships remain largely unresolved. Using nu...

    Authors: Myriam Gaudeul, Martin F Gardner, Philip Thomas, Richard A Ennos and Pete M Hollingsworth
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:171
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  26. Species thermal requirements are one of the principal determinants of their ecology and biogeography, although our understanding of the interplay between these factors is limited by the paucity of integrative ...

    Authors: Amparo Hidalgo-Galiana, David Sánchez-Fernández, David T Bilton, Alexandra Cieslak and Ignacio Ribera
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:187
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  27. The evolutionary history of the Old World monkey tribe Papionini comprising the genera Macaca, Mandrillus, Cercocebus, Lophocebus, Theropithecus, Rungwecebus and Papio is still matter of debate. Although the Afri...

    Authors: Rasmus Liedigk, Christian Roos, Markus Brameier and Dietmar Zinner
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:176
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  28. Studies of insect-plant interactions have provided critical insights into the ecology and evolution of adaptive processes within and among species. Cactophilic Drosophila species have received much attention beca...

    Authors: Camila M Borgonove, Carla B Cavallari, Mateus H Santos, Rafaela Rossetti, Klaus Hartfelder and Maura H Manfrin
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:191
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  29. The phylogenetic history of genes underlying phenotypic diversity can offer insight into the evolutionary origin of adaptive traits. This is especially true where single genes have large phenotypic effects, fo...

    Authors: Martin J Thompson, Martijn JTN Timmermans, Chris D Jiggins and Alfried P Vogler
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:140
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  30. Lysozyme g is an antibacterial enzyme that was first found in the eggs of some birds, but recently has been found in additional species, including non-vertebrates. Some previously characterized lysozyme g sequenc...

    Authors: David M Irwin
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:188
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  31. A compelling demonstration of adaptation by natural selection is the ability of parasites to manipulate host behavior. One dramatic example involves fungal species from the genus Ophiocordyceps that control their...

    Authors: Charissa de Bekker, Lauren E Quevillon, Philip B Smith, Kimberly R Fleming, Debashis Ghosh, Andrew D Patterson and David P Hughes
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:166
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  32. Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) is a master regulator that mediates major changes in gene expression under hypoxic conditions. Though HIF family has been identified in many organisms, little is known about this...

    Authors: Lihong Guan, Wei Chi, Wuhan Xiao, Liangbiao Chen and Shunping He
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:192
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  33. Myzostomids are marine annelids, nearly all of which live symbiotically on or inside echinoderms, chiefly crinoids, and to a lesser extent asteroids and ophiuroids. These symbionts possess a variety of adult b...

    Authors: Mindi M Summers and Greg W Rouse
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:170
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  34. Drosophila Dscam1 is a cell-surface protein that plays important roles in neural development and axon tiling of neurons. It is known that thousands of isoforms bind themselves through specific homophilic interact...

    Authors: Guang-Zhong Wang, Simone Marini, Xinyun Ma, Qiang Yang, Xuegong Zhang and Yan Zhu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:186
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  35. Fleas, the most notorious insect ectoparasites of human, dogs, cats, birds, etc., have recently been traced to its basal and primitive ancestors during the Middle Jurassic. Compared with extant fleas, these la...

    Authors: Taiping Gao, Chungkun Shih, Alexandr P Rasnitsyn, Xing Xu, Shuo Wang and Dong Ren
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:168
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  37. The genetic diversity of the human microbiome holds great potential for shedding light on the history of our ancestors. Helicobacter pylori is the most prominent example as its analysis allowed a fine-scale resol...

    Authors: Karsten Henne, Jing Li, Mark Stoneking, Olga Kessler, Hildegard Schilling, Anne Sonanini, Georg Conrads and Hans-Peter Horz
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:190
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  38. Vertebrate mitogenomes are economically organized and usually lack intergenic sequences other than the control region. Intergenic spacers located between the tRNAThr and tRNAPro genes (“T-P spacers”) have been ob...

    Authors: Tor Erik Jørgensen, Ingrid Bakke, Anita Ursvik, Morten Andreassen, Truls Moum and Steinar D Johansen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:182
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  39. Thylacocephala is a group of enigmatic extinct arthropods. Here we provide a full description of the oldest unequivocal thylacocephalan, a new genus and species Thylacares brandonensis, which is present in the Si...

    Authors: Carolin Haug, Derek E G Briggs, Donald G Mikulic, Joanne Kluessendorf and Joachim T Haug
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:159
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  40. Specific host-parasite systems often embody a particular co-distribution phenomenon, in which the parasite’s phylogeographic pattern is dependent on its host. In practice, however, both congruent and incongrue...

    Authors: Gonghua Lin, Fang Zhao, Hongjian Chen, Xiaogong Deng, Jianping Su and Tongzuo Zhang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:180
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  41. Social information use is usually considered to lead to ecological convergence among involved con- or heterospecific individuals. However, recent results demonstrate that observers can also actively avoid beha...

    Authors: Jukka T Forsman, Sami M Kivelä, Tuomo Jaakkonen, Janne-Tuomas Seppänen, Lars Gustafsson and Blandine Doligez
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:175
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  42. Gene flow plays an important role in domestication history of domesticated species. However, little is known about the demographic history of domesticated silkworm involving gene flow with its wild relative.

    Authors: Shao-Yu Yang, Min-Jin Han, Li-Fang Kang, Zi-Wen Li, Yi-Hong Shen and Ze Zhang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:185
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  43. In insect societies, intracolonial genetic variation is predicted to affect both colony efficiency and reproductive skew. However, because the effects of genetic variation on these two colony characteristics h...

    Authors: Satoshi Miyazaki, Miho Yoshimura, Ryota Saiki, Yoshinobu Hayashi, Osamu Kitade, Kazuki Tsuji and Kiyoto Maekawa
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:177
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  44. Pigmentation has a long history of investigation in evolutionary biology. In Drosophila melanogaster, latitudinal and altitudinal clines have been found but their underlying causes remain unclear. Moreover, most ...

    Authors: Héloïse Bastide, Amir Yassin, Evan J Johanning and John E Pool
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:179
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  45. Aquaporins (AQPs) and aquaglyceroporins (AQGPs) belong to the superfamily of Major Intrinsic Proteins (MIPs) and are involved in the transport of water and neutral solutes across the membranes. MIP channels pl...

    Authors: Ravi Kumar Verma, Neel Duti Prabh and Ramasubbu Sankararamakrishnan
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:173
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  46. Given that most species that have ever existed on earth are extinct, it stands to reason that the evolutionary history can be better understood with fossil taxa. Bauhinia is a typical genus of pantropical interco...

    Authors: Hong-Hu Meng, Frédéric MB Jacques, Tao Su, Yong-Jiang Huang, Shi-Tao Zhang, Hong-Jie Ma and Zhe-Kun Zhou
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:181
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  47. Discordance among individual molecular age estimates, or between molecular age estimates and the fossil record, is observed in many clades across the Tree of Life. This discordance is attributed to a variety o...

    Authors: Alex Dornburg, Jeffrey P Townsend, Matt Friedman and Thomas J Near
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:169
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  48. Female mate choice after mating is a strong force in sexual selection and could lead to coevolution of mating traits between the sexes. How females of different genotypes respond to substances in the male ejac...

    Authors: Takashi Yamane
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:172
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  49. Dacts are multi-domain adaptor proteins. They have been implicated in Wnt and Tgfβ signaling and serve as a nodal point in regulating many cellular activities. Dact genes have so far only been identified in bony ...

    Authors: Frank Richard Schubert, Débora Rodrigues Sobreira, Ricardo Guerreiro Janousek, Lúcia Elvira Alvares and Susanne Dietrich
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:157
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  50. Bacteria of the order Rickettsiales (Alphaproteobacteria) are obligate intracellular parasites that infect species from virtually every major eukaryotic lineage. Several rickettsial genera harbor species that are...

    Authors: Yan-Jun Kang, Xiu-Nian Diao, Gao-Yu Zhao, Ming-Hui Chen, Yanwen Xiong, Mang Shi, Wei-Ming Fu, Yu-Jiang Guo, Bao Pan, Xiao-Ping Chen, Edward C Holmes, Joseph J Gillespie, Stephen J Dumler and Yong-Zhen Zhang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:167
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