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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. To predict further invasions of pests it is important to understand what factors contribute to the genetic structure of their populations. Cosmopolitan pest species are ideal for studying how different agroeco...

    Authors: Irina Ovčarenko, Despoina Evripidis Kapantaidaki, Leena Lindström, Nathalie Gauthier, Anastasia Tsagkarakou, Karelyn Emily Knott and Irene Vänninen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:165
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  5. The colorful wing patterns of butterflies, a prime example of biodiversity, can change dramatically within closely related species. Wing pattern diversity is specifically present among papilionid butterflies. ...

    Authors: Bodo D Wilts, Natasja IJbema and Doekele G Stavenga
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:160
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  6. Pathogens are a major regulatory force for host populations, especially under stressful conditions. Elevated temperatures may enhance the development of pathogens, increase the number of transmission stages, a...

    Authors: Franziska M Schade, Lisa NS Shama and K Mathias Wegner
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:164
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  7. Early methods for estimating divergence times from gene sequence data relied on the assumption of a molecular clock. More sophisticated methods were created to model rate variation and used auto-correlation of...

    Authors: Mathieu Fourment and Edward C Holmes
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:163
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  8. The oxidative stress theory of life-history tradeoffs states that oxidative stress caused by damaging free radicals directly underpins tradeoffs between reproduction and longevity by altering the allocation of...

    Authors: Samson W Smith, Leigh C Latta, Dee R Denver and Suzanne Estes
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:161
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  9. The polyadenylation of RNA is critical for gene functioning, but the conserved sequence motifs (often called signal or signature motifs), motif locations and abundances, and base composition patterns around mR...

    Authors: Xiu-Qing Li and Donglei Du
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:162
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  10. Salinity plays an important role in shaping coastal marine communities. Near-future climate predictions indicate that salinity will decrease in many shallow coastal areas due to increased precipitation; howeve...

    Authors: Anna-Lisa Wrange, Carl André, Torbjörn Lundh, Ulrika Lind, Anders Blomberg, Per J Jonsson and Jon N Havenhand
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:156
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  12. The moss Physcomitrella patens (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp. is an important experimental model system for evolutionary-developmental studies. In order to shed light on the evolutionary history of Physcomitrella and re...

    Authors: Anna K Beike, Mark von Stackelberg, Mareike Schallenberg-Rüdinger, Sebastian T Hanke, Marie Follo, Dietmar Quandt, Stuart F McDaniel, Ralf Reski, Benito C Tan and Stefan A Rensing
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:158
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  13. The maintenance of chromosomal integrity is an essential task of every living organism and cellular repair mechanisms exist to guard against insults to DNA. Given the importance of this process, it is expected...

    Authors: Dianne I Lou, Ross M McBee, Uyen Q Le, Anne C Stone, Gregory K Wilkerson, Ann M Demogines and Sara L Sawyer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:155
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  14. Hybrid zones formed by the secondary contact of divergent lineages represent natural laboratories for studying the genetic basis of speciation. Here we tested for patterns of differential introgression among t...

    Authors: Xiuguang Mao, Guangjian Zhu, Libiao Zhang, Shuyi Zhang and Stephen J Rossiter
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:154
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  15. Skipper butterflies (Hesperiidae) are a relatively well-studied family of Lepidoptera. However, a combination of DNA barcodes, morphology, and natural history data has revealed several cryptic species complexe...

    Authors: Claudia Bertrand, Daniel H Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, John M Burns, Joel F Gibson, Shadi Shokralla and Mehrdad Hajibabaei
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:153
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  16. Recent molecular hypotheses suggest that some traditional suprageneric taxa of Characiformes require revision, as they may not constitute monophyletic groups. This is the case for the Bryconidae. Various studi...

    Authors: Kelly T Abe, Tatiane C Mariguela, Gleisy S Avelino, Fausto Foresti and Claudio Oliveira
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:152
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  17. Camellia is an economically and phylogenetically important genus in the family Theaceae. Owing to numerous hybridization and polyploidization, it is taxonomically and phylogenetically ranked as one of the most ch...

    Authors: Hui Huang, Chao Shi, Yuan Liu, Shu-Yan Mao and Li-Zhi Gao
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:151
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  19. The relationship between allopolyploidy and plant virus resistance is poorly understood. To determine the relationship of plant evolutionary history and basal virus resistance, a panel of Nicotiana species from d...

    Authors: John Gottula, Ramsey Lewis, Seiya Saito and Marc Fuchs
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:149
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  20. Sexual selection has initially been thought to occur exclusively at the precopulatory stage in terms of contests among males and female mate choice, but research over the last four decades revealed that it oft...

    Authors: Lucas Marie-Orleach, Tim Janicke, Dita B Vizoso, Micha Eichmann and Lukas Schärer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:148
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  21. Heat stress transcription factors (Hsfs) regulate gene expression in response to heat and many other environmental stresses in plants. Understanding the adaptive evolution of Hsf genes in the grass family will pr...

    Authors: Zefeng Yang, Yifan Wang, Yun Gao, Yong Zhou, Enying Zhang, Yunyun Hu, Yuan Yuan, Guohua Liang and Chenwu Xu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:147
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  22. The origin and colonisation history after the Quaternary ice ages remain largely unresolved for many plant lineages, mainly owing to a lack of fine-scale studies. Here, we present a molecular phylogeny and a p...

    Authors: Isabel M Liberal, Monique Burrus, Claire Suchet, Christophe Thébaud and Pablo Vargas
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:146
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  23. The evolution of the coding exome is a major driving force of functional divergence both between species and between protein isoforms. Exons at different positions in the transcript or in different transcript ...

    Authors: Feng-Chi Chen, Trees-Juen Chuang, Hsuan-Yu Lin and Min-Kung Hsu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:145
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  24. Animals fertilize thousands of angiosperm species whose floral-display sizes can significantly influence pollinator behavior and plant reproductive success. Many studies have measured the interactions among po...

    Authors: Aaron F Howard and Edward M Barrows
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:144
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  25. Lethal amanitas (Amanita section Phalloideae) are a group of wild, fatal mushrooms causing many poisoning cases worldwide. However, the diversity and evolutionary history of these lethal mushrooms remain poorly k...

    Authors: Qing Cai, Rodham E Tulloss, Li P Tang, Bau Tolgor, Ping Zhang, Zuo H Chen and Zhu L Yang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:143
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  26. Selection pressure governs the relative mutability and the conservedness of a protein across the protein family. Biomolecules (DNA, RNA and proteins) continuously evolve under the effect of evolutionary pressu...

    Authors: Vineetha Mandlik, Sonali Shinde and Shailza Singh
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:142
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  28. NASP is an essential protein in mammals that functions in histone transport pathways and maintenance of a soluble reservoir of histones H3/H4. NASP has been studied exclusively in Opisthokonta lineages where s...

    Authors: Syed Nabeel-Shah, Kanwal Ashraf, Ronald E Pearlman and Jeffrey Fillingham
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:139
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  29. The two North Atlantic eel species, the European and the American eel, represent an ideal system in which to study parallel selection patterns due to their sister species status and the presence of ongoing gen...

    Authors: Malene G Ulrik, José Martín Pujolar, Anne-Laure Ferchaud, Magnus W Jacobsen, Thomas D Als, Pierre Alexandre Gagnaire, Jane Frydenberg, Peder K Bøcher, Bjarni Jónsson, Louis Bernatchez and Michael M Hansen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:138
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  30. Repetitive short interspersed elements (SINEs) are retrotransposons ubiquitous in mammalian genomes and are highly informative markers to identify species and phylogenetic associations. Of these, SINEs unique ...

    Authors: Kathryn B Walters-Conte, Diana LE Johnson, Warren E Johnson, Stephen J O’Brien and Jill Pecon-Slattery
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:137
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  31. Haldane’s Rule, the tendency for the heterogametic sex to show reduced fertility in hybrid crosses, can obscure the signal of gene flow in mtDNA between species where females are heterogametic. Therefore, it i...

    Authors: Fiona C Gowen, James M Maley, Carla Cicero, A Townsend Peterson, Brant C Faircloth, T Caleb Warr and John E McCormack
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:135
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  32. Parasites exert important selective pressures on host life history traits. In birds, feathers are inhabited by numerous microorganisms, some of them being able to degrade feathers or lead to infections. Preeni...

    Authors: Staffan Jacob, Anika Immer, Sarah Leclaire, Nathalie Parthuisot, Christine Ducamp, Gilles Espinasse and Philipp Heeb
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:134
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  33. Conserving genetic diversity and local adaptations are management priorities for wild populations of exploited species, which increasingly are subject to climate change, habitat loss, and pollution. These cons...

    Authors: Amanda E Haponski and Carol A Stepien
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:133
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  34. The reconstruction of the phylogenetic tree topology of four taxa is, still nowadays, one of the main challenges in phylogenetics. Its difficulties lie in considering not too restrictive evolutionary models, a...

    Authors: Esther Ibáñez-Marcelo and Marta Casanellas
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:132
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  36. Rhesus macaques living in western Sichuan, China, have been separated into several isolated populations due to habitat fragmentation. Previous studies based on the neutral or nearly neutral markers (mitochondr...

    Authors: Yong-Fang Yao, Qiu-Xia Dai, Jing Li, Qing-Yong Ni, Ming-Wang Zhang and Huai-Liang Xu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:130
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  37. The shape of the appendicular bones in mammals usually reflects adaptations towards different locomotor abilities. However, other aspects such as body size and phylogeny also play an important role in shaping ...

    Authors: Alberto Martín-Serra, Borja Figueirido and Paul Palmqvist
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:129
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  38. The origin and early radiation of archosaurs and closely related taxa (Archosauriformes) during the Triassic was a critical event in the evolutionary history of tetrapods. This radiation led to the dinosaur-do...

    Authors: Richard J Butler, Corwin Sullivan, Martín D Ezcurra, Jun Liu, Agustina Lecuona and Roland B Sookias
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:128
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  39. Many animals exhibit variation in resistance to specific natural enemies. Such variation may be encoded in their genomes or derived from infection with protective symbionts. The pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, fo...

    Authors: Adam J Martinez, Shannon G Ritter, Matthew R Doremus, Jacob A Russell and Kerry M Oliver
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:127
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  40. The Kalligrammatidae are distinctive, large, conspicuous, lacewings found in Eurasia from the Middle Jurassic to mid Early Cretaceous. Because of incomplete and often inadequate fossil preservation, an absence...

    Authors: Qiang Yang, Yongjie Wang, Conrad C Labandeira, Chungkun Shih and Dong Ren
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:126
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  41. Oviparous females have three main options to increase their reproductive success: investing into egg number, egg mass and/or egg care. Although allocating resources to either of these three components is known...

    Authors: Lisa K Koch and Joël Meunier
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:125
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  42. The caleosin genes encode proteins with a single conserved EF hand calcium-binding domain and comprise small gene families found in a wide range of plant species. These proteins may be involved in many cellula...

    Authors: Wanlu Song, Yajuan Qin, Yan Zhu, Guangjun Yin, Ningning Wu, Yaxuan Li and Yingkao Hu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:124
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  43. Predatory marine gastropods of the genus Conus exhibit substantial variation in venom composition both within and among species. Apart from mechanisms associated with extensive turnover of gene families and rapid...

    Authors: Dan Chang and Thomas F Duda Jr
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:123
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  44. Habitat fragmentation has accelerated within the last century, but may have been ongoing over longer time scales. We analyzed the timing and genetic consequences of fragmentation in two isolated lake-dwelling ...

    Authors: Michael M Hansen, Morten T Limborg, Anne-Laure Ferchaud and José-Martin Pujolar
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:122
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  45. We investigate the scope for selection at the level of nuclei within fungal individuals (mycelia) of the mutualistic Termitomyces cultivated by fungus-growing termites. Whereas in most basidiomycete fungi the num...

    Authors: Tania Nobre, Bertha Koopmanschap, Johan JP Baars, Anton SM Sonnenberg and Duur K Aanen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:121
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  47. Lateral Gene Transfer (LGT) has recently gained recognition as an important contributor to some eukaryote proteomes, but the mechanisms of acquisition and fixation in eukaryotic genomes are still uncertain. A ...

    Authors: Åke Strese, Anders Backlund and Cecilia Alsmark
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:119
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  48. Considered a biodiversity hotspot, the Canary Islands have been the key subjects of numerous evolutionary studies concerning a large variety of organisms. The genus Cheirolophus (Asteraceae) represents one of the...

    Authors: Daniel Vitales, Teresa Garnatje, Jaume Pellicer, Joan Vallès, Arnoldo Santos-Guerra and Isabel Sanmartín
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:118
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  49. Why most organisms reproduce via outcrossing rather than selfing is a central question in evolutionary biology. It has long ago been suggested that outcrossing is favoured when it facilitates adaptation to nov...

    Authors: Sara Carvalho, Ivo M Chelo, Christine Goy and Henrique Teotónio
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:116
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  50. Closely related species often occur in geographic isolation, yet sometimes form contact zones with the potential to hybridize. Pre-zygotic barriers may prevent cross breeding in such contact zones. In East Afr...

    Authors: Martin Husemann, Werner Ulrich and Jan Christian Habel
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:115
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