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  1. SelB is the dedicated elongation factor for delivery of selenocysteinyl-tRNA to the ribosome. In archaea, only a subset of methanogens utilizes selenocysteine and encodes archaeal SelB (aSelB). A SelB-like (aS...

    Authors: Gemma C Atkinson, Vasili Hauryliuk and Tanel Tenson
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:22
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  2. The notochord is a defining feature of the chordate clade, and invertebrate chordates, such as tunicates, are uniquely suited for studies of this structure. Here we used a well-characterized set of 50 notochor...

    Authors: Jamie E Kugler, Pierre Kerner, Jean-Marie Bouquet, Di Jiang and Anna Di Gregorio
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:21
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  3. Evolution of metabolism occurs through the acquisition and loss of genes whose products acts as enzymes in metabolic reactions, and from a presumably simple primordial metabolism the organisms living today hav...

    Authors: Sebastian Bernhardsson, Philip Gerlee and Ludvig Lizana
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:20
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  4. When females mate with multiple partners, sperm from rival males compete to fertilise the ova. Studies of experimental evolution have proven the selective action of sperm competition on male reproductive trait...

    Authors: Renée C Firman and Leigh W Simmons
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:19
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  7. During the colonization of the world, after dispersal out of African, modern humans encountered changeable environments and substantial phenotypic variations that involve diverse behaviors, lifestyles and cult...

    Authors: Dong-Dong Wu and Ya-Ping Zhang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:16
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  8. Maternally inherited bacteria that reside obligatorily or facultatively in arthropods can increase their prevalence in the population by altering their hosts' reproduction. Such reproductive manipulations have...

    Authors: Bram Vanthournout, Janne Swaegers and Frederik Hendrickx
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:15
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  9. Corticosteroid receptors include mineralocorticoid (MR) and glucocorticoid (GR) receptors. Teleost fishes have a single MR and duplicate GRs that show variable sensitivities to mineralocorticoids and glucocort...

    Authors: Adam S Arterbery, Daniel J Fergus, Elizabeth A Fogarty, John Mayberry, David L Deitcher, W Lee Kraus and Andrew H Bass
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:14
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  10. Natural acquisition of novel genes from other organisms by horizontal or lateral gene transfer is well established for microorganisms. There is now growing evidence that horizontal gene transfer also plays imp...

    Authors: Werner E Mayer, Lisa N Schuster, Gabi Bartelmes, Christoph Dieterich and Ralf J Sommer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:13
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  11. The influence of sperm competition upon sperm size has been a controversial issue during the last 20 years which remains unresolved for mammals. The hypothesis that, when ejaculates compete with rival males, a...

    Authors: Maximiliano Tourmente, Montserrat Gomendio and Eduardo RS Roldan
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:12
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  12. Mutations that impair mitochondrial functioning are associated with a variety of metabolic and age-related disorders. A barrier to rigorous tests of the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in aging processes has...

    Authors: Suzanne Estes, Anna L Coleman-Hulbert, Kiley A Hicks, Gene de Haan, Sarah R Martha, Jeremiah B Knapp, Samson W Smith, Kevin C Stein and Dee R Denver
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:11
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  14. Comparative genome mapping studies in Rosaceae have been conducted until now by aligning genetic maps within the same genus, or closely related genera and using a limited number of common markers. The growing ...

    Authors: Eudald Illa, Daniel J Sargent, Elena Lopez Girona, Jill Bushakra, Alessandro Cestaro, Ross Crowhurst, Massimo Pindo, Antonio Cabrera, Esther van der Knaap, Amy Iezzoni, Susan Gardiner, Riccardo Velasco, Pere Arús, David Chagné and Michela Troggio
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:9
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  15. Seagrasses are a polyphyletic group of monocotyledonous angiosperms that have adapted to a completely submerged lifestyle in marine waters. Here, we exploit two collections of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) of...

    Authors: Lothar Wissler, Francisco M Codoñer, Jenny Gu, Thorsten BH Reusch, Jeanine L Olsen, Gabriele Procaccini and Erich Bornberg-Bauer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:8
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  16. The establishment of the nuclear membrane resulted in the physical separation of transcription and translation, and presented early eukaryotes with a formidable challenge: how to shuttle RNA from the nucleus t...

    Authors: Mariana Serpeloni, Newton M Vidal, Samuel Goldenberg, Andréa R Ávila and Federico G Hoffmann
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:7
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  17. The emergence of the 2009 H1N1 Influenza pandemic followed a multiple reassortment event from viruses originally circulating in swines and humans, but the adaptive nature of this emergence is poorly understood.

    Authors: Juwaeriah Abdussamad and Stéphane Aris-Brosou
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:6
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  19. Phosphoinositide lipid kinases (PIKs) generate specific phosphorylated variants of phosatidylinositols (PtdIns) that are critical for second messenger signaling and cellular membrane remodeling. Mammals have 1...

    Authors: James R Brown and Kurt R Auger
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:4
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  22. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are important in the food industry for the production of fermented food products and in human health as commensals in the gut. However, the phylogenetic relationships among LAB speci...

    Authors: Zhi-Gang Zhang, Zhi-Qiang Ye, Li Yu and Peng Shi
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:1
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  23. Because of their functional significance, the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class I and II genes have been the subject of continuous interest in the fields of ecology, evolution and conservation. In s...

    Authors: Magdalena Zagalska-Neubauer, Wiesław Babik, Michał Stuglik, Lars Gustafsson, Mariusz Cichoń and Jacek Radwan
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:395
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  24. Oysters are morphologically plastic and hence difficult subjects for taxonomic and evolutionary studies. It is long been suspected, based on the extraordinary species diversity observed, that Asia Pacific is t...

    Authors: Jianfeng Ren, Xiao Liu, Feng Jiang, Ximing Guo and Bin Liu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:394
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  26. Nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA) genes and transcribed spacers are highly utilized as taxonomic markers in metazoans despite the lack of a cohesive understanding of their evolution. Here we follow the evolution of...

    Authors: David E Alquezar, Stephane Hemmerter, Robert D Cooper and Nigel W Beebe
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:392
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  27. Intense competition for access to females can lead to males exploiting different components of sexual selection, and result in the evolution of alternative mating strategies (AMSs). Males of Poecilia parae, a col...

    Authors: Jorge L Hurtado-Gonzales and J Albert C Uy
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:391
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  28. The archaeology of North Africa remains enigmatic, with questions of population continuity versus discontinuity taking centre-stage. Debates have focused on population transitions between the bearers of the Middl...

    Authors: Luísa Pereira, Nuno M Silva, Ricardo Franco-Duarte, Verónica Fernandes, Joana B Pereira, Marta D Costa, Haidé Martins, Pedro Soares, Doron M Behar, Martin B Richards and Vincent Macaulay
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:390
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  29. Nematodes represent the most abundant benthic metazoa in one of the largest habitats on earth, the deep sea. Characterizing major patterns of biodiversity within this dominant group is a critical step towards ...

    Authors: Holly M Bik, W Kelley Thomas, David H Lunt and P John D Lambshead
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:389
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  31. Kiwi is a highly distinctive, flightless and endangered ratite bird endemic to New Zealand. To understand the patterns of molecular evolution of the nuclear protein-coding genes in brown kiwi (Apteryx australis m...

    Authors: Sankar Subramanian, Leon Huynen, Craig D Millar and David M Lambert
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:387
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  32. Molecular studies have revealed that many putative 'species' are actually complexes of multiple morphologically conservative, but genetically divergent 'cryptic species'. In extreme cases processes such as non...

    Authors: Paul M Oliver, Mark Adams and Paul Doughty
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:386
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  33. Hybrid male sterility (HMS) is a usual outcome of hybridization between closely related animal species. It arises because interactions between alleles that are functional within one species may be disrupted in...

    Authors: Luciana O Araripe, Horácio Montenegro, Bernardo Lemos and Daniel L Hartl
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:385
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  34. Anthropogenic habitat modifications have led to the extinction of many species and have favoured the expansion of others. Nonetheless, the possible role of humans as a diversifying force in vertebrate evolutio...

    Authors: Rosa Agudo, Ciro Rico, Carles Vilà, Fernando Hiraldo and José Antonio Donázar
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:384
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  35. Ribonucleotide reduction is the only de novo pathway for synthesis of deoxyribonucleotides, the building blocks of DNA. The reaction is catalysed by ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs), an ancient enzyme family comp...

    Authors: Daniel Lundin, Simonetta Gribaldo, Eduard Torrents, Britt-Marie Sjöberg and Anthony M Poole
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:383
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  36. When species shift their ranges to track climate change, they are almost certain to experience novel environments to which they are poorly adapted. Otaki and co-workers document an explosion of wing pattern va...

    Authors: James Buckley, Jon R Bridle and Andrew Pomiankowski
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:382
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  37. Lymnaeidae snails play a prominent role in the transmission of helminths, mainly trematodes of medical and veterinary importance (e.g., Fasciola liver flukes). As this family exhibits a great diversity in shell m...

    Authors: Ana C Correa, Juan S Escobar, Patrick Durand, François Renaud, Patrice David, Philippe Jarne, Jean-Pierre Pointier and Sylvie Hurtrez-Boussès
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:381
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  38. The ability of an immune system to remember pathogens improves the chance of the host to survive a second exposure to the same pathogen. This immunological memory has evolved in response to the pathogen enviro...

    Authors: Frederik Graw, Carsten Magnus and Roland R Regoes
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:380
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  39. In mono- and eudicotyledonous plants, a small nuclear gene family (RpoT, RNA polymerase of the T3/T7 type) encodes mitochondrial as well as chloroplast RNA polymerases homologous to the T-odd bacteriophage enzyme...

    Authors: Chang Yin, Uwe Richter, Thomas Börner and Andreas Weihe
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:379
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  40. Gene regulation plays a central role in the adaptation of organisms to their environments. There are many molecular components to gene regulation, and it is often difficult to determine both the genetic basis ...

    Authors: Celeste J Brown, Luyi Zhao, Kelsie J Evans, Dilara Ally and Amber D Stancik
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:378
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  41. Recent phylogenomic analyses have revolutionized our view of eukaryote evolution by revealing unexpected relationships between and within the eukaryotic supergroups. However, for several groups of uncultivable...

    Authors: Fabien Burki, Alexander Kudryavtsev, Mikhail V Matz, Galina V Aglyamova, Simon Bulman, Mark Fiers, Patrick J Keeling and Jan Pawlowski
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:377
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  42. DNA sequences afford access to the evolutionary pathways of life. Particularly mobile elements that constantly co-evolve in genomes encrypt recent and ancient information of their host's history. In mammals th...

    Authors: Gennady Churakov, Norbert Grundmann, Andrej Kuritzin, Jürgen Brosius, Wojciech Makałowski and Jürgen Schmitz
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:376
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  43. The genus Rattus is highly speciose and has a complex taxonomy that is not fully resolved. As shown previously there are two major groups within the genus, an Asian and an Australo-Papuan group. This study focuse...

    Authors: Judith H Robins, Patricia A McLenachan, Matthew J Phillips, Bennet J McComish, Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith and Howard A Ross
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:375
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  44. The Wnt genes encode secreted glycoprotein ligands that regulate a wide range of developmental processes, including axis elongation and segmentation. There are thirteen subfamilies of Wnt genes in metazoans and t...

    Authors: Ralf Janssen, Martine Le Gouar, Matthias Pechmann, Francis Poulin, Renata Bolognesi, Evelyn E Schwager, Corinna Hopfen, John K Colbourne, Graham E Budd, Susan J Brown, Nikola-Michael Prpic, Carolin Kosiol, Michel Vervoort, Wim GM Damen, Guillaume Balavoine and Alistair P McGregor
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:374
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  45. Parathyroid hormone (PTH) and PTH-related peptide (PTHrP) belong to a family of endocrine factors that share a highly conserved N-terminal region (amino acids 1-34) and play key roles in calcium homeostasis, b...

    Authors: Pedro LC Pinheiro, João CR Cardoso, Ana S Gomes, Juan Fuentes, Deborah M Power and Adelino VM Canário
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:373
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  46. Usual methods for inferring species boundaries from molecular sequence data rely either on gene trees or on population genetic analyses. Another way of delimiting species, based on a view of species as "fields...

    Authors: Jean-François Flot, Arnaud Couloux and Simon Tillier
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:372
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  47. In East Africa, foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype SAT 1 is responsible for occasional severe outbreaks in livestock and is known to be maintained within the buffalo populations. Little is known about the e...

    Authors: Abraham K Sangula, Graham J Belsham, Vincent B Muwanika, Rasmus Heller, Sheila N Balinda, Charles Masembe and Hans R Siegismund
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:371
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  48. The lancelet amphioxus (Cephalochordata) is a close relative of vertebrates and thus may enhance our understanding of vertebrate gene and genome evolution. In this context, the globins are one of the best stud...

    Authors: Bettina Ebner, Georgia Panopoulou, Serge N Vinogradov, Laurent Kiger, Michael C Marden, Thorsten Burmester and Thomas Hankeln
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:370
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