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  1. Protein-coding change is one possible genetic mechanism underlying the evolution of adaptive wing colour pattern variation in Heliconius butterflies. Here we determine whether 38 putative genes within two major H...

    Authors: Grace C Wu, Mathieu Joron and Chris D Jiggins
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:368
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  2. In species with single locus complementary sex determination (sl-CSD), the sex of individuals depends on their genotype at one single locus with multiple alleles. Haploid individuals are always males. Diploid ...

    Authors: Jan Elias, Silvia Dorn and Dominique Mazzi
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:366
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  3. Chlorophyll-binding proteins (CBPs) constitute a large family of proteins with diverse functions in both light-harvesting and photoprotection. The evolution of CBPs has been debated, especially with respect to...

    Authors: Simon M Dittami, Gurvan Michel, Jonas Collén, Catherine Boyen and Thierry Tonon
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:365
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  5. Behaviour has been traditionally viewed as a driver of subsequent evolution because behavioural adjustments expose organisms to novel environments, which may result in a correlated evolution on other traits. In D...

    Authors: Olga Dolgova, Carla Rego, Gemma Calabria, Joan Balanyà, Marta Pascual, Enrico L Rezende and Mauro Santos
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:363
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  6. Lipid A is the highly immunoreactive endotoxic center of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). It anchors the LPS into the outer membrane of most Gram-negative bacteria. Lipid A can be recognized by animal cells, triggers...

    Authors: Stephen O Opiyo, Rosevelt L Pardy, Hideaki Moriyama and Etsuko N Moriyama
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:362
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  8. Microbial genomes exhibit complex sets of genetic affinities due to lateral genetic transfer. Assessing the relative contributions of parent-to-offspring inheritance and gene sharing is a vital step in underst...

    Authors: Catherine Holloway and Robert G Beiko
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:360
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  9. A major challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand the typically complex interactions between diverse counter-balancing factors of Darwinian selection for size assortative mating and sexual size dimorp...

    Authors: Chang S Han, Piotr G Jablonski, Beobkyun Kim and Frank C Park
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:359
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  10. A protein-protein interaction network (PIN) was suggested to be a disassortative network, in which interactions between high- and low-degree nodes are favored while hub-hub interactions are suppressed. It was ...

    Authors: Takeshi Hase, Yoshihito Niimura and Hiroshi Tanaka
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:358
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  11. Gene duplication can lead to genetic redundancy, which masks the function of mutated genes in genetic analyses. Methods to increase sensitivity in identifying genetic redundancy can improve the efficiency of r...

    Authors: Huang-Wen Chen, Sunayan Bandyopadhyay, Dennis E Shasha and Kenneth D Birnbaum
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:357
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  12. In the past 40 years, there has been increasing acceptance that variation in levels of gene expression represents a major source of evolutionary novelty. Gene expression divergence is therefore likely to be in...

    Authors: Mónica Martínez-Fernández, Louis Bernatchez, Emilio Rolán-Alvarez and Humberto Quesada
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:356
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  13. A central hypothesis in the evolutionary ecology of parasitism is that trade-offs exist between resistance to parasites and other fitness components such as fecundity, growth, survival, and predator avoidance,...

    Authors: Pierrick Labbé, Pedro F Vale and Tom J Little
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:355
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  14. The rate and fitness effects of mutations are key in understanding the evolution of every species. Traditionally, these parameters are estimated in mutation accumulation experiments where replicate lines are p...

    Authors: Patrícia H Brito, Elsa Guilherme, Helena Soares and Isabel Gordo
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:354
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  15. The subclass Enoplia (Phylum Nematoda) is purported to be the earliest branching clade amongst all nematode taxa, yet the deep phylogeny of this important lineage remains elusive. Free-living marine species wi...

    Authors: Holly M Bik, P John D Lambshead, W Kelley Thomas and David H Lunt
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:353
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  16. In the large angiosperm order Lamiales, a diverse array of highly specialized life strategies such as carnivory, parasitism, epiphytism, and desiccation tolerance occur, and some lineages possess drastically a...

    Authors: Bastian Schäferhoff, Andreas Fleischmann, Eberhard Fischer, Dirk C Albach, Thomas Borsch, Günther Heubl and Kai F Müller
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:352
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  17. Many natural phenomena are directly or indirectly related to latitude. Living at different latitudes, indeed, has its consequences with being exposed to different climates, diets, light/dark cycles, etc. In hu...

    Authors: Roberto Amato, Michele Pinelli, Antonella Monticelli, Gennaro Miele and Sergio Cocozza
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:351
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  18. Evaluating the limits of adaptation to temperature is important given the IPCC-predicted rise in global temperatures. The rate and scope of evolutionary adaptation can be limited by low genetic diversity, gene...

    Authors: Kathryn D Kavanagh, Thrond O Haugen, Finn Gregersen, Jukka Jernvall and L Asbjørn Vøllestad
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:350
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  19. RNA editing is a post-transcriptional process that, in seed plants, involves a cytosine to uracil change in messenger RNA, causing the translated protein to differ from that predicted by the DNA sequence. RNA ...

    Authors: Argelia Cuenca, Gitte Petersen, Ole Seberg, Jerrold I Davis and Dennis W Stevenson
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:349
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  20. Based on extensive mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence data, we previously showed that the model of speciation among species of herring gull (Larus argentatus) complex was not that of a ring species, but most like...

    Authors: Viviane Sternkopf, Dorit Liebers-Helbig, Markus S Ritz, Jun Zhang, Andreas J Helbig and Peter de Knijff
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:348
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  21. Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) is a highly virulent calicivirus, first described in domestic rabbits in China in 1984. RHDV appears to be a mutant form of a benign virus that existed in Europe long b...

    Authors: Fernando Alda, Tania Gaitero, Mónica Suárez, Tomás Merchán, Gregorio Rocha and Ignacio Doadrio
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:347
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  22. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of short regulatory RNAs encoded in the genome of DNA viruses, some single cell organisms, plants and animals. With the rapid development of technology, more and more miRNAs are ...

    Authors: Zhidong Yuan, Xiao Sun, Dongke Jiang, Yan Ding, Zhiyuan Lu, Lejun Gong, Hongde Liu and Jianming Xie
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:346
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  23. Maternal condition can generate resource-related maternal effects through differential egg provisioning, and can greatly affect offspring performance. In the present study, the speckled wood butterfly Pararge aeg...

    Authors: Melanie Gibbs, Casper J Breuker, Helen Hesketh, Rosemary S Hails and Hans Van Dyck
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:345
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  24. The Dermaptera belongs to a group of winged insects of uncertain relationship within Polyneoptera, which has expanded anal region and adds numerous anal veins in the hind wing. Evolutional history and origin o...

    Authors: Jingxia Zhao, Yunyun Zhao, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren and Yongjie Wang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:344
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  25. Phylogenetic reconstruction methods based on gene content often place all the parasitic and endosymbiotic eubacteria (parasites for short) together in a clan. Many other lines of evidence point to this parasit...

    Authors: Ajanthah Sangaralingam, Edward Susko, David Bryant and Matthew Spencer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:343
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  27. The cell shape and morphology of plant tissues are intimately related to structural modifications in the primary cell wall that are associated with key processes in the regulation of cell growth and differenti...

    Authors: Luiz Eduardo V Del Bem and Michel GA Vincentz
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:341
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  28. Maternally inherited endosymbionts like Wolbachia pipientis are in linkage disequilibrium with the mtDNA of their hosts. Therefore, they can induce selective sweeps, decreasing genetic diversity over many generat...

    Authors: Marcela S Rodriguero, Analía A Lanteri and Viviana A Confalonieri
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:340
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  29. During embryonic development of segmented animals, body segments are thought to arise from the so-called "posterior growth zone" and the occurrence of this "zone" has been used to support the homology of segme...

    Authors: Georg Mayer, Chiharu Kato, Björn Quast, Rebecca H Chisholm, Kerry A Landman and Leonie M Quinn
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:339
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  31. Structural elucidation and analysis of fructifications of plants is fundamental for understanding their evolution. In case of Ginkgo biloba, attention was drawn by Fujii in 1896 to aberrant fructifications of Gin...

    Authors: Thilo C Fischer, Barbara Meller, Evelyn Kustatscher and Rainer Butzmann
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:337
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  32. The origin and stability of cooperation is a hot topic in social and behavioural sciences. A complicated conundrum exists as defectors have an advantage over cooperators, whenever cooperation is costly so cons...

    Authors: Gergely Boza and Szabolcs Számadó
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:336
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  33. Many insects, including ants, are infected by maternally inherited Wolbachia endosymbiotic bacteria though other secondary endosymbionts have not been reported in ants. It has been suggested that the ability of W...

    Authors: Anu Sirviö and Pekka Pamilo
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:335
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  37. The patterns of emergence and diversification of the families of ubiquitin ligases provide insights about the evolution of the eukaryotic ubiquitination system. U-box ubiquitin ligases (UULs) are proteins char...

    Authors: Ignacio Marín
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:331
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  38. In eukaryotes, ABC transporters that utilize the energy of ATP hydrolysis to expel cellular substrates into the environment are responsible for most of the efflux from cells. Many members of the superfamily of...

    Authors: Jie Xiong, Lifang Feng, Dongxia Yuan, Chengjie Fu and Wei Miao
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:330
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  39. Previous studies have shown that microRNA precursors (pre-miRNAs) have considerably more stable secondary structures than other native RNAs (tRNA, rRNA, and mRNA) and artificial RNA sequences. However, pre-miR...

    Authors: Ming Ni, Wenjie Shu, Xiaochen Bo, Shengqi Wang and Songgang Li
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:329
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  41. A non-canonical nuclear genetic code, in which TAG and TAA have been reassigned from stop codons to glutamine, has evolved independently in several eukaryotic lineages, including the ulvophycean green algal or...

    Authors: Ellen Cocquyt, Gillian H Gile, Frederik Leliaert, Heroen Verbruggen, Patrick J Keeling and Olivier De Clerck
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:327
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  42. Elucidation of the mechanisms driving speciation requires detailed knowledge about the phylogenetic relationships and phylogeography of the incipient species within their entire ranges as well as their coloniz...

    Authors: Marta Barluenga and Axel Meyer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:326
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  43. Starting from Western Europe, the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) has spread across the globe in historic times. However, most oceanic islands were colonized by mice only within the past 300 years. This mak...

    Authors: Emilie A Hardouin, Jean-Louis Chapuis, Mark I Stevens, Jansen Bettine van Vuuren, Petra Quillfeldt, Rick J Scavetta, Meike Teschke and Diethard Tautz
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:325
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  44. Five DNA regions, namely, rbcL, matK, ITS, ITS2, and psbA-trnH, have been recommended as primary DNA barcodes for plants. Studies evaluating these regions for species identification in the large plant taxon, whic...

    Authors: Ting Gao, Hui Yao, Jingyuan Song, Yingjie Zhu, Chang Liu and Shilin Chen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:324
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  45. A robust phylogenetic hypothesis of euthyneuran gastropods, as a basis to reconstructing their evolutionary history, is still hindered by several groups of aberrant, more or less worm-like slugs with unclear p...

    Authors: Katharina M Jörger, Isabella Stöger, Yasunori Kano, Hiroshi Fukuda, Thomas Knebelsberger and Michael Schrödl
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:323
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  46. Biological invasions provide a window on the process of community assembly. In particular, tracking natural enemy recruitment to invading hosts can reveal the relative roles of co-evolution (including local ad...

    Authors: James A Nicholls, Pablo Fuentes-Utrilla, Alexander Hayward, George Melika, György Csóka, José-Luis Nieves-Aldrey, Juli Pujade-Villar, Majid Tavakoli, Karsten Schönrogge and Graham N Stone
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:322
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  47. Despite considerable progress in our understanding of land plant phylogeny, several nodes in the green tree of life remain poorly resolved. Furthermore, the bulk of currently available data come from only a su...

    Authors: Kenneth G Karol, Kathiravetpillai Arumuganathan, Jeffrey L Boore, Aaron M Duffy, Karin DE Everett, John D Hall, S Kellon Hansen, Jennifer V Kuehl, Dina F Mandoli, Brent D Mishler, Richard G Olmstead, Karen S Renzaglia and Paul G Wolf
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:321
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  48. While the impact of climate fluctuations on the demographic histories of species caused by changes in habitat availability is well studied, populations of species from systems without geographic isolation have...

    Authors: Varvara Fazalova, Bruno Nevado, Tatiana Peretolchina, Jeanna Petunina and Dmitry Sherbakov
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:320
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  49. The anoctamin family of transmembrane proteins are found in all eukaryotes and consists of 10 members in vertebrates. Ano1 and ano2 were observed to have Ca2+ activated Cl- channel activity. Recent findings howev...

    Authors: Vladimir M Milenkovic, Marisa Brockmann, Heidi Stöhr, Bernhard HF Weber and Olaf Strauss
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:319
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  50. Previous studies in Ascomycetes have shown that the function of gene families of which the size is considerably larger in extant pathogens than in non-pathogens could be related to pathogenicity traits. Howeve...

    Authors: Aminael Sánchez-Rodríguez, Cindy Martens, Kristof Engelen, Yves Van de Peer and Kathleen Marchal
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:318
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