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  1. The vertebrate globin genes encoding the α- and β-subunits of the tetrameric hemoglobins are clustered at two unlinked loci. The highly conserved linear order of the genes flanking the hemoglobins provides a s...

    Authors: Ola F Wetten, Alexander J Nederbragt, Robert C Wilson, Kjetill S Jakobsen, Rolf B Edvardsen and Øivind Andersen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:315
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  2. Retracing the genetic histories of the descendant populations of the Slave Trade (16th-19th centuries) is particularly challenging due to the diversity of African ethnic groups involved and the different hybridis...

    Authors: Nicolas Brucato, Olivier Cassar, Laure Tonasso, Patricia Tortevoye, Florence Migot-Nabias, Sabine Plancoulaine, Evelyne Guitard, Georges Larrouy, Antoine Gessain and Jean-Michel Dugoujon
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:314
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  3. The digestive tract of many metazoan invertebrates is characterized by the presence of caeca or diverticula that serve secretory and/or absorptive functions. With the development of various feeding habits, dis...

    Authors: Alexander Ziegler, Rich Mooi, Gauthier Rolet and Chantal De Ridder
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:313
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  4. Outcrossing between populations can exert either positive or negative effects on offspring fitness. Cyclically parthenogenetic rotifers, like other continental zooplankters, show high genetic differentiation d...

    Authors: Ana M Tortajada, María José Carmona and Manuel Serra
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:312
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  5. Flavin adenine dinucleotide synthetases (FADSs) - a group of bifunctional enzymes that carry out the dual functions of riboflavin phosphorylation to produce flavin mononucleotide (FMN) and its subsequent adeny...

    Authors: Inmaculada Yruela, Sonia Arilla-Luna, Milagros Medina and Bruno Contreras-Moreira
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:311
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  6. Angiogenin (Ang) is a protein involved in angiogenesis by inducing the formation of blood vessels. The biomedical importance of this protein has come from findings linking mutations in Ang to cancer progressio...

    Authors: Francisco M Codoñer, Silvia Alfonso-Loeches and Mario A Fares
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:310
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  7. Acoels are simply organized unsegmented worms, lacking hindgut and anus. Several publications over recent years challenge the long-held view that acoels are early offshoots of the flatworms. Instead a basal po...

    Authors: Adina Mwinyi, Xavier Bailly, Sarah J Bourlat, Ulf Jondelius, D Timothy J Littlewood and Lars Podsiadlowski
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:309
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  9. Intraspecific variation within the diverse southern African murine rodents has not been extensively investigated, yet cryptic diversity is evident in several taxa studied to date. The Namaqua rock mouse, Micaelam...

    Authors: Isa-Rita M Russo, Christian T Chimimba and Paulette Bloomer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:307
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  10. The vertebrate tetraspanin family has many features which make it suitable for preserving the imprint of ancient sequence evolution and amenable for phylogenomic analysis. So we believe that an in-depth analys...

    Authors: Shengfeng Huang, Haozheng Tian, Zelin Chen, Ting Yu and Anlong Xu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:306
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  11. The insulin signaling pathway (ISP) has a key role in major physiological events like carbohydrate metabolism and growth regulation. The ISP has been well described in vertebrates and in a few invertebrate mod...

    Authors: Philippe Boucher, Delphine Ditlecadet, Caroline Dubé and France Dufresne
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:305
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  12. Tracing the genetic origin of central European farmer N1a lineages can provide a unique opportunity to assess the patterns of the farming technology spread into central Europe in the human prehistory. Here, we...

    Authors: Malliya Gounder Palanichamy, Cai-Ling Zhang, Bikash Mitra, Boris Malyarchuk, Miroslava Derenko, Tapas Kumar Chaudhuri and Ya-Ping Zhang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:304
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  13. The agriculturally important pasture grass tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb. syn. Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) Darbysh.) is an outbreeding allohexaploid, that may be more accurately described as a species...

    Authors: Melanie L Hand, Noel OI Cogan, Alan V Stewart and John W Forster
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:303
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  15. Studies addressing the adaptive significance of female ornamentation have gained ground recently. However, the expression of female ornaments in relation to body size, known as trait allometry, still remains u...

    Authors: Sebastian A Baldauf, Theo CM Bakker, Fabian Herder, Harald Kullmann and Timo Thünken
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:301
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  16. Complete mitochondrial genome sequences have become important tools for the study of genome architecture, phylogeny, and molecular evolution. Despite the rapid increase in available mitogenomes, the taxonomic ...

    Authors: Dietrich Gotzek, Jessica Clarke and DeWayne Shoemaker
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:300
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  17. A non-adaptive radiation triggered by sexual selection resulted in ten endemic land snail species of the genus Xerocrassa on Crete. Only five of these species and a more widespread species are monophyletic in a m...

    Authors: Jan Sauer and Bernhard Hausdorf
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:299
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  18. In any natural population, mutation is the primary source of genetic variation required for evolutionary novelty and adaptation. Nevertheless, most mutations, especially those with phenotypic effects, are harm...

    Authors: Xiaoqian Jiang, Baolin Mu, Zhuoran Huang, Mingjing Zhang, Xiaojuan Wang and Shiheng Tao
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:298
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  19. The hippolytid genus Lysmata is characterized by simultaneous hermaphroditism, a very rare sexual system among Decapoda. Specialized cleaning behavior is reported in a few pair-living species; these life history ...

    Authors: G Curt Fiedler, Andrew L Rhyne, Ryoko Segawa, Tadashi Aotsuka and Nikolaos V Schizas
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:297
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  20. In most protein-coding genes, greater sequence variation is observed in noncoding regions (introns and untranslated regions) than in coding regions due to selective constraints. During characterization of gene...

    Authors: Ming-Shun Chen, Xuming Liu, Ziheng Yang, Huixian Zhao, Richard H Shukle, Jeffrey J Stuart and Scot Hulbert
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:296
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  22. Enterovirus (EV) 71 is one of the common causative agents for hand, foot, and, mouth disease (HFMD). In recent years, the virus caused several outbreaks with high numbers of deaths and severe neurological comp...

    Authors: Hurng-Yi Wang, Kuo-Chien Tsao, Chia-Hung Hsieh, Li-Min Huang, Tzou-Yien Lin, Guang-Wu Chen, Shin-Ru Shih and Luan-Yin Chang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:294
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  24. Sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) are obligate, permanent ectoparasites of eutherian mammals, parasitizing members of 12 of the 29 recognized mammalian orders and approximately 20% of all mammalian species...

    Authors: Jessica E Light, Vincent S Smith, Julie M Allen, Lance A Durden and David L Reed
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:292
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  25. Tragopogon mirus and T. miscellus are allotetraploids (2n = 24) that formed repeatedly during the past 80 years in eastern Washington and adjacent Idaho (USA) following the introduction of the diploids T. dubius,...

    Authors: Hana Malinska, Jennifer A Tate, Roman Matyasek, Andrew R Leitch, Douglas E Soltis, Pamela S Soltis and Ales Kovarik
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:291
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  27. Many small vertebrates on islands grow larger, mature later, lay smaller clutches/litters, and are less sexually dimorphic and aggressive than their mainland relatives. This set of observations is referred to ...

    Authors: Pasquale Raia, Fabio M Guarino, Mimmo Turano, Gianluca Polese, Daniela Rippa, Francesco Carotenuto, Daria M Monti, Manuela Cardi and Domenico Fulgione
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:289
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  28. Animal mitochondrial introns are rare. In sponges and cnidarians they have been found in the cox 1 gene of some spirophorid and homosclerophorid sponges, as well as in the cox 1 and nad 5 genes of some Hexacorall...

    Authors: Amir Szitenberg, Chagai Rot, Micha Ilan and Dorothée Huchon
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:288
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  29. The faunal and floral relationship of northward-drifting India with its neighboring continents is of general biogeographic interest as an important driver of regional biodiversity. However, direct biogeographi...

    Authors: Sebastian Klaus, Christoph D Schubart, Bruno Streit and Markus Pfenninger
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:287
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  30. The European corn borer (ECB), Ostrinia nubilalis, is a textbook example of pheromone polymorphism. Males of the two strains (Z and E) prefer opposite ratios of the two pheromone components, Z11- and E11-tetradec...

    Authors: Zsolt Kárpáti, Shannon Olsson, Bill S Hansson and Teun Dekker
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:286
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  31. The European Corn Borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner), is a keystone model for studies on the evolution of sex pheromone diversity and its role in establishing reproductive isolation. This species consists of two ...

    Authors: Shannon B Olsson, Subaharan Kesevan, Astrid T Groot, Teun Dekker, David G Heckel and Bill S Hansson
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:285
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  32. Progression of development has to be insulated from the damaging impacts of environmental and genetic perturbations to produce highly predictable phenotypes. Molecular chaperones, such as the heat shock protei...

    Authors: Kazuo H Takahashi, Lea Rako, Toshiyuki Takano-Shimizu, Ary A Hoffmann and Siu F Lee
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:284
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  33. In gene-for-gene models of plant-pathogen interactions, the existence of fitness costs associated with unnecessary virulence factors still represents an issue, both in evolutionary biology and agricultural sci...

    Authors: Josselin Montarry, Frédéric M Hamelin, Isabelle Glais, Roselyne Corbière and Didier Andrivon
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:283
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  34. Exploring metabolic evolution is a way to understand metabolic complexity. The substrate transport of mitochondrial carrier family (MCF) influences direct metabolic activities, making it possible to understand...

    Authors: Ming Gong, Jie Li, Meng Wang, Jin Wang, Ke Zen and Chen-Yu Zhang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:282
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  35. Cytosolic glutathione transferases (cGST) are a large group of ubiquitous enzymes involved in detoxification and are well known for their undesired side effects during chemotherapy. In this work we have perfor...

    Authors: Rute R da Fonseca, Warren E Johnson, Stephen J O'Brien, Vítor Vasconcelos and Agostinho Antunes
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:281
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  36. WTX is a novel gene mutated in a proportion of Wilms' tumors and in patients suffering from sclerosing bone dysplasia. On the molecular level WTX has been shown to act as an antagonist of canonical Wnt/β-catenin ...

    Authors: Agnès Boutet, Glenda Comai and Andreas Schedl
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:280
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  37. Cichlid fishes are classic examples of adaptive radiation because of their putative tendency to explosively diversify after invading novel environments. To examine whether ecological opportunity increased dive...

    Authors: C Darrin Hulsey, Phillip R Hollingsworth Jr and James A Fordyce
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:279
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  38. Understanding the forces that shaped Neotropical diversity is central issue to explain tropical biodiversity and inform conservation action; yet few studies have examined large, widespread species. Lowland tap...

    Authors: Benoit de Thoisy, Anders Gonçalves da Silva, Manuel Ruiz-García, Andrés Tapia, Oswaldo Ramirez, Margarita Arana, Viviana Quse, César Paz-y-Miño, Mathias Tobler, Carlos Pedraza and Anne Lavergne
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:278
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  39. All life forms need both high genetic stability to survive as species and a degree of mutability to evolve for adaptation, but little is known about how the organisms balance the two seemingly conflicting aspe...

    Authors: Fang Chen, Wei-Qiao Liu, Abraham Eisenstark, Randal N Johnston, Gui-Rong Liu and Shu-Lin Liu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:277
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  40. Despite the impressive growth of sequence databases, the limited availability of nuclear markers that are sufficiently polymorphic for population genetics and phylogeography and applicable across various phyla...

    Authors: Anne Chenuil, Thierry B Hoareau, Emilie Egea, Gwilherm Penant, Caroline Rocher, Didier Aurelle, Kenza Mokhtar-Jamai, John DD Bishop, Emilie Boissin, Angie Diaz, Manuela Krakau, Pieternella C Luttikhuizen, Francesco P Patti, Nicolas Blavet and Sylvain Mousset
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:276
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  41. The species-specificity of male genitalia has been well documented in many insect groups and sexual selection has been proposed as the evolutionary force driving the often rapid, morphological divergence. The ...

    Authors: Nalini Puniamoorthy, Marion Kotrba and Rudolf Meier
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:275
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  42. Mitochondrial gene loss and functional transfer to the nucleus is an ongoing process in many lineages of plants, resulting in substantial variation across species in mitochondrial gene content. The Caryophylla...

    Authors: Daniel B Sloan, Andrew J Alverson, Helena Štorchová, Jeffrey D Palmer and Douglas R Taylor
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:274
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  43. During mating, insect males eject accessory gland proteins (Acps) into the female genital tract. These substances are known to affect female post-mating behavior and physiology. In addition, they may harm the ...

    Authors: Angelika Oppelt, Fernanda C Humann, Marion Fuessl, Sergio V Azevedo, David S Marco Antonio, Jürgen Heinze and Klaus Hartfelder
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:273
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  44. tRNase Z is the endonuclease that is responsible for the 3'-end processing of tRNA precursors, a process essential for tRNA 3'-CCA addition and subsequent tRNA aminoacylation. Based on their sizes, tRNase Zs c...

    Authors: Wei Zhao, Haiyan Yu, Shuzhen Li and Ying Huang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:272
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  45. The fish, Erythrinus erythrinus, shows an interpopulation diversity, with four karyomorphs differing by chromosomal number, chromosomal morphology and heteromorphic sex chromosomes. Karyomorph A has a diploid num...

    Authors: Marcelo B Cioffi, Cesar Martins and Luiz AC Bertollo
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:271
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  46. We have analyzed the complete mitochondrial genomes of 22 Pan paniscus (bonobo, pygmy chimpanzee) individuals to assess the detailed mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) phylogeny of this close relative of Homo sapiens.

    Authors: Gábor Zsurka, Tatiana Kudina, Viktoriya Peeva, Kerstin Hallmann, Christian E Elger, Konstantin Khrapko and Wolfram S Kunz
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:270
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  47. Patterns of spatial variation in discrete phenotypic traits can be used to draw inferences about the adaptive significance of traits and evolutionary processes, especially when compared to patterns of neutral ...

    Authors: Anna Runemark, Bengt Hansson, Panayiotis Pafilis, Efstratios D Valakos and Erik I Svensson
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:269
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  48. The grape powdery mildew fungus, Erysiphe necator, was introduced into Europe more than 160 years ago and is now distributed everywhere that grapes are grown. To understand the invasion history of this pathogen w...

    Authors: Marin Talbot Brewer and Michael G Milgroom
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:268
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  49. The human FOXI1 gene codes for a transcription factor involved in the physiology of the inner ear, testis, and kidney. Using three interspecies comparisons, it has been suggested that this may be a gene under hum...

    Authors: Andrés Moreno-Estrada, Estel Aparicio-Prat, Martin Sikora, Johannes Engelken, Anna Ramírez-Soriano, Francesc Calafell and Elena Bosch
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:267
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  50. Ecological speciation is a process in which a transiently resource-polymorphic species divides into two specialized sister lineages as a result of divergent selection pressures caused by the use of multiple ni...

    Authors: Tommi Nyman, Veli Vikberg, David R Smith and Jean-Luc Boevé
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:266
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