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  1. The composition and expression of vertebrate gene families is shaped by species specific gene loss in combination with a number of gene and genome duplication events (R1, R2 in all vertebrates, R3 in teleosts)...

    Authors: Matthias Gesemann, Annegret Lesslauer, Colette M Maurer, Helia B Schönthaler and Stephan CF Neuhauss
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:117
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  3. The completion of 19 insect genome sequencing projects spanning six insect orders provides the opportunity to investigate the evolution of important gene families, here tubulins. Tubulins are a family of eukar...

    Authors: Mark G Nielsen, Sudhindra R Gadagkar and Lisa Gutzwiller
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:113
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  4. Moth pheromone mating systems have been characterized at the molecular level, allowing evolutionary biologists to study how changes in protein sequence or gene expression affect pheromone phenotype, patterns o...

    Authors: Kerry A Geiler and Richard G Harrison
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:112
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  5. Owing to its independence from the main Central European drainage systems, the Italian freshwater fauna is characterized by a high degree of endemicity. Three main ichthyogeographic districts have been propose...

    Authors: Flavio Marchetto, Serena Zaccara, Frauke M Muenzel and Walter Salzburger
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:111
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  6. The genesis of the eukaryotes was a pivotal event in evolution and was accompanied by the acquisition of numerous new cellular features including compartmentalization by cytoplasmic organelles, mitosis and mei...

    Authors: Bill Wickstead, Keith Gull and Thomas A Richards
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:110
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  8. Various evolutionary models have been proposed to interpret the fate of paralogous duplicates, which provides substrates on which evolution selection could act. In particular, domestication, as a special selec...

    Authors: Ertao Wang, Xun Xu, Lin Zhang, Hong Zhang, Lin Lin, Qin Wang, Qun Li, Song Ge, Bao-Rong Lu, Wen Wang and Zuhua He
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:108
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  9. The evolutionary interests of males and females rarely coincide (sexual conflict), and these conflicting interests influence morphology, behavior and speciation in various organisms. We examined consequences o...

    Authors: René E van Dijk, Ákos Pogány, Jan Komdeur, Penn Lloyd and Tamás Székely
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:107
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  10. The Y-chromosomal diversity in the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) population of Kruger National Park (KNP) is characterized by rainfall-driven haplotype frequency shifts between year cohorts. Stable Y-chromoso...

    Authors: Pim van Hooft, Herbert HT Prins, Wayne M Getz, Anna E Jolles, Sipke E van Wieren, Barend J Greyling, Paul D van Helden and Armanda DS Bastos
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:106
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  11. Pleistocene events have shaped the phylogeography of many taxa worldwide. Their genetic signatures in tropical species have been much less explored than in those living in temperate regions. We analysed the ge...

    Authors: Nicole Schneider, Lounès Chikhi, Mathias Currat and Ute Radespiel
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:105
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  12. While it is generally accepted that patterns of intra-specific genetic differentiation are substantially affected by glacial history, population genetic processes occurring during Pleistocene glaciations are s...

    Authors: Małgorzata Pilot, Wojciech Branicki, Włodzimierz Jędrzejewski, Jacek Goszczyński, Bogumiła Jędrzejewska, Ihor Dykyy, Maryna Shkvyrya and Elena Tsingarska
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:104
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  13. Sexually deceptive orchids of the genus Ophrys attract their pollinators, male insects, on a highly specific basis through the emission of odour blends that mimic the female sex pheromone of the targeted species....

    Authors: Nicolas J Vereecken, Salvatore Cozzolino and Florian P Schiestl
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:103
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  14. An issue arising from recent progress in establishing the placental mammal Tree of Life concerns the nomenclature of high-level clades. Fortunately, there are now several well-supported clades among extant mam...

    Authors: Robert J Asher and Kristofer M Helgen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:102
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  15. The transcription factors of the LSF/Grainyhead (GRH) family are characterized by the possession of a distinctive DNA-binding domain that bears no clear relationship to other known DNA-binding domains, with th...

    Authors: Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Ulla Hansen, Timothy Q Dubuc, Mark Q Martindale, Les Kaufman and John R Finnerty
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:101
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  16. In the flowering plants, many polyploid species complexes display evolutionary radiation. This could be facilitated by gene flow between otherwise separate evolutionary lineages in contact zones. Achillea collina

    Authors: Jin-Xiu Ma, Yan-Nan Li, Claus Vogl, Friedrich Ehrendorfer and Yan-Ping Guo
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:100
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  17. The amino acid substitution model is the core component of many protein analysis systems such as sequence similarity search, sequence alignment, and phylogenetic inference. Although several general amino acid ...

    Authors: Cuong Cao Dang, Quang Si Le, Olivier Gascuel and Vinh Sy Le
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:99
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  18. The genomes of higher plants are, on the majority, polyploid, and hybridisation is more frequent in plants than in animals. Both polyploidisation and hybridisation contribute to increased variability within sp...

    Authors: Roswitha Schmickl, Marte H Jørgensen, Anne K Brysting and Marcus A Koch
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:98
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  19. Viruses of the genus Begomovirus (family Geminiviridae) have genomes consisting of either one or two genomic components. The component of bipartite begomoviruses known as DNA-A is homologous to the genomes of all...

    Authors: Rob W Briddon, Basavaprabhu L Patil, Basavaraj Bagewadi, Muhammad Shah Nawaz-ul-Rehman and Claude M Fauquet
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:97
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  20. Males from many species are believed to advertise their genetic quality through striking ornaments that attract mates. Yet the connections between signal expression, body condition and the genes associated wit...

    Authors: Elise Huchard, Michel Raymond, Julio Benavides, Harry Marshall, Leslie A Knapp and Guy Cowlishaw
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:96
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  21. The use of molecular biology-based methods for species identification and establishing phylogenetic relationships has supplanted traditional methods relying on morphological characteristics. While PCR-based me...

    Authors: Ralph Feltens, Renate Görner, Stefan Kalkhof, Helke Gröger-Arndt and Martin von Bergen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:95
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  22. The mitosporic fungus Trichoderma harzianum (Hypocrea, Ascomycota, Hypocreales, Hypocreaceae) is an ubiquitous species in the environment with some strains commercially exploited for the biological control of pla...

    Authors: Irina S Druzhinina, Christian P Kubicek, Monika Komoń-Zelazowska, Temesgen Belayneh Mulaw and John Bissett
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:94
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  23. Cell-to-cell communication is a key process in multicellular organisms. In multicellular animals, scaffolding proteins belonging to the family of membrane-associated guanylate kinases (MAGUK) are involved in t...

    Authors: Alex de Mendoza, Hiroshi Suga and Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:93
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  24. The Cross River region in Nigeria is an extremely diverse area linguistically with over 60 distinct languages still spoken today. It is also a region of great historical importance, being a) adjacent to the li...

    Authors: Krishna R Veeramah, Bruce A Connell, Naser Ansari Pour, Adam Powell, Christopher A Plaster, David Zeitlyn, Nancy R Mendell, Michael E Weale, Neil Bradman and Mark G Thomas
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:92
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  25. Anopheles cruzii is the primary human Plasmodium vector in southern and southeastern Brazil. The distribution of this mosquito follows the coast of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Previous studies indicated that A...

    Authors: Luísa DP Rona, Carlos J Carvalho-Pinto, Camila J Mazzoni and Alexandre A Peixoto
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:91
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  27. Genes and culture are believed to interact, but it has been difficult to find direct evidence for the process. One candidate example that has been put forward is lactase persistence in adulthood, i.e. the abil...

    Authors: Helena Malmström, Anna Linderholm, Kerstin Lidén, Jan Storå, Petra Molnar, Gunilla Holmlund, Mattias Jakobsson and Anders Götherström
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:89
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  28. The Sp-family of transcription factors are evolutionarily conserved zinc finger proteins present in many animal species. The orthology of the Sp genes in different animals is unclear and their evolutionary his...

    Authors: Nina D Schaeper, Nikola-Michael Prpic and Ernst A Wimmer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:88
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  29. Long wave-sensitive (LWS) opsin genes have undergone multiple lineage-specific duplication events throughout the evolution of teleost fishes. LWS repertoire expansions in live-bearing fishes (family Poeciliidae) ...

    Authors: Corey T Watson, Krzysztof P Lubieniecki, Ellis Loew, William S Davidson and Felix Breden
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:87
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  30. Sloths are slow-moving arboreal mammals inhabiting tropical rainforests in Central and South America. The six living species of sloths are occasionally reported to display a greenish discoloration of their pel...

    Authors: Milla Suutari, Markus Majaneva, David P Fewer, Bryson Voirin, Annette Aiello, Thomas Friedl, Adriano G Chiarello and Jaanika Blomster
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:86
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  31. Teleost fishes of the Coregonidae are good model systems for studying postglacial evolution, adaptive radiation and ecological speciation. Of particular interest is whether the repeated occurrence of sympatric...

    Authors: Thomas Mehner, Kirsten Pohlmann, Che Elkin, Michael T Monaghan, Barbara Nitz and Jörg Freyhof
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:85
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  32. The Mediterranean has a long history of interactions among different peoples. In this study, we investigate the genetic relationships among thirteen population samples from the broader Mediterranean region tog...

    Authors: Georgios Athanasiadis, Emili González-Pérez, Esther Esteban, Jean-Michel Dugoujon, Mark Stoneking and Pedro Moral
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:84
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  33. The aurochs (Bos primigenius) was a large bovine that ranged over almost the entirety of the Eurasian continent and North Africa. It is the wild ancestor of the modern cattle (Bos taurus), and went extinct in 162...

    Authors: Stefano Mona, Giulio Catalano, Martina Lari, Greger Larson, Paolo Boscato, Antonella Casoli, Luca Sineo, Carolina Di Patti, Elena Pecchioli, David Caramelli and Giorgio Bertorelle
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:83
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  35. Mitochondria are a valuable resource for studying the evolutionary process and deducing phylogeny. A few mitochondria genomes have been sequenced, but a comprehensive picture of the domestication event for sil...

    Authors: Dong Li, Yiran Guo, Haojing Shao, Laurent C Tellier, Jun Wang, Zhonghuai Xiang and Qingyou Xia
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:81
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  38. The mineralized skeleton is a major evolutionary novelty that has contributed to the impressive morphological diversifications of the vertebrates. Essential to bone biology is the solidified extracellular matr...

    Authors: Sylvain Marcellini, Carola Bruna, Juan P Henríquez, Miguel Albistur, Ariel E Reyes, Elias H Barriga, Berta Henríquez and Martín Montecino
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:78
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  39. Even after years of exploration, the terrestrial origin of bio-molecules remains unsolved and controversial. Today, observation of amino acid composition in proteins has become an alternative way for a global ...

    Authors: Xiaoxia Liu, Jingxian Zhang, Feng Ni, Xu Dong, Bucong Han, Daxiong Han, Zhiliang Ji and Yufen Zhao
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:77
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  40. Altruism can be favored by high relatedness among interactants. We tested the effect of relatedness in experimental populations of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, where altruism occurs in a starvation...

    Authors: Gerda Saxer, Debra A Brock, David C Queller and Joan E Strassmann
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:76
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  41. When introduced to novel environments, the ability for a species to survive and rapidly proliferate corresponds with its adaptive potential. Of the many factors that can yield an environment inhospitable to fo...

    Authors: Jennifer Cox, Alyxandria M Schubert, Michael Travisano and Catherine Putonti
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:75
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  42. Gibbons or small apes inhabit tropical and subtropical rain forests in Southeast Asia and adjacent regions, and are, next to great apes, our closest living relatives. With up to 16 species, gibbons form the mo...

    Authors: Van Ngoc Thinh, Alan R Mootnick, Thomas Geissmann, Ming Li, Thomas Ziegler, Muhammad Agil, Pierre Moisson, Tilo Nadler, Lutz Walter and Christian Roos
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:74
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  43. Hox and the closely-related ParaHox genes, which emerged prior to the divergence between cnidarians and bilaterians, are the most well-known members of the ancient genetic toolkit that controls embryonic devel...

    Authors: Morgane Thomas-Chollier, Valérie Ledent, Luc Leyns and Michel Vervoort
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:73
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  45. The subtropical island of Taiwan is an area of high endemism and a complex topographic environment. Phylogeographic studies indicate that vicariance caused by Taiwan's mountains has subdivided many taxa into g...

    Authors: Bailey D McKay, Herman L Mays Jr, Yi-Wen Peng, Kenneth H Kozak, Cheng-Te Yao and Hsiao-Wei Yuan
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:71
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  46. The 18S rRNA gene is one of the most important molecular markers, used in diverse applications such as molecular phylogenetic analyses and biodiversity screening. The Mollusca is the second largest phylum with...

    Authors: Achim Meyer, Christiane Todt, Nina T Mikkelsen and Bernhard Lieb
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:70
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  47. Golden moles (Chrysochloridae) are small, subterranean, afrotherian mammals from South Africa and neighboring regions. Of the 21 species now recognized, some (e.g., Chrysochloris asiatica, Amblysomus hottentotus)...

    Authors: Robert J Asher, Sarita Maree, Gary Bronner, Nigel C Bennett, Paulette Bloomer, Paul Czechowski, Matthias Meyer and Michael Hofreiter
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:69
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  48. Subtilisin-like serine proteases play an important role in pathogenic fungi during the penetration and colonization of their hosts. In this study, we perform an evolutionary analysis of the subtilisin-like ser...

    Authors: Juan Li, Li Yu, Jinkui Yang, Linqian Dong, Baoyu Tian, Zefen Yu, Lianming Liang, Ying Zhang, Xu Wang and Keqin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:68
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  49. The dynamic geological and climatic histories of temperate South America have played important roles in shaping the contemporary distributions and genetic diversity of endemic freshwater species. We use mitoch...

    Authors: Tyler S Zemlak, Evelyn M Habit, Sandra J Walde, Cecilia Carrea and Daniel E Ruzzante
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:67
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  50. The role of phenotypic plasticity is increasingly being recognized in the field of evolutionary studies. In this paper we look at the role of genetic determination versus plastic response by comparing the protein...

    Authors: Mónica Martínez-Fernández, María Páez de la Cadena and Emilio Rolán-Alvarez
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:65
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