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  1. Sexual dimorphism in ecologically important traits is widespread, yet the differences in the genomic architecture between the two sexes are largely unexplored. We employed a genome-wide multilocus approach to ...

    Authors: Meng-Hua Li and Juha Merilä
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:66
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  2. Chaperonin proteins are well known for the critical role they play in protein folding and in disease. However, the recent identification of three diverged chaperonin paralogs associated with the human Bardet-B...

    Authors: Krishanu Mukherjee, Everly Conway de Macario, Alberto JL Macario and Luciano Brocchieri
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:64
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  3. For assessing the risk of escape of transgenes from cultivation, the persistence of feral populations of crop plants is an important aspect. Feral populations of oilseed rape, Brassica napus, are well known, but ...

    Authors: Kathrin Pascher, Susanne Macalka, Domenico Rau, Günter Gollmann, Helmut Reiner, Josef Glössl and Georg Grabherr
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:63
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  4. Crustacean Hyperglycemic Hormone (CHH) family peptides are neurohormones known to regulate several important functions in decapod crustaceans such as ionic and energetic metabolism, molting and reproduction. T...

    Authors: Nicolas Montagné, Yves Desdevises, Daniel Soyez and Jean-Yves Toullec
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:62
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  5. Although the overwhelming majority of genes found in angiosperms are members of gene families, and both gene- and genome-duplication are pervasive forces in plant genomes, some genes are sufficiently distinct ...

    Authors: Jill M Duarte, P Kerr Wall, Patrick P Edger, Lena L Landherr, Hong Ma, P Kerr Pires, Jim Leebens-Mack and Claude W dePamphilis
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:61
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  6. A molecular population genetics understanding is central to the study of ecological and evolutionary functional genomics. Population genetics identifies genetic variation and its distribution within and among ...

    Authors: Hanna M Heidel-Fischer, Heiko Vogel, David G Heckel and Christopher W Wheat
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:60
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  7. Prokaryotic plasmids have a dual importance in the microbial world: first they have a great impact on the metabolic functions of the host cell, providing additional traits that can be accumulated in the cell w...

    Authors: Marco Fondi, Giovanni Bacci, Matteo Brilli, Maria Cristiana Papaleo, Alessio Mengoni, Mario Vaneechoutte, Lenie Dijkshoorn and Renato Fani
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:59
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  8. The teleost order Lophiiformes, commonly known as the anglerfishes, contains a diverse array of marine fishes, ranging from benthic shallow-water dwellers to highly modified deep-sea midwater species. They com...

    Authors: Masaki Miya, Theodore W Pietsch, James W Orr, Rachel J Arnold, Takashi P Satoh, Andrew M Shedlock, Hsuan-Ching Ho, Mitsuomi Shimazaki, Mamoru Yabe and Mutsumi Nishida
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:58
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  9. Spliceosomal introns are an ancient, widespread hallmark of eukaryotic genomes. Despite much research, many questions regarding the origin and evolution of spliceosomal introns remain unsolved, partly due to t...

    Authors: Nahal Ahmadinejad, Tal Dagan, Nicole Gruenheit, William Martin and Toni Gabaldón
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:57
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  11. Retrotransposition of mRNA transcripts gives occasionally rise to functional retrogenes. Through acquiring tempero-spatial expression patterns distinct from their parental genes and/or functional mutations in ...

    Authors: Tomasz Zemojtel, Marlena Duchniewicz, Zhongchun Zhang, Taisa Paluch, Hannes Luz, Tobias Penzkofer, Jürgen S Scheele and Fried JT Zwartkruis
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:55
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  12. Drosophila Frequenin (Frq), the homolog of the mammalian Neuronal Calcium Sensor-1 (NCS-1), is a high affinity calcium-binding protein with ubiquitous expression in the nervous system. This protein has an importa...

    Authors: Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia, Jesús Romero-Pozuelo and Alberto Ferrús
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:54
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  14. The 200 kDa merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP-1) of malaria parasites, a strong vaccine candidate, plays a key role during erythrocyte invasion and is a target of host protective immune response. Plasmodium vivax,...

    Authors: Hiromi Sawai, Hiroto Otani, Nobuko Arisue, Nirianne Palacpac, Leonardo de Oliveira Martins, Sisira Pathirana, Shiroma Handunnetti, Satoru Kawai, Hirohisa Kishino, Toshihiro Horii and Kazuyuki Tanabe
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:52
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  15. The trace amine associated receptor family is a diverse array of GPCRs that arose before the first vertebrates walked on land. Trace amine associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) is a wide spectrum aminergic receptor th...

    Authors: Eric J Vallender, Zhihua Xie, Susan V Westmoreland and Gregory M Miller
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:51
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  16. Doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) is an atypical system of animal mtDNA inheritance found only in some bivalves. Under DUI, maternally (F genome) and paternally (M genome) transmitted mtDNAs yield two disti...

    Authors: Hélène Doucet-Beaupré, Sophie Breton, Eric G Chapman, Pierre U Blier, Arthur E Bogan, Donald T Stewart and Walter R Hoeh
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:50
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  17. Giardia are a group of widespread intestinal protozoan parasites in a number of vertebrates. Much evidence from G. lamblia indicated they might be the most primitive extant eukaryotes. When and how such a group o...

    Authors: Jun Sun, Huifeng Jiang, Roberto Flores and Jianfan Wen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:49
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  18. Outer membrane proteins (OMPs) of Gram-negative bacteria are key players in the biology of bacterial-host interactions. However, while considerable attention has been given to OMPs of vertebrate pathogens, rel...

    Authors: Laura Baldo, Christopher A Desjardins, Jacob A Russell, Julie K Stahlhut and John H Werren
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:48
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  19. Many multicellular eukaryotes have two types of spliceosomes for the removal of introns from messenger RNA precursors. The major (U2) spliceosome processes the vast majority of introns, referred to as U2-type ...

    Authors: Chiao-Feng Lin, Stephen M Mount, Artur Jarmołowski and Wojciech Makałowski
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:47
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  21. DNA-dependent RNA polymerase IV and V (Pol IV and V) are multi-subunit enzymes occurring in plants. The origin of Pol V, specific to angiosperms, from Pol IV, which is present in all land plants, is linked to ...

    Authors: Thomas Marcussen, Bengt Oxelman, Anna Skog and Kjetill S Jakobsen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:45
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  22. The genetic diversity of crop species is the result of natural selection on the wild progenitor and human intervention by ancient and modern farmers and breeders. The genomes of modern cultivars, old cultivate...

    Authors: Runchun Jing, Alexander Vershinin, Jacek Grzebyta, Paul Shaw, Petr Smýkal, David Marshall, Michael J Ambrose, TH Noel Ellis and Andrew J Flavell
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:44
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  23. Conger eel galectins, congerin I (ConI) and congerin II (ConII), show the different molecular characteristics resulting from accelerating evolution. We recently reconstructed a probable ancestral form of conge...

    Authors: Ayumu Konno, Shintarou Yonemaru, Atsushi Kitagawa, Koji Muramoto, Tsuyoshi Shirai and Tomohisa Ogawa
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:43
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  24. Phylogenetic trees based on sequences from a set of taxa can be incongruent due to horizontal gene transfer (HGT). By identifying the HGT events, we can reconcile the gene trees and derive a taxon tree that ad...

    Authors: Tobias Hill, Karl JV Nordström, Mikael Thollesson, Tommy M Säfström, Andreas KE Vernersson, Robert Fredriksson and Helgi B Schiöth
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:42
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  25. The availability of genome and transcriptome sequences for a number of species permits the identification and characterization of conserved as well as divergent genes such as lineage-specific genes which have ...

    Authors: Haining Lin, Gaurav Moghe, Shu Ouyang, Amy Iezzoni, Shin-Han Shiu, Xun Gu and C Robin Buell
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:41
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  26. The ecdysone receptor (EcR) regulates various cellular responses to ecdysteroids during insect development. Insects have multiple EcR isoforms with different N-terminal A/B domains that contain the isoform-spe...

    Authors: Takayuki Watanabe, Hideaki Takeuchi and Takeo Kubo
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:40
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  27. Reproductive proteins are central to the continuation of all mammalian species. The evolution of these proteins has been greatly influenced by environmental pressures induced by pathogens, rival sperm, sexual ...

    Authors: Claire C Morgan, Noeleen B Loughran, Thomas A Walsh, Alan J Harrison and Mary J O'Connell
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:39
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:170

  28. Aquaporins are integral membrane proteins that facilitate the transport of water and small solutes across cell membranes. These proteins are vital for maintaining water homeostasis in living organisms. In mamm...

    Authors: Angèle Tingaud-Sequeira, Magdalena Calusinska, Roderick N Finn, François Chauvigné, Juanjo Lozano and Joan Cerdà
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:38
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  29. Endosymbionts that manipulate the reproduction of their hosts have been reported widely in invertebrates. One such group of endosymbionts is the male-killers. To date all male-killers reported are bacterial in...

    Authors: Tamsin MO Majerus and Michael EN Majerus
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:37
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  30. The ability of adult humans to digest the milk sugar lactose - lactase persistence - is a dominant Mendelian trait that has been a subject of extensive genetic, medical and evolutionary research. Lactase persi...

    Authors: Yuval Itan, Bryony L Jones, Catherine JE Ingram, Dallas M Swallow and Mark G Thomas
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:36
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  31. Unlike northern Europe and most of northern North America, the Eastern Palearctic and the northwesternmost tip of North America are believed to have been almost unglaciated during the Quarternary glacial perio...

    Authors: Takema Saitoh, Per Alström, Isao Nishiumi, Yoshimitsu Shigeta, Dawn Williams, Urban Olsson and Keisuke Ueda
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:35
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  32. Comparative genomics of the early diverging metazoan lineages and of their unicellular sister-groups opens new window to reconstructing the genetic changes which preceded or accompanied the evolution of multic...

    Authors: Alexandre Alié and Michaël Manuel
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:34
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  33. Inbreeding and loss of genetic diversity are expected to increase the extinction risk of small populations, but detailed tests in natural populations are scarce. We combine long-term population and fitness dat...

    Authors: Donald Blomqvist, Angela Pauliny, Mikael Larsson and Lars-Åke Flodin
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:33
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  34. Synapsins are neuronal phosphoproteins involved in several functions correlated with both neurotransmitter release and synaptogenesis. The comprehension of the basal role of the synapsin family is hampered in ...

    Authors: Simona Candiani, Luca Moronti, Roberta Pennati, Fiorenza De Bernardi, Fabio Benfenati and Mario Pestarino
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:32
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  35. Trappin is a multifunctional host-defense peptide that has antiproteolytic, antiinflammatory, and antimicrobial activities. The numbers and compositions of trappin paralogs vary among mammalian species: human and...

    Authors: Akira Kato, Alejandro P Rooney, Yutaka Furutani and Shigehisa Hirose
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:31
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  37. Cave organisms have been used as models for evolution and biogeography, as their reduced above-ground dispersal produces phylogenetic patterns of area distribution that largely match the geological history of ...

    Authors: Ignacio Ribera, Javier Fresneda, Ruxandra Bucur, Ana Izquierdo, Alfried P Vogler, Jose M Salgado and Alexandra Cieslak
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:29
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  38. In wild populations phenotypic differentiation of skeletal structures is influenced by many factors including epigenetic interactions and plastic response to environmental influences, possibly blurring the exp...

    Authors: Sabrina Renaud, Jean-Christophe Auffray and Sabine de la Porte
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:28
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  39. The epidermal growth factor receptor (Egfr) with its numerous ligands has fundamental roles in development, cell differentiation and physiology. Dysfunction of the receptor-ligand system contributes to many hu...

    Authors: Juliette AGC Laisney, Ingo Braasch, Ronald B Walter, Svenja Meierjohann and Manfred Schartl
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:27
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  40. Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are multimodular enzymes, found in fungi and bacteria, which biosynthesize peptides without the aid of ribosomes. Although their metabolite products have been the subje...

    Authors: Kathryn E Bushley and B Gillian Turgeon
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:26
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  41. The Yakuts contrast strikingly with other populations from Siberia due to their cattle- and horse-breeding economy as well as their Turkic language. On the basis of ethnological and linguistic criteria as well...

    Authors: Eric Crubézy, Sylvain Amory, Christine Keyser, Caroline Bouakaze, Martin Bodner, Morgane Gibert, Alexander Röck, Walther Parson, Anatoly Alexeev and Bertrand Ludes
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:25
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  43. To gain insight into the molecular diversity of antimicrobial peptides and proteins in the oyster Crassostrea gigas, we characterized and compared the sequence polymorphism of the antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), C...

    Authors: Paulina Schmitt, Yannick Gueguen, Erick Desmarais, Evelyne Bachère and Julien de Lorgeril
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:23
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  44. Despite its role as a generator of haplotypic variation, little is known about how the rates of recombination evolve across taxa. Recombination is a very labile force, susceptible to evolutionary and life trai...

    Authors: Juan P Jaramillo-Correa, Miguel Verdú and Santiago C González-Martínez
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:22
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  45. The family Polypteridae, commonly known as "bichirs", is a lineage that diverged early in the evolutionary history of Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish), but has been the subject of far less evolutionary study t...

    Authors: Dai Suzuki, Matthew C Brandley and Masayoshi Tokita
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:21
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  46. The adaptive significance of female polyandry is currently under considerable debate. In non-resource based mating systems, indirect, i.e. genetic benefits have been proposed to be responsible for the fitness ...

    Authors: Jukka Kekäläinen, Geir Rudolfsen, Matti Janhunen, Lars Figenschou, Nina Peuhkuri, Niina Tamper and Raine Kortet
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:20
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  47. Despite its key location between the rest of the continent and Europe, research on the phylogeography of north African species remains very limited compared to European and North American taxa. The Mediterrane...

    Authors: Annie Guiller and Luc Madec
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:18
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  48. Microorganisms are ubiquitous, yet we are only beginning to understand their diversity and population structure. Social amoebae (Dictyostelia) are a diverse group of unicellular eukaryotic microbes that displa...

    Authors: Natasha J Mehdiabadi, Marcus R Kronforst, David C Queller and Joan E Strassmann
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:17
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  49. The assembly of the tree of life has seen significant progress in recent years but algae and protists have been largely overlooked in this effort. Many groups of algae and protists have ancient roots and it is...

    Authors: Heroen Verbruggen, Christine A Maggs, Gary W Saunders, Line Le Gall, Hwan Su Yoon and Olivier De Clerck
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:16
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  50. The emergence of agriculture about 10,000 years ago marks a dramatic change in human evolutionary history. The diet shift in agriculture societies might have a great impact on the genetic makeup of Neolithic h...

    Authors: Yi Peng, Hong Shi, Xue-bin Qi, Chun-jie Xiao, Hua Zhong, Run-lin Z Ma and Bing Su
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:15
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