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  1. Subtilisin-like proteases (SLPs) form a superfamily of enzymes that act to degrade protein substrates. In fungi, SLPs can play either a general nutritive role, or may play specific roles in cell metabolism, or...

    Authors: Michelle K Bryant, Christopher L Schardl, Uljana Hesse and Barry Scott
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:168
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  2. Among Coffea species, C. canephora has the widest natural distribution area in tropical African forests. It represents a good model for analyzing the geographical distribution of diversity in relation to location...

    Authors: Céline Gomez, Stéphane Dussert, Perla Hamon, Serge Hamon, Alexandre de Kochko and Valérie Poncet
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:167
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  3. Chlamydia have reduced genomes that reflect their obligately parasitic lifestyle. Despite their different tissue tropisms, chlamydial strains share a large number of common genes and have few recognized pseudo...

    Authors: Teresa N Giles, Derek J Fisher and David E Graham
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:166
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  4. Correction to Evans, N.M., Lindner, A., Raikova, E.V., Collins, A.G. and Cartwright, P. Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic parasite, Polypodium hydriforme, within the phylum Cnidaria. BMC Evol Biol, 2008, 8:...

    Authors: Nathaniel M Evans, Alberto Lindner, Ekaterina V Raikova, Allen G Collins and Paulyn Cartwright
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:165
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008 8:139

  5. The Picornaviridae family contains a number of important pathogenic viruses, among which the recently reclassified human parechoviruses (HPeVs). These viruses are widespread and can be grouped in several types. U...

    Authors: Nuno R Faria, Michel de Vries, Formijn J van Hemert, Kimberley Benschop and Lia van der Hoek
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:164
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  6. Senescence is integral to the flowering plant life-cycle. Senescence-like processes occur also in non-angiosperm land plants, algae and photosynthetic prokaryotes. Increasing numbers of genes have been assigne...

    Authors: Howard Thomas, Lin Huang, Mike Young and Helen Ougham
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:163
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  8. This study addresses the apportionment of genetic diversity between Cycas revoluta and C. taitungensis, species that constitute the section Asiorientales and represent a unique, basal lineage of the Laurasian gen...

    Authors: Yu-Chung Chiang, Kuo-Hsiang Hung, Shann-Jye Moore, Xue-Jun Ge, Shong Huang, Tsai-Wen Hsu, Barbara A Schaal and TY Chiang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:161
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  9. Several observations support the hypothesis that vector-driven selection plays an important role in shaping dengue virus (DENV) genetic diversity. Clustering of DENV genetic diversity at a particular location ...

    Authors: Louis Lambrechts, Christine Chevillon, Rebecca G Albright, Butsaya Thaisomboonsuk, Jason H Richardson, Richard G Jarman and Thomas W Scott
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:160
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  10. Sexual reproduction has classically been considered as a barrier to the buildup of discrete phenotypic differentiation. This notion has been confirmed by models of sympatric speciation in which a fixed genetic...

    Authors: Kirsten HWJ ten Tusscher and Paulien Hogeweg
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:159
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  11. The microbial community in the gut of termites is responsible for the efficient decomposition of recalcitrant lignocellulose. Prominent features of this community are its complexity and the associations of pro...

    Authors: Satoko Noda, Yuichi Hongoh, Tomoyuki Sato and Moriya Ohkuma
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:158
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  12. EST sequencing is a versatile approach for rapidly gathering protein coding sequences. They provide direct access to an organism's gene repertoire bypassing the still error-prone procedure of gene prediction f...

    Authors: Ingo Ebersberger, Sascha Strauss and Arndt von Haeseler
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:157
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  14. Proteins play a key role in cellular life. They do not act alone but are organised in complexes. Throughout the life of a cell, complexes are dynamic in their composition due to attachments and shared componen...

    Authors: Michael F Seidl and Jörg Schultz
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:155
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  15. Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent represent an area considered as a source and a reservoir for human genetic diversity, with many markers taking root here, most of which are the ancestral state of easte...

    Authors: Simona Fornarino, Maria Pala, Vincenza Battaglia, Ramona Maranta, Alessandro Achilli, Guido Modiano, Antonio Torroni, Ornella Semino and Silvana A Santachiara-Benerecetti
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:154
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  16. Phylogenetic analyses of the Annonaceae consistently identify four clades: a basal clade consisting of Anaxagorea, and a small 'ambavioid' clade that is sister to two main clades, the 'long branch clade' (LBC) an...

    Authors: Yvonne CF Su and Richard MK Saunders
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:153
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  17. Inbreeding and the loss of genetic diversity are known to be significant threats to small, isolated populations. Hymenoptera represent a special case regarding the impact of inbreeding. Haplodiploidy may permi...

    Authors: Penelope R Whitehorn, Matthew C Tinsley, Mark JF Brown, Ben Darvill and Dave Goulson
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:152
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  18. Although current molecular clock methods offer greater flexibility in modelling evolutionary events, calibration of the clock with dates from the fossil record is still problematic for many groups. Here we imp...

    Authors: Christy A Hipsley, Lin Himmelmann, Dirk Metzler and Johannes Müller
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:151
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  19. Phylogenomic analyses recently became popular to address questions about deep metazoan phylogeny. Ribosomal proteins (RP) dominate many of these analyses or are, in some cases, the only genes included. Despite...

    Authors: Christoph Bleidorn, Lars Podsiadlowski, Min Zhong, Igor Eeckhaut, Stefanie Hartmann, Kenneth M Halanych and Ralph Tiedemann
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:150
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  20. Deacetylation of histones plays a fundamental role in gene silencing, and this is mediated by a corepressor complex containing Sin3 as an essential scaffold protein. In this report we examine the evolution of ...

    Authors: Keijo M Viiri, Taisto YK Heinonen, Markku Mäki and Olli Lohi
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:149
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  21. Many fungi are obligate biotrophs of plants, growing in live plant tissues, gaining direct access to recently photosynthesized carbon. Photosynthate within plants is transported from source to sink tissues as ...

    Authors: Jeri Lynn Parrent, Timothy Y James, Rimvydas Vasaitis and Andrew FS Taylor
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:148
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  22. Evidence of multiple genetic criteria of mate choice is accumulating in numerous taxa. In many species, females have been shown to pair with genetically dissimilar mates or with extra-pair partners that are mo...

    Authors: Hervé Mulard, Etienne Danchin, Sandra L Talbot, Andrew M Ramey, Scott A Hatch, Joël F White, Fabrice Helfenstein and Richard H Wagner
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:147
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  23. Snake venom toxins evolve more rapidly than other proteins through accelerated changes in the protein coding regions. Previously we have shown that accelerated segment switch in exons to alter targeting (ASSET...

    Authors: Robin Doley, Stephen P Mackessy and R Manjunatha Kini
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:146
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  24. The seacoasts of the Japanese Arc are fringed by many gravel beaches owing to active tectonic uplift and intense denudation caused by heavy rainfall. These gravel beaches are inhabited by gobies of the genus Luci...

    Authors: Tomohiko Yamada, Tomoshige Sugiyama, Nana Tamaki, Atsushi Kawakita and Makoto Kato
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:145
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  25. Highly migratory species are usually expected to have minimal population substructure because strong gene flow has the effect of homogenizing genetic variation over geographical populations, counteracting rand...

    Authors: De-Xing Zhang, Lu-Na Yan, Ya-Jie Ji, Godfrey M Hewitt and Zu-Shi Huang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:144
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  26. The role of Pleistocene glacial oscillations in current biodiversity and distribution patterns varies with latitude, physical topology and population life history and has long been a topic of discussion. Howev...

    Authors: Gang Song, Yanhua Qu, Zuohua Yin, Shouhsien Li, Naifa Liu and Fumin Lei
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:143
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  27. Alternative splicing is an important mechanism for generating functional and evolutionary diversity of proteins in eukaryotes. Here, we studied the frequency and functionality of recently gained, rodent-specif...

    Authors: Ramil N Nurtdinov, Andrey A Mironov and Mikhail S Gelfand
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:142
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  30. The intertidal copepod Tigriopus californicus is a model for studying the process of genetic divergence in allopatry and for probing the nature of genetic changes that lead to reproductive isolation. Although pre...

    Authors: Christopher S Willett and Jason T Ladner
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:139
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  31. Lafora disease (LD) is a fatal autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease. A hallmark of LD is cytoplasmic accumulation of insoluble glucans, called Lafora bodies (LBs). Mutations in the gene encoding the p...

    Authors: Matthew S Gentry and Rachel M Pace
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:138
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  33. The comparative analysis of genome sequences emerging for several avian species with the fully sequenced chicken genome enables the genome-wide investigation of selective processes in functionally important ch...

    Authors: Tim Downing, David J Lynn, Sarah Connell, Andrew T Lloyd, A K Bhuiyan, Pradeepa Silva, A N Naqvi, Rahamame Sanfo, Racine-Samba Sow, Baitsi Podisi, Olivier Hanotte, Cliona O'Farrelly and Daniel G Bradley
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:136
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  34. Triploid individuals often play a key role in speciation by hybridization. An understanding of the gamete types (ploidy and genomic content) and stability of hybrid populations with triploid individuals is the...

    Authors: Ditte G Christiansen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:135
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  35. The true water bugs are grouped in infraorder Nepomorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) and are of great economic importance. The phylogenetic relationships within Nepomorpha and the taxonomic hierarchies o...

    Authors: Jimeng Hua, Ming Li, Pengzhi Dong, Ying Cui, Qiang Xie and Wenjun Bu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:134
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  36. Here we present a correction to our article "Evolutionary dynamics of molecular markers during local adaptation: a case study in Drosophila subobscura". We have recently detected an error concerning the applicati...

    Authors: Pedro Simões, Marta Pascual, Josiane Santos, Michael R Rose and Margarida Matos
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:133
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008 8:66

  37. Conflicts of interest between the sexes are increasingly recognized as an engine driving the (co-)evolution of reproductive traits. The reproductive behaviour of Drosophila montana suggests the occurrence of sexu...

    Authors: Dominique Mazzi, Jenni Kesäniemi, Anneli Hoikkala and Kirsten Klappert
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:132
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  38. High taxonomic level endemism in the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot has been typically attributed to the subcontinent's geological history of long-term isolation. Subsequent out of – and into Ind...

    Authors: Ines Van Bocxlaer, SD Biju, Simon P Loader and Franky Bossuyt
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:131
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  39. Ferns have generally been neglected in studies of chloroplast genomics. Before this study, only one polypod and two basal ferns had their complete chloroplast (cp) genome reported. Tree ferns represent an anci...

    Authors: Lei Gao, Xuan Yi, Yong-Xia Yang, Ying-Juan Su and Ting Wang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:130
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  40. Assortative mating patterns for mate quality traits like body size are often observed in nature. However, the underlying mechanisms that cause assortative mating patterns are less well known. Sexual selection ...

    Authors: Sebastian A Baldauf, Harald Kullmann, Stefanie H Schroth, Timo Thünken and Theo CM Bakker
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:129
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  42. Recent genomic studies have revealed a teleost-specific third-round whole genome duplication (3R-WGD) event occurred in a common ancestor of teleost fishes. However, it is unclear how the genes duplicated in t...

    Authors: Yukuto Sato, Yasuyuki Hashiguchi and Mutsumi Nishida
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:127
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  43. The plant hormone auxin directs many aspects of plant growth and development. To understand the evolution of auxin signalling, we compared the genes encoding two families of crucial transcriptional regulators, AU...

    Authors: Ivan A Paponov, William Teale, Daniel Lang, Martina Paponov, Ralf Reski, Stefan A Rensing and Klaus Palme
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:126
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  44. The sub-membranous skeleton of the ciliate Paramecium, the epiplasm, is composed of hundreds of epiplasmic scales centered on basal bodies, and presents a complex set of proteins, epiplasmins, which belong to a m...

    Authors: Raghida Damaj, Sébastien Pomel, Geneviève Bricheux, Gérard Coffe, Bernard Viguès, Viviane Ravet and Philippe Bouchard
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:125
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  45. The persistence of cooperative relationships is an evolutionary paradox; selection should favor those individuals that exploit their partners (cheating), resulting in the breakdown of cooperation over evolutio...

    Authors: Ainslie EF Little and Cameron R Currie
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:124
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  46. The vasopressin receptor type 1b (AVPR1B) is mainly expressed by pituitary corticotropes and it mediates the stimulatory effects of AVP on ACTH release; common AVPR1B haplotypes have been involved in mood and anx...

    Authors: Rachele Cagliani, Matteo Fumagalli, Uberto Pozzoli, Stefania Riva, Matteo Cereda, Giacomo P Comi, Linda Pattini, Nereo Bresolin and Manuela Sironi
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:123
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  47. Resource cycling is a defining process in the maintenance of the biosphere. Microbial communities, ranging from simple to highly diverse, play a crucial role in this process. Yet the evolutionary adaptation an...

    Authors: Anton Crombach and Paulien Hogeweg
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:122
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  48. The Mannheimia species encompass a wide variety of bacterial lifestyles, including opportunistic pathogens and commensals of the ruminant respiratory tract, commensals of the ovine rumen, and pathogens of the rum...

    Authors: Jesper Larsen, Anders G Pedersen, Robert L Davies, Peter Kuhnert, Joachim Frey, Henrik Christensen, Magne Bisgaard and John E Olsen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:121
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  50. Whenever different data sets arrive at conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses, only testable causal explanations of sources of errors in at least one of the data sets allow us to critically choose among the confl...

    Authors: Björn M von Reumont, Karen Meusemann, Nikolaus U Szucsich, Emiliano Dell'Ampio, Vivek Gowri-Shankar, Daniela Bartel, Sabrina Simon, Harald O Letsch, Roman R Stocsits, Yun-xia Luan, Johann Wolfgang Wägele, Günther Pass, Heike Hadrys and Bernhard Misof
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:119
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