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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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

  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  27. 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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  29. In vertebrates, the molecular basis of the sense of smell is encoded by members of a large gene family, namely olfactory receptor (OR) genes. Both the total number of OR genes and the proportion of intact OR g...

    Authors: Silke S Steiger, Andrew E Fidler and Bart Kempenaers
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:117
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  30. Dinoflagellates represent a major lineage of unicellular eukaryotes with unparalleled diversity and complexity in morphological features. The monophyly of dinoflagellates has been convincingly demonstrated, bu...

    Authors: Mona Hoppenrath, Tsvetan R Bachvaroff, Sara M Handy, Charles F Delwiche and Brian S Leander
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:116
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  31. The water-bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa is a known producer of various kinds of toxic and bioactive chemicals. Of these, hepatotoxic cyclic heptapeptides microcystins have been studied most ...

    Authors: Yuuhiko Tanabe, Tomoharu Sano, Fumie Kasai and Makoto M Watanabe
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:115
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  32. The role of hybridization in generating diversity in animals is an active area of discovery and debate. We assess hybridization across a contact zone of northern (Myodes rutilus) and southern (M. gapperi) red-bac...

    Authors: Amy M Runck, Marjorie D Matocq and Joseph A Cook
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:114
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  33. Geographic clines within species are often interpreted as evidence of adaptation to varying environmental conditions. However, clines can also result from genetic drift, and these competing hypotheses must the...

    Authors: Diana L Huestis, Brenda Oppert and Jeremy L Marshall
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:113
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  34. Geminiviruses (family Geminiviridae) are small single-stranded (ss) DNA viruses infecting plants. Their virion morphology is unique in the known viral world – two incomplete T = 1 icosahedra are joined together t...

    Authors: Mart Krupovic, Janne J Ravantti and Dennis H Bamford
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:112
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  36. Sexual dimorphism of body size has been the subject of numerous studies, but few have examined sexual shape dimorphism (SShD) and its evolution. Allometry, the shape change associated with size variation, has ...

    Authors: Nelly A Gidaszewski, Michel Baylac and Christian Peter Klingenberg
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:110
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  37. Biological invasions can be considered one of the main threats to biodiversity, and the recognition of common ecological and evolutionary features among invaders can help developing a predictive framework to c...

    Authors: Emiliano Trucchi and Valerio Sbordoni
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:109
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  38. Many important problems in evolutionary biology require molecular phylogenies to be reconstructed. Phylogenetic trees must then be manipulated for subsequent inclusion in publications or analyses such as super...

    Authors: Vincent Ranwez, Nicolas Clairon, Frédéric Delsuc, Saeed Pourali, Nicolas Auberval, Sorel Diser and Vincent Berry
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:108
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  39. Mitochondrial genome comparisons contribute in multiple ways when inferring animal relationships. As well as primary sequence data, rare genomic changes such as gene order, shared gene boundaries and genetic c...

    Authors: Sarah J Bourlat, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Robert Lanfear and Maximilian J Telford
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:107
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  41. Although DNA sequence analysis is becoming a powerful tool for identifying species, it is not easy to assess whether the observed genetic disparity corresponds to reproductive isolation. Here, we compared the ...

    Authors: Yudai Okuyama and Makoto Kato
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:105
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  42. There is increasing interest to determine the relative importance of non-additive genetic benefits as opposed to additive ones for the evolution of mating preferences and maintenance of genetic variation in se...

    Authors: Petteri Ilmonen, Gloria Stundner, Michaela Thoß and Dustin J Penn
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:104
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  43. Climatic changes during glacial periods have had a major influence on the recent evolutionary history of living organisms, even in temperate forests on islands, where the land was not covered with ice sheets. ...

    Authors: Kyoko Aoki, Makoto Kato and Noriaki Murakami
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:103
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  45. An important role in the evolution of intracellular trafficking machinery in eukaryotes played small GTPases belonging to the Rab family known as pivotal regulators of vesicle docking, fusion and transport. Th...

    Authors: Paweł Mackiewicz and Elżbieta Wyroba
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:101
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  47. The increase in availability of genomic sequences for a wide range of organisms has revealed gene duplication to be a relatively common event. Encounters with duplicate gene copies have consequently become alm...

    Authors: Nélida Pohl, Marilou P Sison-Mangus, Emily N Yee, Saif W Liswi and Adriana D Briscoe
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:99
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  48. Gaining the ability to photosynthesize was a key event in eukaryotic evolution because algae and plants form the base of the food chain on our planet. The eukaryotic machines of photosynthesis are plastids (e....

    Authors: Hwan Su Yoon, Takuro Nakayama, Adrian Reyes-Prieto, Robert A Andersen, Sung Min Boo, Ken-ichiro Ishida and Debashish Bhattacharya
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:98
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  49. Members of the pacifastin family are serine peptidase inhibitors, most of which are produced as multi domain precursor proteins. Structural and biochemical characteristics of insect pacifastin-like peptides ha...

    Authors: Bert Breugelmans, Gert Simonet, Vincent van Hoef, Sofie Van Soest and Jozef Vanden Broeck
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:97
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  50. In Figure 1 of [Harvey et al (Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:15)] the plotted data were inverted. The correct Figure is shown below. The text and statistical analyses in [Harvey et al (Evolutionary Biology 2008,...

    Authors: Simon C Harvey, Alison Shorto and Mark E Viney
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:96
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008 8:15

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