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  1. Army ants are the prime arthropod predators in tropical forests, with huge colonies and an evolutionary derived nomadic life style. Five of the six recognized subgenera of Old World Dorylus army ants forage in th...

    Authors: Daniel JC Kronauer, Caspar Schöning, Lars B Vilhelmsen and Jacobus J Boomsma
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:56
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Nitrogen, a component of many bio-molecules, is essential for growth and development of all organisms. Most nitrogen exists in the atmosphere, and utilisation of this source is important as a means of avoiding...

    Authors: Christoph Kneip, Peter Lockhart, Christine Voß and Uwe-G Maier
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:55
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  5. Evolutionary processes in gene regulatory regions are major determinants of organismal evolution, but exceptionally challenging to study. We explored the possibilities of evolutionary analysis of phylogenetic ...

    Authors: Katie E Weeks, Nadia A Chuzhanova, Iain S Donnison and Ian M Scott
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:51
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  6. Recent models suggest that escalating reciprocal selection among antagonistically interacting species is predicted to occur in areas of higher resource productivity. In a putatively coevolved interaction betwe...

    Authors: Steven G Johnson, C Darrin Hulsey and Francisco J García de León
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:50
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  7. The synaptic cell adhesion molecules, protocadherins, are a vertebrate innovation that accompanied the emergence of the neural tube and the elaborate central nervous system. In mammals, the protocadherins are ...

    Authors: Wei-Ping Yu, Kenneth Yew, Vikneswari Rajasegaran and Byrappa Venkatesh
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:49
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. The Austro-Asiatic linguistic family, which is considered to be the oldest of all the families in India, has a substantial presence in Southeast Asia. However, the possibility of any genetic link among the lin...

    Authors: Vikrant Kumar, Arimanda NS Reddy, Jagedeesh P Babu, Tipirisetti N Rao, Banrida T Langstieh, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Alla G Reddy, Lalji Singh and Battini M Reddy
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:47
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Molecular systematics occupies one of the central stages in biology in the genomic era, ushered in by unprecedented progress in DNA technology. The inference of organismal phylogeny is now based on many indepe...

    Authors: Chenhong Li, Guillermo Ortí, Gong Zhang and Guoqing Lu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:44
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  13. The function and structure of protein translocons at the outer and inner envelope membrane of chloroplasts (Toc and Tic complexes, respectively) are a subject of intensive research. One of the proteins that ha...

    Authors: Mónica Balsera, Anna Stengel, Jürgen Soll and Bettina Bölter
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:43
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Despite its pervasiveness, the genetic basis of adaptation resulting in variation directly or indirectly related to temperature (climatic) gradients is poorly understood. By using 3-fold replicated laboratory ...

    Authors: Hafid Laayouni, Francisco García-Franco, Blanca E Chávez-Sandoval, Vincenzo Trotta, Sergi Beltran, Montserrat Corominas and Mauro Santos
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:42
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  17. In order to obtain insights into the functionality of the human 4q35.2 domain harbouring the facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) locus, we investigated in African apes genomic and chromatin organisat...

    Authors: Beatrice Bodega, Maria Francesca Cardone, Stefan Müller, Michaela Neusser, Francesca Orzan, Elena Rossi, Elena Battaglioli, Anna Marozzi, Paola Riva, Mariano Rocchi, Raffaella Meneveri and Enrico Ginelli
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:39
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  18. Paedocypris, a highly developmentally truncated fish from peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia, comprises the world's smallest vertebrate. Although clearly a cyprinid fish, a hypothesis about its phylogenetic pos...

    Authors: Lukas Rüber, Maurice Kottelat, Heok Hui Tan, Peter KL Ng and Ralf Britz
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:38
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  19. The origin and evolution of the homologous GTP-binding cytoskeletal proteins FtsZ typical of Bacteria and tubulin characteristic of eukaryotes is a major question in molecular evolutionary biology. Both FtsZ a...

    Authors: Benjamin Yee, Feras F Lafi, Brian Oakley, James T Staley and John A Fuerst
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:37
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  22. Tnt1 was the first active plant retrotransposon identified in tobacco after nitrate reductase gene disruption. The Tnt1 superfamily comprises elements from Nicotiana (Tnt1 and Tto1) and Lycopersicon (Retrolyc1 an...

    Authors: Maria E Manetti, Magdalena Rossi, Ana PP Costa, Andrea M Clausen and Marie-Anne Van Sluys
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:34
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  23. Molecular and genetic analyses conducted in model organisms such as Drosophila and vertebrates, have provided a wealth of information about how networks of transcription factors control the proper development of ...

    Authors: Elena Simionato, Valérie Ledent, Gemma Richards, Morgane Thomas-Chollier, Pierre Kerner, David Coornaert, Bernard M Degnan and Michel Vervoort
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:33
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  24. Genetic studies of the Arabian Peninsula are scarce even though the region was the center of ancient trade routes and empires and may have been the southern corridor for the earliest human migration from Afric...

    Authors: Khaled K Abu-Amero, Ana M González, Jose M Larruga, Thomas M Bosley and Vicente M Cabrera
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:32
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  25. Mitochondrial porins, or voltage-dependent anion-selective channels (VDAC) allow the passage of small molecules across the mitochondrial outer membrane, and are involved in complex interactions regulating orga...

    Authors: Matthew J Young, Denice C Bay, Georg Hausner and Deborah A Court
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:31
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  27. In membrane trafficking, the mechanisms ensuring vesicle fusion specificity remain to be fully elucidated. Early models proposed that specificity was encoded entirely by SNARE proteins; more recent models incl...

    Authors: V Lila Koumandou, Joel B Dacks, Richard MR Coulson and Mark C Field
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:29
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  29. Nuclear receptors (NRs) are important transcriptional modulators in metazoans which regulate transcription through binding to the promoter region of their target gene by the DNA binding domain (DBD) and activa...

    Authors: Wenjie Wu, Edward G Niles, Hirohisa Hirai and Philip T LoVerde
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:27
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  31. Speciation often occurs in complex or uncertain temporal and spatial contexts. Processes such as reinforcement, allopatric divergence, and assortative mating can proceed at different rates and with different s...

    Authors: Paul ME Bunje, Marta Barluenga and Axel Meyer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:25
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  32. The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) evolved from a common ancestor. Still not completely understood is how specificity for glucocorticoids (e.g. cortisol) and mineralocorticoid...

    Authors: Michael E Baker, Charlie Chandsawangbhuwana and Noah Ollikainen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:24
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  34. Introduced species can have profound effects on native species, communities, and ecosystems, and have caused extinctions or declines in native species globally. We examined the evolutionary response of native ...

    Authors: Debra L Fisk, Leigh C Latta IV, Roland A Knapp and Michael E Pfrender
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:22
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  35. Introductions of non-native species can significantly alter the selective environment for populations of native species, which can respond through phenotypic plasticity or genetic adaptation. We examined pheno...

    Authors: Leigh C Latta IV, Jeremy W Bakelar, Roland A Knapp and Michael E Pfrender
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:21
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  36. How are morphological evolution and developmental changes related? This rather old and intriguing question had a substantial boost after the 70s within the framework of heterochrony (changes in rates or timing...

    Authors: Gabriel Marroig
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:20
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  37. In this paper we describe an analysis of the size evolution of both protein domains and their indels, as inferred by changing sizes of whole domains or individual unaligned regions or "spacers". We studied rel...

    Authors: Yuri Wolf, Thomas Madej, Vladimir Babenko, Benjamin Shoemaker and Anna R Panchenko
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:19
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  39. The effectiveness of elimination of slightly deleterious mutations depends mainly on drift and recombination frequency. Here we analyze the influence of these two factors on the strength of the purifying selec...

    Authors: Leila Mamirova, Konstantin Popadin and Mikhail S Gelfand
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:17
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  40. Phylogenetic relationships between Lagomorpha, Rodentia and Primates and their allies (Euarchontoglires) have long been debated. While it is now generally agreed that Rodentia constitutes a monophyletic sister...

    Authors: David S Horner, Konstantinos Lefkimmiatis, Aurelio Reyes, Carmela Gissi, Cecilia Saccone and Graziano Pesole
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:16
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  41. Transcription factors regulate gene expression by interacting with their specific DNA binding sites. Some transcription factors, particularly those involved in transcription initiation, always bind close to tr...

    Authors: Brandon Smith, Hung Fang, Youlian Pan, P Roy Walker, A Fazel Famili and Marianna Sikorska
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7(Suppl 1):S15
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1

  42. Within eukaryotes there is a complex cascade of RNA-based macromolecules that process other RNA molecules, especially mRNA, tRNA and rRNA. An example is RNase MRP processing ribosomal RNA (rRNA) in ribosome bi...

    Authors: Michael D Woodhams, Peter F Stadler, David Penny and Lesley J Collins
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7(Suppl 1):S13
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1

  43. Function prediction by transfer of annotation from the top database hit in a homology search has been shown to be prone to systematic error. Phylogenomic analysis reduces these errors by inferring protein func...

    Authors: Nandini Krishnamurthy, Duncan Brown and Kimmen Sjölander
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7(Suppl 1):S12
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1

  44. The diversity of visual systems in fish has long been of interest for evolutionary biologists and neurophysiologists, and has recently begun to attract the attention of molecular evolutionary geneticists. Seve...

    Authors: Cameron J Weadick and Belinda SW Chang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7(Suppl 1):S11
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1

  46. Bacterial genomes develop new mechanisms to tide them over the imposing conditions they encounter during the course of their evolution. Acquisition of new genes by lateral gene transfer may be one of the domin...

    Authors: Pradeep Reddy Marri, Weilong Hao and G Brian Golding
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7(Suppl 1):S8
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1

  47. Synonymous codon usage varies widely between genomes, and also between genes within genomes. Although there is now a large body of data on variations in codon usage, it is still not clear if the observed patte...

    Authors: Huai-Chun Wang and Donal A Hickey
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7(Suppl 1):S6
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1

  48. Thanks to the large amount of signal contained in genome-wide sequence alignments, phylogenomic analyses are converging towards highly supported trees. However, high statistical support does not imply that the...

    Authors: Nicolas Lartillot, Henner Brinkmann and Hervé Philippe
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7(Suppl 1):S4
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1

  49. Phylogenetic analyses based on datasets rich in both genes and species (phylogenomics) are becoming a standard approach to resolve evolutionary questions. However, several difficulties are associated with the ...

    Authors: Béatrice Roure, Naiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta and Hervé Philippe
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7(Suppl 1):S2
    Content type: Software Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1

  50. The First Phylogenomics Conference was held in Ste-Adèle (Québec, Canada) in March 2006. Selected papers appear in this special issue of BMC Evolutionary Biology. Here, we give an introduction to the field and pr...

    Authors: Hervé Philippe and Mathieu Blanchette
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7(Suppl 1):S1
    Content type: Introduction Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1

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