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  1. It has long been known that rates of synonymous substitutions are unusually low in mitochondrial genes of flowering and other land plants. Although two dramatic exceptions to this pattern have recently been re...

    Authors: Jeffrey P Mower, Pascal Touzet, Julie S Gummow, Lynda F Delph and Jeffrey D Palmer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:135
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  2. Considerable attention has focused on how selection on dispersal and other core life-history strategies (reproductive effort, survival ability, colonization capacity) may lead to so-called dispersal syndromes....

    Authors: Else J Fjerdingstad, Nicolas Schtickzelle, Pauline Manhes, Arnaud Gutierrez and Jean Clobert
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:133
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  3. Molecular lock-and-key systems are common among reproductive proteins, yet their evolution remains a major puzzle in evolutionary biology. In the Brassicaceae, the genes encoding self-incompatibility have been...

    Authors: Vincent Castric and Xavier Vekemans
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:132
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  4. The dusky dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) is distributed along temperate, coastal regions of New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, and Peru where it feeds on schooling anchovy, sardines, and other small fishes ...

    Authors: April D Harlin-Cognato, Tim Markowitz, Bernd Würsig and Rodney L Honeycutt
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:131
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  5. Analyses of complete genomes and large collections of gene transcripts have shown that most, if not all seed plants have undergone one or more genome duplications in their evolutionary past.

    Authors: Stefan A Rensing, Julia Ick, Jeffrey A Fawcett, Daniel Lang, Andreas Zimmer, Yves Van de Peer and Ralf Reski
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:130
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:184

  6. Development, differentiation and physiology of metazoans all depend on cell to cell communication and subsequent intracellular signal transduction. Often, these processes are orchestrated via sites of speciali...

    Authors: Aartjan JW te Velthuis, Jeroen F Admiraal and Christoph P Bagowski
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:129
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  8. The lancelet Asymmetron inferum (subphylum Cephalochordata) was recently discovered on the ocean floor off the southwest coast of Japan at a depth of 229 m, in an anaerobic and sulfide-rich environment caused by ...

    Authors: Takeshi Kon, Masahiro Nohara, Yusuke Yamanoue, Yoshihiro Fujiwara, Mutsumi Nishida and Teruaki Nishikawa
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:127
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  9. Aging refers to a decline in reproduction and survival with increasing age. According to evolutionary theory, aging evolves because selection late in life is weak and mutations exist whose deleterious effects ...

    Authors: Martin Ackermann, Alexandra Schauerte, Stephen C Stearns and Urs Jenal
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:126
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  10. Molecular evolution is usually described assuming a neutral or weakly non-neutral substitution model. Recently, new data have become available on evolution of sequence regions under a selective pressure, e.g. ...

    Authors: Farida N Enikeeva, Ekaterina A Kotelnikova, Mikhail S Gelfand and Vsevolod J Makeev
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:125
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  11. The geographic and ethnolinguistic differentiation of many African Y-chromosomal lineages provides an opportunity to evaluate human migration episodes and admixture processes, in a pan-continental context. The...

    Authors: Alexandra Rosa, Carolina Ornelas, Mark A Jobling, António Brehm and Richard Villems
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:124
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  12. The mitochondrial genomes of snakes are characterized by an overall evolutionary rate that appears to be one of the most accelerated among vertebrates. They also possess other unusual features, including short...

    Authors: Zhi J Jiang, Todd A Castoe, Christopher C Austin, Frank T Burbrink, Matthew D Herron, Jimmy A McGuire, Christopher L Parkinson and David D Pollock
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:123
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  13. Colonial invertebrates such as corals exhibit nested levels of modularity, imposing a challenge to the depiction of their morphological evolution. Comparisons among diverse Caribbean gorgonian corals suggest d...

    Authors: Juan A Sánchez, Catalina Aguilar, Daniel Dorado and Nelson Manrique
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:122
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  15. The Class I cytokine receptors have a wide range of actions, including a major role in the development and function of immune and blood cells. However, the evolution of the genes encoding them remains poorly u...

    Authors: Clifford Liongue and Alister C Ward
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:120
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  17. Onychophora (velvet worms) represent the most basal arthropod group and play a pivotal role in the current discussion on the evolution of nervous systems and segmentation in arthropods. Although there is a wea...

    Authors: Georg Mayer and Steffen Harzsch
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:118
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  18. Helicoverpa armigera and H. zea are amongst the most significant polyphagous pest lepidopteran species in the Old and New Worlds respectively. Separation of H. armigera and H. zea is difficult and is usually only...

    Authors: Gajanan T Behere, Wee Tek Tay, Derek A Russell, David G Heckel, Belinda R Appleton, Keshav R Kranthi and Philip Batterham
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:117
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  20. Termites of the subfamily Macrotermitinae live in a mutualistic symbiosis with basidiomycete fungi of the genus Termitomyces. Here, we explored interaction specificity in fungus-growing termites using samples fro...

    Authors: Duur K Aanen, Vera ID Ros, Henrik H de Fine Licht, Jannette Mitchell, Z Wilhelm de Beer, Bernard Slippers, Corinne Rouland-LeFèvre and Jacobus J Boomsma
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:115
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  22. Action potential generation in excitable cells such as myocytes and neurons critically depends on voltage-gated sodium channels. In mammals, sodium channels exist as macromolecular complexes that include a por...

    Authors: Sameer S Chopra, Hiroshi Watanabe, Tao P Zhong and Dan M Roden
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:113
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  23. In contrast to DNA-mediated transposable elements (TEs), retrotransposons, particularly non-long terminal repeat retrotransposons (non-LTRs), are generally considered to have a much lower propensity towards ho...

    Authors: James K Biedler and Zhijian Tu
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:112
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  24. The biosynthesis of aflatoxin (AF) involves over 20 enzymatic reactions in a complex polyketide pathway that converts acetate and malonate to the intermediates sterigmatocystin (ST) and O-methylsterigmatocystin (...

    Authors: Ignazio Carbone, Jorge H Ramirez-Prado, Judy L Jakobek and Bruce W Horn
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:111
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  25. RNA molecules, through their dual appearance as sequence and structure, represent a suitable model to study evolutionary properties of quasispecies. The essential ingredient in this model is the differentiatio...

    Authors: Michael Stich, Carlos Briones and Susanna C Manrubia
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:110
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  28. Ribosomal proteins (RPs) are key components of ribosomes, the cellular organelle responsible for protein biosynthesis in cells. Their levels can vary as a function of organism growth and development; however, ...

    Authors: Manuel Manchado, Carlos Infante, Esther Asensio, Jose Pedro Cañavate and Susan E Douglas
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:107
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  29. As bacteria, motile archaeal species swim by means of rotating flagellum structures driven by a proton gradient force. Interestingly, experimental data have shown that the archaeal flagellum is non-homologous ...

    Authors: Elie Desmond, Celine Brochier-Armanet and Simonetta Gribaldo
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:106
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  30. A controversial topic in evolutionary developmental biology is whether morphological diversification in natural populations can be driven by expansions and contractions of amino acid repeats in proteins. To pr...

    Authors: Charlotte Lindqvist, Liisa Laakkonen and Victor A Albert
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:105
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  31. The nematode Pristionchus pacificus has originally been developed as a satellite organism for comparison to Caenorhabditis elegans. A 10X coverage of the whole genome of P. pacificus is available, making P. pacif...

    Authors: Werner E Mayer, Matthias Herrmann and Ralf J Sommer
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:104
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  32. Septins are cytoskeletal GTPase proteins first discovered in the fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae where they organize the septum and link nuclear division with cell division. More recently septins have been found ...

    Authors: Fangfang Pan, Russell L Malmberg and Michelle Momany
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:103
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  34. The melanocortin (MC) receptors have a key role in regulating body weight and pigmentation. They belong to the rhodopsin family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The purpose of this study was to identify...

    Authors: Tatjana Haitina, Janis Klovins, Akiyoshi Takahashi, Maja Löwgren, Aneta Ringholm, Johan Enberg, Hiroshi Kawauchi, Earl T Larson, Robert Fredriksson and Helgi B Schiöth
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:101
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  35. The mosquito Culex annulirostris Skuse (Diptera: Culicidae) is the major vector of endemic arboviruses in Australia and is also responsible for the establishment of the Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) in southe...

    Authors: Stéphane Hemmerter, Jan Šlapeta, Andrew F van den Hurk, Robert D Cooper, Peter I Whelan, Richard C Russell, Cheryl A Johansen and Nigel W Beebe
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:100
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  36. The sensory drive hypothesis predicts that divergent sensory adaptation in different habitats may lead to premating isolation upon secondary contact of populations. Speciation by sensory drive has traditionall...

    Authors: Masakado Kawata, Ayako Shoji, Shoji Kawamura and Ole Seehausen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:99
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  37. RNA editing and alternative splicing play an important role in expanding protein diversity and this is well illustrated in studies of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs).

    Authors: Yongfeng Jin, Nan Tian, Jun Cao, Jing Liang, Zhaolin Yang and Jianning Lv
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:98
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  38. Since the mid 1990s populations of non-native apple snails (Ampullariidae) have been discovered with increasing frequency in the continental United States. Given the dramatic effects that introduced apple snai...

    Authors: Timothy A Rawlings, Kenneth A Hayes, Robert H Cowie and Timothy M Collins
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:97
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  40. Molecular clock dates, which place the origin of animal phyla deep in the Precambrian, have been used to reject the hypothesis of a rapid evolutionary radiation of animal phyla supported by the fossil record. ...

    Authors: Eric Fontanillas, John J Welch, Jessica A Thomas and Lindell Bromham
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:95
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  42. Non-long terminal repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons are mobile genetic elements that propagate themselves by reverse transcription of an RNA intermediate. Non-LTR retrotransposons are known to evolve mainly vi...

    Authors: Olga Novikova, Ewa Śliwińska, Victor Fet, Josef Settele, Alexander Blinov and Michal Woyciechowski
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:93
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  44. That pathogens and hosts coevolve is a powerful concept with broad theoretical and applied implications spanning from genetic theory to the medical and veterinary sciences, particularly in the context of infec...

    Authors: Joanne P Webster, Jaya Shrivastava, Paul J Johnson and Lynsey Blair
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:91
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  45. Most phylogenetic studies using current methods have focused on primary DNA sequence information. However, RNA secondary structures are particularly useful in systematics because they include characteristics, ...

    Authors: Alejandro Grajales, Catalina Aguilar and Juan A Sánchez
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:90
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  46. Lateral gene transfer is increasingly invoked to explain phylogenetic results that conflict with our understanding of organismal relationships. In eukaryotes, the most common observation interpreted in this wa...

    Authors: Matthew B Rogers, Russell F Watkins, James T Harper, Dion G Durnford, Michael W Gray and Patrick J Keeling
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:89
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  47. Metallothionein (mt) transcription is elevated in heavy metal tolerant field populations of Orchesella cincta (Collembola). This suggests that natural selection acts on transcriptional regulation of mt in springt...

    Authors: Thierry KS Janssens, Janine Mariën, Peter Cenijn, J Legler, Nico M van Straalen and Dick Roelofs
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:88
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  48. Species of the Drosophila obscura species group (e.g., D. pseudoobscura, D. subobscura) have served as favorable models in evolutionary studies since the 1930's. Despite numbers of studies conducted with varied t...

    Authors: Jian-jun Gao, Hide-aki Watabe, Tadashi Aotsuka, Jun-feng Pang and Ya-ping Zhang
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:87
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  49. The walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) and Norwegian pollock (T. finnmarchica) are confined to the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, respectively, and considered as distinct species within the family ...

    Authors: Anita Ursvik, Ragna Breines, Jørgen Schou Christiansen, Svein-Erik Fevolden, Dag H Coucheron and Steinar D Johansen
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:86
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  50. Paulinella chromatophora is a freshwater filose amoeba with photosynthetic endosymbionts (chromatophores) of cyanobacterial origin that are closely related to free-living Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus species...

    Authors: Birger Marin, Eva CM Nowack, Gernot Glöckner and Michael Melkonian
    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:85
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