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- 1From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedBackground By segregating somatic and germinal functions into large, compound macronuclei and small diploid micronuclei, respectively, ciliates can explore sexuality in ways other eukaryotes cannot. Sex, for instance,...
- 2From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedBackground Myxozoa are a diverse group of metazoan parasites with a very simple organization, which has for decades eluded their evolutionary origin. Their most prominent and characteristic feature is the polar...
- 3From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Hui Huang1 , Chao Shi1,2 , Yuan Liu1,2 , Shu-Yan Mao1 and Li-Zhi Gao1 Background Camellia , comprising more than 200 species, is an economically and phylogenetically important genus in the family...
- 4From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Lu Han1,2,3 , Songbiao Zhu2 , Chao Ning2 , Dawei Cai3 , Kai Wang2 , Quanjia Chen3 , Songmei Hu4 , Junkai Yang5 , Jing Shao4 , Hong Zhu1,3 and Hui Zhou1,2,3 Background The process of domestication and...
- 5From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Lei Wei1 , Jian He2 , Xian Jia1 , Qi Qi1 , Zhisheng Liang1 , Hao Zheng1 , Yao Ping1 , Shuyu Liu2 and Jingchen Sun1 Background Synonymous codon usage bias (SCUB) refers to the different frequency of...
- 6From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Michael D Crisp1 , Nate B Hardy2 and Lyn G Cook3 Background Molecular-clock dating of long-stemmed clades ("broom" or "stemmy" clades [1]) is prone to large estimation errors partly because calibration...
- 7From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Adam M Reitzel1,2 , Sibel I Karchner1 , Diana G Franks1 , Brad R Evans1,5 , Diane Nacci3 , Denise Champlin3 , Verónica M Vieira4,6 and Mark E Hahn1 Background Understanding the molecular basis of...
- 8From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Vineetha Mandlik1 , Sonali Shinde1 and Shailza Singh1 Background Leishmania , a protozoan parasite is responsible for causing the infectious disease Leishmaniasis. Around 12 million people are affected...
- 9From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Paolo Innocenti1 , Ilona Flis2 and Edward H Morrow1,2 Background The evolution of mating strategies, and in particular of multiple mating by females (polyandry), has attracted a great deal of attention...
- 10From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Sivakumar Kannan1 , Igor B Rogozin1 and Eugene V Koonin1 Background The mitochondrion is a membrane-bounded organelle that performs multiple, pivotal roles in the eukaryotic cell. The primary function...
- 11From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Identifying the sources of variation in mating interactions between males and females is important because this variation influences the strength and/or the direction of sexual selection that populations...
- 12From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Many western European carnivore populations became almost or completely eradicated during the last ~200 years, but are now recovering. Extirpation of wolves started in Finland in the 19th century, and for...
- 13From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Duplication and subsequent neofunctionalization of the teleostean hatching enzyme gene occurred in the common ancestor of Euteleostei and Otocephala, producing two genes belonging to different phylogenetic...
- 14From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
Consuming viscous prey: a novel protein-secreting delivery system in neotropical snail-eating snakes
Background Efficient venom delivery systems are known to occur only in varanoid lizards and advanced colubroidean snakes among squamate reptiles. Although components of these venomous systems might have been present... - 15From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Why most organisms reproduce via outcrossing rather than selfing is a central question in evolutionary biology. It has long ago been suggested that outcrossing is favoured when it facilitates adaptation to...
- 16From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedContributing reviewers The editors of BMC Evolutionary Biology would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 13 (2013). Author(s): Christopher Foote1 Amir Abbasi...
- 17From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Allopatric divergence across lineages can lead to post-zygotic reproductive isolation upon secondary contact and disrupt coevolution between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes, promoting emergence of...
- 18From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Diego C García-Bellido1,2 , Michael S Y Lee1,2 , Gregory D Edgecombe3 , James B Jago4 , James G Gehling1,2 and John R Paterson5 Background The enigmatic Cambrian vetulicolians have been allied to...
- 19From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Ravi Kumar Verma1 , Neel Duti Prabh1 and Ramasubbu Sankararamakrishnan1,2 Background The superfamily of Major Intrinsic Proteins (MIPs) contains channel proteins that transport water and other neutral...
- 20From: BMC Evolutionary Biology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Ralph S Peters1 , Karen Meusemann2,3 , Malte Petersen2 , Christoph Mayer2 , Jeanne Wilbrandt2 , Tanja Ziesmann2 , Alexander Donath2 , Karl M Kjer4 , Ulrike Aspöck5,6 , Horst Aspöck7 , Andre Aberer8 ,...