Muir, Anna P. Dubois, Stanislas F. Ross, Rebecca E. Firth, Louise B. Knights, Antony M. Lima, Fernando P. Seabra, Rui Corre, Erwan Le Corguillé, Gildas Nunes, Flavia L. D.
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BackgroundUnder the threat of climate change populations can disperse, acclimatise or evolve in order to avoid fitness loss. In light of this, it is important to understand neutral gene flow patterns as a measure of dispersal potential, but also adaptive genetic variation as a measure of evolutionary potential. In order to assess genetic variation ...
Araujo-Voces, Miguel Quesada, Víctor
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Background Through its ability to open pores in cell membranes, perforin-1 plays a key role in the immune system. Consistent with this role, the gene encoding perforin shows hallmarks of complex evolutionary events, including amplification and pseudogenization, in multiple species. A large proportion of these events occurred in phyla for which scar...
Dai, Yichen Pracana, Rodrigo Holland, Peter W. H.
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Background Two gerbil species, sand rat ( Psammomys obesus ) and Mongolian jird ( Meriones unguiculatus ), can become obese and show signs of metabolic dysregulation when maintained on standard laboratory diets. The genetic basis of this phenotype is unknown. Recently, genome sequencing has uncovered very unusual regions of high guanine and cytosin...
Vasilikopoulos, Alexandros Misof, Bernhard Meusemann, Karen Lieberz, Doria Flouri, Tomáš Beutel, Rolf G. Niehuis, Oliver Wappler, Torsten Rust, Jes Peters, Ralph S.
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Cho, Chung Hyun In Park, Seung Ciniglia, Claudia Yang, Eun Chan Graf, Louis Bhattacharya, Debashish Yoon, Hwan Su
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Nawaz, Muhammad Saqib Asghar, Razia Pervaiz, Nashaiman Ali, Shahid Hussain, Irfan Xing, Peiqi Bao, Yiming Abbasi, Amir Ali
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BackgroundParkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. PD associated human UCHL1 (Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1) gene belongs to the family of deubiquitinases and is known to be highly expressed in neurons (1–2% in soluble form). Several functions of UCHL1 have been proposed including ubiquitin hydrolyze activi...
Du, Hong Ran, Jin-Hua Feng, Yuan-Yuan Wang, Xiao-Quan
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BackgroundLeaves have highly diverse morphologies. However, with an evolutionary history of approximately 200 million years, leaves of the pine family are relatively monotonous and often collectively called “needles”, although they vary in length, width and cross-section shapes. It would be of great interest to determine whether Pinaceae leaves sha...
Loosemore, R. G. Matthaei, S. D. Stanger, T. C.
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The primordial eye field of the vertebrate embryo is a single entity of retinal progenitor cells spanning the anterior neural plate before bifurcating to form bilateral optic vesicles. Here we review fate mapping data from zebrafish suggesting that prior to evagination of the optic vesicles the eye field may undergo a Maypole-plait migration of pro...
Nguyen, Tuc H. M. Sondhi, Sargunvir Ziesel, Andrew Paliwal, Swati Fiumera, Heather L.
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BackgroundMitochondrial function requires numerous genetic interactions between mitochondrial- and nuclear- encoded genes. While selection for optimal mitonuclear interactions should result in coevolution between both genomes, evidence for mitonuclear coadaptation is challenging to document. Genetic models where mitonuclear interactions can be expl...
Zu, Pengjuan Schiestl, Florian P. Gervasi, Daniel Li, Xin Runcie, Daniel Guillaume, Frédéric
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BackgroundAngiosperms employ an astonishing variety of visual and olfactory floral signals that are generally thought to evolve under natural selection. Those morphological and chemical traits can form highly correlated sets of traits. It is not always clear which of these are used by pollinators as primary targets of selection and which would be i...
