Feng, Chenguang Tang, Yongtao Liu, Sijia Tian, Fei Zhang, Cunfang Zhao, Kai
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BMC Evolutionary Biology
BackgroundTriplophysa stoliczkae is the most widespread species in the genus Triplophysa and may have originated from morphological convergence. To understand the evolutionary history of T. stoliczkae, we employed a multilocus approach to investigate the phylogenetics and the morphological evolution of T. stoliczkae on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.R...
Verma, Subodh Bhatia, Sabhyata
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3 Biotech
The aim of this study was to provide a comprehensive analysis of the plant-specific B3 domain-containing transcription factors (TFs) in chickpea. Scanning of the chickpea genome resulted in the identification of 51 B3 domain-containing TFs that were located on seven out of eight chickpea chromosomes. Based on the presence of additional domains othe...
Demos, Terrence C. Webala, Paul W. Goodman, Steven M. Kerbis Peterhans, Julian C. Bartonjo, Michael Patterson, Bruce D.
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BMC Evolutionary Biology
BackgroundThe Old World insectivorous bat genus Rhinolophus is highly speciose. Over the last 15 years, the number of its recognized species has grown from 77 to 106, but knowledge of their interrelationships has not kept pace. Species limits and phylogenetic relationships of this morphologically conservative group remain problematic due both to po...
Hoppenrath, Mona Kretzschmar, A. Liza Kaufmann, Manfred J. Murray, Shauna A.
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Marine Biodiversity Records
The marine benthic dinoflagellate genus Gambierdiscus currently contains ~ 16 species that can be highly morphologically similar to one another, and therefore molecular genetic characterization is necessary to complement the morphological species determination. Gambierdiscus species can produce ciguatoxins, which can accumulate through the food cha...
Ohiolei, John Asekhaen Yan, Hong-Bin Li, Li Magaji, Abdullahi Alhaji Luka, Joshua Zhu, Guo-Qiang Isaac, Clement Odoya, Manfred Ebube Wu, Yan-Tao Alvi, Mughees Aizaz
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Parasites & Vectors
BackgroundCystic echinococcosis (CE) is a zoonosis caused by cestodes of Echinococcus granulosus (sensu lato) complex. In Nigeria, reports on the prevalence of CE, although limited, have been found to vary with location and host with higher prevalence and fertility rate observed in camels than other livestock. Until now, information regarding the m...
Chevenet, François Castel, Guillaume Jousselin, Emmanuelle Gascuel, Olivier
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BMC Evolutionary Biology
BackgroundAncestral character states computed from the combination of phylogenetic trees with extrinsic traits are used to decipher evolutionary scenarios in various research fields such as phylogeography, epidemiology, and ecology. Despite the existence of powerful methods and software in ancestral character state inference, difficulties may arise...
Mehrabi, Mehdi Asgari, Bita Hemmati, Roghayeh
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Mycological Progress
We describe two new species of Eutypella, E. persica from dead branch of Alnus sp. in Guilan province and E. quercina from dead branch of Quercus sp. in East Azerbaijan province of Iran, using morphological and molecular data. Eutypella persica has large stromata with 20–70 perithecia in a valsoid arrangement, sulcate to smooth ostioles, and produc...
Seo, Min-Goo Kwon, Oh-Deog Kwak, Dongmi
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Parasites & Vectors
BackgroundTwo hemoplasma species, Mycoplasma suis and M. parvum, previously known as Eperythrozoon suis and E. parvum, respectively, have been identified in pigs. Swine hemoplasmosis is a global problem, and M. suis infection results in economic losses to pig producers worldwide. This study investigated the frequency and distribution of hemotropic ...
Sun, Ling Li, Ting-Jing Fu, Wen-Bo Yan, Zhen-Tian Si, Feng-Ling Zhang, Yu-Juan Mao, Qi-Meng Demari-Silva, Bruna Chen, Bin
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Parasites & Vectors
BackgroundDespite the medical importance of the genus Culex, the mitochondrial genome (mt genome) characteristics of Culex spp. are not well understood. The phylogeny of the genus and particularly the generic status of the genus Lutzia and the subgenus Culiciomyia remain unclear.MethodsThe present study sequenced and analyzed the complete mt genome...
Riahi, Mehrshid Ghahremaninejad, Farrokh
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Hacquetia
Molecular data have been increasingly used to study the phylogenetic relationships among many taxa, including scrophs. Sometimes they have provided phylogenetic reconstructions that are in conflict with morphological data leading to a re-evaluation of long-standing evolutionary hypotheses. In this paper, we review reports of the recent knowledge of...
