This site is managed by Brian Golding. Note that entries are
retained for only thirty days. Currently only
GBE,
JME,
MBE,
and PNAS (selected articles),
are provided.
| Feb 9 16:00 | Selection maintains MHC diversity through a natural population bottleneck. - Matthew K. Oliver, Stuart B. Piertney (MBE)
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| Feb 8 20:00 | Rate of amino acid substitution is influenced by the degree and conservation of male-biased transcription over 50 million years of Drosophila evolution - Sonja Grath, John Parsch (GBE)
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| Feb 7 20:00 | Concatenation and concordance in the reconstruction of mouse lemur phylogeny: an empirical demonstration of the effect of allele sampling in phylogenetics - David W. Weisrock et al. (MBE)
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| Feb 7 16:00 | Experimental viral evolution to specific host MHC genotypes reveals fitness and virulence trade-offs in alternative MHC types - Jason L. Kubinak, James S. Ruff, Cornelius Whitney Hyzer, Patricia R. Slev, Wayne K. Potts (PNAS)
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| Feb 7 16:00 | Female reproductive tract form drives the evolution of complex sperm morphology - Dawn M. Higginson, Kelly B. Miller, Kari A. Segraves, Scott Pitnick (PNAS)
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| Feb 7 16:00 | Multihost Experimental Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus Reveals Local Adaptation and Host-Specific Mutations - Stéphanie Bedhomme, Guillaume Lafforgue, Santiago F. Elena (MBE)
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| Feb 7 16:00 | Birth, Death, and Replacement of Karyopherins in Drosophila - Nitin Phadnis, Emily Hsieh, Harmit S. Malik (MBE)
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| Feb 6 16:00 | Wing stridulation in a Jurassic katydid (Insecta, Orthoptera) produced low-pitched musical calls to attract females - Jun-Jie Gu et al. (PNAS)
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| Feb 6 16:00 | Enzyme functional evolution through improved catalysis of ancestrally nonpreferred substrates - Ruiqi Huang et al. (PNAS)
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| Feb 5 20:00 | Nuclear DYW-Type PPR Gene Families Diversify with Increasing RNA Editing Frequencies in Liverwort and Moss Mitochondria - Mareike Rüdinger, Ute Volkmar, Henning Lenz, Milena Groth-Malonek, Volker Knoop (JME)
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| Feb 3 16:00 | “Evolution Canyon,” a potential microscale monitor of global warming across life - Eviatar Nevo (PNAS)
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| Feb 3 16:00 | Erratum to: The Phylogenomic Roots of Modern Biochemistry: Origins of Proteins, Cofactors and Protein Biosynthesis - Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, Kyung Mo Kim, Derek Caetano-Anollés (JME)
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| Feb 3 12:00 | Large-Scale Analysis of Plasmid Relationships through Gene-Sharing Networks - Manu Tamminen, Marko Virta, Renato Fani, Marco Fondi (MBE)
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| Feb 2 20:00 | Efficient selection of branch-specific models of sequence evolution - Julien Y. Dutheil et al. (MBE)
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| Feb 2 20:00 | Impact of genetic architecture on the relative rates of X versus autosomal adaptive substitution - Tim Connallon, Nadia D. Singh, Andrew G. Clark (MBE)
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| Feb 1 16:00 | Origin and evolution of laminin gene family diversity - Bryony Fahey, Bernard M. Degnan (MBE)
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| Feb 1 16:00 | Inferring divergence of context dependent substitution rates in drosophila genomes with applications to comparative genomics - Ran Chachik, Amos Tanay (MBE)
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| Feb 1 16:00 | Evolution of CRISPs associated with toxicoferan-reptilian venom and mammalian reproduction - Kartik Sunagar, Warren E. Johnson, Stephen J. O'Brien, Vítor Vasconcelos, Agostinho Antunes (MBE)
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| Feb 1 16:00 | Resequencing data provide no evidence for a human bottleneck in Africa during the penultimate glacial period - Per Sjödin, Agnès E Sjöstrand, Mattias Jakobsson, Michael G B Blum (MBE)
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| Jan 31 20:00 | Evidence for widespread positive and purifying selection across the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) genome - Miguel Carneiro et al. (MBE)
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| Jan 31 16:00 | Horizontal Transfer and Death of a Fungal Secondary Metabolic Gene Cluster - Matthew A. Campbell, Antonis Rokas, Jason C. Slot (GBE)
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| Jan 30 20:00 | Environmental stress increases the entry of cytoplasmic organellar DNA into the nucleus in plants - Dong Wang, Andrew H. Lloyd, Jeremy N. Timmis (PNAS)
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| Jan 30 20:00 | The maximum rate of mammal evolution - Alistair R. Evans et al. (PNAS)
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| Jan 30 20:00 | Cell-to-cell movement of plastids in plants - Gregory Thyssen, Zora Svab, Pal Maliga (PNAS)
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| Jan 30 20:00 | Horizontal transfer of chloroplast genomes between plant species - Sandra Stegemann, Mandy Keuthe, Stephan Greiner, Ralph Bock (PNAS)
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| Jan 30 16:00 | Highly Dynamic Exon Shuffling in Candidate Pathogen Receptors … What if Brown Algae Were Capable of Adaptive Immunity? - Antonios Zambounis, Marek Elias, Lieven Sterck, Florian Maumus, Claire M.M. Gachon (MBE)
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| Jan 27 20:00 | An ancestral miR-1304 allele present in Neanderthals regulates genes involved in enamel formation and could explain dental differences with modern humans - Maria Lopez-Valenzuela et al. (MBE)
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| Jan 27 20:00 | The Functional A Allele Was Resurrected via Recombination in The Human ABO Blood Group Gene - Takashi Kitano, Antoine Blancher, Naruya Saitou (MBE)
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| Jan 27 20:00 | Coalescent-based analysis distinguishes between allo- and autopolyploid origin in shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) - Kate St.Onge et al. (MBE)
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| Jan 27 20:00 | Evolutionary conservation of histone modifications in mammals - Yong H. Woo, Wen-Hsiung Li (MBE)
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| Jan 27 16:00 | Molecular Evolution of Miraculin-Like Proteins in Soybean Kunitz Super-Family - Purushotham Selvakumar, Deepankar Gahloth, Prabhat Pratap Singh Tomar, Nidhi Sharma, Ashwani Kumar Sharma (JME)
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| Jan 27 16:00 | Molecular Characterization of Two Endothelin Pathways in East African Cichlid Fishes - Eveline T. Diepeveen, Walter Salzburger (JME)
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| Jan 25 08:00 | DNA replication induces compositional biases in yeast - Marie-Claude Marsolier-Kergoat, Arach Goldar (MBE)
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| Jan 24 16:00 | Evolution of the globin gene family in deuterostomes: Lineage-specific patterns of diversification and attrition - Federico G. Hoffmann et al. (MBE)
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| Jan 24 16:00 | Plastid sequences contribute to some plant mitochondrial genes - Dong Wang, Mathieu Rousseau-Gueutin, Jeremy Newman Timmis (MBE)
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| Jan 24 12:00 | Oldest known dinosaurian nesting site and reproductive biology of the Early Jurassic sauropodomorph Massospondylus - Robert R. Reisz, David C. Evans, Eric M. Roberts, Hans-Dieter Sues, Adam M. Yates (PNAS)
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| Jan 23 20:00 | Genome-wide analysis of syntenic gene deletion in the grasses - James C. Schnable, Michael Freeling, Eric Lyons (GBE)
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| Jan 23 20:00 | Molecular evolution in non-recombining regions of the Drosophila melanogaster genome - Jose L. Campos, Brian Charlesworth, Penelope R. Haddrill (GBE)
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| Jan 23 16:00 | Functional evidence that a recently evolved Drosophila sperm-specific gene boosts sperm competition - Shu-Dan Yeh et al. (PNAS)
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| Jan 23 16:00 | Extensive X-linked adaptive evolution in central chimpanzees - Christina Hvilsom et al. (PNAS)
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| Jan 23 16:00 | Partitioning sexual selection into its mating success and fertilization success components - Alison Pischedda, William R. Rice (PNAS)
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| Jan 22 16:00 | Heterogeneous Rates of Molecular Evolution Among Cryptic Species of the Ciliate Morphospecies Chilodonella uncinata - Laura A. Katz, Jennifer DeBerardinis, Meaghan S. Hall, Alexandra M. Kovner, Micah Dunthorn (JME)
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| Jan 21 08:00 | Evolution of a membrane protein regulon in Saccharomyces - Hilary C. Martin, Jeremy I. Roop, Joshua G. Schraiber, Tiffany Y. Hsu, Rachel B. Brem (MBE)
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| Jan 21 08:00 | PartitionFinder: combined selection of partitioning schemes and substitution models for phylogenetic analyses - Robert Lanfear, Brett Calcott, Simon Y. W. Ho, Stephane Guindon (MBE)
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| Jan 21 08:00 | Life history shapes trait heredity by promoting accumulation of loss-of-function alleles in yeast - Enikö Zörgö et al. (MBE)
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| Jan 20 08:00 | Multiple adaptive losses of alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase mitochondrial targeting in fruit eating bats - Yang Liu, Huihui Xu, Xinpu Yuan, Stephen J. Rossiter, Shuyi Zhang (MBE)
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| Jan 20 08:00 | Younger genes are less likely to be essential than older genes, and duplicates are less likely to be essential than singletons of the same age - Wei-Hua Chen, Kalliopi Trachana, Martin J. Lercher, Peer Bork (MBE)
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| Jan 20 08:00 | Sampling the conformational energy landscape of a hyperthermophilic protein by engineering key substitutions - Jacques-Philippe Colletier et al. (MBE)
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| Jan 18 16:00 | Cryptic MHC polymorphism revealed but not explained by selection on the class IIB peptide binding region - V Llaurens, M McMullan, C van Oosterhout (MBE)
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| Jan 17 16:00 | Experimental evolution of multicellularity - William C. Ratcliff, R. Ford Denison, Mark Borrello, Michael Travisano (PNAS)
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| Jan 17 16:00 | Carnivorous dinocephalian from the Middle Permian of Brazil and tetrapod dispersal in Pangaea - Juan Carlos Cisneros et al. (PNAS)
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| Jan 17 16:00 | Exceptionally preserved crustaceans from western Canada reveal a cryptic Cambrian radiation - Thomas H. P. Harvey, Maria I. Vélez, Nicholas J. Butterfield (PNAS)
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| Jan 17 16:00 | Evolution of CpG island promoter function underlies changes in KChIP2 potassium channel subunit gene expression in mammalian heart - Qinghong Yan, Rajeev Masson, Yi Ren, Barbara Rosati, David McKinnon (PNAS)
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| Jan 16 16:00 | Patterns of Repeat-Induced Point Mutation in Transposable Elements of Basidiomycete Fungi - Felix Horns, Elsa Petit, Roxana Yockteng, Michael E. Hood (GBE)
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| Jan 16 16:00 | Dynamics and adaptive benefits of protein domain emergence and arrangements during plant genome evolution - Anna R. Reineke, Erich Bornberg Bauer, Andrew D. Moore, Sonja Grath (GBE)
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| Jan 16 08:00 | Global genetic variation at OAS1 provides evidence of archaic admixture in Melanesian populations - Fernando L. Mendez, Joseph C. Watkins, Michael F. Hammer (MBE)
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| Jan 16 08:00 | Sex chromosomes evolved from independent ancestral linkage groups in winged insects - James B. Pease, Matthew W. Hahn (MBE)
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| Jan 16 08:00 | Flagellin perception varies quantitatively in Arabidopsis thaliana and its relatives - M. Madlen Vetter et al. (MBE)
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| Jan 16 08:00 | Dozens of toxin-related genes are expressed in a non-toxic strain of the dinoflagellate Heterocapsa circularisquama - Tovah Salcedo, Ravi J. Upadhyay, Keizo Nagasaki, Debashish Bhattacharya (MBE)
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| Jan 13 08:00 | Recent acceleration of plastid sequence and structural evolution coincides with extreme mitochondrial divergence in the angiosperm genus Silene - Daniel B. Sloan, Andrew J. Alverson, Martin Wu, Jeffrey D. Palmer, Douglas R. Taylor (GBE)
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| Jan 13 08:00 | Dynamic evolution of telomeric sequences in the green algal order Chlamydomonadales - Jana Fulnečková et al. (GBE)
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| Jan 13 08:00 | Concatenation and concordance in the reconstruction of mouse lemur phylogeny: an empirical demonstration of the effect of allele sampling in phylogenetics. - David W. Weisrock et al. (MBE)
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| Jan 13 08:00 | Evolution of bioluminescence in marine planktonic copepods - Yasuhiro Takenaka et al. (MBE)
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| Jan 13 08:00 | Crohn's disease risk alleles on the NOD2 locus have been maintained by natural selection on standing variation - Shigeki Nakagome et al. (MBE)
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| Jan 12 08:00 | Evolution and Diversification of the CYC/TB1 Gene Family in Asteraceae—A Comparative Study in Gerbera (Mutisieae) and Sunflower (Heliantheae) - Sari Tähtiharju et al. (MBE)
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| Jan 11 20:00 | Classification of protein functional surfaces using structural characteristics - Yan Yuan Tseng, Wen-Hsiung Li (PNAS)
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| Jan 11 08:00 | Parallel Duplication and Partial Subfunctionalization of β-Catenin/Armadillo during Insect Evolution - Riyue Bao, Tami Fischer, Renata Bolognesi, Susan J. Brown, Markus Friedrich (MBE)
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| Jan 10 20:00 | Virtual genomes in flux: an interplay of neutrality and adaptability explains genome expansion and streamlining - Thomas D. Cuypers, Paulien Hogeweg (GBE)
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