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BMC Evolutionary Biology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of molecular and non-molecular evolution of all organisms, as well as phylogenetics and palaeontology.
BMC Evolutionary Biology (ISSN 1471-2148) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Zoological Record, Current Contents, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :7
Mammalian species that sleep for longer periods have a better immune system and fewer parasitic infections, suggesting that sleep has an underappreciated role in disease resistance.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :338
Predators are less likely to attack aphids if the exoskeletons discarded after molting, called exuviae, are still present, suggesting that exuviae serve as decoys and reinforce the protective effect of living in a group.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :337
The most common fate of duplicated genes is for their products to be found within the same protein complex, with paralogs in separate complexes being more often derived from small-scale duplications than from whole genome duplication.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :331
Some amino acid substitutions are found less frequently in real data than predicted by empirical models such as JTT, which may lead to biases in phylogenies, but a new mixture model can more accurately model substitutions and improve phylogenetic inferences.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :326
Subject to meiotic drive, sex-ratio (SR) male Drosophila are unable to produce Y-chromosome-bearing sperm and their ejaculate is rejected by females, who then seek to re-mate with wild-type males.
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Research article
Sex-specific dispersal and evolutionary rescue in metapopulations infected by male killing endosymbionts Dries Bonte, Thomas Hovestadt, Hans-Joachim Poethke BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :16 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Molecular evolution in Panagrolaimus nematodes: origins of parthenogenesis, hermaphroditism and the Antarctic species P. davidi Samantha C Lewis, Leslie A Dyal, Caroline F Hilburn, Stephanie Weitz, Wei-Siang Liau, Craig W LaMunyon, Dee R Denver BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :15 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Correction
Correction: Chromosomal evolution of the PKD1 gene family in primates Stefan Kirsch, Juanjo Pasantes, Andreas Wolf, Nadia Bogdanova, Claudia Munch, Arseni Markoff, Petra Pennekamp, Michael Krawczak, Bernd Dworniczak, Werner Schempp BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :14 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Recombination in Glomus intraradices, a supposed ancient asexual arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Daniel Croll, Ian R Sanders BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :13 (15 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Dynamic evolution of bitter taste receptor genes in vertebrates Dong Dong, Gareth Jones, Shuyi Zhang BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :12 (15 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Comparative mitochondrial genomics within and among species of killifish Andrew Whitehead BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :11 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Evolution of prokaryotic SPFH proteins Markus Hinderhofer, Christina A Walker, Anke Friemel, Claudia AO Sturmer, Heiko M Moller, Alexander Reuter BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :10 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Horizontal Gene Transfers in prokaryotes show differential preferences for metabolic and translational genes Aditi Kanhere, Martin Vingron BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :9 (10 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Commentary
Sleeping to fuel the immune system: mammalian sleep and resistance to parasites Mark R Opp BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :8 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep Brian T Preston, Isabella Capellini, Patrick McNamara, Robert A Barton, Charles L Nunn BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :7 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Mitochondrial genome sequence and gene order of Sipunculus
nudus give additional support for an inclusion of Sipuncula
into Annelida Adina Mwinyi, Achim Meyer, Christoph Bleidorn, Bernhard Lieb, Thomas Bartolomaeus, Lars Podsiadlowski BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :27 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Review
Are animal models predictive for humans? Niall Shanks, Ray Greek, Jean Greek Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2009, 4 :2 (15 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Mapping of five candidate sex-determining loci in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Mahmoud A. Alfaqih, Joseph P. Brunelli, Robert E. Drew, Gary H. Thorgaard BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :2 (15 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs Yoshitomo Kikuchi, Takahiro Hosokawa, Naruo Nikoh, Xian-Ying Meng, Yoichi Kamagata, Takema Fukatsu BMC Biology 2009, 7 :2 (15 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Software review
A software pipeline for processing and identification of fungal ITS sequences
Henrik R. Nilsson, Gunilla Bok, Martin Ryberg, Erik Kristiansson, Nils Hallenberg Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2009, 4 :1 (15 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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The cell cycle of the planctomycete Gemmata obscuriglobus with respect to cell compartmentalization Kuo-Chang Lee, Rick I Webb, John A Fuerst BMC Cell Biology 2009, 10 :4 (14 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Genic Regions of a Large Salamander Genome Contain Long Introns and Novel Genes Jeramiah J Smith, Srikrishna Putta, Wei Zhu, Gerald M Pao, Inder M Verma, Tony Hunter, Susan V Bryant, David M Gardiner, Timothy T Harkins, S. Randal Voss BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :19 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Expression profiles of Urbilaterian genes uniquely shared between honey bee and vertebrates Toshiaki Matsui, Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Stefan Wyder, Evgeny M Zdobnov, Tatsuhiko Kadowaki BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :17 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Genetic analysis of local Vietnamese chickens provides evidence of gene flow between domestic and wild populations. C. Berthouly, G. Leroy, T. Nhu Van, H. Hoang Thanh, B. Bed'Hom, B. Trong Nguyen, C. Vu Chi, F. Monicat, M. Tixier-Boichard, E. Verrier, J-c Maillard, X. Rognon BMC Genetics 2009, 10 :1 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Phylum Verrucomicrobia representatives share a compartmentalized cell plan with members of bacterial phylum Planctomycetes Kuo-Chang Lee, Richard I Webb, Peter H Janssen, Parveen Sangwan, Tony Romeo, James T Staley, John A Fuerst BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :5 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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