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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.
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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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Tracking costs of virulence in natural populations of the wheat pathogen, Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici Bochra Bahri, Oliver Kaltz, Marc Leconte, Claude de Vallavieille-Pope, Jerome Enjalbert BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :26 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Pleistocene glacial refugia in the Appalachian Mountains and coastal plain: evidence from a unique mitochondrial phylogeographic pattern in the millipede genus Narceus. Matt J Walker, Amy K Stockman, Paul E Marek, Jason E Bond BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :25 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Form and function of damselfish skulls: rapid and repeated evolution into a limited number of trophic niches W. James Cooper, Mark W. Westneat BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :24 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Systematic analysis of insertions and deletions specific to nematode proteins and their proposed functional and evolutionary relevance Zhengyuan Wang, John Martin, Sahar Abubucker, Yong Yin, Robin B. Gasser, Makedonka Mitreva BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :23 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Correction: 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 :22 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Eumalacostracan phylogeny and total evidence: limitations of the usual suspects Ronald A Jenner, Ciara Ni Dhubhghaill, Matteo P Ferla, Matthew A Wills BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :21 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Seven new dolphin mitochondrial genomes and a time-calibrated phylogeny of whales Ye Xiong, Matthew C Brandley, Shixia Xu, Kaiya Zhou, Guang Yang BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :20 (25 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Phylogeny of the SNARE vesicle fusion machinery yields insights into the conservation of the secretory pathway in fungi Nickias Kienle, Tobias H Kloepper, Dirk Fasshauer BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :19 (23 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Domain duplication, divergence, and loss events in vertebrate Msx paralogs reveal phylogenomically informed disease markers John R. Finnerty, Maureen E. Mazza, Peter A. Jezewski BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :18 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A P2X receptor from the tardigrade species Hypsibius dujardini with fast kinetics and sensitivity to zinc and copper Selvan Bavan, Volko A Straub, Mark L Blaxter, Steven J Ennion BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :17 (20 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Factor-analytic models for genotype x environment type problems and structured covariance matrices Karin Meyer Genetics Selection Evolution 2009, 41 :21 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Protein domain organisation: adding order
Sarah K Kummerfeld, Sarah A Teichmann BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 :39 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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The salivary gland transcriptome of the neotropical malaria vector Anopheles darlingi reveals accelerated evolution of genes relevant to hematophagy Eric Calvo, Van M Pham, Osvaldo Marinotti, John F Andersen, Jose MC Ribeiro BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :57 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Genome-wide analysis of chimpanzee genes with premature termination codons Anna Wetterbom, Ulf Gyllensten, Lucia Cavelier, Tomas F Bergstrom BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :56 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Coding region structural heterogeneity and turnover of transcription start sites contribute to divergence in expression between duplicate genes Chungoo Park, Kateryna D Makova Genome Biology 2009, 10 :R10 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Analyses of zebrafish and Xenopus oocyte maturation reveal conserved and diverged features of translational regulation of maternal cyclin B1 mRNA Yan Zhang, Michael D. Sheets BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :7 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of Calkinsia aureus: cellular identity of a novel clade of deep-sea euglenozoans with epibiotic bacteria Naoji Yubuki, Virginia P Edgcomb, Joan M Bernhard, Brian S Leander BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :16 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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One ancestor for two codes viewed from the perspective of two complementary modes of tRNA aminoacylation Andrei S Rodin, Eors Szathmary, Sergei N Rodin Biology Direct 2009, 4 :4 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Bioinformatic flowchart and database to investigate the origins and diversity of Clan AA peptidases Carlos Llorens, Ricardo Futami, Gabriel Renaud, Andres Moya Biology Direct 2009, 4 :3 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Genome and gene alterations by insertions and deletions in the evolution of human and chimpanzee chromosome 22
Natalia Volfovsky, Taras K Oleksyk, Kristine C Cruz, Ann L Truelove, Robert M Stephens, Michael W Smith BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :51 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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