Sleeping to fuel the immune system: mammalian sleep and resistance to parasites

Sexual selection does not influence minisatellite mutation rate

Evolution of C2H2-zinc finger genes revisited

Phylogenetic relationships in Cortinarius, section Calochroi, inferred from nuclear DNA sequences

Evolution and differential expression of a vertebrate vitellogenin gene cluster

Parallel shifts in ecology and natural selection in an island lizard

Molecular evolution of UCP1 and the evolutionary history of mammalian non-shivering thermogenesis

Multiple mating and a low incidence of cuckoldry for nest-holding males in the two-spotted goby, Gobiusculus flavescens

Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep

Horizontal Gene Transfers in prokaryotes show differential preferences for metabolic and translational genes

Evolution of prokaryotic SPFH proteins

Comparative mitochondrial genomics within and among species of killifish

Dynamic evolution of bitter taste receptor genes in vertebrates

Recombination in Glomus intraradices, a supposed ancient asexual arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus

Molecular evolution in Panagrolaimus nematodes: origins of parthenogenesis, hermaphroditism and the Antarctic species P. davidi

Sex-specific dispersal and evolutionary rescue in metapopulations infected by male killing endosymbionts

A P2X receptor from the tardigrade species Hypsibius dujardini with fast kinetics and sensitivity to zinc and copper

Domain duplication, divergence, and loss events in vertebrate Msx paralogs reveal phylogenomically informed disease markers

Phylogeny of the SNARE vesicle fusion machinery yields insights into the conservation of the secretory pathway in fungi

Seven new dolphin mitochondrial genomes and a time-calibrated phylogeny of whales

Eumalacostracan phylogeny and total evidence: limitations of the usual suspects

Systematic analysis of insertions and deletions specific to nematode proteins and their proposed functional and evolutionary relevance

Form and function of damselfish skulls: rapid and repeated evolution into a limited number of trophic niches

Pleistocene glacial refugia across the Appalachian Mountains and coastal plain in the millipede genus Narceus: Evidence from population genetic, phylogeographic, and paleoclimatic data

Tracking costs of virulence in natural populations of the wheat pathogen, Puccinia striiformis f.sp.tritici

Convergent and divergent patterns of morphological differentiation provide more evidence for reproductive character displacement in a wood cricket Gryllus fultoni (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)

Emergence, development and diversification of the TGF-β signalling pathway within the animal kingdom

The taxonomic status of the endangered thin-spined porcupine, Chaetomys subspinosus (Olfers, 1818), based on molecular and karyologic data

Species delimitation in lemurs: multiple genetic loci reveal low levels of species diversity in the genus Cheirogaleus

The evolutionary differentiation of two histone H2A.Z variants in chordates (H2A.Z-1 and H2A.Z-2) is mediated by a stepwise mutation process that affects three amino acid residues

Genetic analysis of hybridization and introgression between wild mongoose and brown lemurs

Sex differences in the genetic architecture of lifespan in a seed beetle: extreme inbreeding extends male lifespan

Evolution of the multifaceted eukaryotic akirin gene family

Evolutionary morphology of the rattlesnake style

Recurring cluster and operon assembly for Phenylacetate degradation genes

Escape to Alcatraz: evolutionary history of slender salamanders (Batrachoseps) on the islands of San Francisco Bay

Gain and loss of elongation factor genes in green algae

The extent of population genetic subdivision differs among four co-distributed shark species in the Indo-Australian archipelago

Evolution of the sugar receptors in insects

The effect of three environmental conditions on the fitness of cytochrome P450 monooxygenase-mediated permethrin resistance in Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus

Expression and evolutionary divergence of the non-conventional olfactory receptor in four species of fig wasp associated with one species of fig

Phylogenetic diversity of stress signalling pathways in fungi

Shape-shifting corals: Molecular markers show morphology is evolutionarily plastic in Porites

Allopatric speciation in ticks: genetic and reproductive divergence between geographic strains of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus

Characterization of the neurohypophysial hormone gene loci in elephant shark and the Japanese lamprey: origin of the vertebrate neurohypophysial hormone genes

Glutamine synthetase sequence evolution in the mycobacteria and their use as molecular markers for Actinobacteria speciation

Effects of a sex-ratio distorting endosymbiont on mtDNA variation in a global insect pest

A proteomic approach for studying insect phylogeny: CAPA peptides of ancient insect taxa (Dictyoptera, Blattoptera) as a test case

Differential stepwise evolution of SARS coronavirus functional proteins in different host species

Assortative mating among Lake Malawi cichlid fish populations is not simply predictable from male nuptial colour

The erratic mitochondrial clock: variations of mutation rate, not population size, affect mtDNA diversity across birds and mammals

A comparative analysis of divergently-paired genes (DPGs) among Drosophila and vertebrate genomes

Assessing what is needed to resolve a molecular phylogeny: simulations and empirical data from emydid turtles

Whole genome surveys of rice, maize and sorghum reveal multiple horizontal transfers of the LTR-retrotransposon Route66 in Poaceae

Divergence in gene regulation at young life history stages of whitefish (Coregonus sp.) and the emergence of genomic isolation

Ancient diversification of eukaryotic MCM DNA replication proteins

Inferring phylogenies with incomplete data sets: a 5-gene, 567-taxon analysis of angiosperms

Evolution of MIR168 paralogs in Brassicaceae

The joint evolutionary histories of Wolbachia and mitochondria in Hypolimnas bolina

Effects of shortened host life span on the evolution of parasite life history and virulence in a microbial host-parasite system

Evolution of the class C GPCR Venus flytrap modules involved positive selected functional divergence

Influence of ancient glacial periods on the Andean fauna: the case of the pampas cat (Leopardus colocolo)

Genetic clusters and sex-biased gene flow in a unicolonial Formica ant

Rapid speciation in a newly opened postglacial marine environment, the Baltic Sea

Rodent phylogeny revised: analysis of six nuclear genes from all major rodent clades

Correlated evolution of nucleotide substitution rates and allelic variation in Mhc-DRB lineages of primates

Evolutionary history of the iroquois/Irx genes in metazoans

Natural variation of outcrossing in the hermaphroditic nematode Pristionchus pacificus

Rodent malaria-resistant strains of the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, have slower population growth than -susceptible strains

Mega-phylogeny approach for comparative biology: an alternative to supertree and supermatrix approaches

RSCA genotyping of MHC for high-throughput evolutionary studies in the model organism three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus

Chromosomal evolution of the PKD1 gene family in primates

Evolution of prokaryotic SPFH proteins