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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 :88
Specific egg morphs of the European cuckoo mimic the eggs of hosts that are evenly distributed and of high density, supporting the hypothesis that these are key factors in the evolution of parasite specialization.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :69
Breeding does not occur randomly throughout unicolonial populations of wood ants, instead genetic analyses show that queens usually breed close to home, and kinship ties within clusters of nests are strong enough to help maintain altruistic behavior.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :45
The difficulty of evaluating biodiversity in threatened reef-building coral is highlighted by new evidence showing that several corals that appear very different are genetically indistinguishable, whereas some corals with similar appearance are reproductively incompatible.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :37
Reconstruction of extremely large phylogenetic trees is now boosted by a 'megaphylogeny' approach that combines database sequences with taxonomic hierarchy to yield a dense phylogeny including more than 13,000 species of green plants.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :24
The functional diversity of damselfish skulls is tightly linked to the underlying jaw structure with certain feeding patterns such as planktivory requiring particular configurations of jaw bones.
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Identification, distribution and molecular evolution of the pacifastin gene family in Metazoa Bert Breugelmans, Gert Simonet, Vincent van Hoef, Sofie Van Soest, Jozef Vanden Broeck BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :97 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Correction: Quantitative genetic analysis of life-history traits of Caenorhabditis elegans in stressful environments. Simon C. Harvey, Alison Shorto, Mark E. Viney BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :96 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes from extinct and extant rhinoceroses reveals lack of phylogenetic resolution Eske Willerslev, Marcus Gilbert, Jonas Binladen, Simon Ho, Paula Campos, Aakrosh Ratan, Lynn Tomsho, Rute da Fonseca, Andrei Sher, Tatanya Kuznetsova, Malgosia Nowak-Kemp, Terri Roth, Webb Miller, Stephan Schuster BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :95 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Insights into the evolution of the snail superfamily from metazoan wide molecular phylogenies and expression data in annelids Pierre Kerner, Johanne Hung, Julien Behague, Martine Le Gouar, Guillaume Balavoine, Michel Vervoort BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :94 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Improved data retrieval from TreeBASE via taxonomic and linguistic data enrichment Nadia Anwar, Ela Hunt BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :93 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Timing major conflict between mitochondrial and nuclear genes in species relationships of Polygonia butterflies (Nymphalidae: Nymphalini) Niklas Wahlberg, Elisabet Weingartner, Andrew D. Warren, Soren Nylin BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :92 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Common peptides shed light on evolution of Olfactory Receptors Assaf Gottlieb, Tsviya Olender, Doron Lancet, David Horn BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :91 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Phylogenetic analysis, structural evolution and functional divergence of the 12-oxo-phytodienoate acid reductase gene family in plants Wenyan Li, Bing Liu, Lu Jun Yu, Dong Ru Feng, Hong Bin Wang, Jin Fa Wang BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :90 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Weak preservation of local neutral mutation rates across mammalian genomes Hideo Imamura, John E Karro, Jeffrey H Chuang BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :89 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Geographic distribution of suitable hosts explains the evolution of specialized gentes in the European cuckoo Cuculus canorus Juan J Soler, Manuel Martin Vivaldi, Anders P Moller BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :88 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Sequencing and de novo analysis of a coral larval transcriptome using 454 GS-Flx Eli Meyer, Galina V Aglyamova, Shi Wang, Jade Buchanan-Carter, David Abrego, John K Colbourne, Bette L Willis, Mikhail V Matz BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :219 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Frequency-dependent selection by wild birds promotes polymorphism in model salamanders Benjamin M Fitzpatrick, Kim Shook, Reuben Izally BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :12 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Within-host competitive exclusion among species of the anther smut pathogen Alexander Gold, Tatiana Giraud, Michael E Hood BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :11 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Specific retention of the protostome-specific PsGEF may parallel with the evolution of mushroom bodies in insect and lophotrochozoan brains Nozomu Higuchi, Keigo Kohno, Tatsuhiko Kadowaki BMC Biology 2009, 7 :21 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Inbreeding and Fertility in Irish Wolfhounds in Sweden: 1976 to 2007 Silvan R Urfer Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51 :21 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Origin of nascent lineages and the mechanisms used to prime second-strand DNA synthesis in the R1 and R2 retrotransposons of Drosophila Deborah E Stage, Thomas H Eickbush Genome Biology 2009, 10 :R49 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Co-evolutionary networks of genes and cellular processes across fungal species Tamir Tuller, Martin Kupiec, Eytan Ruppin Genome Biology 2009, 10 :R48 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Lateral gene transfer between prokaryotes and multicellular eukaryotes: ongoing and significant? Vera ID Ros, Gregory DD Hurst BMC Biology 2009, 7 :20 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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F-actin-based extensions of the head cyst cell adhere to the maturing spermatids to maintain them in a tight bundle and prevent their premature release in Drosophila testis Bela S Desai, Seema Shirolikar, Krishanu Ray BMC Biology 2009, 7 :19 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Genome-wide identification and characterization of cytochrome P450 monooxygenase genes in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila Chengjie Fu, Jie Xiong, Wei Miao BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :208 (1 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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