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Evolutionary genetics

Evidence for Positive Selection on the Leptin Gene in Cetacea and Pinnipedia

Li Yu, Wei Jin, Xin Zhang, Ding Wang, Jin-song Zheng, Guang Yang, Shi-xia Xu, Soochin Cho, Ya-ping Zhang

published 27 Oct 2011

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Evolutionary History of the Vertebrate Mitogen Activated Protein Kinases Family

Meng Li, Jun Liu, Chiyu Zhang

published 26 Oct 2011

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Species-Specific Codon Context Rules Unveil Non-Neutrality Effects of Synonymous Mutations

Gabriela R. Moura, Miguel Pinheiro, Adelaide Freitas, José L. Oliveira, Jörg C. Frommlet, Laura Carreto, Ana R. Soares, Ana R. Bezerra, Manuel A. S. Santos

published 26 Oct 2011

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A Novel Evolution-Based Method for Detecting Gene-Gene Interactions

Shaoqi Rao, Manqiong Yuan, Xiaoyu Zuo, Weiyang Su, Fan Zhang, Ke Huang, Meihua Lin, Yuanlin Ding

published 25 Oct 2011

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Hypervirulent Clostridium difficile PCR-Ribotypes Exhibit Resistance to Widely Used Disinfectants

Lisa F. Dawson, Esmeralda Valiente, Elizabeth H. Donahue, George Birchenough, Brendan W. Wren

published 25 Oct 2011

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Cumulative Number of Cell Divisions as a Meaningful Timescale for Adaptive Laboratory Evolution of Escherichia coli

Dae-Hee Lee, Adam M. Feist, Christian L. Barrett, Bernhard Ø. Palsson

published 18 Oct 2011

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Invasive Plants and Enemy Release: Evolution of Trait Means and Trait Correlations in Ulex europaeus

Benjamin Hornoy, Michèle Tarayre, Maxime Hervé, Luc Gigord, Anne Atlan

published 14 Oct 2011

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Isolation and Genetic Characterization of Mother-of-Snow-White, a Maternal Effect Allele Affecting Laterality and Lateralized Behaviors in Zebrafish

Alice Domenichini, Marco Dadda, Lucilla Facchin, Angelo Bisazza, Francesco Argenton

published 13 Oct 2011

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Duplication and Evolution of devA-Like Genes in Streptomyces Has Resulted in Distinct Developmental Roles

Laura C. Clark, Paul A. Hoskisson

published 05 Oct 2011

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Cosmetics as a Feature of the Extended Human Phenotype: Modulation of the Perception of Biologically Important Facial Signals

Nancy L. Etcoff, Shannon Stock, Lauren E. Haley, Sarah A. Vickery, David M. House

published 03 Oct 2011

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The Persistent Circulation of Enterovirus 71 in People's Republic of China: Causing Emerging Nationwide Epidemics Since 2008

Xiaojuan Tan, Xueyong Huang, Shuangli Zhu, Hui Chen, Qiuli Yu, Haiyan Wang, Xixiang Huo, Jianhui Zhou, Yan Wu, Dongmei Yan, Yong Zhang, Dongyan Wang, Aili Cui, Hongqiu An, Wenbo Xu

published 28 Sep 2011

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Eukaryotic Evolutionary Transitions Are Associated with Extreme Codon Bias in Functionally-Related Proteins

Nicholas J. Hudson, Quan Gu, Shivashankar H. Nagaraj, Yong-Sheng Ding, Brian P. Dalrymple, Antonio Reverter

published 23 Sep 2011

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A Study of the Evolution of Human microRNAs by Their Apparent Repression Effectiveness on Target Genes

Yong Huang, Xun Gu

published 21 Sep 2011

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