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  1. Geographic selection mosaics, in which species exert different evolutionary impacts on each other in different environments, may drive diversification in coevolving species. We studied the potential for geogra...

    Authors: Bridget J Piculell, Jason D Hoeksema and John N Thompson
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:23
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  2. Cichlid fishes have radiated into hundreds of species in the Great Lakes of Africa. Brightly colored males display on leks and vie to be chosen by females as mates. Strong discrimination by females causes diff...

    Authors: Karen L Carleton, Tyrone C Spady, J Todd Streelman, Michael R Kidd, William N McFarland and Ellis R Loew
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:22
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  6. Flying lemurs or Colugos (order Dermoptera) represent an ancient mammalian lineage that contains only two extant species. Although molecular evidence strongly supports that the orders Dermoptera, Scandentia, L...

    Authors: Wenhui Nie, Beiyuan Fu, Patricia CM O'Brien, Jinhuan Wang, Weiting Su, Alongkoad Tanomtong, Vitaly Volobouev, Malcolm A Ferguson-Smith and Fengtang Yang
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:18
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  8. Polyploidy has played a prominent role in shaping the genomic architecture of the angiosperms. Through allopolyploidization, several modern Gossypium (cotton) species contain two divergent, although largely redun...

    Authors: Lex Flagel, Joshua Udall, Dan Nettleton and Jonathan Wendel
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:16
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  9. The proneural proteins Mash1 and Ngn2 are key cell autonomous regulators of neurogenesis in the mammalian central nervous system, yet little is known about the molecular pathways regulated by these transcripti...

    Authors: Julia M Gohlke, Olivier Armant, Frederick M Parham, Marjolein V Smith, Celine Zimmer, Diogo S Castro, Laurent Nguyen, Joel S Parker, Gerard Gradwohl, Christopher J Portier and François Guillemot
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:15
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  10. Afrotheria comprises a newly recognized clade of mammals with strong molecular evidence for its monophyly. In contrast, morphological data uniting its diverse constituents, including elephants, sea cows, hyrax...

    Authors: Robert J Asher and Thomas Lehmann
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:14
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  11. In the 15 years that have passed since the cloning of Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein (avGFP), the expanding set of fluorescent protein (FP) variants has become entrenched as an indispensable toolkit ...

    Authors: Hui-wang Ai, Scott G Olenych, Peter Wong, Michael W Davidson and Robert E Campbell
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:13
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  12. Double-stranded (ds) RNA, generated during viral infection, binds and activates the mammalian anti-viral protein kinase PKR, which phosphorylates the translation initiation factor eIF2α leading to the general ...

    Authors: Stefan Rothenburg, Nikolaus Deigendesch, Madhusudan Dey, Thomas E Dever and Loubna Tazi
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:12
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  13. The invasive garden ant, Lasius neglectus, is the most recently detected pest ant and the first known invasive ant able to become established and thrive in the temperate regions of Eurasia. In this study, we aim ...

    Authors: Line V Ugelvig, Falko P Drijfhout, Daniel JC Kronauer, Jacobus J Boomsma, Jes S Pedersen and Sylvia Cremer
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:11
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Biology 2018 16:128

  14. Adaptive radiation, the evolution of ecological and phenotypic diversity from a common ancestor, is a central concept in evolutionary biology and characterizes the evolutionary histories of many groups of orga...

    Authors: Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Kerry A Deere, Graham J Slater, Colleen Begg, Keith Begg, Lon Grassman, Mauro Lucherini, Geraldine Veron and Robert K Wayne
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:10
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  15. In order to initiate plant infection, fungal spores must germinate and penetrate into the host plant. Many fungal species differentiate specialized infection structures called appressoria on the host surface, ...

    Authors: Iris Nesher, Sima Barhoom and Amir Sharon
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:9
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  16. The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), otherwise known as the prion diseases, occur following the conversion of the normal cellular prion protein (PrPC) to an alternatively folded isoform (PrPSc). ...

    Authors: Clive Bate, Mourad Tayebi and Alun Williams
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:8
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  17. The amphipod crustacean Palmorchestia hypogaea occurs only in La Palma (Canary Islands) and is one of the few terrestrial amphipods in the world that have adapted to a strictly troglobitic life in volcanic cave h...

    Authors: Carlos Villacorta, Damià Jaume, Pedro Oromí and Carlos Juan
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:7
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  18. Determining an absolute timescale for avian evolutionary history has proven contentious. The two sources of information available, paleontological data and inference from extant molecular genetic sequences (co...

    Authors: Joseph W Brown, Joshua S Rest, Jaime García-Moreno, Michael D Sorenson and David P Mindell
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:6
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  19. The heat shock protein Hsp70 promotes inducible thermotolerance in nearly every organism examined to date. Hsp70 interacts with a network of other stress-response proteins, and dissecting the relative roles of...

    Authors: Brian R Bettencourt, Catherine C Hogan, Mario Nimali and Brian W Drohan
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:5
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  22. To study the organization and interaction with the fusion domain (or fusion peptide, FP) of the transmembrane domain (TMD) of influenza virus envelope glycoprotein for its role in membrane fusion which is also...

    Authors: Ding-Kwo Chang, Shu-Fang Cheng, Eric Aseen B Kantchev, Chi-Hui Lin and Yu-Tsan Liu
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:2
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  23. O-fucosyltransferase1 (OFUT1) is a conserved ER protein essential for Notch signaling. OFUT1 glycosylates EGF domains, which can then be further modified by the N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase Fringe. OFUT1 also...

    Authors: Tetsuya Okajima, BVVG Reddy, Tsukasa Matsuda and Kenneth D Irvine
    Citation: BMC Biology 2008 6:1
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  24. A central question in the evolutionary diversification of large, widespread, mobile mammals is how substantial differentiation can arise, particularly in the absence of topographic or habitat barriers to dispe...

    Authors: David M Brown, Rick A Brenneman, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, John P Pollinger, Borja Milá, Nicholas J Georgiadis, Edward E Louis Jr, Gregory F Grether, David K Jacobs and Robert K Wayne
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:57
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  25. Insects helped pioneer, and persist as model organisms for, the study of specific aspects of immunity. Although they lack an adaptive immune system, insects possess an innate immune system that recognizes and ...

    Authors: Dalial Freitak, Christopher W Wheat, David G Heckel and Heiko Vogel
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:56
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  26. The genus Cuscuta L. (Convolvulaceae), commonly known as dodders, are epiphytic vines that invade the stems of their host with haustorial feeding structures at the points of contact. Although they lack expanded l...

    Authors: Joel R McNeal, Kathiravetpilla Arumugunathan, Jennifer V Kuehl, Jeffrey L Boore and Claude W dePamphilis
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:55
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  27. The urine of freshwater fish species investigated so far acts as a vehicle for reproductive pheromones affecting the behaviour and physiology of the opposite sex. However, the role of urinary pheromones in int...

    Authors: Eduardo N Barata, Peter C Hubbard, Olinda G Almeida, António Miranda and Adelino VM Canário
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:54
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  28. Cell shape changes during cytokinesis and chemotaxis require regulation of the actin cytoskeletal network. Dynacortin, an actin cross-linking protein, localizes to the cell cortex and contributes to cortical r...

    Authors: Cathryn Kabacoff, Yuan Xiong, Runa Musib, Elizabeth M Reichl, John Kim, Pablo A Iglesias and Douglas N Robinson
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:53
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  29. In daily life, we are exposed to different sound inputs simultaneously. During neural encoding in the auditory pathway, neural activities elicited by these different sounds interact with each other. In the pre...

    Authors: Hidehiko Okamoto, Henning Stracke, Bernhard Ross, Ryusuke Kakigi and Christo Pantev
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:52
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  30. The exceptionally diverse species flocks of cichlid fishes in East Africa are prime examples of parallel adaptive radiations. About 80% of East Africa's more than 1 800 endemic cichlid species, and all species...

    Authors: Walter Salzburger, Ingo Braasch and Axel Meyer
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:51
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  33. Carpenter ants (genus Camponotus) are considered to be omnivores. Nonetheless, the genome sequence of Blochmannia floridanus, the obligate intracellular endosymbiont of Camponotus floridanus, suggests a function ...

    Authors: Heike Feldhaar, Josef Straka, Markus Krischke, Kristina Berthold, Sascha Stoll, Martin J Mueller and Roy Gross
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:48
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  34. The homeobox genes are a large and diverse group of genes, many of which play important roles in the embryonic development of animals. Increasingly, homeobox genes are being compared between genomes in an atte...

    Authors: Peter WH Holland, H Anne F Booth and Elspeth A Bruford
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:47
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  35. Direct visualization of data sets in the context of biochemical network drawings is one of the most appealing approaches in the field of data evaluation within systems biology. One important type of informatio...

    Authors: Stephan Noack, Aljoscha Wahl, Ermir Qeli and Wolfgang Wiechert
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:46
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  37. Molecular interaction Information is a key resource in modern biomedical research. Publicly available data have previously been provided in a broad array of diverse formats, making access to this very difficul...

    Authors: Samuel Kerrien, Sandra Orchard, Luisa Montecchi-Palazzi, Bruno Aranda, Antony F Quinn, Nisha Vinod, Gary D Bader, Ioannis Xenarios, Jérôme Wojcik, David Sherman, Mike Tyers, John J Salama, Susan Moore, Arnaud Ceol, Andrew Chatr-aryamontri, Matthias Oesterheld…
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:44
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  39. Shaker codes for a Drosophila voltage-dependent potassium channel. Flies carrying Shaker null or hypomorphic mutations sleep 3–4 h/day instead of 8–14 h/day as their wild-type siblings do. Shaker-like channels a...

    Authors: Christopher L Douglas, Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, Teresa Southard, Shing-Yan Chiu, Albee Messing, Giulio Tononi and Chiara Cirelli
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:42
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  40. Dinoflagellates comprise an ecologically significant and diverse eukaryotic phylum that is sister to the phylum containing apicomplexan endoparasites. The mitochondrial genome of apicomplexans is uniquely redu...

    Authors: Christopher J Jackson, John E Norman, Murray N Schnare, Michael W Gray, Patrick J Keeling and Ross F Waller
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:41
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  41. The contrasting dose of sex chromosomes in males and females potentially introduces a large-scale imbalance in levels of gene expression between sexes, and between sex chromosomes and autosomes. In many organi...

    Authors: Hans Ellegren, Lina Hultin-Rosenberg, Björn Brunström, Lennart Dencker, Kim Kultima and Birger Scholz
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:40
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  42. Wolbachia are obligate endosymbiotic bacteria maternally transmitted through the egg cytoplasm that are responsible for several reproductive disorders in their insect hosts, such as cytoplasmic incompatibility (...

    Authors: Thomas Walker, Lisa Klasson, Mohammed Sebaihia, Mandy J Sanders, Nicholas R Thomson, Julian Parkhill and Steven P Sinkins
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:39
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  43. Histone modifications have been implicated in the regulation of transcription and, more recently, in DNA replication and repair. In yeast, a major conserved histone acetyltransferase, Hat1p, preferentially ace...

    Authors: Bernhard Suter, Oxana Pogoutse, Xinghua Guo, Nevan Krogan, Peter Lewis, Jack F Greenblatt, Jasper Rine and Andrew Emili
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:38
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  44. The parvulin-type peptidyl prolyl cis/trans isomerase Par14 is highly conserved in all metazoans. The recently identified parvulin Par17 contains an additional N-terminal domain whose occurrence and function was ...

    Authors: Daniel Kessler, Panagiotis Papatheodorou, Tina Stratmann, Elke Andrea Dian, Cristina Hartmann-Fatu, Joachim Rassow, Peter Bayer and Jonathan Wolf Mueller
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:37
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  45. In mouse the cytokine interleukin-7 (IL-7) is required for generation of B lymphocytes, but human IL-7 does not appear to have this function. A bioinformatics approach was therefore used to identify IL-7 recep...

    Authors: Delicia L Munfus, Christopher L Haga, Peter D Burrows and Max D Cooper
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:36
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  46. Various typing methods have been developed for Neisseria gonorrhoeae, but none provide the combination of discrimination, reproducibility, portability, and genetic inference that allows the analysis of all aspect...

    Authors: Julia S Bennett, Keith A Jolley, P Frederick Sparling, Nigel J Saunders, C Anthony Hart, Ian M Feavers and Martin CJ Maiden
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:35
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  47. Over the last two decades, zebrafish have been established as a genetically versatile model system for investigating many different aspects of vertebrate developmental biology. With the credentials of zebrafis...

    Authors: Robert J Bryson-Richardson, Silke Berger, Thomas F Schilling, Thomas E Hall, Nicholas J Cole, Abigail J Gibson, James Sharpe and Peter D Currie
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:34
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  49. Upstream open reading frames (uORFs) can mediate translational control over the largest, or major ORF (mORF) in response to starvation, polyamine concentrations, and sucrose concentrations. One plant uORF with...

    Authors: Celine A Hayden and Richard A Jorgensen
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:32
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  50. Ancient whole genome duplications have been implicated in the vertebrate and teleost radiations, and in the emergence of diverse angiosperm lineages, but the evolutionary response to such a perturbation is sti...

    Authors: Uffe Hellsten, Mustafa K Khokha, Timothy C Grammer, Richard M Harland, Paul Richardson and Daniel S Rokhsar
    Citation: BMC Biology 2007 5:31
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