Evolutionary divergence of the Cubozoa cytolysin family
Evolutionary divergence and functions of the human interleukin (IL) gene family
... constant evolutionary pressure to change as a result of host – parasite co-evolution, where advantageous mutations are heavily ...of evolutionary divergence between mouse and human orthologues showed ...
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Evolutionary divergence and functions of the human acyl-CoA thioesterase gene (ACOT) family
... gene family represents a diverse group of enzymes that catalyse the hydroly- sis of acyl-CoA thioesters to their corresponding free fatty acids and coenzyme ...thioesterase family members can be divided ...
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Evolutionary divergence and functions of the ADAM and ADAMTSgene families
... Conclusions The ADAM and ADAMTS genes comprise two important metalloproteinase subgroups. Both the ADAM and the ADAMTS gene families contain very similar domain organisation; however, the differences confer distinct ...
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How is structural divergence related to evolutionary information?
... alignment, we have an unique vector of conservation or variation values for a given protein family. However, for each structure in the family, we have an RASA vector with an RASA value per residue. A ...
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Evidence of adaptive evolutionary divergence during biological invasion
... full-sib family was split into two subsets of 18–20 individuals each, one group being assigned to a "limnetic" type food regime, and the other to a "benthic" type food regime from week six ...
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Conservation and evolutionary divergence in the activity of receptor-regulated smads
... We approached the question of functional conserva- tion by testing the ability of non-bilaterian gene pro- ducts to function in a developing vertebrate in vivo. We focus on the Smad proteins, which operate both as intra- ...
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Functional and evolutionary analysis of flatfish gonadotropin receptors reveals cladal- and lineage-level divergence of the teleost glycoprotein receptor family
... To identify the putative regulatory roles the gonadotropin receptors play during ovarian development in Senegalese sole, we determined the expression profiles of fshra and lhcgrba in the[r] ...
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Phycobilisomes linker family in cyanobacterial genomes: divergence and evolution
... interesting evolutionary marker for both ancient and recent cyanobacteria ...the evolutionary history of the PBSs linker family (Supplementary Material graph ...
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Variation in base composition underlies functional and evolutionary divergence in non-LTR retrotransposons
... within family) in 14 species of mammals (cow, pig, horse, rabbit, human, lemur, arma- dillo, dog, panda, hyrax, elephant, rat, mouse and opos- sum), a reptile (the green anole Anolis carolinensis), an amphibian ...
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Evolutionary origin and functional divergence of totipotent cell homeobox genes in eutherian mammals
... the evolutionary origin and functional recruitment of novel homeobox genes in ...gene family [13], although this hypothesis has only been tested for Argfx [10, ...sequence divergence after ...
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Ascent, Descent, and Divergence: Darwin and Haeckel on the Human Family Tree
... and divergence—in particular on the shape of the human family tree, where the races branched off, and at what point they became ...human family tree and that evolutionary change is not always ...
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Adaptive protein divergence of BMP ligands takes place under developmental and evolutionary constraints
... β family reveal a highly conserved N- glycosylation motif (N-[X]-[S/T]), in which X represents any amino acid except proline, among the BMP2/4 and BMP5-8 type ligands ...to divergence of BMP2/4, BMP5-10, ...
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Molecular and evolutionary analysis of the GATA transcription factor family
... ψ G ATA -5 C hondrichtyes (shark) Figure 1.2 A) Phylogenetic tree showing the deuterostome lineage as based on the “tree of life” (http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html). The black ovals represent the two ...
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Evolutionary History of the Human Endogenous Retrovirus Family ERV9
... important evolutionary consequences that carrying these intragenomic parasites may have for their hosts, our knowledge about their evolution is still ...sequence divergence of its members from the subfamily ...
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Evolutionary divergence in the feeding mechanism of fishes
... EVOLUTIONARY DIVERGENCE IN THE FEEDING MECHANISM OF FISHES 117 DISCUSSION The prey capture mechanism in elasmobranchs dif- fers from that of teleostomes primarily in hyoid arch movements based on resting ...
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Seasonality and the evolutionary divergence of plant parasites
... that evolutionary branching is possible within this frame- ...considered evolutionary trade-off, the former parasite thus survives winter better, and focuses on the primary-infection transmis- sion ...Thus, ...
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Tracing ancient evolutionary divergence in parasites
... Oral cavity parasites have larger suckers and smaller hamuli compared with urinary 214.. tract parasites that have relatively smaller suckers and much larger hamuli (Fig.[r] ...
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Evolutionary Divergence of Exon Flanks: A Dissection of Mutability and Selection
... In this article, we performed an in-depth analysis on the evolutionary divergence of exon flanks. We are interested in the following questions. First, how does the local CpG context affect substitution ...
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Taxonomy and phylogeny of Australian cubozoa
... to family, or even in some cases to genus, based on some characters that develop quite early; however, other than reasonable hunches based on correlating these specimens with known geographical ranges, I cannot ...
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Evolutionary divergence in the fungal response to fluconazole revealed by soft clustering
... Expression of sterol importers in Kl increases fluconazole tolerance Since Kl neither up-regulates drug exporters nor encodes sterol importers, we considered that this lack of a transport response might be responsible ...
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