Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
... bristles, tarsal scutellation, pterylosis, myology, osteology. They concluded that Turnagra was unrelated to the Pachycephalidae, but likely ‘‘the most primitive member of the bird-of-paradise/ bowerbird assemblage’’. ...
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ARTICLE IN PRESS. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution xxx (2005) xxx xxx
... Initial molecular studies, based primarily on small fragments of single mitochondrial genes, have produced little resolution of the deep relationships amongst coleoid ceph- alopod ...of evolution than the ...
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
... direction. However, Sedano and Burns (2010) found most specia- tion events to occur within the highlands or lowland areas during the evolution of tanagers (Thraupini), with transitions between altitudinal ranges ...
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Patterns and processes in animal evolution : molecular phylogenetics of Southern Hemisphere fauna : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Genetics
... Molecular phylogenetic studies are important tools that are widely used to both generate and test biogeographic hypotheses. Important in this endeavour is the systematic framework (on which to begin testing) to ...
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Patterns and processes in animal evolution : molecular phylogenetics of Southern Hemisphere fauna : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Genetics
... Molecular dating using a relaxed clock as implemented in BEAST suggest that in fact some lineages were present at or shortly after continental breakup and could have survived throughout this turbulent time. As ...
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RESEARCH INTERESTS Evolutionary biology, molecular evolution, genomics, phylogenetics
... Leaché, A. D., Wagner, P., Linkem, C., Böhme, W., Papenfuss, T. J., Chong, R. A., Lavin, B., Bauer, A. M., Nielsen, S., Greenbaum, E., Rodel, MO., Schmitz, A., LeBreton, A., Ineich, I., Chirio, L., Ofori-Boateng, C., ...
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The anhydrobiotic potential and molecular phylogenetics of species and strains of Panagrolaimus (Nematoda, Panagrolaimidae)
... superbus (10% dry mass) suggest that constitutive expression of trehalose pre-adapts this fast dehydration strategist to combat desiccation. All the strains observed, regardless of survival rates, undertook both coiling ...
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The biogeography of kelps (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae): a global analysis with new insights from recent advances in molecular phylogenetics
... genus-level evolution has occurred since the cooling of the Arctic Ocean and Ber- ing ...detailed molecular population studies across their geo- graphical range are ...
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A priori assessment of data quality in molecular phylogenetics
... sequence evolution itself, leading to a degradation of the phylogenetic signal when diver- gence times become very large and when data sets are ...tree-like evolution, such as recombination and lateral gene ...
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Molecular Phylogenetics of the Genus Trichosporon Inferred from Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene Sequences
... rapid evolution of the mitochondrial genome, the lack of recombi- nation, and the strict maternal inheritance ...the evolution and phylogenetic relationships of many animals, including birds, mammals, and ...
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Molecular Phylogenetics of Candida albicans
... independent evolution of the gene fragments sequenced; and (viii) that recombination events are reflected in the haplotype analysis of the gene frag- ments sequenced for MLST, which suggests that the putative ...
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Molecular phylogenetics reveal multiple tertiary vicariance origins of the African rain forest trees
... We studied the evolutionary history of the largest mono- phyletic African clade of rain forest trees [18] within the diverse pan-tropical family Annonaceae. Annonaceae is one of the best examples of a tropical plant ...
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Epistasis and the Dynamics of Reversion in Molecular Evolution
... tively irreversible (Muller 1918, 1939). This issue has been especially important recently, due to ongoing debate in the field of protein evolution about how position-specific prefer- ences for amino acids may ...
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Molecular evolution of Drosophila metallothionein genes.
... In order to investigate the possibility of increased selection for duplications of these genes in natural populations exposed to high levels of heavy metals, we compar[r] ...
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Molecular Evolution at the decapentaplegic Locus in Drosophila
... and D.virilis to explore the molecular evolution of the gene. Our interspecific analysis identified signifi- cant selective constraint on both the nucleotide and amino acid seque[r] ...
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Molecular Evolution: The HIV Envelope Protein
... The simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) is very similar to HIV. In fact, HIV evolved from SIV. SIV is endogenous to nonhuman primate populations (chimpanzees, macaques, etc.). The Rhesus macaque serves as a model ...
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The role of polysaccharides in the molecular evolution of biopolymers
... the molecular evolution of biopolymers [2], could initiate the above-mentioned processes, which, in their turn, enabled the described reactions to prevail at the initial stages of the Earth atmosphere ...
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The molecular evolution of sperm zonadhesin
... the evolution of sperm-egg inter- acting proteins in marine invertebrates, which are free-spawners such as abalones and sea ...the evolution of sperm proteins might also be under the influence of ...
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MOLECULAR EVOLUTION AND POLYMORPHISM IN A RANDOM ENVIRONMENT
... of heterozygosity.” Comparison of Figure 4 with Figure 3 of CHAKRABORTY, FUERST and NEI (1978) shows that the SAS-CFF model fits the data better than does the neutral-all[r] ...
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The evolution of the cosmic molecular gas density
... positioning molecular studies in line with what is currently observed from high-redshift galaxies via direct ...the molecular gas density ...of molecular gas detections in the early Universe open up ...
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