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Detection of colinear blocks and synteny and evolutionary analyses based on utilization of MCScanX
As different taxa evolve, gene order often changes slowly enough that chromosomal ‘blocks’ with conserved gene orders (synteny) are discernible. The...
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Comparative genomic analyses provide new insights into evolutionary history and conservation genomics of gorillas
Genome sequencing is a powerful tool to understand species evolutionary history, uncover genes under selection, which could be informative of local...
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Comparative and phylogenetic analyses of Loranthaceae plastomes provide insights into the evolutionary trajectories of plastome degradation in hemiparasitic plants
BackgroundThe lifestyle transition from autotrophy to heterotrophy often leads to extensive degradation of plastomes in parasitic plants, while the...
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SynGenes: a Python class for standardizing nomenclatures of mitochondrial and chloroplast genes and a web form for enhancing searches for evolutionary analyses
BackgroundThe reconstruction of the evolutionary history of organisms has been greatly influenced by the advent of molecular techniques, leading to a...
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Prediction of effector protein structures from fungal phytopathogens enables evolutionary analyses
Elucidating the similarity and diversity of pathogen effectors is critical to understand their evolution across fungal phytopathogens. However, rapid...
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Evolutionary Algorithms
The focus of this chapter is on Evolutionary Algorithms, which have a wide variety of applications in sports and sports science. Their application is...
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Comparative Evolutionary Genomics in Insects
Genome sequencing quality, in terms of both read length and accuracy, is constantly improving. By combining long-read sequencing technologies with...
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Comparative evolutionary analyses of eight whitefly Bemisia tabaci sensu lato genomes: cryptic species, agricultural pests and plant-virus vectors
BackgroundThe group of > 40 cryptic whitefly species called Bemisia tabaci sensu lato are amongst the world’s worst agricultural pests and...
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Comparative chloroplast genome analyses of Amomum: insights into evolutionary history and species identification
BackgroundSpecies in genus Amomum always have important medicinal and economic values. Classification of Amomum using morphological characters has...
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Genome‑wide Identification, Evolutionary and Expression Analyses of CrRLK1L Gene Family in Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
CrRLK1L is subfamily of the receptor-like kinase family, which unique to plants and play an important role in regulation of plant growth and...
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GRAS gene family in rye (Secale cereale L.): genome-wide identification, phylogeny, evolutionary expansion and expression analyses
BackgroundThe GRAS transcription factor family plays a crucial role in various biological processes in different plants, such as tissue development,...
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Basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) gene family in rye (Secale cereale L.): genome-wide identification, phylogeny, evolutionary expansion and expression analyses
BackgroundRye ( Secale cereale ), one of the drought and cold-tolerant crops, is an important component of the Triticae Dumortier family of Gramineae...
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The identification, adaptive evolutionary analyses and mRNA expression levels of homeobox (hox) genes in the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis
BackgroundArthropods are the largest group in the animal kingdom and are morphologically characterized by heterorhythmic segments. Brachyuran decapod...
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The evolutionary drivers and correlates of viral host jumps
Most emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases stem from viruses that naturally circulate in non-human vertebrates. When these viruses cross over...
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Incommensurability in Evolutionary Biology: The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Controversy
Evolutionary biologists today debate whether it is convenient to revise the standard theory of evolution, or if an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis is...
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An evolutionary timeline of the oxytocin signaling pathway
Oxytocin is a neuropeptide associated with both psychological and somatic processes like parturition and social bonding. Although oxytocin homologs...
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Genetics and evolutionary insights from Solanaceae genome sequences
The availability of genome sequence resources and genomic information enables the functional characterization of genes in crop plants. These genes...
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Comparative Analyses of Bacteriophage Genomes
Bacterial viruses (bacteriophages or phages) are the most abundant and diverse biological entities on Earth. There is a renewed worldwide interest in...
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The effect of missing data on evolutionary analysis of sequence capture bycatch, with application to an agricultural pest
Sequence capture is a genomic technique that selectively enriches target sequences before high throughput next-generation sequencing, to generate...
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The Evolving Evolutionary Synthesis
I review the controversy advanced by advocates of an “extended evolutionary synthesis” (EES) in the light of other controversies in evolutionary...