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Turtle and tortoise mitogenomes under contrasting positive selection pressure
Testudinoidea represents an evolutionarily unique taxon comprising both turtles and tortoises. Turtles and tortoises are closely associated groups...
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Characterizing patterns of selection pressure on mammalian antiviral immune response
Immune response is known to be under constant evolutionary pressure from different factors including pathogens. Although different selection regimes...
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Institutional Dynamics Under Selection Pressure and Uncertainty
Simplified probability models of institutional function under selection pressure and stochastic burden that are based on the asymptotic limit...
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Reduced selection for antibiotic resistance in community context is maintained despite pressure by additional antibiotics
Selection for antibiotic resistance at very low antibiotic concentrations has been demonstrated for individual antibiotics in single species...
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Expanding risk predictions of pesticide resistance evolution in arthropod pests with a proxy for selection pressure
Chemical resistance in pest organisms threatens global food security and human health, yet resistance issues are mostly dealt with reactively....
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Selection pressure on the rhizosphere microbiome can alter nitrogen use efficiency and seed yield in Brassica rapa
Microbial experimental systems provide a platform to observe how networks of groups emerge to impact plant development. We applied selection pressure...
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Under pressure: evidence for selection on color-related genes in poison frogs of the genus Ranitomeya
Aposematic organisms rely on their bright conspicuous coloration to communicate to potential predators that they are toxic and unpalatable. These...
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Genomic selection pressure discovery using site-frequency spectrum and reduced local variability statistics in Pakistani Dera-Din-Panah goat
BackgroundPopulation geneticists have long sought to comprehend various selection traces accumulated in the goat genome due to natural or human...
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Whole genome sequence analysis of shallot virus X from India reveals it to be a natural recombinant with positive selection pressure
BackgroundShallots are infected by various viruses like Onion yellow dwarf virus (OYDV), Leek yellow stripe virus (LYSV), Shallot latent virus (SLV)...
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A selection pressure landscape for 870 human polygenic traits
Characterizing the natural selection of complex traits is important for understanding human evolution and both biological and pathological...
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Enhancing cold resistance in Banana (Musa spp.) through EMS-induced mutagenesis, L-Hyp pressure selection: phenotypic alterations, biomass composition, and transcriptomic insights
BackgroundThe cultivation of bananas encounters substantial obstacles, particularly due to the detrimental effects of cold stress on their growth and...
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Seasonal variations in bird selection pressure on prey colouration
The direction and strength of selection for prey colouration by predators vary in space and time and depend on the composition of the predator...
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Analysis of polygenic selection in purebred and crossbred pig genomes using generation proxy selection map**
BackgroundArtificial selection on quantitative traits using breeding values and selection indices in commercial livestock breeding populations causes...
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Directional selection coupled with kin selection favors the establishment of senescence
BackgroundConventional wisdom in evolutionary theory considers aging as a non-selected byproduct of natural selection. Based on this, conviction...
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Ultrahigh Pressure Treatment
Ultrahigh pressure (UHP), also called high hydrostatic pressure (HHP), is often defined as pressure exceeding 100 MPa. The implementation of UHP...
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Runs of homozygosity and selection signature analyses reveal putative genomic regions for artificial selection in layer breeding
BackgroundThe breeding of layers emphasizes the continual selection of egg-related traits, such as egg production, egg quality and eggshell, which...
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A dual-function selection system enables positive selection of multigene CRISPR mutants and negative selection of Cas9-free progeny in Arabidopsis
The CRISPR/Cas9 technology revolutionizes targeted gene knockout in diverse organisms including plants. However, screening edited alleles,...
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The Role of Selection and Migration in the Evolution of (Auto)Immunity Genes
The genetic architecture of multiple sclerosis is complicated. Additionally, the disease incidence varies per population or per geographical region....
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Comparative genomics, microsynteny, ancestral state reconstruction and selection pressure analysis across distinctive genomes and sub-genomes of Brassicaceae for analysis of evolutionary history of VQ gene family
Any unfavorable condition that affects the metabolism, growth, or development of plants is considered plant stress. The molecular response of plants...
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Programming tumor evolution with selection gene drives to proactively combat drug resistance
Most targeted anticancer therapies fail due to drug resistance evolution. Here we show that tumor evolution can be reproducibly redirected to...
