Found 37 datasets matching "gene-evolution".
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Background Gene duplications have a major role in the evolution of new biological functions. Theoretical studies often assume that a duplication per se is selectively neutral and that,...
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The emerging consensus regarding the origin of root nodule symbiosis (RNS), based on modeling of trait gain and loss across approximately 13,000 species within the “nitrogen-fixing clade” in the...
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Background Gene fusions can be used as tools for functional prediction and also as evolutionary markers. Fused genes often show a scattered phyletic distribution, which suggests a role...
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Background As more complete genomes are sequenced, conservation of gene order between different organisms is emerging as an informative property of the genomes. Conservation of gene...
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Background Ribosomal proteins are encoded in all genomes of cellular life forms and are, generally, well conserved during evolution. In prokaryotes, the genes for most ribosomal proteins...
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The current speed of sequencing already exceeds the capability of annotation. A new method for functional annotation is proposed using the conservation patterns of gene clusters and has been...
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Background Glutathione is found primarily in eukaryotes and in Gram-negative bacteria. It has been proposed that eukaryotes acquired the genes for glutathione biosynthesis from the...
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Background Availability of genomewide information on an increasing but still limited number of plants offers the possibility of identifying orthologues, or related genes, in species with...
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Background The potential adaptive significance of transposable elements (TEs) to the host genomes in which they reside is a topic that has been hotly debated by molecular evolutionists...
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The disease known as Septoria nodorum blotch, or SNB, is caused by a fungal pathogen that infects wheat plants and can cause substantial losses in grain yield. When a specific protein known as...
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Background Non-allelic homologous recombination between paralogous repeats is increasingly being recognized as a major mechanism causing both pathogenic microdeletions and duplications,...
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PIECE is a plant gene structure comparison and evolution database with 25 species. Annotated genes extracted from the species are classified based on the Pfam motif and phylogenetic trees are...
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Background DNA methyltransferases (MTases), unlike MTases acting on other substrates, exhibit sequence permutation. Based on the sequential order of the cofactor-binding subdomain, the...
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Background The availability of multiple complete genome sequences from diverse taxa prompts the development of new phylogenetic approaches, which attempt to incorporate information...
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Background The planctomycetes comprise a distinct group of the domain Bacteria, forming a separate division by phylogenetic analysis. The organization of their cells into...
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Background Genomic sequence analyses have shown that horizontal gene transfer occurred during the origin of eukaryotes as a consequence of symbiosis. However, details of the timing and...
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Background: The serine hydroxymethyltransferase processed pseudogene SHMT-ps1 has been suggested to be unique to the order Primates because of the failure to amplify this sequence by PCR...
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Changes in influenza viruses that infect pigs have been observed for over two decades. The evolution of these viruses has led to several new strains. For instance, one such strain known as H1N2...
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Contradictory lines of evidence have made it difficult to resolve the phylogenetic history of the legume diversification era; this is true for the backbone topology, and for the number and timing...
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Background The sequences encoding the yeast RNA polymerase II (RPB) subunits are single copy genes. Results While those characterized so far for the...
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