Data from: Phosphorylated Groucho delays differentiation in the follicle stem...
In the epithelial follicle stem cells (FSCs) of the Drosophila ovary, Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) signaling promotes self-renewal whereas Notch signaling promotes differentiation of the...
View ArticleData from: Two complete mitochondrial genomes from Praticolella mexicana...
Helicoidea is a diverse group of globally distributed land snails. While much is known regardingthe relationships of helicoid taxa, comparatively little is known about the evolution of themitochondrial...
View ArticleData from: Tisaniba, a new genus of marpissoid jumping spiders from Borneo...
The genus Neon stands alone as a phylogenetically isolated astioid jumping spider, the only member of the Neonini. The new genus Papuaneon is established for the jumping spider Papuaneon tualapa, sp....
View ArticleData from: Fisher’s geometrical model and the mutational patterns of...
Fisher's geometrical model (FGM) has been widely used to depict the fitness effects of mutations. It is a general model with few underlying assumptions that gives a large and comprehensive view of...
View ArticleData from: Allegory of a cave crustacean: systematic and biogeographic...
Halosbaena Stock, 1976 are small crustaceans found in a number of distant, isolated subterranean locations in the Northern (Caribbean and Canary Islands) and Southern Hemispheres (Christmas Island and...
View ArticleData from: Developmental mechanisms of stripe patterns in rodents
Mammalian colour patterns are among the most recognizable characteristics found in nature and can have a profound impact on fitness. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying the...
View ArticleData from: Assembling a species–area curve through colonization, speciation...
Aim: The fundamental biogeographical processes of colonization, speciation and extinction shape island biotas in space–time. On oceanic islands, area and isolation affect these processes and resulting...
View ArticleData from: Seasonal changes in starch content in trophopods of Matteuccia...
Trophopods are modified stipe bases that function as starch-storage organs in a wide variety of mainly temperate ferns. Ever since they were first observed, the presence of trophopods has been...
View ArticleData from: Genetic architecture of nonadditive inheritance in Arabidopsis...
The ubiquity of nonparental hybrid phenotypes, such as hybrid vigor and hybrid inferiority, has interested biologists for over a century and is of considerable agricultural importance. Although...
View ArticleData from: Laboratory rearing of Anopheles arabiensis: impact on genetic...
Background: Mosquito colony populations often show significant changes in their population genetic make-up compared to the field populations that were used as founding source. Most of the changes that...
View ArticleData from: Phylogenetic and comparative genomics of the family...
Background: The Leptotrichiaceae are a family of fairly unnoticed bacteria containing both microbiota on mucous membranes as well as significant pathogens such as Streptobacillus moniliformis, the...
View ArticleData from: Transcriptomic data from panarthropods shed new light on the...
Background Body plan development in multi-cellular organisms is largely determined by homeotic genes. Expression of homeotic genes, in turn, is partially regulated by insulator binding proteins (IBPs)....
View ArticleData from: Fetal genome profiling at 5 weeks of gestation after noninvasive...
Single-gene mutations account for more than 6000 diseases, 10% of all pediatric hospital admissions, and 20% of infant deaths. Down syndrome and other aneuploidies occur in more than 0.2% of births...
View ArticleData from: Evolution of haploid-diploid life cycles when haploid and diploid...
Many organisms spend a significant portion of their life cycle as haploids and as diploids (a haploid-diploid life cycle). However, the evolutionary processes that could maintain this sort of life...
View ArticleData from: Improving access and continuity of care for homeless people: how...
Objectives: To analyze the views of general practitioners (GPs) about how they can provide care to homeless people (HP) and to explore which measures could influence their views. Design: Mixed-methods...
View ArticleData from: Speciation with gene flow in North American Myotis bats.
Growing evidence supports the idea that species can diverge in the presence of gene flow. However, most methods of phylogeny estimation do not consider this process, despite the fact that ignoring gene...
View ArticleData from: Coevolutionary dynamics between a defensive microbe and a pathogen...
Microbes that protect their hosts from pathogenic infection are widespread components of the microbiota of both plants and animals. It has been found that interactions between ‘defensive’ microbes and...
View ArticleData from: Decoupling of latitudinal gradients in species and genus...
Aim. Clade range size is a function of species range sizes but also depends on the geographic deployment of species; clade range expansion should therefore depend partly on a clade’s tendency to...
View ArticleData from: The replication of Frataxin gene is assured by activation of...
It is well known that DNA replication affects the stability of several trinucleotide repeats, but whether replication profiles of human loci carrying an expanded repeat differ from those of normal...
View ArticleData from: Buchnera aphidicola has changed flatmate: did the replacement of...
Symbiotic associations with bacteria have facilitated important evolutionary transitions in insects and resulted in long-term obligate interactions. Recent evidence suggests that these associations are...
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