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Vertebrate genomics: More fishy tales about Hox genesA Meyer
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz
Curr Biol 9:R210-3. 1999..This suggests that an additional genome duplication occurred on the fish lineage and explains why many gene families are typically about half the size in land vertebrates than they are in fish...
Genetic support for random mating between left and right-mouth morphs in the dimorphic scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis from Lake TanganyikaH J Lee
Lehrstuhl fur Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Universitatstrasse 10, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
J Fish Biol 76:1940-57. 2010..An additional analysis of two microsatellite loci that were recently suggested to be putatively linked to the genetic locus that determines the laterality of these mouth morphs did not show any such association...
The ghost of selection past: rates of evolution and functional divergence of anciently duplicated genesY Van de Peer
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
J Mol Evol 53:436-46. 2001....
Genome duplication, divergent resolution and speciationJ S Taylor
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
Trends Genet 17:299-301. 2001..Genome duplication events produce thousands of duplicated genes. Therefore, lineages with a history of genome duplication might have been especially prone to speciation via divergent resolution...
Male pregnancy in seahorses and pipefishes (family Syngnathidae): rapid diversification of paternal brood pouch morphology inferred from a molecular phylogenyA B Wilson
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany
J Hered 92:159-66. 2001..Molecular analyses also highlight geographical centers of biodiversity and suggest interoceanic migration of Syngnathus pipefishes from their center of origin in the Pacific...
Gene and genome duplications in vertebrates: the one-to-four (-to-eight in fish) rule and the evolution of novel gene functionsA Meyer
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, 78457, Germany
Curr Opin Cell Biol 11:699-704. 1999..The increased genetic complexity of fish might reflect their evolutionary success and diversity...
Hindbrain patterning revisited: timing and effects of retinoic acid signallingG Begemann
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany
Bioessays 23:981-6. 2001....
An updated and comprehensive rRNA phylogeny of (crown) eukaryotes based on rate-calibrated evolutionary distancesY Van de Peer
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, D 78457 Konstanz, Germany
J Mol Evol 51:565-76. 2000....
Microsporidia: accumulating molecular evidence that a group of amitochondriate and suspectedly primitive eukaryotes are just curious fungiY Van de Peer
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, D 78457, Konstanz, Germany
Gene 246:1-8. 2000..In this respect, the importance of incorporating detailed knowledge of the substitution pattern of sequences into phylogenetic methods is discussed...
Comparative genomics provides evidence for an ancient genome duplication event in fishJ S Taylor
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78457, Konstanz, Germany
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 356:1661-79. 2001..Alternatively, the loss of different duplicates in different populations (i.e. 'divergent resolution') may have promoted speciation in ancient teleost populations...
Rapid evolution and selection inferred from the transcriptomes of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishesK R Elmer
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany
Mol Ecol 19:197-211. 2010..We conclude that next-generation sequencing technologies allow us to infer natural selection acting to diversify the genomes of young species, such as crater lake cichlids, with much greater scope than previously possible...
Kin-structured subpopulations in Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis L.)G Gerlach
Department of Biology, PO Box 5560, University of Konstanz, D 78457 Konstanz, Germany
Heredity 86:213-21. 2001..There is evidence that some shoals contain full- and half-sibs. Despite females spawning in close proximity to each other, some siblings stay together. This might suggest that perch possess kin preferences and kin recognition...
Beyond the neckless phenotype: influence of reduced retinoic acid signaling on motor neuron development in the zebrafish hindbrainG Begemann
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78464 Constance, Germany
Dev Biol 271:119-29. 2004..In addition, blockage of RA-mediated signaling not only interferes with the differentiation of branchiomotor neurons and their axons in the hindbrain, but also affects the development of the posterior lateral line nerve...
Evolutionary Biology: Cichlid species flocks of the past and presentA Meyer
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Universitaetsstrasse 10, D-78457 Kontanz, Germany
Heredity 95:419-20. 2005
Closing of the Tethys Sea and the phylogeny of Eurasian killifishes (Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontidae)T Hrbek
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
J Evol Biol 16:17-36. 2003..The two phylogenetically deepest events were also likely driven by ecological changes associated with the closing of the Tethys Sea...
Genetic structure of the vairone Telestes souffia in the eastern part of Lake Constance, central EuropeF M Muenzel
Lehrstuhl fur Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
J Fish Biol 77:1158-64. 2010..Results emphasize the critically endangered status of this freshwater fish in the upper Rhine River system...
Strong reproductive skew among males in the multiply mated swordtail Xiphophorus multilineatus (Teleostei)J Luo
Fachbereich Biologie, , , 78457 Konstanz, Germany
J Hered 96:346-55. 2005..Postcopulatory mechanisms, however, such as sperm competition, are also indicated by our data, using sex-linked phenotypes among the offspring...
Use of a phage-based assay for phenotypic detection of mycobacteria directly from sputumD J Park
PHLS Mycobacterium Reference Unit, Public Health Laboratory, King's College Hospital (Dulwich, East Dulwich Grove, London SE22 8QF, United Kingdom
J Clin Microbiol 41:680-8. 2003..tuberculosis organisms in 1 ml of sputum was developed. Taken together, these improvements support the routine application of the assay to sputum specimens...
Evolutionary analyses of hedgehog and Hoxd-10 genes in fish species closely related to the zebrafishR Zardoya
Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794 5245, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 93:13036-41. 1996..The presence of four members of the hedgehog gene family in cyprinid fishes was documented and their homologies to known hedgehog genes in other vertebrates were established...
Kainic acid increases the expression of the prohormone convertases furin and PC1 in the mouse hippocampusA Meyer
J A DeSève Laboratory of Molecular Neuroendocrinology, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Brain Res 732:121-32. 1996..Based on colocalization studies and evidence of coordinate expression with NGF and BDNF, we suggest the involvement of furin in processing of proNGF, and of both furin and PC1 in processing of proBDNF...
