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Historical population size change of bowhead whales inferred from DNA sequence polymorphism dataA P Rooney
Mississippi State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi 39762, USA
Evolution 55:1678-85. 2001..As such, early Holocene changes in Arctic sea ice distribution appear to have had little influence on patterns of genetic variability in this population...- Molecular evolution of the nontandemly repeated genes of the histone 3 multigene familyAlejandro P Rooney
Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, P O Box GY, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
Mol Biol Evol 19:68-75. 2002..Further analyses of the structure of H3 proteins revealed that the histones of higher eukaryotes might have evolved from a replication-independent-like H3 gene... - Inferring species trees from gene trees: a phylogenetic analysis of the Elapidae (Serpentes) based on the amino acid sequences of venom proteinsJ B Slowinski
Department of Biological Sciences, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond 70402, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 8:349-62. 1997..This finding is corroborated by previous studies, which provide support for the usefulness of gene tree parsimony... - Mechanisms underlying the evolution and maintenance of functionally heterogeneous 18S rRNA genes in ApicomplexansAlejandro P Rooney
Microbial Genomics and Bioprocessing Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois, USA
Mol Biol Evol 21:1704-11. 2004..This represents the first case in which an rRNA gene family has been found to evolve under the birth-and-death model... - Novel sex pheromone desaturases in the genomes of corn borers generated through gene duplication and retroposon fusionBingye Xue
Department of Entomology, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:4467-72. 2007..The existence of cryptic desaturase genes in moth genomes indicates that the evolution of moth sex pheromone desaturases in general is much more complex than previously recognized... - Genetic consequences of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) restoration in MississippiRandy W DeYoung
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Box 9690, Mississippi State University, MS 39762, USA
Mol Ecol 12:3237-52. 2003..However, the use of diverse transplant stocks and the varied demographic histories of populations resulted in fine-scale genetic structuring... - Genomic organization of mouse and human 65 kDa FK506-binding protein genes and evolution of the FKBP multigene familyCharles E Patterson
Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX 75390, USA
Genomics 79:881-9. 2002.... - Purifying selection and birth-and-death evolution in the histone H4 gene familyHelen Piontkivska
Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, 328 Mueller Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Mol Biol Evol 19:689-97. 2002.... - Evolution of a large ribosomal RNA multigene family in filamentous fungi: birth and death of a concerted evolution paradigmAlejandro P Rooney
Microbial Genomics and Bioprocessing Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Peoria, IL 61604, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:5084-9. 2005..As such, we hypothesize that a mechanism resembling retroposition controls 5S rRNA gene amplification, dispersal, and integration in the genomes of filamentous fungi... - Characterization of a novel gene for strain typing reveals substructuring of Aspergillus fumigatus across North AmericaS Arunmozhi Balajee
Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mail stop G 11, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Eukaryot Cell 6:1392-9. 2007..fumigatus isolate Af293, whose genome has been sequenced, possesses a CSP gene structure that is substantially different from those of the other A. fumigatus strains studied here, highlighting the need for further taxonomic study... - Identifying the fundamental units of bacterial diversity: a paradigm shift to incorporate ecology into bacterial systematicsAlexander Koeppel
Departments of Biology and Mathematics and Computer Science, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:2504-9. 2008..Ecotype simulation provides a long-needed natural foundation for microbial ecology and systematics... - Analysis of core housekeeping and virulence genes reveals cryptic lineages of Clostridium perfringens that are associated with distinct disease presentationsAlejandro P Rooney
Microbial Genomics Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, U S Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Peoria, Illinois 61604, USA
Genetics 172:2081-92. 2006..perfringens... - Concerted and birth-and-death evolution of multigene familiesMasatoshi Nei
Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics and Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
Annu Rev Genet 39:121-52. 2005..Unlike concerted evolution, the model of birth-and-death evolution can give some insights into the origins of new genetic systems or new phenotypic characters... - Lactobacillus arizonensis is a later heterotypic synonym of Lactobacillus plantarumMelanie Kostinek
Federal Research Centre for Nutrition and Food, Institute for Hygiene and Toxicology, Haid-und-Neu-Strasse 9, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:2485-9. 2005..plantarum or from various L. plantarum reference strains. Therefore, it is proposed that the species L. arizonensis should be reclassified as a heterotypic synonym of L. plantarum... - Desaturases from the spotted fireworm moth (Choristoneura parallela) shed light on the evolutionary origins of novel moth sex pheromone desaturasesWeitian Liu
Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456, USA
Gene 342:303-11. 2004.... - Prion protein gene (PRNP) variants and evidence for strong purifying selection in functionally important regions of bovine exon 3Christopher M Seabury
Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843 4467, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:15142-7. 2004..The driving force behind this intense level of purifying selection remains to be explained... - Selection for highly biased amino acid frequency in the TolA cell envelope protein of ProteobacteriaAlejandro P Rooney
Microbial Genomics and Bioprocessing Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, 1815 North University Street, Peoria, IL 61604, USA
J Mol Evol 57:731-6. 2003..However, this study shows that selection has acted to maintain high levels of alanine and lysine in the TolA protein of Proteobacteria, which in turn has biased nucleotide composition in the corresponding tolA gene... - Molecular genetics and evolution of pheromone biosynthesis in LepidopteraWendell L Roelofs
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:9179-84. 2003..This mode of evolution seems to play a role in moth speciation, as exemplified by the case of the Asian corn borer and European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis species... - Evolution of moth sex pheromones via ancestral genesWendell L Roelofs
Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:13621-6. 2002..Their presence would allow for asymmetric tracking of male response to the new blend and, thus, evolution of an Ostrinia species with structurally different sex pheromone components... - Conversion of lesquerolic acid to 14-oxo-11(Z)-eicosenoic acid by genetically variable Sphingobacterium multivorum strainsTsung Min Kuo
Microbial Genomics and Bioprocessing Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Peoria, IL 61604, USA
Curr Microbiol 57:55-60. 2008..multivorum strains. These S. multivorum strains represent the first group of bacteria reported to carry out the functional modification of LQA...