Evolution, Molecular
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Up against the edge: invasive species as testbeds for basic questions about evolution in heterogeneous environments.

30 Oct 2009 Yogi Berra is often credited with having opined that 'prediction is very difficult, especially about the future'. There is no discipline for which this statement holds with more force than invasion biology, where it has been historically very ... Read more...

Evolution rampant: house mice on Madeira.

30 Oct 2009 House mice are extra-ordinary animals -extra-ordinary in the literal sense of that word. They are pests - but also a valued laboratory animal. They are generalized rodents - and successful in habitats from tundra to tropics and from sea-level to ... Read more...

Do complex population histories drive higher estimates of substitution rate in phylogenetic reconstructions?

30 Oct 2009 Our curiosity about biodiversity compels us to reconstruct the evolutionary past of species. Molecular evolutionary theory now allows parameterization of mathematically sophisticated and detailed models of DNA evolution, which have resulted in a ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Evolution, Molecular'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Up against the edge: invasive species as testbeds for basic questions about evolution in heterogeneous environments. 30 Oct 2009
• Evolution rampant: house mice on Madeira. 30 Oct 2009
• Do complex population histories drive higher estimates of substitution rate in phylogenetic reconstructions? 30 Oct 2009
• Evolution of biomolecular networks: lessons from metabolic and protein interactions. 30 Oct 2009
• Genetic and molecular insights into the development and evolution of sexual dimorphism. 30 Oct 2009
• Sex chromosome evolution in cotton stainers of the genus Dysdercus (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae). 25 Oct 2009
• A non-human primate BAC resource to study interchromosomal segmental duplications. 25 Oct 2009
• KIR2DS4 is a product of gene conversion with KIR3DL2 that introduced specificity for HLA-A*11 while diminishing avidity for HLA-C. 24 Oct 2009
• Identification and analysis of serpin-family genes by homology and synteny across the 12 sequenced Drosophilid genomes. 20 Oct 2009
• Are algal genes in nonphotosynthetic protists evidence of historical plastid endosymbioses? 18 Oct 2009
• Large introns in relation to alternative splicing and gene evolution: a case study of Drosophila bruno-3. 17 Oct 2009
• Comprehensive analysis of the pseudogenes of glycolytic enzymes in vertebrates: the anomalously high number of GAPDH pseudogenes highlights a recent burst of retrotrans-positional activity. 14 Oct 2009
• Plastid genomes of two brown algae, Ectocarpus siliculosus and Fucus vesiculosus: further insights on the evolution of red-algal derived plastids. 14 Oct 2009
• On the karyotypic origin and evolution of cancer cells. 13 Oct 2009
• Polyploid evolution in Oryza officinalis complex of the genus Oryza. 12 Oct 2009
• Origin and evolution of the Notch signalling pathway: an overview from eukaryotic genomes. 11 Oct 2009
• Insertion sequence content reflects genome plasticity in strains of the root nodule actinobacterium Frankia. 10 Oct 2009
• Postsynaptic regulation of synaptic plasticity by synaptotagmin 4 requires both C2 domains. 10 Oct 2009
• Evolution of vertebrate glucokinase regulatory protein from a bacterial N-acetylmuramate 6-phosphate etherase. 10 Oct 2009
• Tudor staphylococcal nuclease is an evolutionarily conserved component of the programmed cell death degradome. 9 Oct 2009

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Technical information about 'Evolution, Molecular'

Definition: Evolution at the molecular level of DNA sequences and proteins. (Rieger et al., Glossary of Genetics: Classical and Molecular, 5th ed)

Descriptor UI: D019143

Alternative terms: Evolution, Molecular; Molecular Evolution;

Related Mesh Headings: Directed Molecular Evolution;

Tree Number: G05.355.265.250; G16.100.275.250;

History Note: 96

Technical Notes: "evolution at the molec level of DNA seq and proteins"; DF: EVOLUTION MOL