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Section edited by Michael Brockhurst
This section considers studies in testing evolutionary theories by the use of controlled experiments.
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Steinernematid nematodes form obligate symbioses with bacteria from the genus Xenorhabdus. Together Steinernema nematodes and their bacterial symbionts successfully infect, kill, utilize, and exit their insect ho...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:100
Published on: 17 April 2017
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Theory suggests that high virulence could hinder between-host transmission of microparasites, and that virulence therefore will evolve to lower levels. Alternatively, highly virulent microparasites could also ...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:25
Published on: 19 January 2017
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Antagonistic coevolution between bacteria and their viral parasites, phage, drives continual evolution of resistance and infectivity traits through recurrent cycles of adaptation and counter-adaptation. Both p...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:227
Published on: 24 October 2016
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The impact of historical contingency, i.e. the past evolutionary history of a population, on further adaptation is mostly unknown at both the phenotypic and genomic levels. We addressed this question using a t...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:86
Published on: 23 April 2016
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Conjugative plasmids play an important role in bacterial evolution by transferring ecologically important genes within and between species. A key limit on interspecific horizontal gene transfer is plasmid host...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:70
Published on: 2 April 2016
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The hypothesis that circadian clocks confer adaptive advantage to organisms has been proposed based on its ubiquity across almost all levels of complexity and organization of life-forms. This thought has recei...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:46
Published on: 27 February 2016
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Collagens provide structural support and guidance cues within the extracellular matrix of metazoans. Mammalian collagens XIII, XXIII and XXV form a unique subgroup of type II transmembrane proteins, each compr...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:281
Published on: 14 December 2015
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Understanding the causes and consequences of phenotypic variability is a central topic of evolutionary biology. Mutations within non-coding cis-regulatory regions are thought to be of major effect since they affe...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:274
Published on: 7 December 2015
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Short-term experiments have indicated that warmer temperatures can alter fungal biomass production and CO2 respiration, with potential consequences for soil C storage. However, we know little about the capacity o...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2015 15:198
Published on: 16 September 2015
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In bacteria, cell size affects chromosome replication, the assembly of division machinery, cell wall synthesis, membrane synthesis and ultimately growth rate. In addition, cell size can also be a target for Da...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:257
Published on: 17 December 2014
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Anthropogenic disturbances can lead to intense selection pressures on traits and very rapid evolutionary changes. Evolutionary responses to environmental changes, in turn, reflect changes in the genetic struct...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:252
Published on: 10 December 2014
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Despite the common assumption that multiple mating should in general be favored in males, but not in females, to date there is no consensus on the general impact of multiple mating on female fitness. Notably, ...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:239
Published on: 19 November 2014
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Classic population genetics theory predicts that mixed reproductive systems, where self reproduction (selfing) and outcrossing co-exist, should not be as common as they are in nature. One means of reconciling ...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:117
Published on: 2 June 2014
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Why most organisms reproduce via outcrossing rather than selfing is a central question in evolutionary biology. It has long ago been suggested that outcrossing is favoured when it facilitates adaptation to nov...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:116
Published on: 2 June 2014
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The development of pesticide resistance represents a global challenge to food production. Specifically for the Atlantic salmon aquaculture industry, parasitic sea lice and their developing resistance to delous...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:108
Published on: 19 May 2014
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One proposed consequence of inbreeding is a skewed sex ratio arising from sex specific mortality in the homogametic sex caused by inbreeding on the sex chromosome. However, recent work suggests that random dis...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:51
Published on: 17 March 2014
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It is often suggested that mate choice enhances offspring immune resistance to infectious diseases. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a study with wild-derived house mice (Mus musculus musculus) in which fema...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:14
Published on: 23 January 2014
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Pipo was recently described as a new ORF encoded within the genome of the Potyviridae family members (PNAS 105:5897–5902, 2008). It is embedded within the P3 cistron and is translated in the +2 reading frame rela...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013 13:249
Published on: 13 November 2013
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Hatching enzyme is a protease that digests the egg envelope, enabling hatching of the embryo. We have comprehensively studied the molecular mechanisms of the enzyme action to its substrate egg envelope, and de...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013 13:231
Published on: 25 October 2013
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Interlocus conflict predicts (a) evolution of traits, beneficial to males but detrimental to females and (b) evolution of aging and life-span under the influence of the cost of bearing these traits. However, t...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013 13:212
Published on: 28 September 2013
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