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The rarity of gene shuffling in conserved genes [PDF]
Genome Biology, 2005 Abstract Background Among three sources of evolutionary innovation in gene function - point mutations, gene duplications, and gene shuffling (recombination between dissimilar genes) - gene shuffling is the most potent one. However, surprisingly little is known about its incidence on a genome-wide scale.
Conant, Gavin C, Wagner, Andreas
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Targeted gene flow for conservation [PDF]
Conservation Biology, 2015 Abstract Anthropogenic threats often impose strong selection on affected populations, causing rapid evolutionary responses. Unfortunately, these adaptive responses are rarely harnessed for conservation. We suggest that conservation managers pay close attention to adaptive processes and geographic variation, with an eye to using them ...
Ella, Kelly, Ben L, Phillips
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Ecology: Gene tweaking for conservation [PDF]
Nature, 2013 It is time to weigh up the pros and cons of using genetic engineering to rescue species from extinction, say Michael A. Thomas and colleagues.
Michael A, Thomas +5 more
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Sirtuins are not conserved longevity genes
Life Metabolism, 2022 AbstractIt is central to biology that sequence conservation suggests functional conservation. Animal longevity is an emergent property of selected traits that integrates capacities to perform physical and mental functions after reproductive maturity. Though the yeast SIR2 gene was nominated as a longevity gene based on extended replicative longevity of
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Diversity in conserved genes in tomato [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2007 Tomato has excellent genetic and genomic resources including a broad set of Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) data and high-density genetic maps. In addition, emerging physical maps and bacterial artificial clone sequence data serve as template to investigate genetic variation within the cultivated germplasm pool with the goal to manipulate agriculturally ...
Liu Jia +6 more
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No3CoGP: non-conserved and conserved coexpressed gene pairs [PDF]
BMC Research Notes, 2014 Analyzing the microarray data of different conditions, one can identify the conserved and condition-specific genes and gene modules, and thus can infer the underlying cellular activities. All the available tools based on Bioconductor and R packages differ in how they extract differential coexpression and at what level they study.
Mal, Chittabrata +2 more
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The Evolution of Novelty in Conserved Gene Families [PDF]
International Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2012 One of the major aims of contemporary evolutionary biology is the understanding of the current pattern of biological diversity. This involves, first, the description of character distribution at various nodes of the phylogenetic tree of life and, second, the functional explanation of such changes.
Markov, G., Sommer, R.
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Conservation biology: Genes are not enough [PDF]
Current Biology, 1998 A study of correlated genotypic and phenotypic changes over a 2400-year period in a cave population of pocket gophers bolsters the idea that small, isolated populations can not only persist in a fluctuating environment, but may be able to adapt without genetic input from elsewhere.
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Incubation determines favorable microbial communities in Chinese alligator nests
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Nest materials are a major heat source due to rotting promoted by microbial activity. Additionally, they are a potential microbial source given their direct contact with eggshells.
Qin-Zhang Yu +4 more
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Animals, 2021 Bigheaded carps (bighead carp, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, and silver carp, Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) and their hybrids play an important ecological and economic role in their original habitat, while their introduced stocks may pose serious ecological
Tamás Molnár +11 more
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